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🗓️ 16 January 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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It’s a few weeks into the year and, already, we’re planning everywhere we want to go next. Lale chats with her well-traveled colleagues Megan Spurrell and Arati Menon about the best places to go in 2025—everywhere from Greenland and Alaska to India and Uganda—and gets tips on how to pull some of those ambitious (and more attainable) trips off.
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0:00.0 | Hi there, I'm Lale Arakoglu. |
0:07.0 | And today on Women Who Travel, I'm in the studio with two editors and writers from Kondinas Traveler, |
0:13.0 | who I know very, very well. |
0:15.0 | I think when we talk about this big, beautiful world, like, it represents what we're all interested in. |
0:20.0 | It's Megan Sparell, Associate Articles |
0:22.1 | director who's been on the show many times. She most recently talked to us about reporting in |
0:27.0 | Tahiti on Olympic surfers, where you shared your love of rawfish, among other things. |
0:32.7 | I'm so glad I'm getting known for that over here with the audience. It is arguably your brand. |
0:39.6 | And also with me today is Artie Menon, our global digital director. We're going to be here in this warm cozy |
0:44.5 | studio. It is very warm and cozy, I will say. We do best places to go every year. It runs on our |
0:53.2 | US website and across multiple editions |
0:55.8 | of Condonast Traveller. This is a list that's for everyone who's curious about the world, |
1:01.2 | which is, I imagine, everyone who's listening to this podcast right now. This is a list for dreaming, |
1:06.1 | as much as it is a list for planning. There are places that probably feel like you're never |
1:10.4 | going to make it |
1:11.0 | to, but that doesn't mean that you can't entertain the idea. And I will caveat that while some of |
1:16.4 | the hotels and experiences are of a higher price point, there's plenty that are affordable and much |
1:22.3 | more wallet friendly. And I'd also say that this is just inspiration for a place. This is to say, |
1:27.3 | go and experience it. |
1:28.8 | You don't have to do everything newsworthy on this list. |
1:32.3 | Treat it as a guide. |
1:38.4 | Last year was 24 places to go in 2024. |
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