Santa Barbara, California
Santa Barbara is a city on the central California coast, with the Santa Ynez Mountains as dramatic backdrop. Downtown, Mediterranean-style white stucco…
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Monterey, California
Monterey is a city on California’s rugged central coast. Its Cannery Row, one-time centre of the sardine-packing industry, was immortalized by novelist…
Napa Valley, California
Napa County is north of San Francisco, in California. It’s known for hundreds of hillside vineyards in the Napa Valley wine region. In the city of…
Mammoth Lakes, California
Mammoth Lakes is a town in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains. It’s known for the Mammoth Mountain and June Mountain ski areas and nearby…
Krakow, Poland
Krakow is one of the oldest cities in Poland, with evidence showing settlements there since 20,000 BC. Legend has it that it was built on the cave of a…
Samarkand, Uzbekistan
No name is as evocative of the Silk Road as Samarkand. For most people it has the mythical resonance of Zanzibar or Timbuktu, fixed in the Western popular…
Bukhara, Uzbekistan
Central Asia’s holiest city, Bukhara (Buxoro) has buildings spanning a thousand years of history, and a thoroughly lived-in and cohesive old centre that…
Khiva, Uzbekistan
Khiva’s name, redolent of slave caravans, barbaric cruelty, terrible desert journeys and steppes infested with raiding Turkmen tribesmen, struck fear…
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Sprawling Tashkent, capital of Uzbekistan, is Central Asia’s hub and the place where everything in Uzbekistan happens. It’s one part newly built…
Grand Canyon, Arizona
Grand Canyon National Park, in Arizona, is home to much of the immense Grand Canyon, with its layered bands of red rock revealing millions of years of…