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Yoga by the seashore in Costa Rica. Photograph: Getty Grand stretch in the evening
  • Long Haul
  • Margaret Ward
  • April 27, 2013, 05:00

Campfires are the only light around, and the pounding sound is the Pacific surf breaking on the shore. This is literally the end of the road

Is India safe for women tourists?
  • Long Haul
  • Angela Long
  • April 13, 2013, 06:00

Attacks on women in India have raised safety concerns and women should not travel alone there, says Angela Long, but they should definitely visit

Independence Plaza in the centre of Mexico City. Independence Plaza in the centre of Mexico City. Down Mexico way

Ignore all those preconceptions – Mexico is a stunning, hospitable country with a dynamic, vibrant capital

Belfast man leads pilgrims in Pope Francis’s footsteps
  • Long Haul
  • Una Bradley
  • March 22, 2013, 06:00

An Irish businessman living in Argentina has quickly assembled a Pope Francis tour for visitors

The lounge car of the Orient Express Luxury overload

It’s like that moment when the squire brings his betrothed home to the country estate: a stately line of richly-liveried men …

On top of the world

Taking the children on holiday can be stressful, so when people heard that my husband and I were planning to take our three sons…

Guardians of the afterlife

GO CHINA: IN THE EIGHTH century, Xi’an was the world’s biggest city, home to a million people brought there by the fabled Silk…

On the run in Addis Ababa

TRAVEL: AFRICA: EARLY EVIDENCE THAT Addis Ababa is going to be different from my two previous experiences of African towns comes…

48 hours in Vegas

This is a city impossible not to love – so long as you play your cards right

Football crazy

As an excited South Africa prepares for the World Cup, HOLLY HUNT   rounds up what the key host cities offer if you fancy combining…

On the crest of a Mexican wave

Go Mexico : Last year Róisín Sorahan wrote about leaving her good job and comfortable life to travel through Central and South…

A piece of paradise

Endless unspoilt beaches, affable locals and dirt-cheap but miraculously easy-on-the-body Tanduay rum made the Philippines the…

Bowled over by Buenos Aires

From bust to boom, the Argentinian capital has changed beyond recognition since MICHAEL T LUONGO started writing about the city…

An adventure that gives back to the community

Ethiopia’s highlanders live in a stunning basalt landscape of endless canyons and soaring volcanic peaks

No limits

When Austin declared itself the live music capital of the world, it sounded like Texan hubris

Sultans of bling

Oil has made the United Arab Emirates fabulously wealthy

A long way down

MÁIRE HEALY was used to her daughter’s feats. Then, in South Africa, the tables were turned

Colombia pictures

It got a poor press, to say the least, from its drug wars, so now the South American country is doing its utmost to present a…

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