Alternative travels

Go Beyond the Famed Metropolis

Forget the usual travel fling, alternative cities around the world are extending their hands of welcome to seekers of something unrivaled. 

Rome tick. Paris tick. Tokyo tick. New York tick. Even Cape Town and Buenos Aires tick. Safari tick and now especially going to Mars with you know who (ugh, surely we can go with someone else?), tick. 

Luxury travel has centered on these famous cities and of course the various well-represented - and known - experiences people squeeze into their bucket lists. They, of course, have been getting better and better, but the more sophisticated traveller is hunting for something somewhat unexpected that these “tourist icons” couldn’t offer - even if they tried very hard. And so there is a rise of alternative cities now offering something, yes luxurious, but also utterly surprising.  Like Bucharest, trust me.

But where did it all begin? Perhaps this new gesture has started with people moving out of these “famous cities.” All this movement to “secondary citie…