Conde Nast Traveler 2020-12 UserUpload Net

100 Pages·2020·32.83 MB·English

DECEMBER 2020

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URBAN BEAT
Energetic Lagos, Africa’s
largest city and one of its
most creative, moves to
a rhythm of its own

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INTO THE GREAT WIDE OPEN
In these strange times,
Americans have focused
on rediscovering their
country—and each other

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EN PLEIN AIR
Bucolic and beautiful,
France’s oft-overlooked
Jura region remains
unfazed by passing trends

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OFF TRACK
Aboard Russia’s remote
Trans-Siberian Railway,
passengers find
stillness in motion

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Winter light in
Khilok, on the
Trans-Siberian
Railway

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WORD OF MOUTH
The diverse cuisine of the
African American diaspora;
charting the rise of slow
travel; a spate of recently
opened oceanside hotels in
the Northeast have warming
appeal; a new Maori tourism
experience on New Zealand’s
North Island; and more

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WHY WE TRAVEL
After a year of travel
dreams deferred, we
catalog our plans for 2021
and beyond, from luxury
road trips and visits to our
closest international
neighbors to those once2in2
a2lifetime journeys, from
Angola to Antarctica, we’ve
always wanted to take

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A TRAVELER’S TALE
While filming in Rome,
actor Kiki Layne embraces
her inner tourist

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Textiles on
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PHOTOGRAPH: HENRY WU

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So where will travel take us in 2021? With our single global eye
focused on the current pandemic, it has been nothing short of
fantastical to see how misinformation, massaged stats, inverted
realities, and plainclothes lies have blossomed almost as fast as the
disease. Where travel will actually take us next year is an impossible
question, because both COVID-19 and the rules around it are like
unmanned hoses flying chaotically around our garden.
Where should travel take us is the pertinent inquiry. To the people
doing good work. To the operators benefiting those around them. To
the pioneers thinking beyond the short-term toward a more mutually
sustainable business model. And yet just as the environment has
never been so threatened, there are those who wish to take advan-
tage by putting a sheen on their green intentions. Who make a lot of
noise spending money to amplify their eco-messages and dazzle the
audience rather than create an actual difference. Greenwashing is on
the rise. Such sinister and active duplicity leads to murky decision-
making for those who truly want to travel more meaningfully. So
here is a shout-out to some industry players who are honest and
dynamic and have good pedigree in terms of considered action.
Suján has some of the most beautiful properties in India and is
run by the debonair Jaisal and Anjali Singh, who focus tirelessly
on rewilding. It was the first hotel group in India to charge guests a
mandatory conservation-contribution levy. Through its three
seasonal camps, it has contributed half a million dollars in five years—
brilliant relative to its small number of beds. It also funds schools
and provides a free mobile medical unit and sanitation program for
the villages in its area. Meanwhile, its anti-poaching work is the best
in the business; Ranthambore National Park has gone from 37 tigers
in 2010 to more than 65 at the beginning of 2020.
In Africa, perhaps I would head to the Borana Conservancy in
Kenya but also to the Tswalu Kalahari Reserve in South Africa,
whose commitment to encouraging biodiversity is also behind the
Brenthurst Foundation, a think tank inspiring real change in busi-
ness and visitors alike. In Indonesia, there is the astonishing Misool

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On the Cover

A colorful doorway at
the Imperial Abbey of
Baume-les-Messieurs,
in Jura, France.
Photographed by Ana Lui

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