Arts

The deserts and wide open spaces of the Southwest USA are among the darkest places in America and offer some of the country’s best possibilities for seeing the Milky Way in all its glory. The arid climate is reliably clear in this part of the world, so the sky is mercifully cloud-free most nights, perfect for stargazing into the heavens. Whether you have the constellations memorized or just enjoy the faint glow of starlight on your face, the Southwest USA offers something for all types of astronomers.

Visitors to Vietnam often cite charming Hoi An as one of their favourite cities. A thriving medieval port city that was reduced to a backwater country town by the late 18th century, Hoi An was more recently reborn as a UNESCO-listed World Heritage Site for its well-preserved Old Town. Nowadays, up to five million people visit Hoi An annually, most spending a modest VND 120,000 for a ticket to see five of the town’s 22 heritage attractions or not-so-modest sums on getting tailor-made clothing and shoes at the town’s more than 300 tailor shops.

Superlative natural wonders appear wherever you turn in the USA’s national parks. Whether you’re working on your bucket list – ‘Climb North America’s highest mountain!’ – or just wanting to hug the world’s largest living tree, you can explore nature’s extreme outer limits at these record-setting US national parks.

Twice a year, gear makers from all over the world gather in the Denver, Colorado Convention Center to share their newest designs, innovations, and inventions with outdoor stores, journalists, and their peers. This year, the biggest focus was on how to keep people equipped with rain jackets, hiking boots, and travel bags, without damaging the beautiful places we love to visit.

A visit to a theme park is often a thrilling highlight of a child’s early experiences. Stepping into a fantasy world creates a suspension of day-to-day reality—these colorful worlds are all about having fun together as a family, doing something out of the ordinary, bonding, and creating happy memories.

6 June marks the 75th anniversary of the D-Day beach landings, the largest seaborne invasion in history. Early on the morning of 6 June 1944, swarms of landing craft arrived on the beaches of northern Normandy in France, and 135,000 Allied soldiers started to pour onto French soil.