Travel magazine
Six running series and hundreds of articles, written by the people who plan the trips.
When to go
Seasons, month by month, region by region
What it costs
Real budgets in dollars, with tables
Routes that work
Tested itineraries and combinations
Eating across Asia
What to order and where
On foot
Treks and long walks, described honestly
Before you book
Visas, permits, timing, practicalities
Yunnan on foot: Tiger Leaping Gorge, Shaxi and the Yubeng valley
Yunnan is where China stops looking like China and starts looking like the eastern edge of the Himalaya, which is exactly what…
Yerevan in three days
Yerevan is a pink and apricot-coloured city of volcanic tufa, rebuilt in the 1920s to Alexander Tamanian's plan on a site that…
Yala or Wilpattu, and your real odds on a leopard
Sri Lanka's wildlife is genuinely world class and the way it is sold frequently is not. So before the comparison, the sentence…
What we would skip in Vietnam, and what we book instead
This article costs us bookings and we publish it anyway. A day you resent is worse for us than a day we…
What we would skip in Uzbekistan
This is the article that costs us money and earns the trust, so we write it carefully.
What we would skip in Tibet
Editing a Tibet itinerary is different from editing any other trip we sell, because the currency is not time or money. It…
What we would skip in the Philippines, and what we book instead
This article costs us bookings and we publish it anyway, because the alternative is selling you a day you will resent.
What we would skip in the Maldives
This is the article that costs us money, and we write one for every destination we sell.
What we would skip in Thailand, and what we book instead
This article costs us bookings and we write it anyway, because the alternative is selling you a day you will resent.
What we would skip in Taiwan
Taiwan is the easiest country in Asia to travel independently, which is why the mistakes here are not logistical. They are mistakes…
What we would skip in Sri Lanka, and what we book instead
This article costs us bookings and we publish it anyway, because the alternative is selling you a day you will resent.
What we would skip in New Zealand
Almost everything in New Zealand is good, which is exactly what makes a two-week route hard to write. The country is small…
What we would skip in Nepal
This is the article that costs us bookings and earns the trust, so we write it carefully.
What we would skip in Myanmar
This is the article that decides whether you should work with us, so we will write it the way we would say…
What we would skip in Mongolia
In Mongolia, a bad decision costs you a day in a vehicle. Not an hour, not a wasted morning: a full day…
What we would skip in Laos
This is the article our consultants would rather you read than any of the others, because almost every disappointing Laos trip we…
What we would skip in Kyrgyzstan
This is the article that costs us money and earns the trust, so we write it carefully.
What we would skip in South Korea
This is the article that costs us money and earns the trust, so we write it carefully.
What we would skip in Kazakhstan
This is the article that costs us money, and we write one for every country we sell because it is the only…
What we would skip in Japan
Japan is a country where almost everything is good, which is exactly what makes the editing hard. A two week itinerary can…
What we would skip in India, and what we book instead
This article costs us bookings and we publish it anyway, because the alternative is selling you a day you will resent.
What we would skip in Hong Kong
Knowing what to skip in Hong Kong is worth more than knowing what to see, because the city is small, the days…
What we would skip in Georgia
This is the article that costs us money and earns the trust, so we write it carefully.
What we would skip in Dubai
We make money when clients book more. This article argues them out of about a third of what a standard Dubai itinerary…
Tell us roughly what you want. We will tell you honestly what works.
A named consultant in Tel Aviv, our own people on the ground, and a written plan you can argue with before you commit to anything.