Diving Into Condé Nast Traveler’s Water Issue
by Richard D’Ambrosio /Aqua Expeditions’ Aqua Mekong is featured in this month's edition. Photo: Aqua Expeditions
As the summer heat beckons us to leave hot and humid lands, Condé Nast Traveler’s August issue is all about water.
“There is something about an ocean, alternately placid and roiling, that has the power to calm and inspire in one moment—and in the next, to humble and remind us of our tiny place in the universe,” says editor Pilar Guzmán. And so, CNT’s staff and contributors take us on a wet global tour of places and vacation ideas from Washington’s San Juan Islands to Rio de Janeiro.
In “Better by Boat,” novelist Ann Patchett muses about “the art of the voyage and the thrill of discovery” offered by cruising. Lifestyle editor Rebecca Misner reveals secrets of her annual family trip to Orcas, one of 175 islands in Washington’s San Juan archipelago. Then CNT sails off to England’s rugged Roseland Peninsula in Cornwall, where wealthy Londoners own homes and two new hotels have opened.
From the northern hemisphere to the south, the Water Issue stops in Rio de Janeiro, home to the 2016 Summer Olympics. Traveler’s editors curate a comprehensive guide from Rio’s coastline to its mountains, including the hilltop getaway of Santa Teresa. Australian writer Anna Funder boards luxury cruise line Aqua Expeditions’ Aqua Mekong, for a journey down the Mekong River, from Vietnam to Cambodia, with her three children.