Photograph by Bachir Badaoui, National Geographic Your Shot
What Happy Travel Looks Like
We asked Nat Geo Your Shot photographers to show us the places that make them happy travelers among destinations near and far. Here are our favorite photos.
August 23, 2016
5 min readThis summer Nat Geo Travel is celebrating happiness with our newest issue of Traveler magazine. What better way is there to share happy visions than with photography? We asked the Your Shot community to share photos of stunning landscapes, streaking light, and sunny moments—whatever makes them travel happy. Take a trip with us through our editors' favorite photos.
Photograph by Nimit Nigam, National Geographic Your Shot
Photograph by Pradeep Raja, National Geographic Your Shot
Photograph by Burcu Basar, National Geographic Your Shot
Photograph by Manish Mamtani, National Geographic Your Shot
Photograph by Rus Bowden, National Geographic Your Shot
Photograph by Prasad Ambati, National Geographic Your Shot
Photograph by Mohit Tejpal, National Geographic Your Shot
Photograph by Valerie Cheung, National Geographic Your Shot
Photograph by Jun Lao, National Geographic Your Shot
Photograph by Val Casuco, National Geographic Your Shot
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Photograph by Delphine Gidoin, National Geographic Your Shot
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