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Three Southeast Asian Cities Worth Staying For
Before dawn, Bangkok’s Pak Khlong Talat belongs to flower carts, garland makers and wet loading floors. After sunrise, sellers arrange stalls as flowers move from wholesale bundles towards temples and household shrines.
North America
Drumheller: where Alberta’s dinosaur beds meet the badlands
Around Drumheller, the Red Deer River valley cuts through pale sandstone, dark shale and bare, fluted slopes. Those exposed beds preserve part of a Late Cretaceous coastal plain, where wetlands, forests and dinosaurs stood in place of today’s dry badlands.
North America
Fogo Island: Fishing Rooms, Punts and Work That Continues
In Fogo, stores, lofts and stages still run between the main street and the harbour. In Tilting, houses, gardens and fishing buildings gather around a smaller sheltered bay, on ground shaped by family plots and coastal work.
North America
Granville Island Still Works for a Living
Fishmongers portion halibut beneath an old lifting crane, glassmakers work near former machine shops, and boat crews haul vessels from False Creek. On Granville Island, Vancouver’s industrial fabric still holds a market, workshops and a working shore together.
North America
Haida Gwaii Begins at Ḵay Llnagaay
Six monumental poles stand beside the water at Ḵay Llnagaay, each linked to villages and clans whose descendants live in Skidegate today. They make one fact plain: Haida culture belongs to the present, and visitors enter Haida homeland as guests.
North America
Down into the Frenchman River Valley
In the West Block of Grasslands National Park near Val Marie, the Frenchman River runs below dry uplands cut by coulees and buttes. Water shaped this corner of southern Saskatchewan, but grass, bison and a long human presence still define it.
North America
Twelve Minutes Across the Saint Lawrence
At Québec City, cars queue below the old town while pedestrians and cyclists take the separate route to a ferry across the Saint Lawrence. Twelve minutes later, the ramp drops at Lévis, with Québec’s lower town, cliff and upper city spread across the water behind it.
North America
Peddelen, dragen, kamperen: van Canoe Lake naar Joe Lake
Canoe Lake begint breed en open. Daarna legt een dam het peddelen stil, gaan kano en bepakking op de schouders, en krijgt een driedaagse lus via Littledoe en de kleine Joe-meren zijn vaste maat.
Five Toronto stops, from the CN Tower to a dinosaur’s feet
The CN Tower stands on former railway land beside Lake Ontario, where rail yards, harbour works and reclaimed ground pushed Toronto’s edge into the water. Start high, then take the ferry: the crossing puts the skyline at a useful distance.
North America
Walking the Tablelands Trail in Gros Morne
The marked Tablelands Trail in Gros Morne National Park follows an old road beneath slopes of rust-orange mantle rock. The 4-kilometre walk stays low, but it brings an ancient ocean floor, thin mineral-rich soils and a remarkably spare plant community into clear view.
North America
By Train from Winnipeg to the Hudson Bay Coast
VIA Rail leaves Winnipeg around midday and reaches Churchill two nights later, after roughly 45 hours and 1,697 kilometres of prairie, boreal forest, muskeg and tundra. The final stop stands on Hudson Bay, in a town with no road connection to southern Manitoba.
North America
Beyond the Gold-Rush Façades of Dawson City
At Dawson City’s waterfront, the Yukon River links a famous gold-rush town with a much older homeland. Wooden shopfronts survive, but Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in citizens still use, interpret and care for the river country that shaped life here long before miners arrived.