Fifteen Places from a 2015 Travel List: Landscapes, Cities and Heritage

Sometimes choosing a trip becomes easier when you stop asking which destination is best and start asking what kind of days you want. A park journey, a city break and a long-distance landscape trip use your time in very different ways.

This fifteen-place collection comes from a 2015 travel list. Read it as a dated set of interests, ranging from a single city to whole countries, rather than as a current recommendation for every destination. The closer comparisons introduce several places, and the complete gallery follows. Choose a setting that makes you curious, then use current local information and travel guidance before turning that curiosity into an itinerary.

1. Yellowstone: give a large park room in the schedule

Yellowstone suits travellers who want varied natural settings within one substantial park journey. The practical challenge is distance: where you sleep and which entrance you use affect how much of the day goes into driving.

Start with the National Park Service’s planning page. Check seasonal road and service arrangements, stay on designated routes around thermal features and leave space between your main stops. One well-planned area can be more satisfying than a rushed circuit.

2. Monument Valley: combine landscape with local interpretation

Monument Valley’s sandstone formations are familiar from photographs, but the setting is also Navajo land with its own history and present-day life. Use the Navajo Nation park information for access, route conditions and authorised guiding.

Check current closure notices before travelling. A guided visit can provide both interpretation and access arrangements that differ from the self-drive experience; choose according to what you want to understand, not only the number of viewpoints.

4. Singapore: build a city break around a few districts

Singapore offers a different rhythm: neighbourhood walks, food, gardens and cultural stops can be combined without making every day a long road journey.

Our five-part Singapore guide helps organise the options. Put nearby activities together and give meals their own time. A city becomes easier to enjoy when you are not crossing it repeatedly to follow a list assembled without geography in mind.

5. Bolivia: allow time for distance and altitude

Bolivia’s landscapes can feel wonderfully varied, but a photograph-led wish list needs practical organisation. Our Uyuni guide introduces the salt flats, while Antony Harrison’s photo essay offers a broader visual starting point.

Choose a manageable region, allow for altitude adjustment and look carefully at transport conditions. Seasonal changes affect the experience; a reflective photograph does not guarantee the same surface during your dates.

9. Zimbabwe and Victoria Falls: make the river part of the plan

Victoria Falls is an experience shaped by water, viewpoints and the arrangements on either side of the border. Our Victoria Falls guide explains the main planning distinctions.

Decide where you will stay and which visits you want before adding extra activities. The falls deserve time to be experienced from more than a single hurried photo stop.

15. Rabat: look at how a capital’s layers fit together

Rabat’s UNESCO heritage description brings historic districts and modern urban planning into the same story. It is a rewarding choice if streets, public spaces and architecture are part of what you travel to see.

Choose a walk with one cultural stop and time to pause. For more inspiration within Morocco, explore Chefchaouen, then compare the different experience each city offers before deciding how much ground to cover.

The opening five: Yellowstone, Monument Valley, the Carpathians, Singapore and Bolivia

Yellowstone and Monument Valley open the sequence with two very different American landscapes. The Ukrainian Carpathians, Singapore and Bolivia follow, shifting between a mountain region, a city-state and a country. Compare what draws you to each image: a landform, a built environment or the idea of a longer journey. The scales differ so much that the most useful outcome is a question to investigate, rather than a ranking of which destination is best.

The original list’s third entry was the Carpathian region of Ukraine. It belongs in the historical gallery, but an archive image is not a present recommendation to travel there. For any possible journey, check current official travel advice for Ukraine before considering local arrangements.

6. Faroe Islands

The Faroe Islands introduce a different travel rhythm from the large cities in the collection. An island itinerary needs enough time for the actual transport connections and for plans to change with the weather. Begin with a base you would enjoy on an ordinary day, then identify the landscape outings that fit around it. The photograph supplies a reason to be curious; the days between arrival and departure are what make that curiosity into a workable visit.

7. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

This Caribbean entry was named as a country and island group, not as a single resort. That distinction matters when turning an attractive image into a plan: different islands can mean different travel arrangements. The photograph offers one view of the destination; it cannot show the range of stays available across the islands.

8–9. Orlando and Zimbabwe

Orlando brought another kind of trip into the collection. It is a city entry rather than a broad country-level suggestion such as Bolivia or Tanzania. The different scales call for different kinds of planning. Some suggest a base, while others require choosing a region before any itinerary can take shape.

Zimbabwe brings the sequence back to a country-level idea after Orlando's city focus. Victoria Falls, discussed above, provides one possible starting point for research rather than a complete account of the country. If that landscape is what interests you, decide which side of the falls you would visit and how it connects with your accommodation. Treat any additional journey within the country as another planning choice, with its own distances and current information.

10. Tanzania

Tanzania's country-level label leaves plenty to decide before there is an itinerary. Start with what in the photograph interests you, then identify the actual region or experience you want to investigate. Transport, time available and the purpose of the trip will shape very different journeys. One image cannot represent all of those possibilities, but it can give your research a direction without requiring you to invent a complete holiday around a broad destination name.

11. The north coast of Peru

The north coast of Peru adds a regional suggestion between the much broader country entries. The location label is useful precisely because Peru is not one uniform landscape. Use the photograph as a starting point for exploring the north coast on its own terms.

12. Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka appears in both the opening image and the numbered gallery, offering two points from which to approach the destination. Look for the particular setting depicted before assuming it describes the whole island. If the image prompts a possible trip, choose a manageable area and compare its transport connections with the time you have. The 2015 context matters here too: the photograph introduces a place, while practical decisions belong to current sources.

13. Campeche, Mexico

Campeche adds another named Mexican destination to a collection that ranges widely in scale. Readers drawn to urban settings might compare the image with Rabat's later entry, asking what they would like to explore at street level rather than treating the cities as interchangeable. Identify a district, cultural interest or walking area to research further. That approach turns a short place label into the beginning of a more specific journey while leaving the photograph connected to its original location.

14–15. Papua New Guinea and Rabat

Papua New Guinea supplies the final country-level idea before Rabat closes the list. As elsewhere in this collection, a single photograph offers only one view of a varied place. Use the creator's caption to establish the location before drawing conclusions about a possible visit. Read the fifteen entries as research prompts from 2015, then assess any actual journey using current information about the region and the activities you would undertake.

Rabat closes the original gallery after Papua New Guinea, returning the collection to an urban destination. Its separate discussion above supplies a starting point for learning about the city’s layers of history.