B.C.'s Haida Gwaii has been named one of the 20 must-see destinations for 2015, honoured by National Geographic in its 'Best Trips' list for the New Year.
The reason for the distinction? The call of the wild, which is rather mute, apparently.
"The quiet is what strikes people here most on Haida Gwaii," reads the mag's excerpt on the region, written by April Orcutt. "In this 180-mile-long archipelago off the coast of British Columbia, labyrinthine coves snuggle up to dense forests with towering cedars. Beneath the ground, scientists have found evidence of human habitation stretching back 12,000 years."
National Geographic recommends visiting Haida Gwaii in the summer, between May and September. For a place to say, eat, and drink, it recommends the Haida House at Tllaal. It also recommends the Haida Heritage Centre at Kay Linagaay.
Recommended read: The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed, a profile piece on activist Grant Hadwin by author John Vaillant.
Other destinations included in the list are:
Corsica: "Two hundred years after Napoleon Bonaparte suffered his final military defeat, Corsica, his birthplace, stubbornly resists its own cultural Waterloo."
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Medellin, Colombia: "Call it the Medellín miracle. Colombia's second city still has its vices, but the world's former cocaine capital has been rehabbed."
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Koyasan, Japan
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Maramures, Romania
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
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Tunis, Tunisia
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Choquequirao, Peru
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Sark, Channel Islands
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Hyderabad, India
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Port Antonio, Jamaica
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Taiwan
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Zermatt, Switzerland
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The Presidio, San Francisco
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Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar
Sea Islands, South Carolina
Mont St. Michel, France: "Total isolation was the point, and pilgrims had to wait for the tide to recede to make their way across the flats to the abbey."
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Esteros del Ibera, Argentina
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National Mall, Washington, D.C.
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Mornington Peninsula, Australia
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