{"id":1152,"date":"2013-12-20T23:16:41","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T23:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/?p=1152"},"modified":"2014-07-14T09:33:11","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T09:33:11","slug":"best-of-the-world-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/best-of-the-world-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Where to go in 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ngm.nationalgeographic.com\/\">National Geographic Traveler magazine<\/a> has announced its annual Best of the World list, featuring 20 destinations plus a bonus readers\u2019 choice destination to visit in 2014. The list reflects what\u2019s authentic, culturally rich, sustainable and superlative in the world of travel today. The destinations are featured in the December 2013\/January 2014 issue of Traveler magazine, available on newsstands Dec. 3, and <a href=\"travel.nationalgeographic.com\/travel\/best-trips-2014\/\">online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/balancing-boulders-australia-traveler-botw.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1153\" title=\"balancing-boulders-australia-traveler-botw\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/balancing-boulders-australia-traveler-botw-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/balancing-boulders-australia-traveler-botw-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/balancing-boulders-australia-traveler-botw-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/balancing-boulders-australia-traveler-botw.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur annual Best of the World list doesn\u2019t reflect hot spots drawn from celebrity sightings or travel statistics,\u201d said Keith Bellows, editor in chief of National Geographic Traveler magazine. \u201cIt reflects the expertise and experience of National Geographic Travel\u2019s huge network of global travel experts. If you want to explore places worth visiting now, this is a great place to start.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The destinations featured in the 2014 Best of the World list are (in alphabetical order):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alentejo, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/country\/portugal\/\">Portugal<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Arbil, Iraq<\/li>\n<li>Bolaven Plateau, Laos<\/li>\n<li>Cacao Trail, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/country\/ecuador\/\">Ecuador<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/cape_verde\/\">Cape Verde<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Cathar Country, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/country\/france\/\">France<\/a><\/li>\n<li>C\u00f3rdoba, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/country\/argentina\/\">Argentina<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Derawan Islands, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/country\/indonesia\/\">Indonesia<\/a> (readers\u2019 choice)<\/li>\n<li>Guyana<\/li>\n<li>John Muir Trail, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/scotland\/\">Scotland<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Liechtenstein<\/li>\n<li>Nahanni National Park, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/country\/canada\/\">Canada<\/a><\/li>\n<li>New Orleans, Louisiana<\/li>\n<li>Northern Territory, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/country\/australia\/\">Australia<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Nyungwe National Park, Rwanda<\/li>\n<li>Puglia, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/country\/italy\/\">Italy<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Ranthambore National Park, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/country\/india\/\">India<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Riga, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/country\/latvia\/\">Latvia<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado<\/li>\n<li>Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina<\/li>\n<li>Sochi, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/country\/russia\/\">Russia<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/country\/russia\/\">\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/surfer-cape-verde-traveler-botw.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1154\" title=\"surfer-cape-verde-traveler-botw\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/surfer-cape-verde-traveler-botw-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/surfer-cape-verde-traveler-botw-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/surfer-cape-verde-traveler-botw-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/surfer-cape-verde-traveler-botw.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Described as being \u2018nascent and a little-known hideaway\u2019, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capeverde.com\/\">Cape Verde<\/a> is a fast growing in popularity as a beautiful, unique travel and holiday destination &#8211; with wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/country\/cape_verde\/#forecasts_sidebar\">weather <\/a>to boot. According to the latest World Tourism Organisation barometer, Cape Verde has the highest tourist arrivals growth rate with 27 percent growth in sub-Saharan Africa, with Algeria (16 percent), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/country\/madagascar\/\">Madagascar<\/a> (15 percent), R\u00e9union (12 percent) and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/country\/seychelles\/\">Seychelles<\/a> (11 percent) all coming second, third, fourth and fifth respectively.<\/p>\n<p>National Geographic Traveler magazine\u2019s global community of writers, editors and explorers selected 20 of the destinations, and for the first time a readers\u2019 choice submission was also included.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/\">National Geographic\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Geographic Traveler magazine has announced its annual Best of the World list, featuring 20 destinations plus a bonus readers\u2019 choice destination to visit in 2014. The list reflects what\u2019s authentic, culturally rich, sustainable and superlative in the world of travel today. The destinations are featured in the December 2013\/January 2014 issue of Traveler magazine, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"post_views_count":2178,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[253,219,254],"class_list":["post-1152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","tag-resort-alentejo_pt","tag-resort-cape_verde","tag-resort-puglia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1152"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1157,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions\/1157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}