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More than 39,000 photographs were filed in 2019 for The New York Times’s Travel desk — for stories from places such as Cuba, Dakar, Paris and Thailand, among hundreds of others. We’ve combed through all of them to bring you 22 of our favorites, presented here alongside links to the articles in which they originally […]

A Utah farming family has reached an agreement with land officials allowing permanent access to a portion of private land along a trail bordering Zion National Park December 18, 2019, 3:54 PM 2 min read SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah farming family has reached an agreement with land officials allowing permanent access to a

“The Goldfinch” is the gold standard of vacation reading — propulsive, thought-provoking, sweeping and full of such texture, you’ll still remember the name of a minor canine character six years after reading it. (He is Popper, a portly Maltese.) I used it as a life raft during a family vacation in a sweltering beach house

In reality, much has changed since my last long-haul train adventure in Europe, more than a decade ago, when I backpacked through France and Italy with a boyfriend who would later become my husband. Today sleeping cars are a rarity, knocked out by budget airlines and their comparatively cheap fares, though a few European rail

For as long as I can remember, I’ve had this image of Christmas: a village nestled in a snowy valley, candlelit windows glowing against a night sky. I’m not sure where it came from. Growing up in sunny Southern California, my family strung lights on the palm trees in our yard and went to the

Recent studies have confirmed what many of us already knew: Having a dog in the family is good for your health. Let’s expand that — dogs can make car trips better, too. This has been clear to me since after college, when I made regular cross-country drives. Without a simple care arrangement for Gus, a

Paris has long been one of the most popular travel destination in the world, and it’s easy to see why: The city boasts stunning architecture, delicious cuisine, incredible shopping, top-notch museums and so much more. But as with any place with a large tourism industry, the locals are not shy to point out the mistakes

The 52 Places Traveler For Stop #47, the 52 Places Traveler reveled in nature unleashed on the new Paparoa Track, where alpine forests and craggy peaks give way to dense rainforest. Dec. 17, 2019 There is a bird in New Zealand that sounds exactly like R2D2. Among the competing chirps and trills of the rainforest,

More than 60 million people are under winter weather advisories and warnings on Monday as a far-reaching storm system threatens wide swaths of the country with snow, freezing rain and other types of severe weather. A cold front is expected to sweep east across the country from Monday afternoon into Tuesday, bringing a variety of

Eight ring-billed gulls circled and screeched while we packed the boats two hours later and headed out to sea again. Flat green islands hovered offshore, and an endless canvas of shallows, colored aquamarine by shifting arcs of sand, reached to the horizon. Trade winds blew from the northeast, but the water on the bank, protected