Locals First

High-altitude capital connected by a network of cable cars over the canyon.

Trinidad Colonial, Cuba — pastel streets, live music, and sugar-mill valleys near the coast.

Yazd Old City, Iran — adobe lanes, windcatcher towers, and courtyards at the edge of the desert.

Whitewashed hill towns, cork trees, and slow roads. The Alentejo interior is heat, open space, and locals-first cafés.

Layered rice-terraces filling entire hillsides, flooded with sky-reflecting water.

Baltic island of round churches, cliffs, and smoked fish.

Stilt villages on the Brunei River linked by boardwalks and boats.

Wooden churches, stilt houses, and rolling fields in a rainy corner of southern Chile.

Sapa Rice Terraces, Vietnam — terraced hills and ethnic minority villages in the northern highlands.

Whitewashed colonial town above a lake with cobbled streets and art galleries.

Wooden churches and green valleys in the eastern Carpathians.

Foggy green plateaus, wooden houses, and tea fields above the Black Sea.

Switchback roads, red rock walls, and villages tucked into a desert canyon. Dades is the high-desert road between oases.

Volcanic lake surrounded by indigenous villages and coffee hills.

Lamu Old Town, Kenya — narrow alleys, carved doors, and donkeys on a car-free Swahili island.

Barichara & Camino Real, Colombia — well-preserved colonial town overlooking a canyon, with a stone path to a smaller village.

San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico — highland town of churches, markets, and crisp evenings in Chiapas.

Sandstone towers and open sand under bright stars. Wadi Rum is high-desert, remote-communities, and jeep tracks.