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A first look inside the Beijing Aman hotel

Jane Knight is the first into the luxury hotel chain's China outpost, and finds a mini-Forbidden City, free from crowds

A weekend away with Martin Parr

Sue Foll packs her camera for a break with the photographer renowned for capturing Britain on holiday - view the results

Helen Keefe sent this picture of Jared Steadman from London in Hisronu, Turkey, using a water slide in a rather unconventional manner

Your smugshots

View Monday's winner and a gallery of the best entries this week

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Scooter, Madrid

PHotoEspana festival, Madrid

The Times Travel Picture Editor introduces his gallery from the Spanish Capital

Ana Paula Paiva and Fernando Martinho's South American adventure: Machu Pichu, Peru, 2007

Latin American adventures with baby

Photographers Ana Paula Paiva and Fernando Martinho backpacked with their baby son Joao for almost a year

Kumbh Mela: the largest pilgrimage

The latest one drew 70 million pilgrims. Photographer Karoki Lewis was in India to capture it

Awestruck in Antarctica

Gareth Jenkins travelled the world: we have a gallery of his breathtaking pictures from the Antarctic

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Male leopard portrait, Samburu National Park, Kenya

How to shoot a leopard - with a lens

On a photographic safari, you get closer to the wild heart of Africa, finds Chris Haslam in Kenya

Derwent Water on an early November morning by John Tisbury

Picture perfect in Cumbria

The Times picture editor found tuition helped on a weekend course - until disaster struck

DOUG MCKINLAY'S WORKSHOPS

Ask the expert: Shutter speeds

Travel photography expert Doug McKinlay on using shutter speeds to achieve different effects

Travel Girl

Don't stop till you Photoshop

Get the most out of your images with a guide to the most important functions on Photoshop

Compact camera reviews

Our travel photography consultant always carries a handy compact. Here he reviews three new ones from Leica, Samsung and Canon

best of the best

The 10 best travel photo galleries of 2007

award winners

Sami girl running on the snow, Finnmark Plateau, northern Norway. Cat Vinton, UK. Overall winner, TPOTY 2007

Travel Photographer of the Year - the winners

Winners of the 2007 TPOTY have been announced - we have a gallery of winning images

My son and sunset, Brighton, East Sussex, England

Landscape Photographer of the Year

A gallery of all the winners in the 2007 awards, and details of the book and exhibition that feature all of the best entries

Easter Island

Best of the Americas, month-by-month

Exclusive gallery and twelve recommended destinations

Good Gear

Citizen Traveller: week 1

Smugshots special: bonus galleries

Six new entries in our Bolivia salt plains gallery, plus many more smug slideshows worldwide

Funny Signs 2008 Survey

October Citizen Traveller prize details

Win a fantastic four night break to Marrakech including a day trip into the Atlas Mountains with addictedtotravel.com

Historic seaside photography exhibition

View an exclusive gallery of photographs from a forthcoming exhibition at the National Maritime Museum in London

Signs of the times 1974

Is there nothing new? Clearly not, as The Times archive from 34 years ago reveals....

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