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
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.
The Philippines for the first time: what surprises people
Nobody has a bad first trip to the Philippines. What they have, quite often, is a trip in which three or four…
The internal flight problem nobody warns you about in the Philippines
The Philippines is more than seven thousand islands. That number is in every article ever written about the country, and it is…
The Philippines month by month, and which islands work when
The best time to visit the Philippines is February to April, and if that is all you need, you can stop reading.…
The Philippines with children: what works, what does not, and what we change
The Philippines is a genuinely good country to travel in with children, and it is not the easiest one in Asia. Those…
How much does two weeks in the Philippines really cost?
The Philippines is cheaper than people expect to be in and more expensive than they expect to sleep in, and almost every…
Palawan, Siargao or Bohol in 2026: which island suits you
Palawan for landscape, Bohol for easy days and children, Siargao for surf. Days each needs, how to get there, when to go,…
Filipino food: where to start, and where to eat it
Filipino food is the least known of the major Asian cuisines and the one that most rewards being shown around. There is…
The best two-week route through the Philippines, and why we build it this way
There is one two-week Philippines route that works better than the alternatives for most first visits, and it is not the one…
Walking the Cordillera rice terraces: Batad, Banaue and what it actually involves
Almost every visitor to the Philippines goes to the islands. A small minority go north instead, into the mountains of Luzon, and…
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