Best places to go: 19 travel destinations that will change your life

May 23 2015 - 12:15am
In Antarctica "life-changing moments happen constantly". Chinstrap penguins cruise atop an iceberg.
In Antarctica "life-changing moments happen constantly". Chinstrap penguins cruise atop an iceberg.
In Antarctica "life-changing moments happen constantly". Chinstrap penguins cruise atop an iceberg.
In Antarctica "life-changing moments happen constantly". Chinstrap penguins cruise atop an iceberg.
In Antarctica "life-changing moments happen constantly". Chinstrap penguins cruise atop an iceberg.
In Antarctica "life-changing moments happen constantly". Chinstrap penguins cruise atop an iceberg.
In Antarctica "life-changing moments happen constantly". Chinstrap penguins cruise atop an iceberg.
In Antarctica "life-changing moments happen constantly". Chinstrap penguins cruise atop an iceberg.
Catch the Northern Lights on a good night and you may get a sense that our planet is just a tiny cog in a machine too big to comprehend: The Aurora Borealis in Norway.
Catch the Northern Lights on a good night and you may get a sense that our planet is just a tiny cog in a machine too big to comprehend: The Aurora Borealis in Norway.
Catch the Northern Lights on a good night and you may get a sense that our planet is just a tiny cog in a machine too big to comprehend: The Aurora Borealis in Norway.
Catch the Northern Lights on a good night and you may get a sense that our planet is just a tiny cog in a machine too big to comprehend: The Aurora Borealis in Norway.
As a city, Paris offers a feeling of serendipity, and the joy that comes with the unexpected.
As a city, Paris offers a feeling of serendipity, and the joy that comes with the unexpected.
Your life hasn't been lived in all its glory until you've taken an overnight train in India: Mumbai, Victoria Terminus railway station.
Your life hasn't been lived in all its glory until you've taken an overnight train in India: Mumbai, Victoria Terminus railway station.
Umbrellas, deck chairs on Spiaggia Grande. Photo: Dallas Stribley
Umbrellas, deck chairs on Spiaggia Grande. Photo: Dallas Stribley
Catch the Northern Lights on a good night and you may get a sense that our planet is just a tiny cog in a machine too big to comprehend: The Aurora Borealis in Norway.
Catch the Northern Lights on a good night and you may get a sense that our planet is just a tiny cog in a machine too big to comprehend: The Aurora Borealis in Norway.
Catch the Northern Lights on a good night and you may get a sense that our planet is just a tiny cog in a machine too big to comprehend: The Aurora Borealis in Norway.
Catch the Northern Lights on a good night and you may get a sense that our planet is just a tiny cog in a machine too big to comprehend: The Aurora Borealis in Norway.

One of the most disconcerting, yet compelling, aspects of travel is its ability to slice away the cocoon of certainties in which we wrap ourselves. Certain destinations make us look differently at the world. Many visitors to India, for example, find themselves disoriented by the constant tide of life that washes over them; more raucous, more extreme, poorer yet richer than anything they have seen before.

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