A year in travel photography: the 16 best images of 2022

Balazs Gardi’s photograph displays us an intimate father-daughter instant: Eleonari Arce Aguilar and his daughter Guadalupe at Rancho Mesa San Esteban in the Sierra de San Francisco, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Go through the piece about the dying culture of vaqueros, the cowboys of Baja California, here.

In our Jan/Feb 2022 concern, Jason Florio’s photograph story took audience together the Gambia River on Africa’s west coastline. Although there are few villages on the river’s banking institutions, most inland villages have a tenda (wharf) wherever fishermen can be noticed in their canoes. Browse the story.

Even the slowest of creatures can come across peace in a second of relaxation. This image of a sloth was part of photographer Jamie Lafferty’s shoot in Costa Rica for our March 2022 difficulty. See the photograph tale right here.

A girl hangs lanterns all through Bucheonim osin nal, Buddha’s birthday, at Yongunsa Temple, Busan, South Korea. The day is a big vacation in Korea, exactly where the temples arrive alive with color and activity. All through the day, individuals congregate at the temple to eat and pray. As night falls, the lanterns are lit, casting a vibrant glow throughout the temple grounds.

For our Might 2022 issue, Adrian Phillips discovers the mountains and fishing boats of postcard-like St Lucia. The volcanic island has had strategic great importance for hundreds of years and right now is a location rich in background and magnificence. Observed higher than are fishermen offering their catch to The Naked Fisherman cafe in Smugglers Cove. Read through it listed here.

As South Korean delicacies has developed in reputation internationally, the cooks of Seoul flip inwards and concentration on putting regionally sourced elements at the main of their menus. Hahna Youn gives us a breakdown of Seoul’s culinary scene, with Ben Weller’s images accompanying the phrases. Here we see a truck offering drinks at Dongdaemun Layout Plaza Youth Runway Industry, a night marketplace that to operates from April to Oct. Go through the write-up here.

A black bishop is in hot water just after a white rook threatens to seize it in this heated chess match, staying performed at the Széchenyi Thermal Baths, Budapest. As the largest medicinal baths in Europe, Széchenyi are one particular among the the several bathhouses crafted by the Romans and the Turks. Study Adrian Phillips’ guide on how to shell out 24 hrs in the Hungarian capital right here.

Kunene, in the north west of Namibia, is known for its harsh residing situations for both of those the people and animals inhabiting its large deserts. Peering throughout the landscape is local manual Robbin Uatokuja, captured by Scott Ramsay. 

For the Autumn issue of Food items by Countrywide Geographic Traveller, Nicola Trup broke bread with ninth technology farmers Anna and Óli Rubeksen in the Faroe Islands, Denmark. Óli (still left) is keeping a single of the farm’s chickens. Study about their regionally sourced feast in this article.

Photographer Cao Ky Nhan captures the enchanting environmentally friendly nipa palm forests in Vietnam’s Tinh Khe, a commune in the Quang Ngai province. The palm leaves glistening in the early-early morning daylight are used by area fisherfolk and farmers for roofing as perfectly as decoration.

For our Dec 2022 concern Bella Falk writes about Guatemala’s highland location exactly where the most celebrated craft is the hundreds of years-aged art of backstrap loom weaving and is practised primarily by Maya girls. In the impression is Marta Perez Dias, dressed in San Antonio Palopó’s common colors, employing a spinning wheel to wind freshly dyed cotton onto a reel, prepared for weaving.

For our Food items by Countrywide Geographic Traveller Winter challenge David Charbit uncovered Cornwall’s local culinary delights throughout winter months. In the impression we see Chris ‘Ranger’, just one of the past oyster fishermen in Cornwall, in his 50-calendar year-old wood oyster boat, the Alf Smyhters.

In our conclusion-of-year Winter Sporting activities guidebook, Simon Bajada offers us with the cowbell appears and cheesemakers of the conventional Swiss mountain village Levron, just down the valley from the deluxe Verbier ski resort. In the picture, photographer Pierre Menasse returns to the village of Le Chable with his St Bernard canine right after paying out the working day up on the slopes.