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TripAdvisor has analysed millions of reviews to release its best beaches in World list for its 2017 Travellers’ Choice awards, Top 10 results below:

Melbourne Downtown

The 5 Most European Cities Not in Europe by Huffington Post:

Havasu Falls - Supai, Arizona, US

Glass Beach, California, US

Kilimanjaro, Tanzânia (© Wolk9)

A few epic places on this Earth deserve a permanent, recurring role on your lifetime to-do list. Then there are overhyped places you should never, ever waste your time on in the first place.

Antelope - Grand Canyon - U.S.A. (© Hans)

Magical, mysterious, surreal and simply stunning: 10 of the world's most magical places you've just got to go to. Or just look at the photos!

Salar de Uyuni, One of the World’s Largest Mirrors, Bolivia

Our world is so full of wonders that new and amazing places are discovered every day, be that by professional photographers or amateurs.

New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival

5 travel tips for music festival fans:

Las Fallas Festival, Valencia, Spain

Santorini - Greek Island - Europe

When times are tight we suggest you travel more, not less – but pick carefully. This is where your wallet will smile at the memories for years to come.

Antarctica

These 10 countries are destined for an epic year, whether they’re hosting festivals, cutting the ribbon on new attractions or simply raising their game for travellers. Feast your eyes on 2014's most unmissable destinations.

1. Brazil - All eyes on the pitch for 2014’s World Cup

2. Antarctica - The adventure of a lifetime

3. Scotland - An eventful year

4. Sweden - Food, culture and scary stories

5. Malawi - The Big Five and beach life without the crowds

6. Mexico - The sleeping giant is waking

7. Seychelles - Paradise within reach

8. Belgium - High emotions in Europe's underrated gem

9. Macedonia - Back to the future, Balkan-style

10. Malaysia - A revitalised Malaysia goes back to business

via Lonely Planet (all details)

Savannah, USA

Corn in a Cup: Malaysia

So proclaimed Anthony Bourdain, passionate street food advocate and consumer, at the inaugural World Street Food Congress in Singapore.

Held in the Southeast Asian street food Mecca, the WSFC featured extensive panels and discussions about international street food culture, from the USA's food trucks to Singapore's own prolific "hawker" centers, and a 10-day "Jamboree" of 37 street food vendors from around the world serving up their respective regional specialties.

"Street food makes travel interesting," Bourdain explained. "It's very easy to travel around the world and look out the window and not know where you are.

Sarawak Laksa: Kuching, Malaysia
Chicken Rice: Singapore
Bao Luo Fen: Sanya, China
Nasi Ulam: Malacca, Malaysia
Chicken 65: India
Seafood Tostada: Ensenada Baja California, Mexico
Currywurst: Berlin, Germany
Corn in a Cup: Malaysia
Fried Milk: Taipei, Taiwan
Fried Tarantulas: Cambodia
Lamb Kebab Burger: Tel Aviv, Israel
Soft-Shelled Crab Burger: Portland, Oregon

via Huffington Post (all details)

The Great Blue Hole, Belize

1. The Great Blue Hole

From the air, the Great Blue Hole of Belize resembles an otherworldly maw, intent on drinking down the surrounding Lighthouse Reef Atoll. In reality, the 1,000-foot (305-meter) wide hole is simply a sinkhole in the ocean. Geologists believe that an underlying cave system collapsed under increased pressure some 10,000 years ago due to rising sea levels.

2. Subterranean Splendor

The hill country of Kentucky's Green River Valley certainly has its charms, but beneath its gentle woodlands there is an underworld. More than 390 miles (628 kilometers) worth of caves worm through the rocky depths, making Mammoth Cave the largest known cave system in the world.

3. Devils Tower

When an enormous column of rock towers 1,267 feet (386 meters) above the surrounding landscape, people take notice. That's why Teddy Roosevelt declared Devils Tower America's first national monument, and Steve Spielberg decided to land a UFO on top of it in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Long before either man thrust the natural landmark into the spotlight, more than 20 Native-American tribes held the site sacred -- including the Lakota people who dubbed it "Bear Lodge."

4. The Fairy Chimneys

You want a fantastic real-world locale? It's hard to improve upon the fairy chimneys of Cappadocia in central Turkey. Here, tall spires of stone dot the landscape like some manner of bizarre growth. What's more, early Christians carved countless storerooms, stables and domiciles into the fairy towers from the 4th to the 11th century.

5. The Forest of Knives

Madagascar is truly a lost world. Cut off from the rest of the world, the island's lemur population thrived (they don't exist anywhere else on the planet, except in captivity), and a host of unique life forms evolved in relative isolation. Yet Madagascar's geology also stands apart from the rest of the world's -- especially the region known as Tsingy de Bemaraha.

6. The Crystal Caverns

Nearly 1,000 feet (305 meters) beneath Mexico's Naica silver mine you'll find a chamber of unearthly wonder. Here in Cueva de los Cristales (the Cave of Crystals), 36-foot (11-meter) obelisks of solid crystal lay heaped about like fallen pillars in a dilapidated temple.

7. The Reflecting Desert

Earth's vast, barren expanses are often as awe-inspiring as its highest peaks and deepest valleys. Just consider the Bolivian Uyuni Salt Flats, or Salar de Uyuni, a 4,000-square-mile (10,360-square-kilometer) plane of what appear to be hexagonal tiles. This extraordinary high-altitude landscape stretches among the snow-peaked Andean mountains, and if you happen to visit during the rainy season, you're in for quite a sight.

8. Fog-shrouded Peaks

You'll find no shortage of breathtaking vistas on the Greek peninsula, but the Meteora rock formations truly take the cake. These massive sandstone fingers seem to emerge as much from a dream as from the plains of Thessaly. Towering as high as 2,044 feet (623 meters) above lush landscape below, the steep peaks of Meteora are a perfect setting for a secluded monastery.

9. The Crack of Silfra

Conflict is the meat of great storytelling. You might prefer such tropes as man-versus-nature or man-versus-blue-aliens, but the best geological drama often unfolds when tectonic plates duke it out, especially continental plates. Travel to Iceland, however, and you'll find a most curious occurrence on the boundaries of the North American and European plates.

10. Uluru the Monolith

In "Avatar," a noble, indigenous people fight to protect their sacred landmarks against an invading culture. If you're pining for that sort of drama, then look no further than Australia's Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park. Here you'll find mighty Uluru, one of the largest geologic monoliths in the world.

via Discovery Channel (all details)

1. Devil's Pool - Victoria Falls, Livingstone, Zambia

2. Eco-Arqueological Park Ik Kil - Chichen Itza, Mexico

3. Havasu Falls - Arizona, United States

4. To Sua Ocean Trench - Lalomanu, Upolu, Samoa

5. Kuang Si Falls - Luang Prabang, Laos

6. Blue Lagoon - Grindavik, Iceland

7. Enchanted River - Hinatuan, Philippines

8. Pamukkale Thermal Pools - Pamukkale, Turkey

9. Las Grietas - Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

10. Litchfield National Park - Northern Territory, Australia

via TripAdvisor (all details)

Street food in Hanoi, Vietnam

The best – and tastiest – way to fast-track your understanding of a city’s cuisine is to embark on a guided walking tour that includes sampling the local food. Tuck into the best offerings from street food stalls, meet chefs at cafes and restaurants, and local producers at markets. Best of all, undertake a tour when you first arrive in a city and you’ll have a mouthwatering hit list of places to return to.

1. Street food in Hanoi, Vietnam

2. Craft beer in Gastown, Vancouver

3. Exploring markets in two continents, Istanbul

4. French street food, Nice

5. North Beach’s Italian heritage, San Francisco

6. Discovering Brick Lane, London

7. Hawker food, Georgetown, Penang

8. Hobart’s emerging food scene, Tasmania

9. Mexican street food, Mexico City

10. Coffee, cheese and beer, Wellington

via Lonely Planet (with all detais)