Where to go in April

Table Mountain, Cape Town, South Africa

High, windswept, city-above-the-sea

12°C in April · 19h 45m from Los Angeles · half a day within a cape town trip

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Kynance Cove, Cornwall, England

Serpentine rock, turquoise water, wind

12°C in April · 10h 50m from Los Angeles · a half-day from anywhere on the lizard

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Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany

Storybook, walled, quiet after six

13°C in April · 11h 50m from Los Angeles · 2 nights

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Sark, Channel Islands

Quiet, lantern-lit, gloriously old-fashioned

10°C in April · 11h 05m from Los Angeles · 2–3 nights

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Interlaken, Switzerland

Two lakes, three peaks, constant motion

13°C in April · 11h 55m from Los Angeles · 4 nights

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Snowdon Mountain Railway, Wales

Steam-hauled, weather-dependent, quietly heroic

12°C in April · 10h 40m from Los Angeles · a day trip from eryri or anglesey

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North Coast 500, Scotland

Wild, windswept, gloriously empty

11°C in April · 10h 15m from Los Angeles · 5–7 nights

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Ramsau bei Berchtesgaden, Germany

Quiet, green, alpine and unhurried

13°C in April · 12h 10m from Los Angeles · 3–4 nights

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Semmering Railway, Austria

Nineteenth-century, engineered, quietly grand

11°C in April · 12h 20m from Los Angeles · a day trip from vienna

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Wild Atlantic Way, Ireland

Windswept, sociable, endlessly detouring

11°C in April · 10h 20m from Los Angeles · a week or more

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Ben A'an, Trossachs, Scotland

Small hill, enormous view

9°C in April · 10h 25m from Los Angeles · a day trip from glasgow or stirling

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The Fairy Pools, Isle of Skye, Scotland

Icy, clear, quietly ferocious

9°C in April · 10h 15m from Los Angeles · a day trip from portree

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Mount Titlis, Engelberg, Switzerland

Alpine, family-friendly, cheerfully touristy

9°C in April · 11h 55m from Los Angeles · 2 nights, or a day trip from lucerne

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Seceda ridgeline, Dolomites, Italy

Airy, pastoral, absurdly photogenic

9°C in April · 12h 15m from Los Angeles · a day trip from val gardena

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Ordesa y Monte Perdido, Spain

Vertical, green, properly wild

8°C in April · 11h 50m from Los Angeles · 3–4 nights

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Flåm Railway, Norway

Vertical, green, engineered spectacle

7°C in April · 10h 30m from Los Angeles · a day, or a night in flåm

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Old Man of Storr, Isle of Skye, Scotland

Bleak, jagged, quietly unsettling

7°C in April · 10h 15m from Los Angeles · 3–4 nights on skye

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Bealach na Bà, Scotland

Wild, exposed, gloriously severe

8°C in April · 10h 15m from Los Angeles · 2–3 nights on the peninsula

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Oeschinensee, Switzerland

Turquoise, sheer, easily earned

6°C in April · 11h 55m from Los Angeles · a day trip, or 2 nights in kandersteg

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The Atlantic Ocean Road, Norway

Windswept, engineered, faintly cinematic

7°C in April · 10h 20m from Los Angeles · a day trip from molde

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Trollstigen, Norway

Vertical, dramatic, briskly Norwegian

8°C in April · 10h 25m from Los Angeles · a day, within a longer fjord drive

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Maloja Pass, Switzerland

Dramatic, remote, quietly grand

6°C in April · 11h 55m from Los Angeles · a day trip from st moritz or the wider engadine

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Sella Pass, Dolomites, Italy

Pale, jagged, cinematic at dusk

4°C in April · 12h 15m from Los Angeles · a day trip from val gardena or alta badia

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The Ring Road, Iceland

Elemental, empty, weather-driven

7°C in April · 8h 50m from Los Angeles · 8–10 days

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Hallstatt, Austria

Vertical, ancient, quietly overwhelmed

8°C in April · 12h 10m from Los Angeles · 1–2 nights

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Rigi Railways, Switzerland

Classic Swiss, orderly, panoramic

6°C in April · 11h 55m from Los Angeles · a day trip from lucerne

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Passo Giau, Dolomites, Italy

High, sharp-edged, postcard alpine

3°C in April · 12h 20m from Los Angeles · 3–4 nights in the dolomites

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Peak 2 Peak Gondola, Whistler, Canada

High, engineered, jaw-dropping in clear air

6°C in April · 2h 40m from Los Angeles · 2–3 nights in whistler

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Preikestolen, Norway

Granite, vertigo, cold clear air

5°C in April · 10h 40m from Los Angeles · a day trip from stavanger

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Torres del Paine, Chile

Wind-scoured, granite, exhilarating

8°C in April · 13h 05m from Los Angeles · 5–7 nights

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Transfăgărășan, Romania

High, hairpinned, cinematic

3°C in April · 12h 55m from Los Angeles · a full day, within a week in transylvania

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Morskie Oko, Tatras, Poland

Alpine, crowd-drawn, quietly grand

4°C in April · 12h 15m from Los Angeles · a day trip from zakopane

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Pilatus Railway, Switzerland

Steep, precise, gloriously Swiss

2°C in April · 11h 55m from Los Angeles · a day trip from lucerne

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Cares Gorge, Picos de Europa, Spain

Vertical, green, bracing, unshowy

5°C in April · 11h 20m from Los Angeles · 3–4 nights

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Brienz Rothorn Railway, Switzerland

Nostalgic, steep, thoroughly alpine

2°C in April · 11h 55m from Los Angeles · a day trip from interlaken

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Lac Blanc, Chamonix, France

High, bright, unambiguously alpine

2°C in April · 11h 55m from Los Angeles · a half day from chamonix

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