Tucked into a beautiful corner of the Mediterranean, Turkey has long acted as a bridge between disparate cultures, a place where travelers from around the globe gathered to trade goods and stories. Today, Turkey is one of our travelers’ favorite destinations, and after your first taste of doner kebab, you’ll understand why. Now, we’re offering [...]

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Usually, when we talk about the “treasures” you can find on an India tour, we’re speaking metaphorically. In the southern Indian state of Kerala, the term can now be used literally. The Indian Supreme Court recently ordered an inventory of six subterranean rooms at the Padmanabhaswamy Temple in the city of Thiruvananthapuram, located in the [...]

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Go Ahead Groups Account Manager Angus Beaton is a self-described “history nerd” who fell in love with fin de siècle Vienna while in college. “I love European history, and I wanted to take my time in Vienna. So the three-night Vienna extension on his Historic Germany: Berlin to Bavaria tour made perfect sense, and it [...]

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If you have just one afternoon to take in the whole grand history of Spain, you could do worse than spend it in Córdoba’s Mezquita. The walls, arches and domes of this magnificent example of Moorish architecture tell the story of Spain from its days as a far-flung province of Rome to the fall of [...]

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This is the first in a new series of posts dedicated to authentic recipes from our favorite destinations around the world. Our first dish comes to us from the small town of Amatrice in the mountains northeast of Rome. Urban legends hold that a number of papal chefs hailed from Amatrice, but the town is [...]

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