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Category: Travel and Vacations
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How Much Did You Spend on Your Solo Vacation?
We spoke to readers about their recent solo travels, including their motivations to travel alone and what they chose to spend on.
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Southwest Airlines Briefly Halts Takeoff of Flights
The airline, which experienced a large meltdown around Christmas, resumed departures after suffering from technology problems.
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Visiting Suva, Fiji’s Capital City
Suva, the Fijian capital, is not on many travelers’ itineraries, but with a multiethnic population from all over the country and the region, it defines the urban South Pacific.
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Peering Into Volcanoes at Tanzania’s Crater Highlands
Uninterested in the extreme altitudes of Kilimanjaro, a writer opted instead to explore the region’s vast calderas, abundant wildlife and rare forms of lava.
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Exploring Picasso’s Málaga
Among the best places to discover the celebrated 20th-century Spanish artist is the sun-splashed, seaside city where he was born.
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Visa Backlog in Brazil, Colombia, India and Mexico Takes Toll in U.S.
The pileup has left visitors from places like Brazil, Colombia, India and Mexico waiting months, even a year or more, to visit family or do business in America.
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Read Your Way Through Kerala
A strip of lush land at the tip of India where spices grow wild, Kerala has long drawn the gaze of outsiders. Here’s Abraham Verghese’s guide to its literature, which nods at these influences but is very much its own.
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On Long Flights, Airlines Offer Couch Seating
An increasing number of long-haul airlines are offering economy seats that let passengers lie down. Sky couches as they’re often called, are a business-class approximation, without the frills, or the price.
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Can the Philippine Island of Boracay Beat Overtourism?
Called one of the world’s best islands, the Philippine resort was closed by the government for six months and reopened with a cap on visitors. Now, with travelers coming back, will it continue to hold the line?
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Where You Can Discover England’s Lost Jewish Past
Around eight centuries ago, Jews thrived in England, worshiping freely and living where they pleased. Then everything changed. You can uncover their stories, if you know where to look.
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China Has Reopened to Tourists. The Hard Part Is Getting There.
Despite loosened visa rules, the number of flights into China is still a small fraction of what it was before the pandemic, fueled partly by geopolitical tensions.