More than 39,000 photographs were filed in 2019 for The New York Times’s Travel desk — for stories from places such as Cuba, Dakar, Paris and Thailand, among hundreds of others.

We’ve combed through all of them to bring you 22 of our favorites, presented here alongside links to the articles in which they originally appeared.

Sit back, relax and enjoy a whirlwind visual tour of this year’s best travel photography.