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Where to go in November? Our top travel destinations

2022-09-10T16:49:29.846Z


Where to go in November 2022? For a medium-haul trip to the sun, you will find brighter skies in the far south of Europe, the Middle East, or even in Africa and the Maghreb. The dry season is reaching Southeast Asia, just emerging from the long monsoon months. In...


In November, while the skies of Europe are veiled, we take advantage of a milder late season than summer in the Maghreb or the Middle East, or spring in Latin America.

In Southeast Asia, after the monsoons starts the dry season - the beautiful season.

In the Far East, the Indian summer continues gently and under the flamboyant colors of Japan.

In Central and South America, when the wet season has also ended there, we live the most joyous feasts of the dead of our lives, with the air of carnivals.

Wildlife enthusiasts will instead migrate to the southern reaches of Africa.

As for the divers, they will plan their underwater explorations in the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean or the Red Sea.

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What are the best destinations to go to in November?

Going to Argentina in November, you will enjoy the austral spring and mild temperatures.

Here, the grandiose landscapes of Patagonia.

pedro suarez

  • Morocco, for a balanced cocktail between Marrakech, Sahara and High Atlas, reasonable heat and beautiful sunshine.

  • Japan, to indulge in

    momijigari

    , the hunt for autumn colors, under scarlet maples and gold-colored ginkos.

  • India, for the mild temperatures around the palaces of Maharajas in Rajasthan.

  • Mexico for the – anything but sad – parades on Day of the Dead, November 2

  • Argentina, to take advantage of the austral spring from North to South of this country with a wide range of latitudes.

Where to go to the sun and/or the beach in November?

In southern Europe, it will still be possible to swim in the Mediterranean, especially in Sardinia.

Here the Cala Corsara, a heavenly bay bordered by rocky hills.

robertdering

In southern Europe and around the Mediterranean basin, temperatures drop below 15°C, but the skies remain sunny for a cultural and natural stay.

The setting sun of autumn gives beautiful caressing or grazing colors: in Italy (including Sicily and Sardinia), in Greece, in Spain... The less cautious and the most daring can even still swim.

A little further, on the other side of the Mediterranean, the Maghreb benefits from good sunshine.

In Morocco, preference will be given to the Saharan regions and desert regions and the High Atlas mountains.

In Marrakech, this off-season has its advantages: it is less hot but still good, and the sun remains omnipresent.

In the seaside towns of Tunisia, the off-season is synonymous with mild temperatures and prices.

This is also the time to get away from the coast to go hiking inland, especially in the oases of the South.

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In Asia, after long months of monsoon, the lights are green in the south of the continent (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, etc.) where the rains have dried up.

Temperatures there are still flirting with 30°C but they are cooling slowly.

Fans of coolness will find it in northern Vietnam, in the mountainous regions and the bright green rice terraces, where it is only 15 to 20°C during the day.

Be careful, the center of Vietnam can still be rainy or waterlogged, while in the South, the dry season has not quite started yet.

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In the Middle East begins the most pleasant period.

The sky is warmly clement and generously sunny in the Arabian Peninsula.

We will still taste seaside holidays on the shores of the Persian Gulf, from Oman to the United Arab Emirates, and we will touch on the palace life in the skyscrapers of Dubai.

In this temple of luxury and excess, the oppressive heat of summer has evaporated, and the prohibitive prices of winter have not yet hatched.

Don't miss the trip to the neighboring emirate of Abu Dhabi for the Sheikh Zayed Mosque, the Louvre Abu Dhabi and the Guggenheim Museum.

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If we extend to the Middle East, Egypt, in particular the Nile Valley, is ideally discovered from November to February, cradled by temperatures of 25 to 30°C.

One of the best times to dive in Egypt runs until the end of November.

In Central America, it is the dawn of the beautiful season.

In Costa Rica, the rainy season (

temporada verde

or

temporada lluviosa

) ends at the end of November, but the rains mainly occur in the afternoon, often sparing mornings and evenings.

The climatic conditions are therefore beginning to be favorable, and the temperatures pleasant for a seaside stay.

The sea is at the right temperature, and before the high season, prices are still mild.

In South America, spring has set in.

In November, Argentina travels from North to South, from Buenos Aires to the Andes, from the central Pampas to southern Patagonia and as far as Tierra del Fuego, passing through the Valdés Peninsula.

This intermediate period makes it possible to deal with the climatic variations of a country with a large amplitude of latitudes: it is neither excessively hot in the North, nor too cold in the South.

Spring is especially delicious in Buenos Aires.

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In Chile, this off-season outside of the big tourist crowds allows you to calmly contemplate lush nature.

It is neither too hot nor too cold over a large part of this territory, which is also very extensive.

The month of November offers a good compromise in the face of significant climatic variations from North to South and from the coastal plains to the Andes mountain range.

In the Caribbean, after the wet season, the rains dry up in Cuba towards the end of November.

They give way to sunny days on green landscapes, and temperatures of 25 to 30 ° C.

The weather is also mild in the West Indies (Martinique, Guadeloupe), with temperatures of around twenty degrees.

Throughout the West Indies, the period is favorable for diving.

For those who have more time, the austral spring peaks in Oceania, especially in the South: Southern Australia (Sydney, Melbourne, and Tasmania, although it is cooler there) and Western (Perth) Australia. island-continent.

This is the best time to dive in the Great Barrier Reef.

In New Zealand, spring, although rainy, already shows beautiful days before the start of the high tourist season.

It's a great season for hiking.

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Where to live feasts of the dead in November?

On November 2, the Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) gives rise to one of the biggest traditional celebrations in Mexico, notably with impressive parades in the capital.

Moab Republic

In many countries where a Christian tradition has taken root, the deceased receive homage from the living on November 1st.

On the program: festive masses, visits to flowered cemeteries, and family meals around traditional recipes, as in Italy with

Ognissanti

, or in Mauritius.

In this little piece of the Indian Ocean, the beginning of summer, on the edge of the beautiful season, promises sunny weather, with reasonable heat of 18 to 26°C.

In the continuity of the terribly festive programming of Halloween, November opens with a bang in all of Central America, with a procession of feasts of the dead not at all sad, from Mexico to Costa Rica via Guatemala, and up to in South America: Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia...

Mexico is undoubtedly one of the most fascinating destinations to experience memorable feasts of the dead.

The country honors the deceased during joyful celebrations, with decorations, parades and entertainment.

On November 2, the

Día de los Muertos

(Day of the Dead) gives rise to one of the largest traditional celebrations in the country.

In the first week of November, Mexico City organizes gigantic parades in general joy.

Across the country, families gather in cemeteries to clean, decorate graves, lay flowers and offerings, and picnic to the tunes of mariachis.

These traditions are particularly strong in Chiapas.

As for the weather, the wet season is over and the temperatures have warmed up.

They oscillate between softness and freshness, with around twenty degrees.

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In Latin America, these celebrations are celebrated with the same joy, with a debauchery of masks and make-up, cohorts of skeletons and ghosts, and gatherings of the living in cemeteries.

Those of indigenous communities come to life during festivities punctuated by traditional songs, in Peru and Ecuador.

In Peru, Lima and on the coast, the

garúa

, the humid mist, has faded.

In the Altiplano, it is still the dry season, one of the most beautiful seasons.

In Bolivia, the deceased are served their favorite dishes.

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Where to travel in Asia in November?

In November, the high peak expedition season is in full swing in Nepal.

silver john

In November, Asia emerges from the intense rainfall of the monsoons, and frees itself from its share of high heat.

In North India (especially in Rajasthan) and most of South India begins the best season.

In South India (Bombay, Pondicherry), the sun shines brightly, but avoid the southeast coast, from Chennai-Madras to Trivandrum, and the far south, where the monsoon is late: it reaches its peak in October. -november.

This is also one of the best times to travel to Nepal, where the high altitude and high peak expedition season is in full swing.

For fans of last-minute China, in the first half of November, there is still time to pack your bags for the center of the country and the southern coastal regions, with a subtropical climate.

The days are then sunny and the temperatures pleasantly high.

This is the beginning of the good period for Hong Kong.

In the north, temperatures are refreshing in cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Xi'an, but are still reasonably low (0 to 10°C in Beijing, 5 to 15°C in Shanghai and Xi'an), and the sky is often clear and dry.

The month of November remains interesting in the sense that it is after the peak of influx of national tourists at the beginning of October, and before the arrival of the severe winter cold.

The trees, as a bonus, sport beautiful fall colors.

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The dry season spreads throughout Southeast Asia.

The monsoon season is just ending, and the impatient can start packing their bags.

The still largely summery temperatures invite you to travel to Laos or Cambodia, where the dry season begins, if not in the north of Vietnam - the rainy season being slightly offset in the center and in the South.

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In Laos, temperatures are milder in the plain of Vientiane, but the nights can be cold in the mountains and on the high plateaus.

During the November full moon (in 2022, November 8) the That Luang Festival or feast of the stupas is held: the faithful gathered from all over the country give the monks offerings, attend processions and torchlight processions.

The festival takes on a very special dimension at Pha That Luang in Vientiane, where activities and attractions are organized right up to the edge of the temple.

Japan is just as nice.

In the north of the archipelago, we indulge in

momijigari

, the hunt for the red and gold foliage of autumn, during

spring

hanami .

From the beginning of the month, we admire the foliage in the North: on the northern island of Hokkaido, in the north of the island of Honshu, in Tohoku and Kanto (Tokyo, Hakone, Nikko…).

Further south, in Chubu (Japanese Alps) and Kansai (Kyoto, Osaka, Nara), you have to wait until the second half of November, or even early December, to see the most dazzling colors bloom.

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Where to see animals in Africa in November?

In Namibia, birds and mammals can be observed on safari in November in national parks such as Etosha.

Dmitry Pichugin

Direction Africa to catch up with the spring (austral), and in particular the South of the continent.

In South Africa, the weather is generally pleasant throughout the country.

Conditions are good in the center (Johannesburg and Pretoria, despite rainy or even stormy evenings) and on the west coast.

However, spring is warmer and more humid in Johannesburg, Durban and on the coast of KwaZulu-Natal (on the Indian Ocean).

It is drier in the northern coastal regions and on the Atlantic coast, where it gets drier and hotter the further north you go.

In this beautiful season, the Cape region is dotted with wild flowers.

In the Kruger Park reserves and the savannahs, and the Drakensberg mountains, comes the time of the first rains.

They give life and green colors to the vegetation which is gaining in abundance.

The mercury rises during the day,

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In Namibia, the weather is moderately hot (25 to 30°C), and the rains mainly occur at the end of the day.

At the start of summer, the vegetation is lush and wild flowers bloom in the savannahs.

Birds and mammals can be observed on safari in national parks such as Etosha.

In Botswana, it starts to get hot, but rains can cool the atmosphere.

In the Okavango Delta, migratory birds arrive for the start of the breeding season, and it's birth time for many species.

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For those who dream of Kenya, November can be an option: the “little rainy season” makes fares attractive, and often only manifests itself in the form of passing thunderstorms.

Some years, this season even goes unnoticed.

In the savannas, nature is verdant and the acacias are in bloom.

The birds are concentrated in the lacustrine regions by beautiful luminosity.

On the coast, the temperatures are pleasant, softened by the

kaskazi

, a northeast trade wind.

In the Masai Mara, the conditions are good for observing the herds of herbivores, and on Lake Bogoria, the colonies of pink flamingos.

In the Samburu reserve, there are elephants and, locally specific, Grévy's zebras and reticulated giraffes.

Off Africa, the dry season begins in Cape Verde.

The skies have calmed down, and as throughout the year, the mercury fluctuates between 20 and 25°C.

In the Indian Ocean, it's the end of the dry season on the island of Reunion.

The mercury around 30°C allows for beautiful seaside stays and pleasant hikes on often sunny days.

As for Mauritius, with its tropical climate, it sees the start of the austral summer in mildness.

November promises to be conducive to swimming in clear turquoise blue waters.

Source: lefigaro

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