This shape-shifting desert city is in the middle of a reinvention that involves sports stadiums, Formula 1 and the Sphere: a 360-foot-tall, high-tech, traffic-stopping amphitheater clad in 1.2 million LED screens.
Category: Travel and Vacations
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Travelers Who Need Visas to Visit Europe Face a Monthslong Wait
Travelers who require a short-term visas to visit Europe say they face monthslong delays, jeopardizing their travel plans and making an already unpredictable system worse.
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Want a Vacation Souvenir? Buy Toothpaste.
The quotidian joys of this pocket-size keepsake.
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Slowing, Graying and in Debt, Can China’s Industrial Heartland Be Revived?
China, facing an economic slump, wants to make its industrial northeast more productive, turning to policies that some economists say have outlived their time.
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In Mountain View, Ark., Preserving the Ozark Way of Life
Follow the winding roads to Mountain View, Ark., home of the Ozark Folk Center, and you’ll be rewarded with fiddles, banjos, guitars and a passion for music.
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5 Places to See Spectacular Foliage This Fall
This summer’s heat, droughts and extreme rains could mean a more vivid palette of autumn leaves. Here’s where you can savor those colors before they’re gone.
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The Police Seized My Rental Car Reported Stolen and Avis Won’t Refund Me
A traveler was visiting family when police impounded her vehicle, saying it had been reported stolen. Why wouldn’t Avis give her money back, and why would they rent her a stolen car in the first place?
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Want to Attend an Indian Wedding? Now You Can Pay To.
Join My Wedding allows tourists to purchase tickets to Indian weddings. Some say it’s resulted in meaningful cultural exchange. Others believe selling the experience can be cultural fetishism.
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How to Get the Best Foreign Exchange Rate
How to avoid foreign transaction and bank fees, and where to get the best rate when you travel abroad.
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Block Island’s Nature Preserves Offer Solitude and Wildlife
On Block Island, a tiny dot off the New England coast, birders and other nature lovers can find beauty and solitude in 2,500 acres of ponds, dunes and marshes.
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Is the Off Season Getting More Expensive?
The heat, mobs and high prices of recent summers are making off-season travel more popular — perhaps too popular, some say, as they watch prices rise and crowds grow.
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In This Vacation Home, the Art Is the View
A house in Portugal’s Alentejo region lets the landscape dominate.