Within your own backyard lies adventure that will transport you to a place that feels miles from home. So leave your passport behind and start exploring The Nearest Faraway Place.
It can be hard for a lot of NYC residents to deal with the hustle and bustle of city life. The Cloisters is a serene escape right in Northern Manhattan.
“A cloistered garden is a covered garden that’s surrounded by covered archways,” says The Cloisters Managing Horticulturalist Caleb Leech. “It does give you this sense of escape.”
In this installment of The Nearest Faraway Place, presented by Land Rover Discovery, we took the train uptown to Northern Manhattan to transport ourselves to a place of serenity and back in time to The Cloisters museum.