1,000 Perfect Weekends: Great Getaways Around the Globe
Packed with innovative ideas and inspiring photographs, this gift-worthy treasury features 1,000 dream escapes from sunny beach retreats to lush mountain idylls, exotic city sojourns, and wild adventures around the world.

Whether you're looking for a way to unplug from the busy work week, take the family on a quick getaway, or add to a vacation itinerary, this practical and inspiring book provides the perfect way to plan your next escape. Spend two days sailing off the coast of the Bahamas. Indulge in a foodie tour of Mexico City's markets. Camp with wild horses on Assateague Island. Take a drive through Italy's "Chocolate Valley." Skate the world's largest ice rink at Ottawa's winter festival. Whatever your pleasure, 1,000 Perfect Weekends has a unique itinerary built to excite you and your travel companions, illustrated with dramatic National Geographic photographs. Divided by theme and interest—including nature parks, city escapes, country weekends, mountain retreats, and more—this fun-packed guide offers an adventure you can experience in 36 to 72 hours. Highlighting the best short escapes from hubs across the globe, these trips cover more than 40 countries around the world. You'll also find 50 snackable top-10 lists—from the best places to go antiquing to the most relaxing spas to the top museums in the world—to add to your bucket list, along with first-person accounts from travelers who have scouted out each location.
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1,000 Perfect Weekends: Great Getaways Around the Globe
Packed with innovative ideas and inspiring photographs, this gift-worthy treasury features 1,000 dream escapes from sunny beach retreats to lush mountain idylls, exotic city sojourns, and wild adventures around the world.

Whether you're looking for a way to unplug from the busy work week, take the family on a quick getaway, or add to a vacation itinerary, this practical and inspiring book provides the perfect way to plan your next escape. Spend two days sailing off the coast of the Bahamas. Indulge in a foodie tour of Mexico City's markets. Camp with wild horses on Assateague Island. Take a drive through Italy's "Chocolate Valley." Skate the world's largest ice rink at Ottawa's winter festival. Whatever your pleasure, 1,000 Perfect Weekends has a unique itinerary built to excite you and your travel companions, illustrated with dramatic National Geographic photographs. Divided by theme and interest—including nature parks, city escapes, country weekends, mountain retreats, and more—this fun-packed guide offers an adventure you can experience in 36 to 72 hours. Highlighting the best short escapes from hubs across the globe, these trips cover more than 40 countries around the world. You'll also find 50 snackable top-10 lists—from the best places to go antiquing to the most relaxing spas to the top museums in the world—to add to your bucket list, along with first-person accounts from travelers who have scouted out each location.
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1,000 Perfect Weekends: Great Getaways Around the Globe

1,000 Perfect Weekends: Great Getaways Around the Globe

by National Geographic
1,000 Perfect Weekends: Great Getaways Around the Globe

1,000 Perfect Weekends: Great Getaways Around the Globe

by National Geographic

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Packed with innovative ideas and inspiring photographs, this gift-worthy treasury features 1,000 dream escapes from sunny beach retreats to lush mountain idylls, exotic city sojourns, and wild adventures around the world.

Whether you're looking for a way to unplug from the busy work week, take the family on a quick getaway, or add to a vacation itinerary, this practical and inspiring book provides the perfect way to plan your next escape. Spend two days sailing off the coast of the Bahamas. Indulge in a foodie tour of Mexico City's markets. Camp with wild horses on Assateague Island. Take a drive through Italy's "Chocolate Valley." Skate the world's largest ice rink at Ottawa's winter festival. Whatever your pleasure, 1,000 Perfect Weekends has a unique itinerary built to excite you and your travel companions, illustrated with dramatic National Geographic photographs. Divided by theme and interest—including nature parks, city escapes, country weekends, mountain retreats, and more—this fun-packed guide offers an adventure you can experience in 36 to 72 hours. Highlighting the best short escapes from hubs across the globe, these trips cover more than 40 countries around the world. You'll also find 50 snackable top-10 lists—from the best places to go antiquing to the most relaxing spas to the top museums in the world—to add to your bucket list, along with first-person accounts from travelers who have scouted out each location.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781426221453
Publisher: Disney Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/19/2021
Pages: 704
Sales rank: 171,725
Product dimensions: 7.60(w) x 9.00(h) x 2.10(d)

About the Author

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC is one of the world’s leading nonfiction publishers, proudly supporting the work of scientists, explorers, photographers, and authors, as well as publishing a diverse list of books that celebrate the world and all that is in it. National Geographic Books creates and distributes print and digital works that inspire, entertain, teach, and give readers access to a world of discovery and possibility on a wide range of nonfiction subjects from animals to travel, cartography to history, fun facts to moving stories. A portion of all National Geographic proceeds is used to fund exploration, conservation, and education through ongoing contributions to the work of the National Geographic Society.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter1: North America & The Caribbean

NewYork
Chicago
WashingtonD.C. (Sidebar: Baltimore)
LosAngeles (Sidebar: San Diego)
SanFrancisco
SantaFe
NewOrleans (Sidebar: Memphis)
Montreal
QuebecCity
Toronto
Vancouver(Sidebar: Victoria)
LasVegas
Seattle(Sidebar: Portland)
Boston
Savannah& Charleston
KansasCity & St. Louis (Sidebar: Oklahoma City)
Philadelphia
Havana(Sidebar: Santiago de Cuba)
SanJuan
CaribbeanCluster: Kingston (Jamaica), Georgetown (Guyana), Port of Spain(Trinidad)

Chapter2: Latin America

MexicoCity (Sidebar: Teotihuacan)
Guadalajara(Sidebar: Puerto Vallarta)
OaxacaCity
Riode Janeiro (sidebar: Sao Paulo)
Salvador(Bahia)
BuenosAires (Sidebar: Ushuaia)
Montevideo
Santiago
Cusco
Quito
Lima
LatinAmerica Cluster: Antigua (Guatemala), Grenada (Nicaragua), Panama City


Chapter3: Pacific

Honolulu
Sydney(Sidebar: Canberra)
Melbourne
Auckland(Sidebar: Queenstown)
PacificCluster: Papeete (Tahiti), Apia (Samoa), Noumea (French Caledonia)


Chapter4: Africa

CapeTown
Johannesburg(Sidebar: Durban)
Nairobi(Sidebar: Mombasa)
AddisAbaba
Cairo(Sidebar: Alexandria)
Luxor& Aswan
Marrakech(Sidebar: Ouarzazate)
Algiers
AfricaCluster: Victoria (Seychelles), Port Louise (Mauritius), Tananarive(Madagascar)


Chapter5: Middle East

Jerusalem(Sidebar: Tel Aviv)
Dubai(Sidebar: Abu Dhabi)
Istanbul
Muscat(Oman)
Amman
Samarkand
Haifa
Doha(Qatar)
MiddleEast Cluster: Yerevan (Armenia), Tbilisi (Georgia), Baku (Azerbaijan)

Chapter 6: Asia

Tokyo
Kyoto
Seoul
Beijing
Shanghai (Sidebar: Hangzhou)
Hong Kong
Manila
Hanoi & Ho Chi Minh
Luang Prabang
Bangkok (Sidebar: Chiang Mai)
Yangon (Rangoon)
Kuala Lumpur
Singapore
Yogyakarta (Sidebar: Jakarta)
Kathmandu (Sidebar: Llasa/Tibet)
Paro & Thimpu (Bhutan)
Mumbai
New Delhi & Agra
Jaipur
Ulan Bator
China Cluster: Chengu, Guilin, and Xi’an


Chapter 7: Europe

London (Sidebar: Liverpool)
Paris
Rome (Sidebar: Naples)
Berlin (Sidebar: Hamburg)
Athens
Lisbon (Sidebar: Porto)
Madrid
Barcelona
Geneva (Sidebar: Zurich
Venice
Florence (Sidebar: Siena)
Vienna (Sidebar: Innsbruck)
Budapest
Prague
Munich (Sidebar: Frankfurt)
Krakow (Sidebar: Warsaw)
Moscow
St. Petersburg (Sidebar: Novgorod)
Stockholm
Oslo (Sidebar: Longyearbyen)
Copenhagen
Helsinki
Reykjavik
Amsterdam (Sidebar: Rotterdam)
Brugge (Sidebar: Brussels)
Dubrovnik (Sidebar: Zagreb)
Sofia
Kiev (Sidebar: Odessa)
Edinburgh (Sidebar: Glasgow)
Dublin (Sidebar: Belfast)
Baltic Cluster: Tallin (Estonia), Riga (Latvia), and Vilnius (Lithuania)
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