{"id":1643,"date":"2024-07-10T04:00:20","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T04:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.themeholy.com\/tourm\/?p=1643"},"modified":"2025-02-20T18:36:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T18:36:00","slug":"university-class-starting-soon-while-the-lovely-valley-team-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aguilatravelandtours.com\/?p=1643","title":{"rendered":"These are the most beautiful destinations to visit in 2025 \u2013 without the crowds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"blog-text\">\u201cHell is other people\u201d \u2013 so wrote Jean-Paul Sartre, who might have been less of a misanthrope had he spent less time in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/travel\/europe\/france\/paris\">Paris<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/travel\/europe\">Europe<\/a>\u2019s most densely populated capital city, and headed instead for his country\u2019s quieter reaches; the tidal interzone of the Camargue, perhaps, or the salt pans of Occitania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/overtourism\">overtourism<\/a>&nbsp;has become a problem in corners of the world where humans had barely set foot a century or two ago, let alone&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/travel\/europe\/france\">France<\/a>;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/travel\/cruise\/antarctica-cruise-diana-hunger-strike-b2660137.html\">Antarctica<\/a>\u2019s filling up with cruise ships, and there are&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/travel\/news-and-advice\/mount-everest-permit-fees-nepal-overtourism-b2684064.html\">traffic jams on the summit of Everest<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This isn\u2019t just terrible for the environment, but it\u2019s a surefire way to ruin a good holiday, so here are a few suggestions of lesser-visited destinations across the world which are just as captivating as their more popular counterparts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read more:&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/travel\/europe\/germany\/bavaria-germany-best-towns-b2698287.html\"><strong>These lesser-known Bavaria towns are even better than Munich<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Albania<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/2025\/02\/14\/12\/iStock-1834822923.jpg\" alt=\"Theth National Park in the Albanian Alps\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Theth National Park in the Albanian Alps<em>&nbsp;(Getty Images)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"blog-text\">Soaring mountains, glorious beaches and a jewel box of islands glittering in the Ionian Sea \u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/travel\/europe\/greece\/ithaca-greek-island-b2696702.html\">Greece<\/a>&nbsp;is lovely in the spring, but its Balkan neighbour,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/travel\/news-and-advice\/albania-tui-holiday-summer-algeria-tourism-b2545372.html\">Albania<\/a>, promises all these treasures and more, with far fewer visitors and a greater diversity of natural landscapes packed into a smaller land area.&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/national-parks.org\/albania\/theth\">Theth National Park<\/a>&nbsp;in the north of the country is home to brilliant hiking and startling sights like the Blue Eye, an azure spring gathered in a deep hole in the limestone landscape. Nearby, the fantastically named Accursed Mountains form the Albanian stretch of the Dinaric Alps. This place of fearsome, jagged peaks, enclosing green glacial valleys alive with wildflowers in the spring, is surely worth visiting before word gets out and it becomes&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/travel\/walking-trekking\/best-hiking-holidays-in-europe-b2691899.html\">one of Europe\u2019s hottest hiking destinations.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/travel\/inspiration\/best-holidays-2025-low-crowds-albania-oman-b2698304.html\">https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/travel\/inspiration\/best-holidays-2025-low-crowds-albania-oman-b2698304.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHell is other people\u201d \u2013 so wrote Jean-Paul Sartre, who might have been less of a misanthrope had he spent less time in&nbsp;Paris,&nbsp;Europe\u2019s most densely populated capital city, and headed instead for his country\u2019s quieter reaches; the tidal interzone of the Camargue, perhaps, or the salt pans of Occitania. Today,&nbsp;overtourism&nbsp;has become a problem in corners&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14,15],"tags":[16,17,20],"class_list":["post-1643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mountain-tours","category-news-tips","category-wildlife-tours","tag-hotel","tag-modern","tag-travel","post_format-post-format-audio","th-blog blog-single has-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aguilatravelandtours.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aguilatravelandtours.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aguilatravelandtours.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aguilatravelandtours.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aguilatravelandtours.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1643"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aguilatravelandtours.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3170,"href":"https:\/\/aguilatravelandtours.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643\/revisions\/3170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aguilatravelandtours.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aguilatravelandtours.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aguilatravelandtours.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aguilatravelandtours.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}