Summer is over. Winter is coming, but fall is here.
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Now you may be back at school or back at work,
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but do not put your passport away just yet.
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Fall is one the best times of the year to travel,
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and that's because in most places,
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it's the shoulder season.. that period right before or after the peak season
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when the weather's nice, the crowds are low, and prices are cheaper.
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Also the changing of the seasons means that fall has some of the most beautiful colors of the year.
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And you know that everybody loves those fall photos on Instagram.
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I'm Marko. I'm Alex.
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This video's going to cover the entire world. So no matter where you are,
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put down that pumpkin spice latte and get ready to take some notes.
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These are the best fall destinations around the world.
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We're starting off in the Americas, particularly the eastern seaboard of the United States and Canada,
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which have some of the best autumn colors in the world,
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thanks to the deciduous forests that stretch from Virginia up to Nova Scotia and beyond.
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But here are some spots in specific that you've got to check out....
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Vermont is very well-known because it's the home of Ben and Jerry's ice cream.
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I love Fish Food. I need Fish Food.
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I could live off of Fish Food.
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During the fall, the trees come to life;
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they get super colorful.
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Throw in an incredible array of craft breweries, an awesome farm-to-table movement and
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the fall harvest, and Vermont is looking pretty damn good.
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If you don't have a lot of time, go to the Hudson Valley in upstate New York.
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It's an easy escape from the city- super accessible by train or you can rent a car and makes you feel like you're
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thousands of miles away.
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I went here a couple years ago during the apple harvest, and it was just a really great experience
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It's just really folksy and feels like a totally different side of New York.
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Want more movement ?
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The ultimate fall road trip is going through the Appalachian Mountains right as fall is turning in mid-October.
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There's an incredible 470 mile road
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that goes from Shenandoah National Park to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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through forests of maple, oak, and dogwood.
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Next up: Aspen, Colorado
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also a ski resort in the winter.
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Come here for the aspen trees that give the town its name and turn yellow
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rather than orange or red in the fall.
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Weed just got legalized in Colorado, so if you're into that,
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there's plenty of trees to enjoy in Aspen.
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We've been to Montreal and Quebec City a number of times, and one of our favorite things about
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Quebec is that the cities are so close to large swaths of Canadian wilderness.
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For example we were just in the Jean Cartier National Park a couple of months back.
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This was one of the most incredible places we have ever been,
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and to see this during the fall color change would be incredible.
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Even Gatineau Park just over the border from Ottawa, Ontario
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was gorgeous in the fall colors.
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Also in Canada is Manitoba. We went there last summer for a fishing trip way up north.
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But even further north than that is Churchill on the edge of the Hudson Bay,
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which is one of the premier places to see polar bears in the wild.
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There's a population of about a thousand polar bears in the area,
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and every October and November,
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they migrate from their summer homes to the edge of the Hudson Bay to hunt seals.
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Next up: Oaxaca in Southern Mexico.
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Oaxaca is one of the most colorful parts of Mexico,
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and it's great to visit in the fall because this is where the Day of the Dead
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celebrations are the strongest.
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The surf is the biggest in the summer,
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but there's still are waves.
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If you're looking for unspoiled beach breaks in Mexico,
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this is your spot, and the food is amazing.
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This is the home of mescal and mole,
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so I don't think I need to tell you more.
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Moving to Europe...First up: we have the country of Georgia,
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not the state of Georgia in the United States,
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but the country of Georgia- one of the oldest civilization centers in Europe
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and one of the oldest wine-growing regions in the world.
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We've been wanting to visit Georgia for a very long time,
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and we've been told that the fall is the best time to visit because the colorful forests
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and the annual wine harvest.
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When people ask us for advice on traveling to Italy, we don't tell them where to go so much as when to go
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because a lot of people go in the summer.
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That's when the heat is unbearable,
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the crowds are insufferable, and all the locals close down the shops and take off for a full long
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month vacation in August.
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Anywhere in Italy is good to go in the fall,
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but you should probably take advantage of the temperatures and go down south, which is usually the hottest
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You can go to Puglia, which is a really interesting part of the country.
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It's the heel of the boot of Italy, and it has all this Hellenistic Greek
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influence and these really unique houses, not to mention....
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the fall is wine season, and Italy makes some nice wines.
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You have to go there and try the wines in the fall. Oh my god. Can you imagine?
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Like Italy, Spain is a great place to visit during the fall.
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In the summer it's super crowded,
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and it gets super hot, especially in Andalusia and in the south.
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If you visit Barcelona head up to the Costa Brava where you can check out the castells.
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It's a tradition of
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people climbing on top of each other to create these giant towers,
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and it happens from July until September.
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The castels happen all over Catalonia,
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not just the Costa Brava.
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So don't worry.. should be pretty easy to find them.
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Furthermore, the beautiful town of San Sebastian where we used to live in the Basque Country
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has its annual film festival in the end of September.
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If you've never been before, it's totally worth it.. great film festival, great food, great people, great city.
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We love San Sebastian.
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Next up: Munich.. Oktoberfest..
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Actually, I should probably clarify that even though it's Oktoberfest,
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it technically starts in mid-September.
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The dates were changed hundreds of years ago from the original time in October, but it kept the name.
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So don't show up late and miss it. But if you do go, you can have the wildest party in Europe and then
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combine it with a little bit of exercise. Head up to the Alps, the mountains. Speaking of summiting peaks,
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there is no better time to visit the biggest mountains of them all than visiting the Himalaya in the fall.
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Even if you don't plan on summoning Mount Everest,
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it's very important that you visit between September and November, the warmer drier months
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before winter kicks in and after the monsoons.
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No matter where you go in this region, you're bound to strike gold.
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Tibet is always a fascinating place to visit,
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but it requires you to get a permit and join an organized tour.
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Those organized tours can get you all the way to Everest Base Camp, though.
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An alternative is Bhutan, although it's not a cheap one.
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Bhutan decided to avoid the issue of too much tourism by creating a
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$200 per day visa for all tourists who visit the country.
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It is expensive to get there,
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but that does include all of your ground costs and an organized tour.
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So you're not going to have to worry about crowds because that visa was designed to keep tourist numbers low.
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If you prefer more freedom to do your own thing,
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head to Nepal right across the border.
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It also has access to Everest, and it's been a very popular destination with travelers for decades.
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Heading south into the Indian subcontinent,
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you could go to Dharamsala, also in the Himalaya, but we're recommending
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Rajasthan, which is the most colorful state in India and great to visit in
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I used to work in India, and after I finished my job,
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I went to Rajasthan for a couple of weeks and traveled to all these places.
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I went to the Pushkar Camel Festival, which was incredible.
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It's where thousands of nomadic
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camel traders come to buy and sell camels. There's also a camel beauty contest.
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It's unbelievable. We're going to be making a video about this for our VR
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project, so stay tuned for the Pushcart Camel Festival in 360.
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What about all the Silk Road countries, the Stans, as they're called ?
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Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan?
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Tajikistan? There's a lot of Stans out there,
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and they're all great to visit during the fall.
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All of these former Soviet countries were linked over the last
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thousands of years by the Silk Road,
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the two-thousand-year-old trading route that literally sewed the world together.
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Fall is a great time to visit Central Asia because you won't get stuck in the heat of the deserts of
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Turkmenistan, and you won't get caught in the snow in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan
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We were lucky enough to visit
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Kazakhstan in the fall,
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and we can vouch it is an incredible place to visit, especially
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during this time of year.
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For the Middle East we recommend Oman. It is the most fascinating,
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welcoming, stable country in the region, and we just love it.
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For Southeast Asia, we're recommending Vietnam
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And that's because this country, because of its location, has two monsoons. There's one in winter;
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There's one in summer, and in the fall
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you kind of get right between both.
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So you're going to have dry weather,
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which is really important because when I went there....
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I went there probably in August, it was still kind of raining.
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I decided to ride a motorbike 2,000 kilometers across the country from Saigon to Hanoi.
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I got rained on a lot.
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Next up: Indonesia.
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Every Instagrammer is all about Bali, but the fall in Sumatra is where it's at.
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That's because there's not too much rain, making it the perfect
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time to visit the forests of northern Sumatra and hang out with the locals that make this place famous.
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The Man of the Forest.
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Also known as orangutangs.
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Heading down under.. Let's talk about Australia.
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It's not technically fall down there because it's in the southern hemisphere, but it's spring.
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Springtime in Australia is the right time to visit,
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particularly if you're trying to go to the outback, which gets way too hot in the summer.
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It's also a great time to visit the Whitsundays,
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which is the access point for the Great Barrier Reef.
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If you're in the mood for a road trip,
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check out the Great Ocean Road leaving from Melbourne and wrapping around the south
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eastern coast of the Australian continent.
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For South America we're recommending Peru.
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And that's because the weather at this time of year makes it perfect for trekking.
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We're trying to get to Machu Picchu, and we all know we don't want it to be too
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hot when you're trekking around looking at ancient ruins.
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Beyond that Lima has one of the best food scenes on the planet.
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You have access to the Amazon over the mountains and
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surf breaks on the coast.
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So Peru for us is looking really good this fall.
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Now if you're feeling like taking a big trip,
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the next few months are the best time to go on Safari.
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Crowds peak around the great wildebeest migration
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that happens anywhere between July and September out in the Serengeti.
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But by September, crowds begin to fizzle back down,
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and that means that you have the entire Serengeti to yourself.
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Just you and the big five.
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Well ladies and gentlemen, Vagabuddies, those are our recommendations
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for the best travel destinations to visit during the fall.
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If you have any ones that you would like to add, if we missed anywhere, make sure you let
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us know down in the comments section.
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And in the meantime remember:
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Stay curious, keep exploring,
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and we'll see you guys on the road, or more specifically
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in line to get pumpkin spice latte because I need one right now
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Let's do fall, baby. Peace.
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