DREAM DESTINATIONS: THE WORLD S 100 GREATEST PLACES TO VACATION

where would you like to be right now? Riding the range at a Montana dude ranch, perhaps, or snorkelling off Palau? Sailing into glistening Cook´s Bay, whis is seen on our front cover, or surfing a little-known cove in Hawaii, pictured on the back? Listening to the Vienna Philharmonic in the splendiferous Musikverein concert hall? Riding the rails on the storied Orient Express? Hiking the hillsides of the mysterious Burren in Ireland´s County Clare? Teeing it up on one of the great new courses on the Oregon coast? Whatever your desires, they are met in this book. LIFE´s editors have toured the globe and come up with 100 of the very vest vacation place -some of them for families, some of them for culture vultures, some for sporty types and some for the romantics among you. There are famous cities featured and little-known, off-the-beaten-path hamlets; there are mountains and rivers and grand hotels and country inns and every imaginable kind of beach. Evocative descriptions of the locations accompany a superb collection of photographs that have been carefully selected by LIFE´s photo editors to bring the site alive. Each page in this book is a siren´s call. Travell with LIFE around the world. And then, when you´re inspired, get up and go!