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WHERE WE’RE
TRAVELLING THIS YEAR
The National Geographic Traveller team is always dreaming about where
to head next. Here are the destinations heading up our wishlists for 2020
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SNOWDONIA is on my radar this year: I’d like
to escape to a treehouse, cottage or campsite
for a few nights and break up long hikes with
stops for a local ale in cosy pubs. Scrambling
up Mount Snowdon to see views out to
Ireland from its peak is also on my list, as is
a trip to Foragers Gin distillery and bouncing
on trampolines in an underground cave
system at Bounce Below — although possibly
not in the same aternoon. Tamsin Wressell,
assistant editor. GO ONLINE TO READ MORE AT
NATIONALGEOGRAPHIC.CO.UK/TRAVELFrom its literary greats — Pushkin,
Dostoevsky and Tolstoy — to ine art at the
Hermitage, ST PETERSBURG has always held
an allure for me. Peter the Great’s ‘window
to Europe’ has achieved UNESCO World
Heritage Site status and its Venetian-style
canals, grand architecture, heavyweight
cultural institutions, numerous palaces and
cathedrals, and White Nights Festival make
it hard to resist. But there’s a modern Russia
to discover here too, in this former imperial
capital. Pat Riddell, editorLebanon’s arty capital, BEIRUT, with its hip
enclaves and tasty Levantine restaurants,
has charmed travellers for decades. But now
that the Foreign & Commonwealth Oice
has lited restrictions on travel to more of
the country’s interior — home to mountain
trails, wineries and Roman ruins — I suspect
the country is poised to hit the big time. A
whole bunch of British tour operators are
starting or relaunching tours for 2020, and
I’m jumping on the irst one I can.
Amelia Duggan, acting deputy editor46 46 nationalgeographic.co.uk/travel nationalgeographic.co.uk/travel
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