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Affordable Zanzibar
Zanzibar
Stylish new hotels—not all of them expensive—now line the glorious white beaches and coral-reef-studded lagoons of this famous Spice Island.
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An Escape on South Africa's Western Cape
Barrydale
Barrydale—100 miles east of Cape Town—is becoming a South African Santa Fe, with galleries, wineries, boutique hotels, and hiking trails, set amid the Western Cape's vast Klein Karoo. For a luxe safar...
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Cairo's Contemporary Art Scene
Cairo
Egyptian artists today are probably somewhere between the novelty and political stages, which is why so many feel boxed in by expectations and misrepresented. Egypt will always be known first for its
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Cruising the Nile by Luxury Riverboat
Egypt, Cairo, Luxor, Aswan, Karnak
The thriving markets of Aswan. The grand archaeological sites of Luxor. The lush, ancient landscapes. Experience a luxuriously unhurried riverboat cruise in Egypt on the Nile.
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Discovering Doha, Qatar
Doha, Uluru (Ayers Rock)
In Dubai’s glitzy shadow, another oil-rich emirate is quietly reinventing itself at a rapid pace—building lavish museums, libraries, and universities.Doha, Qatar, may just be the new cultural capital
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Discovering Maputo
Mozambique, Maputo
The secret's out: Mozambique’s alluring, but under-the-radar, capital is a paradise of brown-sugar beaches, hot nightspots, and the best seafood on the East African coast.
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Driving The Karoo, South Africa's Living Desert
South Africa, Cape Town, Western Cape, Graaf-Reinet, Barrydale
Driving through South Africa’s arid and once forbidding Karoo region, one discovers a landscape now filled with artist pioneers, revitalized Afrikaner towns, and vibrant vineyard oases. The Groot, or
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Exotic Fez
Fez
A direct flight to Casablanca and a 45-minute hop to Fez makes it as easy to get to as Europe. And in Fez el-Bali, the old medina, Europeans and Americans in search of historic houses are snapping up
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Exploring Morocco's Capital City of Rabat
Rabat
Rabat may well be Morocco's most civilized city, yet most travelers pass it by. Once a fearsome pirates' den, Rabat looks at first suspiciously clean, yet it proved on exploring to be authentically ma
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Exploring Postmodern Dubai
Dubai
All around, things are going up: the skeleton of the future is already visible in Dubai—stretching out into the sea or rising high into the air—the future with its girders and joists and concrete wait
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