AT THEIR BEST IN DECEMBER
Most of the world’s travel destinations are in the
northern hemisphere. December brings
winter weather to most of that hemisphere.
However, the dry Northeast Monsoon prevails over much of eastern
The trouble is that many of these places—while nice—are
even nicer in some other month. In the
southern hemisphere, summer prevails.
Since most of the southern hemisphere’s land mass is in the tropics and
subtropics, this means that they are cloudy, unpleasantly hot, and
rainy—typical tropical and subtropical summer weather.
Fear not, after a diligent search of more than
fifteen-hundred destinations, I managed to come up with twenty that are at
their best in December.
ADDIS
ABABA & CENTRAL HIGHLANDS, ETHIOPIA
ADEN
AND THE GULF OF ADEN, YEMEN
BANGKOK
METROPOLITAN AREA, THAILAND
BIG
CYPRESS NATIONAL PRESERVE, FLORIDA
CANBERRA
& CAPITOL TERRITORY, AUSTRALIA
DACCA
AND THE DELTA, BANGLADESH
DARJEELING
& HIMALAYAN FOOTHILLS, INDIA
EVERGLADES
NATIONAL PARK (COAST), FLORIDA
FORT
MYERS RESORT AREA, FLORIDA
JODHPUR
AND THE THAR DESERT, INDIA
KARACHI
& ARABIAN SEA COAST, PAKISTAN
MONTEVIDEO METROPOLITAN AREA,
URUGUAY
TOKYO
METROPOLITAN AREA, JAPAN