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For the previous many Januaries, The New York Instances has printed a Journey part mainstay: a listing of 52 locations all over the world, full with beautiful images. Last year’s list has the tagline “We picked locations to encourage you, delight you and inspire you to discover the world,” and that applies to all of the earlier lists, too.
However with the pandemic disrupting regular life for therefore many individuals, the Journey part determined to publish a special form of record for 2021. As a substitute of sending a “a small military” of journey writers and photographers throughout the globe, they determined to ask readers “to inform us in regards to the spots which have delighted, impressed and comforted them in a darkish 12 months.” The ensuing record has the title “52 Locations to Love,” not “52 Locations to Go.”
What locations would you add to the record?
In “A Very Different ‘52 Places,’” Amy Virshup writes about what she characterizes as a radically totally different method to assembling this 12 months’s record:
Presently of 12 months The Instances’s Journey desk often publishes its lavish “52 Locations to Go” record, a compendium of options for the locations which can be particularly price visiting within the coming 12 months, accompanied by showstopping images.
However on this pandemic 12 months, creating our traditional record was out of the query. For one factor, there have been the logistics: We often deploy a small military of photographers in the hunt for these good photos. That was clearly inconceivable. Past that, our record is constructed on a journalistic crucial: What’s new? What makes a spot so thrilling and totally different — lodge openings, new museums, an increasing meals or cultural scene — that it jumps to the highest of the record of locations to see now? However the pandemic has put a maintain on most of these newsworthy developments.
As a substitute, in 2021, we face a 12 months of uncertainty. With vaccines newly out there, maybe the journey trade — which provides hundreds of thousands of jobs and is a vital a part of the worldwide financial system — will begin to revive. Nevertheless it’s arduous to know when and the place that rebirth will start. And a listing that appears to encourage individuals to hurry again onto planes when so many are struggling felt unconscionable.
And but, the world with all its beautiful pure magnificence and cultural richness stays. If 2020 has carried out something for individuals who like to journey, it has reminded them that the world is just not a guidelines of locations to tick off — Venice, been there, the Serengeti, carried out that — however one thing to discover, to savor and to like.
That grew to become the animating thought behind this year’s 52 Places. As a substitute of turning to our contributors and correspondents, we turned to a different group of passionate vacationers, our readers, and requested them to inform us about their most beloved locations, and why they deserved a spot on our record, in addition to to share their images.
Greater than 2,000 of them responded.
They advised us about hometowns for which they’d gained new appreciation throughout the pandemic. Of nations the place their household connections run robust, however which for the second they will solely view with longing. Of trip locations the place they all of a sudden acknowledged one thing necessary in themselves. In studying by means of the submissions, it grew to become clear that whereas our record often focuses on what’s altering in a spot, individuals will be profoundly modified by the locations they’ve visited — and isn’t that why we journey to start with?
What are a number of the locations on this 12 months’s record?
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Montana’s “Golden Triangle”
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Lake Michigan
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East Haddam, Conn.
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Ladakh, India
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Malpaís, Costa Rica
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Dakar, Senegal
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The Scottish Highlands, Scotland
College students, look by means of your complete record of 52 locations, after which inform us:
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Primarily based in your life experiences, what’s lacking from the record? Title a spot that you just love, and describe why it deserves to be included. Take inspiration from the descriptions within the interactive.
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After studying by means of the 52 areas on the record, which locations curiosity you most? Why? Have you ever been to any of them?
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What do you consider Jody Greene’s assertion you can “let a spot remake you” if as a substitute of touring to a brand new place yearly, you go to the identical one a number of instances? Do you’ve any experiences with that? Have you ever, for example, spent numerous time in a metropolis or city the place kin dwell, the place a guardian grew up or the place your loved ones goes for trip? How, if in any respect, has that place formed your life?
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The caption by Morgan Charles that accompanies the photograph of the Scottish Highlands on the high of this web page reads partially, “This has been a distressing time, however I hope that we are able to all study to essentially love and recognize the place we’re from.” Reply to that assertion. Have your emotions about the place you’re from modified over the past 12 months? If that’s the case, what’s totally different now? If not, describe how you’re feeling about the place you are from anyway.
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Do you miss touring, whether or not close by or distant? Why, or why not?
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