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Remote destinations travel tips

Places that take a second flight, a boat, a permit or a week of driving. Harder to reach than anywhere else in these guides, and the reason people remember them.

KamchatkaRussiaThirty active volcanoes, brown bears fishing, and no road to the rest of the country

JuneauUnited StatesA state capital with no road out, a glacier at the edge of town, and rain

Easter IslandChileThe most remote inhabited island on earth, and nine hundred statues facing inland

ManausBrazilAn opera house in the rainforest, and two rivers that refuse to mix

Okavango DeltaBotswanaA river that never reaches the sea, and everything that lives comes to drink

Danube DeltaRomaniaEurope’s largest wetland: three hundred bird species, and roads that are water

DenaliUnited StatesSix million acres, one road, and a mountain that makes its own weather

Sossusvlei & the NamibNamibiaThousand-year-old dead trees under the highest dunes on earth

Wadi RumJordanRed sand, granite islands, and the clearest night sky in the region

Torres del PaineChileGranite towers, wind, and the emptiest sky in Patagonia

UluruAustraliaA single rock, 348 metres high, in the middle of a continent

BwindiUgandaAn hour with a family of mountain gorillas, and half the world’s remaining population

Galápagos IslandsEcuadorAnimals that never learned to be afraid of people

Serengeti & NgorongoroTanzaniaTwo million animals moving in one direction

Masai MaraKenyaThe same plains as the Serengeti, and the river the herds have to cross

LalibelaEthiopiaEleven churches cut downwards out of solid rock, and still in use every morning

Lake BaikalRussiaA fifth of the world’s unfrozen fresh water, and in March you can walk on it

VladivostokRussiaRussia’s Pacific city, closer to Tokyo than to Moscow, at the end of the railway