The New York Times has published its twentieth annual “places to go” survey featuring a diverse range of destinations for 2025.
Locations include TWO Montserrats, on in Spain and one in the Caribbean, Abu Dhabi, Amsterdam, and the Galápagos Islands, and looser terms such as Jane Austen’s England, which could include four counties and the vast territories of Western Australia, which would rank as the 22nd largest state in the world if it was independent, and Greenland, the world’s largest island and subject of covetous remarks by America’s president elect Donald Trump.
Ireland made the list in 2013.
The 2025 list:
- Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Aix-en-Provence, France
- Alishan, Taiwan
- Amsterdam
- Angola
- Ashevillem North Carolinam USA
- Assam, India
- Benin City, Nigeria
- British Virgin Islands
- Bukhara, Uzbekistan
- Bulgaria
- Canfranc, Spain
- Coimbra, Portugal
- Delphi, Greece
- Detroit
- Dolomite Mountains, Italy
- Caithness and Sutherland peatlands, Flow Country, Scotland
- French Basque Country
- Galápagos Islands, Ecuador
- Greenland
- Hamburg, Germany
- Huangshan, China
- Hampshire, Winchester and Bath (Jane Austen’s England)
- Kilifi, Kenya
- Koh Samui, Thailand.
- Kristiansand, Norway
- Kutaisi, Georgia
- Lexington and Concord, Mass
- Lofoten Islands, Norway
- East London England
- Los Cabos, Mexico
- Magdalena River, Colombia
- Milan
- Montserrat, Spain
- Montserrat, the Caribbean
- Nangma Valley, Pakistan
- New Orleans
- New York City Museums
- Nicaragua
- Ollantaytambo, Peru
- Osaka, Japan
- Raja Ampat, Indonesia
- Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- Sicily Divide Cycle Route
- Stockholm Archipelago, Sweden
- Sun Valley, Idaho
- Sydney, Australia
- Toyama, Japan
- Trent-Severn Waterway, Ontario
- Washington DC.
- Western Australia
- White Lotus’ Thailand
