#NGTRadar: Travel Lately
October 15, 2014
2 min readTravel Lately—a roundup of the best new dispatches from the travel blogosphere—is a regular feature on Intelligent Travel every other Wednesday.
You can play, too. Follow us on Twitter @NatGeoTravel and tag your favorite travel stories #NGTRadar to help us find the crème de la crème on the Web.
Here are our latest picks:
- Grave robbers, ghosts, and wizards, oh my! A trip to Edinburgh is the perfect getaway for those looking for a good fright. From a haunted castle to inspiration for our favorite school of witchcraft and wizardry, check out the spookiest sights to see in the Scottish capital. @thatbackpacker
- Vietnam may very well be best seen from the seat of a bicycle. Take it from this couple, who, with “a bit of physical strength and a whole lot of determination,” journeyed the 1,000 miles from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City on two wheels. Here’s what you’ll need to pedal in their wake. @ACruisingCouple
- It started with a tweet and ended with a photograph in the pages of National Geographic Traveler. Get the inside scoop on travel-as-a-lifestyle bloggers Dalene and Peter Heck’s path to becoming one of the magazine’s Travelers of the Year. @HeckticTravels
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