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Christmastime in London has long set the scene for Charles Dickens’s treasured novels and many a blockbuster rom-com. This year, locations across the city are offering travelers memorable ways to experience Britain’s most beloved holiday traditions. Hotel packages with holiday performances There’s no shortage of festive entertainment during London’s Christmas season. The Shangri-La Hotel, At […]

The 52 Places Traveler Olkhon Island, in Russia’s Lake Baikal, has herds of wild horses, a shamanistic religion and no paved roads. The 52 Places Traveler found his spirit animal there. Nov. 5, 2019 Our columnist, Sebastian Modak, is visiting each destination on our 52 Places to Go in 2019 list. He last wrote about

In 1991 Rodrigo Bernal, a botanist who specializes in palms, was driving into the Tochecito River Basin, a secluded mountain canyon in central Colombia, when he was seized by a sense of foreboding. Two palm experts were in the car with Dr. Bernal: his late wife, the botanist Gloria Galeano, who worked alongside him at

AMSTERDAM — When Karen Bosma first moved her boat to the Borneokade, northeast of Amsterdam’s bustling city center, in 1999, the neighborhood was barely more than a cluster of commercial docks and underused warehouses. “It was for poor people — a lot of artists lived on boats,” she said, sitting in her neat, cozy living

HuffPost may receive a share from purchases made via links on this page. hedgehog94 via Getty ImagesIncrease the space in your carry-on with this toiletry-sized space-saving vacuum. It might feel like checked bag fees skyrocket with each trip you take. More and more travelers are deciding to cram everything that they can into one carry-on

Drivers traveling along Route 89 in Arizona have seen it off the two-lane road. A one-ton black boulder covered in streaks of white quartz sitting in an open meadow of lightly wooded trees outside Prescott, about 90 minutes north of Phoenix. So when the boulder, fondly known to locals as Wizard Rock, suddenly vanished last

Good morning. (If you don’t already get California Today by email, here’s the sign-up.) Few things unite Californians — or really anyone who’s ever been to LAX — quite like complaining about traffic at LAX. Last week, though, travelers were introduced to a new part of the Los Angeles International Airport experience that has sent

Sometimes, when sleep eludes me in the dark hour before dawn, I make my way to the Pont de la Tournelle, the 400-foot bridge that links the Île Saint-Louis to Paris’s Left Bank. I plant myself at its midpoint, face west and wait. Before me is the skeletal back of Notre-Dame, shrouded in darkness. I

Kakaban Lake, though, is not the only place in Indonesia to swim, pain free, with jellyfish. Researchers have found at least half a dozen marine lakes where jellyfish have evolved in similar ways. At least two can be found in the Raja Ampat islands of Indonesia, more than 600 miles southeast of Kakaban Lake. The

It was a warm August evening in Evanston, Ill., just north of Chicago, when the Wienermobile rolled out the red carpet for a sleepover. Actually, the carpet was green, and not so much carpet as artificial turf. Inside the Wienermobile, the meat brand Oscar Mayer’s signature marketing machine, there was a pullout bed and a