The Daily Telegraph - Saturday - Travel
DALLAS-FORT WORTH UNITED STATES
Where am I going? Touring Texas. Airlines: BA (from Heathrow), Icelandair (via Reykjavik) – and American Airlines (020 7660 2300; americanairlines.co.uk), which sells return flights from Heathrow, from £598.
Reasons to linger: The joy of landing here for a romp around the largest of America’s 48 contiguous states is that you can sample two cities at once. Dallas deals in a raw moment of US history in the Sixth Floor Museum ( jfk.org; $16/£12.50), before concocting something more frivolous on its Margarita Mile bar trail
(visitdallas.com). Frequently overshadowed by its neighbour, Fort Worth basks in an “Old West” vibe in its Stockyards (fortworthstockyards. org), a district full of barbecue eateries and boot shops.
Stay: The Stockyards Hotel (stockyardshotel.com) in Fort Worth still has the room where Bonnie and Clyde stayed in 1933. You can check into it yourself for $199 (£154). Further information: fortworth.com; traveltexas.com
MIAMI
br) and LatAm (0800 026 0728; latam. com) – provides a denser web of flights around Brazil than Rio de Janeiro’s Galeao International.
Reasons to linger: São Paulo will always be eclipsed by Rio’s glamour, but sparks a fire of its own in the restaurants of Bela Vista and Consolacao. The Museu de Arte Brasiliera (faap.br/museu; free) has gems by Brazilian artists Aldir Mendes de Souza and Mira Schendel.
Stay: The five-star Hotel Emiliano (telegraph.co.uk/tthotelemilianosaopaulo) offers doubles for £275, room only.
Further information: visitbrasil.com
JOHANNESBURG
Maputo (Mozambique). It also serves Victoria Falls Airport in Zimbabwe. Return flights to the latter from Heathrow – departing on Dec 1, and including a three-day stopover in Johannesburg en route, via a “multi-city” booking – cost from £755.
Reasons to linger: Less acclaimed than Cape Town, “Joburg” delivers important history lessons at Mandela House (mandelahouse.com; R60/£3) and the Apartheid Museum (apartheidmuseum.org; R95/£4.80). But there is also a city beyond the oppression of the last century.
Queen Street in Kensington is an avenue buzzing with cafés and restaurants. Stay: The sumptuous Four Seasons Hotel The Westcliff (telegraph.co.uk/ttfourseasonsjohannesburg) offers doubles in December for £324, room only. Further information: joburgtourism. com; southafrica.net
ADDIS ABABA
Where am I going? To sights in northern and eastern Africa both ancient and modern, from the pyramids of Sudan (via Khartoum) to the resorts of Zanzibar (Tanzania).
Airline: The rise of Ethiopian Airlines (01753 967980; www.ethiopian airlines.com) – which, as of 2011, is a respected member of the Star Alliance aviation group – has made Addis
Ababa another hub for African travels. It lands at Heathrow, and will fly into Manchester from Dec 1. Return flights from London to Zanzibar, leaving on Jan 5 2019, with a three-night “multi-city” Addis Ababa layover on the way back from the beach, cost from £1,053.
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