In the month of November you have an appointment with the kiosk, and every year, around this time, it comes out for sale HELLO! Travel, a special issue with which we want to inspire your next getaways and discover the most interesting destinations and experiences that no traveler can miss next year.
We start with a initial inspiration block where we propose another way to travel. We give you the keys to making a solidarity trip: from participating in women’s empowerment projects in Asia, volunteering for the protection of species in Central America or helping educational development in Madagascar. A responsible way of traveling and an interesting alternative to the most classic trip.
We also wanted to inspire your travels through art, cinema, books or gastronomy. And there is no shortage of our traditional 52 plans for each weekend, where our travel editors, Eva de la Parra and Esperanza Moreno, have selected a plan for every weekend of the year, for a 2025 full of fun and inspiring getaways Due to our geography, there are no excuses to stay home!
DISCOVERING THE WORLD
To better understand the planet we live on, we have to travel. Near and far. That’s how we understand it. There are incredible places nearby, like the ones you will find between the pages of the new HELLO! Trips.
Start with Europediscovering new destinations like Anglet, known as French California; then you can browse the Italian Lake Como, Elegance is hidden among its majestic villas and in its colorful towns; oa Paris, the post-Olympic City of Light Live a fever of well-being and healthy eating and this time we suggest you visit it in a holistic way. Love at first sight is what you will feel when traveling to Ljubljana, because the Slovenian capital still has a lot to tell, oa Monsaraza Portuguese town where you can travel to the Middle Ages. A new look leads us to Dublinwhere this time we want you to know it beyond the clichés. In Vienna We want to propose something as special as it is different: live the ball season, which starts in November and ends in February, when the city pulsates to the rhythm of the waltz and you can take a trip back in time, to the time of the Empire.
We also propose A different trip to Chile, through the unknown Elqui Valley which has one of the clearest skies in the southern hemisphere where you can see stars and, they say, even UFOs.
The magic this year is provided by destinations like Oman, the friendliest country in the Middle East, clinging to the exoticism of yesteryear; Hong Kong, a vertical megacity where past and future coexist; either Kenya, where we surrender to the beauty of the Amboseli National Park, the elephant house.
NEW AND SURPRISING GETAWAYS THROUGH SPAIN
Spain is the richest country in the world, does that sound familiar to you? Chef José Andrés told us so and we corroborate it in this issue, full of proposals for upcoming getaways, many of them guided by experts and direct protagonists.
In Cantabria We have entered its World Heritage caves with the help of the directors of the National Museum of Altamira and Prehistory and Archaeology; we walk Seville visiting six artisans in their workshops; We discover the new museum project that is transforming the Avila town of Arévalo thanks to contemporary art; we are leaving cider tourism in Asturiasin search of great and unknown treasures such as the Jayona mine, in Badajozand we flew in a balloon over the city of Basin.
For those who seek active plans We have prepared getaways to Castellón, where to do speleokayak in the Vall d’Uixó along the longest underground river in Europe, or Tenerifeto make a trekking on the Chinyero volcano or canoes next to enormous cliffs.
THE MOST SPECIAL REPORTS
In 2024 we have celebrated the 150 years since the birth of the great explorer Ernest Shackleton, the most charismatic of the adventurers of the golden age of Antarctica exploration. In HELLO! Viajes we wanted to pay tribute to their history, which is intertwined with that of other great explorers such as Robert Falcon Scott or Roald Amundsen and with that of a continent, Antarctica, which they challenged with their expeditions. Don’t miss the exciting story of their adventures in an inhospitable land, to which we also give you the keys to how to navigate it today thanks to cruises.
In this issue they wanted to accompany us two first-class travelers. The journalist and prescriber from Madrid, Alicia Sornosa, specialized in motor and travel. A motorcycle-traveler who shows us her trip to Guatemala, the most impressive of her life. and the photographer Ángel López-Soto, Accustomed to immortalizing forgotten conflicts and portraying the most vulnerable part of the world, since 1997 he has been graphically documenting the exodus of Tibetans. His photos accompany us in this issue to tour the world through his eyes.