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Wanderlust Issue 188 (July/August 2018) Polar Trip Planner ♦ 20 UNESCO cultural classics ♦ Namibia ♦ Papua New Guinea ♦ Oman ♦ Pocket guides: Edinburgh, Antwerp, Pisa

UNESCO’s cultural classics

20 Heritage greats, from Kyoto to Old Havana

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POLAR ADVENTURES Arctic or Antarctic? Our pick of the coolest adventures on the planet

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Walking Oman’s wild side Belgium’s weird north Festival fun in Edinburgh Secret Europe

Namibia’s last great wilderness

Explore the north-west on a mobile safari trip

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ELEPHANT REVIVAL Zakouma NP, Chad

Photographer: Michael K Nichols Stories of nature in peril often fills column inches. Increasingly, though, tales of heartening successes are getting louder. The new book, National Geographic: Around the World in 125 Years: Africa, crucially captures one of the more remarkable conservation efforts on camera. In the early 2000s, wars with neighbouring countries and unchecked poaching meant elephant numbers in Chad’s Zakouma NP plummetted from 4,000 in 2002 to just 400 in 2010. But with help from NGO African Parks, poaching was soon under control. Today, numbers are growing again (to over 500) and it is safe enough to reintroduce other rare species, including six black rhinos that arrived in May. A true feat of conservation.

National Geographic: Around the World In 125 Years: Africa (TASCHEN; £50) is out now. www.taschen.com

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Papua New Guinea

Open wide…

The Sepik River plunges 1,126km into Papua New Guinea’s gullet, with 250 local languages spoken along its banks

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CROCODILE Papua New Guinea’s Sepik River winds through unchanged villages, with new trips opening up this country within a country WORDS & PHOTOGRAPHS MARK STRATTON

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UNESCO CULTURAL GREATS From rock-hewn cities to Welsh castles; mountaintop temples to island prisons, we celebrate the UNESCO-listed wonders that make the world a more cultured place WORDS SARAH BAXTER

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he United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was born out of the horrors of the Second World War, with the remit of spreading peace. The idea of designating and conserving World Heritage sites – places deemed of great import for their cultural, historical or scientific value – was ratified in 1972. Just six years later, the first 12 were

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announced, ranging from Ecuador’s Galápagos Islands to Germany’s Aachen Cathedral. Today, 1,073 sites have been listed and protected for posterity, with a new batch due to be added this July. The variety is staggering. But the idea is that each one makes the world a more enriching, more fascinating, more united place.

Here are just some of the more remarkable from around the globe…

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Top UNESCO sites

KYOTO, JAPAN 1 ANCIENT WHY? Revel in the country’s former capital It was 150 years ago that Japan’s capital began to shift to Edo (modern-day Tokyo), but Kyoto – its imperial capital for over 1,000 years – remains the country’s cultural and spiritual heart. Some 17 elements make up UNESCO’s Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto site, spanning the evolution of Japanese wooden architecture and landscape gardens from the tenth to the 17th centuries. This collection includes the golden tiers of Kinkaku-ji, the Zen garden of Ryoan-ji and the towering pagoda of To-ji, Japan’s tallest. Spring visitors should head for the serene Ninna-ji, renowned for its late-blooming cherry trees, while the autumn colours are especially spectacular at the mountain-tucked Tenryu-ji.

GET THERE: Kyoto is around 2.5 hours by train from Tokyo. ⊲

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Safaris in Abu Dhabi?

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Discover the United Arab Emirates’ wild side

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Wanderlust Issue 182 (December 2017/January 2018) Travel Hot List 2018 ♦ Christmas Island ♦ Sweden’s wolves ♦ Buenos Aires ♦ Indonesia’s islands ♦ Pocket guides: Taipei (Taiwan), La Rochelle, San Francisco

Cross the continent in his revolutionary footsteps

Rafting, walking and wildlife watching… without the crowds

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Howling with wolves – just two hours from Stockholm

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Time to Tango

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