The New York Times – Travel:
The U.N.’s cultural agency warns that ice sheets on Kilimanjaro, in the Dolomites and in Yosemite and Yellowstone may disappear by 2050, highlighting travel’s impact on climate change.
Category: World Heritage Sites
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Is This the World’s Most Picturesque High Dive?
The New York Times – Travel:
Catch a glimpse of a storied tradition in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where, for hundreds of years, divers have leaped from a bridge in the southern city of Mostar.
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Exploring Spain’s Arab Influence
The New York Times – Travel:
Exploring the country’s Arab influence is an impossibly romantic journey, involving palaces with intricate geometric designs, castles and grand mosques reconfigured by Christians into cathedrals.
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A Long Walk in a Fading Corner of Japan
The New York Times – Travel:
As is true throughout rural Japan, many of the once-vibrant villages on Honshu’s Kii Peninsula are aging into nothingness.