| | If you love travel as much as we do, there’s only one question on your mind: where shall I go next? Well, here’s your answer: after sleepless nights and fiery debate, our travel experts have decided on Lonely Planet’s top 10 countries for 2020. Find out why these wanderlust-worthy destinations won a place in our hearts. | | |
 | | Where to go to find Bhutan’s hidden treasures | | Bhutan may be a tiny dot on the map, but its topography is epic, even daunting, in scale. Measured in terms of altitude change rather than miles, this is a big country to explore. There are countless ridgelines defining enormous valleys where you can lose yourself for days, far from the crowds who cram the sights close to Bhutan's miniature capital, Thimphu, and uncover your own set of stunning Himalayan treasures. | | | | | |
 | | England's top eight Coast Path highlights | | For a country so small, England has a wealth of supremely scenic coastal trails. What’s more, some of England’s best coast path hikes also feature pivot points that link up with epic long distance trails. This means you get to discover cinematic shorelines, absorbing histories and testing gradients as well as views and routes that go on for miles. | | | | | |
 | | Hiking across North Macedonia | | For explorers and adventure travellers who don’t know this undiscovered expanse of North Macedonia, a country on the Balkan Peninsula in southeastern Europe, an excursion to this dovetailing string of summits and massifs (which include the Šar, Bistra and Jablanica Mountains) means some of the best, and most unheralded, hiking on the continent. | | | | | |
 | | eSwatini: a kingdom’s worth of wild travel possibilities | | Safari and eSwatini sound like a perfect match, though few people realise that this small African kingdom is ripe with opportunities to view iconic African wildlife. In fact, the country offers some of the best encounters with rhinos on the entire continent. | | | | | |
 | | Costa Rica for first-timers: top 10 spots you must visit | | Dreaming of a trip to Costa Rica, but not sure where to start? With volcanoes to hike, legendary surf, miles of beaches, and endless wildlife spotting, Costa Rica merits repeat visits. But if you're just starting your explorations of one of Central America's most beautiful countries, these stops will steer you in the right direction. | | | | | |
 | | Discover Bhutan with a G Adventures tour | | Bhutan is no ordinary place. It is the last great Himalayan kingdom, shrouded in mystery and magic, where a traditional Buddhist culture carefully embraces global developments. On this ten-day trip, trek through remote trails, visit Paro, Thimphu, Punakha and uncover a purity of experiences, traditions, and kindness. | | | | | |
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| | Traveling to pick up litter. On the face of it, this could be a tough sell to your average holidaymaker… But for eco-conscious globetrotters keen to have a positive impact on the destinations they visit, opting to take part in a beach clean during their trip could make for a rewarding experience; a volunteering project that avoids the pitfalls of ‘voluntourism’ schemes and also provides an opportunity to meet like-minded local people. Perhaps not such a rubbish idea after all? | | |
 | | Where to find America's 10 newest national parks | | There is one more good reason to see America's greatest outdoors now. And while you’re probably familiar with some of the more popular national parks—namely Great Smoky Mountains, Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, and Yosemite—you might not know about many of the 10 newest national parks and where to find them. | | | | | |
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 | | Why Trieste will be Italy’s next big destination | | For years Trieste has labored beneath its reputation for melancholy. Twenty years ago, travel writer Jan Morris called it the ultimate “nowhere-place”: an Italian city suspended in a vanished Austro-Hungarian past surrounded on all sides by Slovenia, Croatia and the Adriatic Sea. But borders aren’t where things end, they are where they begin, and Trieste is finally on the radar. | | | | | |
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