National Geographic Traveller UK - 05.2020 - 06.2020

IMAGES: GETTY; ALAMY TICINO’S BEST Festivals MORNING Just 30 minutes from the Italian border, Switzerland’s lowest- lying town, ...

TO MARKET Bellinzona’s must-visit Saturday morning market, which extends from Piazza Nosetto to the lanes of the Old Town, is an ...

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From the edgy bars cropping up along the regenerated riverfront to the historic monuments of the former Jewish Quarter, getting ...

IMAGES: LIBOR SVÁČEK; EVENUE PHOTOGRAPHY Karlín The riverside stretch of Karlín feels like it should be the sort of soulless doc ...

Vinohrady “I was here two days ago with some very picky eaters and we ordered your chicken — it was the best meat we’d had in Pr ...

IMAGES: GETTY; MAREK MUSIL Josefov The Spanish Synagogue doesn’t look much like a synagogue — the Moorish arches and keyhole win ...

IMAGE: GETTY Look beyond the canal belt to the Dutch capital’s lesser-known neighbourhoods, where regeneration and sustainabilit ...

Best for splurging HOTEL TWENTYSEVEN A lavish oasis in the heart of Dam Square, next door to the Royal Palace, this exclusive, s ...

Best for views BOAT&CO Built in the traditional Amsterdam School style, BOAT&CO is one of the flagship developments in b ...

Best for nostalgia SWEETS HOTEL Hiding in plain sight across the capital, Amsterdam’s cosy bridge houses used to be the domain o ...

Best for flower power HOTEL JAKARTA Hotel Jakarta in the Eastern Docklands, a short tram ride from the city centre is built on a ...

Best for park life CONSCIOUS HOTEL WESTERPARK Conscious Hotels is on a mission to ‘make sustainability sexy’ while keeping price ...

WORDS JAMIE LAFFERTY, OLIVER SMITH, CHRIS THARP & CHARLOTTE WIGRAM-EVANS THE NATURAL WONDERS OF Japan The Land of the Rising ...

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Everyone says the snows have come late, but as we pull out of Asahidake, Hokkaido’s second-biggest city, everywhere is coated in ...

Kogarashi A wind that shakes the leaves from trees and is said to herald the onset of winter Mount Asahi, Daisetsuzan National P ...

Cruise through drift ice Ice from Russia’s Amur River flows southward to Hokkaido in the winter and it’s possible to witness thi ...

BROWN BEARS The best time to see brown bears — which number around 3,000 on Hokkaido — is during summer. Perhaps surprisingly, t ...

The samurai poet Watsujin once wrote the following haiku: ‘The cherry blossoms/ Put the whole world/ Under the tree.’ He’d have ...