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North and Central America holidays

September 2024

  • A performer at the Trans-Pecos festival

    Volunteering at music festivals supported my post-retirement trip to the US and Canada

    Working in exchange for tickets from Vancouver to Texas was an ideal way for a 60-year-old solo traveller to find friends, fun and an instant community

May 2024

  • black and white overhead panorama of river, road and peaks

    I became a man in the Alaskan wilderness – just not in the way you might think

    Benjamin Alva Polley had a healthy respect for the whims of the wilderness. But when he and his wife headed to the most remote frontier, fear crept in

February 2024

  • Long Bay, Negril, Westmoreland, Jamaica<br>R5DMAA Long Bay, Negril, Westmoreland, Jamaica

    My Rasta father showed me the real Jamaica. After he died, I wanted to share it with my kids

    I had no idea where I was heading when we set sail from Jamaica in the 70s, but I’m glad I’ve returned with my children to remember their grandfather this way

September 2023

  • Manhattan Bridge, NYC<br>Manhattan bridge seen from a brick buildings in Brooklyn street in perspective, New York, USA. Shot in the evening

    Brooklyn for all budgets: 10 places to stay in New York’s coolest borough

    New York City can be costly, but these hotels mean you can still afford to visit

August 2023

  • Emma Beddington

    Are Europeans actually less enthusiastic than Americans - or just dehydrated?

    Emma Beddington
  • Arwa Mahdawi takes a selfie at the Fairmount Water Works in Philadelphia.

    A dream holiday at home
    A fake volcano, an ice-cream, a dog dressed as a shark: how I holidayed in the Aeolian Islands – without leaving Philadelphia

June 2023

  • Women Bathing in the bathing beach Wannsee in Berlin<br>CRRAE3 Women Bathing in the bathing beach Wannsee in Berlin

    Readers' travel tips
    ‘Everyone I met was lovely’: readers’ favourite student trips

  • Kevin Rushby standing behind Kiki waterfall.

    ‘I feel the wing-draught of dozens of hummingbirds’: the wild beauty of Panama

May 2023

  • Yellow Fronted Toucan in the coffee plantation at Coffea Diversa

    The perfect blend: how coffee farms in Costa Rica are mixing wildlife, agriculture and tourism

    A new crop of farming co-ops are finding ways to safely open up untouched landscapes and exotic wildlife to visitors – and grow superb coffee

January 2023

  • A painted bus and traffic lights in San José, Costa Rica

    My bad trip
    My bad trip – do you know the way to San José? Take the chicken bus!

    When Brie Veron and her friends book a ‘two-hour’ trip into Costa Rica, they aren’t expecting a 16-hour ordeal involving a shady cabbie and a dodgy curry

November 2022

  • OM Archive Dodge City October 3 1965

    From the Observer archive
    How wild was the wild west in 1965?

    In Dodge City, there hadn’t been a fatal shootout in 10 years. By Chris Hall

March 2022

  • A lone bison feeds on sun-cured grasses next to a cluster of hot springs and fumaroles above Yellowstone Lake

    The age of extinction
    Yellowstone at 150: a journey into the heart of America’s first national park – in pictures

    Steven Fuller has been the ‘winterkeeper’ at Yellowstone for 49 years. In that time, he has captured the breathtaking natural phenomena and the wildlife that exist there through all the seasons

July 2021

  • Jo holiday funny beach cartoon

    Holidays from hell: Naga Munchetty, David Baddiel, Jon Snow and others on their worst breaks

    We’re all so desperate to get away. But were our summer breaks as good as we remember? Famous travellers tell their sorry tales to Michael Segalov

April 2021

  • NWFS Trout Fight

    Vlogging and fishing: a YouTuber goes wild camping in the Cascade mountains

    A lone fisherman goes into the wilds of Washington state in search of giant alpine trout in pristine turquoise lakes. The results are spectacular

March 2021

  • David Reynolds at Baker Beach in San Francisco

    The soundtrack of my travels
    David Reynolds’ playlist: 10 songs from my travels

    The writer’s journeys, including a slow drive across the US, were accompanied by a selection of jazz, rock and folk greats
  • Yurok kids staying at the RV park by the port which the fishers use to head out fishing the mouth of the Klamath River.

    Travel through a lens
    It's an RV life for Yurok kids on the California coast

    Our series on evocative travel images continues with Joel Redman’s shot of Native American children after a fishing adventure
  • Coyoacan district street scene in Mexico City.

    Virtual travel guides
    Mexico City: a virtual tour through film, music, books, food and art

    One of Latin America’s most colourful capitals comes alive through its dancehall rhythms, gritty cinema and tasty tacos

February 2021

  • The south side Desolation Peak Lookout cabin in Ross Lake National Recreation Area Washington. lake would be left.<br>D0F0NN The south side Desolation Peak Lookout cabin in Ross Lake National Recreation Area Washington. lake would be left.

    Travel encounters
    'You could see it all from that marvellous glass cabin in the Cascade mountains'

    Continuing our series about memorable encounters, we hear the story of the fire watchman of Desolation Peak in Washington State

January 2021

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    New York's Chinatown pulls together to brighten the Covid darkness

  • Paseo de Marti in Old Havana, Cuba.

    Virtual travel guides
    Havana: a virtual tour through food, music, films and books

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