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Most Beautiful Travel Photos of 2013

By Travel + Leisure and Travel + Leisure Staff December 20, 2013
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Most Beautiful Travel Photos: Le Moulin de la Cagne in St.-Jeannet
Credit: Katherine Wolkoff

Let Travel + Leisure’s eye candy inspire your next trip.

Photographer Katherine Wolkoff conveys the appeal of leisurely outdoor meals in Provence with her shot of a wooden dining table set for lunch in a lush garden.

It’s just one of the transporting images that brought a scene from a Travel + Leisure feature to life in 2013. Indeed, we’re proud to work with some of the world’s greatest photographers, who capture the majesty, humor, and sheer variety of the travel experience for readers back home.

Photographs in our 2013 pages introduced you to the Achuar Indian who runs the Kapawi Ecolodge & Reserve in Ecuador; a secret stretch of rocky coastline in Ibiza, Spain; and a fashion-forward millinery in Glasgow.

T+L’s photo editors selected such beautiful images not only from the published pages of the magazine, but also from favorites that ended up on the cutting room floor—and that we’re excited to share with you for the first time.

Each photo editor chose his or her picks, then the group edited them down and voted on the top 20 images. See the results in this slideshow of the year’s most beautiful travel photographs.

Photographs curated by Photo Director Scott Hall along with Alex Arnold, Elizabeth Boyle, Malley Priebe, and Skye Senterfeit.

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Morocco

Most Beautiful Travel Photos: Morocco
Credit: Ambroise Tezenas

Tents at Erg Chigaga Luxury Camp.

From Morocco Beyond Marrakesh in Travel + Leisure’s December 2013 issue.

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Provence, France

Most Beautiful Travel Photos: sunbathing in Antibes beach
Credit: Katherine Wolkoff

A couple sunbathing on the beach in Antibes.

From Return to Provencein Travel + Leisure’s April 2013 issue.

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Mumbai, India

Most Beautiful Travel Photos: Mumbai
Credit: Trujillo-Paumier

A meal at Shree Thaker Bhojnalaya.

From Maximum Mumbai in Travel + Leisure’s November 2013 issue.

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Caribbean Cruise

Most Beautiful Travel Photos: Caribbean Cruise
Credit: Andrew Rowat

The Star Clipper, a replica of a 19th-century tall ship, on its Treasure Islands Caribbean itinerary.

From Caribbean Small-Ship Cruises in Travel + Leisure’s November 2013 issue.

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Venice

Most Beautiful Travel Photos: Aman Canal Grande
Credit: Simon Watson

Palazzo Papadopoli, the beautiful 16th-century palace that is now under the management of the Singapore-based Amanresorts and goes by a new name: Aman Canal Grande.

From Off the Beaten Track in Venice in Travel + Leisure’s October 2013 issue.

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Ecuador

Most Beautiful Travel Photos: Ecuador Indian
Credit: Ian Allen

Ángel Etsaa, the Achuar Indian who runs the Kapawi Ecolodge & Reserve, in the east of Ecuador.

From True Adventures in Ecuador in Travel + Leisure’s January 2013 issue.

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Provence, France

Most Beautiful Travel Photos: Le Moulin de la Cagne in St.-Jeannet
Credit: Katherine Wolkoff

The outdoor dining table at Le Moulin de la Cagne in St.-Jeannet.

From Return to Provencein Travel + Leisure’s April 2013 issue.

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Ibiza, Spain

Most Beautiful Travel Photos: Atlantis
Credit: Andrew Hetherington

Atlantis, a former quarry on Ibiza’s western coast where the stone was taken out to build the walls of Ibiza’s Dalt Vila—one of two remaining walled citadel towns in the whole of Europe.

From Secrets of Ibiza in Travel + Leisure’s May 2013 issue.

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Hollywood, CA

Most Beautiful Travel Photos: dogs at Sunset Tower Hotel
Credit: Catherine Ledner

Peaches the Yorkie and her friends lounge poolside at Hollywood’s dog-friendly Sunset Tower Hotel.

From Dog-Friendly Hotels in Travel + Leisure’s June 2013 issue.

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Odessa, Ukraine

Most Beautiful Travel Photos: Dacha
Credit: Martha Camarillo

Co-owner Savely Libkin and some of his waitstaff at Dacha, a pan-Soviet restaurant on Odessa’s French Boulevard.

From An Unlikely Love Affair with Odessa, Ukraine in Travel + Leisure’s August 2013 issue.

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Newfoundland, Canada

Most Beautiful Travel Photos: Fogo Island Inn
Credit: Iwan Baan

It’s an incongruous sight: sleek white boxes on stilts above the rocky, windswept coast of a small island off northeastern Newfoundland. But the 29-room Fogo Island Inn is actually infused with the area’s DNA.

From Newfoundland’s New Fogo Island Inn in Travel + Leisure’s August 2013 issue.

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London

Most Beautiful Travel Photos: Tramshed chicken
Credit: Jason Lowe

A whole roasted free-range chicken from Mark Hix’s latest restaurant, Tramshed, located on funky Rivington Street in Shoreditch.

From Why London Is the Capital of Food in Travel + Leisure’s February 2013 issue.

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Marseilles, France

Most Beautiful Travel Photos: Museum of Civilizations from Europe and the Mediterranean
Credit: Matthieu Salvaing

French architect Rudy Ricciotti’s Museum of Civilizations from Europe and the Mediterranean (MuCEM), whose exterior is made from lacelike filigreed concrete.

From Marseilles Makeover in Travel + Leisure’s September 2013 issue.

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Glasgow

Most Beautiful Travel Photos: William Chambers Millinery
Credit: Julian Broad

The second-floor atelier of William Chambers Millinery on Glasgow’s buzzing Bath Street.

From Scotland’s Fashion Traditions Reborn in Travel + Leisure’s September 2013 issue.

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Zambia

Most Beautiful Travel Photos: Old Mondoro Bush Camp tent
Credit: Monika Hofler

A tent with a view at Old Mondoro Bush Camp in Zambia’s Lower Zambezi National Park.

FromZambia’s Best Safari Lodgesin Travel + Leisure’s June 2013 issue.

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Venice

Most Beautiful Travel Photos: Rialto Bridge, Venice
Credit: Simon Watson

View from the Rialto Bridge.

From Off the Beaten Track in Venice in Travel + Leisure’s October 2013 issue.

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Zermatt, Switzerland

Most Beautiful Travel Photos: Zermatt
Credit: Martin Morrell

A view of the village of Zermatt.

From The New Generation of European Inns in Travel + Leisure’s November 2013 issue.

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Helsinki, Finland

Most Beautiful Travel Photos: Kamppi Chapel, Helsinki
Credit: Adrian Gaut

The Kamppi Chapel, by K2S Architects, sits in a corner of Narinkkatori Square like a high-sided salad bowl on a granite kitchen counter. Inside, a halo of daylight-washed, curved walls of alder, creating a womblike environment. “So long as no one’s moment of silence is disturbed, anything goes,” an attendant said.

From Helsinki Modern in Travel + Leisure’s November 2013 issue.

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Mozambique

Most Beautiful Travel Photos: Mozambique, Ibo Island Lodge
Credit: William Abranowicz

Ibo Island Lodge is housed in restored 19th-century Portuguese villas, set side by side at the sea rampart’s edge on the edge of Stone Town, on the northwestern coast of tiny Ibo.

From Mozambique: The Ultimate Castaway Fantasy Trip in Travel + Leisure’s September 2013 issue.

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Vienna

Most Beautiful Travel Photos: Graben, Vienna
Credit: Monika Hofler

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas on Graben, one of the city’s main thoroughfares.

From Christmas in Vienna in Travel + Leisure’s December 2013 issue.

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