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The Three Most Meaningful Trips Our Travel Expert Took This Year

Rolling hills, lakes and wildlife at the scenic Akagera National Park in Rwanda.

Photographer: Lebawit Lily Girma

Hello, Pursuits readers! It’s Lily here, your travel correspondent who’s just moved back to the Washington, DC, area (or the DMV as we like to call it here).

I’m staying put this holiday season, curbing my digital nomad ways for the first time in 15 years. In the past, you would have found me in the Caribbean or Central America, where I would be indulging in curried goat and black (fruit) cake in Jamaica, swimming with stingrays in Belize, or dancing to merengue at my friend’s home in the Dominican Republic while a pig roasted on a spit in the yard.