Wanderlust Travel Awards 2009 - Top City

4    Kraków, Poland    94.67%

5    Havana, Cuba    94.29%

6    Damascus, Syria    93.33%

7    Luang Prabang, Laos    93%

8    Cuzco, Peru    92.73%

9    Sydney, Australia    92.06%

10 Tallinn, Estonia    91.43%

New York, Paris, Buenos Aires… No, Wanderlustreaders like to throw in a few curve balls. So we shouldn’t have been surprised that two-year-running winner Luang Prabang was toppled this time round by the Guatemalan city of Antigua.

A town of bougainvillea-lined streets and top-class language schools huddled by three volcanoes, Antigua had some passionate advocates. ‘I rated it so highly for a number of reasons,’ said reader Annabelle Taylor. ‘It has an abundance of beautiful old colonial churches, a wonderful vibrant market, incredibly kind people – and Fernando’s serves the best coffee!

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