Lonely Planet reveals its top destinations for 2023
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The 2023 edition is in a slightly different format than it has been in years past. Rather than a simple list, the destinations are split up into five categories — eat, learn, journey, unwind and connect.
“This year, we really wanted to try something new and we wanted to reflect the way that we saw travelers looking for travel, which was about the