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Best of BBC Travel - 2019

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Culinary Roots

The surprising truth about the hot dog

By Julia Hammond

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Culinary Roots

The surprising truth about the hot dog

By Julia Hammond
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Best of BBC Travel - 2019

Is this Earth’s most inhospitable land?

By Kate Schoenbach
Plov is eaten at nearly every special occasion in Uzbekistan
Food & Hospitality

The world’s most heart-unhealthy food?

By Taylor Weidman
For some, axolotls are considered adorable, with the appearance of a perpetual smile (Credit: Minden Pictures/Alamy)
Nature’s Curiosities

The animal resistant to cancer

By Megan Frye
A team of scholars are recreating ancient recipes from cuneiform tablets (Credit: Yale Babylonian Collection)
Best of BBC Travel - 2019

A 4,000-year-old recipe decoded

By Ashley Winchester
In Zen Buddhism, daily tasks like cleaning and cooking are considered spiritual exercises (Credit: Photo Japan/Alamy)
Best of BBC Travel - 2019

Is this the world’s cleanest culture?

By Steve John Powell & Angeles Marin Cabello
The German town of Büsingen am Hochrhein is entirely surrounded by Switzerland (Credit: dpa picture alliance/Alamy)
Best of BBC Travel - 2019

Germany’s tiny geographic oddity

By Larry Bleiberg
In 1708, Spanish galleon San José sank off the coast of Cartagena, Colombia, while carrying up to $20bn worth of gold, silver and jewels (Credit: travel4pictures/Alamy)
Sunken Civilisation

A $20bn treasure lost at sea

By Victoria Stunt
Prague ranks among the world’s most densely touristed cities (Credit: Marc Dufresne/Getty Images)
Living In

The top cities overrun by tourists

By Lindsey Galloway
The French ‘no’ is often an invitation to debate, engage and better understand one another (Credit: Chuck Pefley/Alamy)
Why We Are What We Are

Why the French love to say no

By Sylvia Sabes
The Marais was once home to the Knights Templar’s European headquarters, a gargantuan fortress known as the enclos du Temple (Credit: The Print Collector/Alamy)
Mysteries of the Knights Templar

The secret seat of the Knights Templar

By Addison Nugent
Pontefract Cakes
Food & Hospitality

Britain's oldest (and oddest) sweet

By Mike MacEacheran
Many of the most famous ingredients that go into typical ‘Indian’ food aren’t actually native to India (Brent Hofacker/Alamy)
Culinary Roots

What is ‘real’ Indian cuisine?

By Yasaswini Sampathkumar
Measuring just 4 sq km, Tepoto is one of the smallest and most remote of French Polynesia's 118 islands (Credit: Andrew Evans)
Adventure & Experience

Is this the world’s last paradise?

By Andrew Evans