Editors' picks: our favourite travel photography in 2021
From many hundreds of images that coloured the pages of National Geographic Traveller (UK) and National Geographic Traveller Food's magazines and website, the editors bring you a selection of their favourite images.
Members of the TRY Oyster Women’s Association checking oysters that are grown on strings at an oyster farm in the shallows of River Gambia.
A street scene in Dorsoduro, one of the six main districts of central Venice.
The yerra (branding festival) is held every summer in the Sierras Chicas, Argentina. Cattle are driven in from the fields by gauchos on horseback, separated into groups and then dipped. Local gauchos come to assist, and what follows next is three days of dust and whirring rawhide lassoes as young boys and grown men alike show off their prestigious skills.
The banks of the Murray River in Australia are lined with monumental stories — plucky tales of immigration, determined irrigation and visionary agriculture that today incorporates some of the nation’s finest vineyards.
Morning prep at Picantería La Lucila in Arequipa, Peru. Adela Cama is on grinding duty, using a heavy stone pestle to crush garlic cloves with salt and cumin seeds for a fragrant seasoning. The founder of the establishment, Lucila Salas Valencia, was born at the very same house where the restaurant now operates. She learned how to make traditional Arequipeñan fare from her mother and passed the knowledge on to her daughters, who now continue the family tradition.
A woman walks with an armful of flowers purchased at the Ljubljana Central Market, Slovenia.
Barbecuing is also the glue that bonds communities in Mississippi. And while the scene remains a traditionally masculine domain, there’s a new crop of trailblazing women pitmasters stepping up to the grill, such as chef and author Melissa Cookston; restaurateur Brooke Orrison Lewis, of The Shed in Mississippi; and pitmaster Amanda Kinsey-Joplin, founder of Amanda’s BarBeeQue & Catering.
A man enjoys a brew at a cafe that's one of many in Colombia's Zona Cafetera, each serving locally grown and roasted coffee.
The central firepit and kettle of the Waki Honjin Okuya, a museum in Tsumago, Japan that offers a glimpse of life in a honjin (high-class ryokan) during the Edo period, must be constantly attended. The smoke from the fire fills the air and highlights the sunshine streaming through the ventilation window.
Northern Lights over the Skaftafellsjökull Glacier in east Iceland.
Fishermen load up the boats at dawn in Cromer, ready for a day on the water. Calmer seas in the summer mean a greater chance of catching the Norfolk town’s most prized delicacy, Cromer crab.
Valle de la Micro in Chile's Atacama Desert is named for a rusted bus (‘micro’ in Spanish) that's still used for occasional desert parties.
Tobacco production has been deeply intertwined with Dominican culture since ancient times. It was considered a sacred plant by the indigenous Taíno people, and many tribes used it in spiritual or warrior rituals.
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