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 does a trip to Vietnam cost?
The honest answer to what a Vietnam trip costs is that food and transport are cheaper than almost anyone expects and accommodation…
What does a trip to Uzbekistan cost?
The short answer is that Uzbekistan is one of the least expensive countries we send people to, and that the difference between…
How much does two weeks in Thailand really cost?
The cost of two weeks in Thailand has a wider range than almost any country we work in. The same fortnight, the…
What a trip to Tibet costs, and why it cannot be cheap
The cost of a trip to Tibet works differently from every other destination in this library, and the reason is structural rather…
What does a trip to Taiwan really cost?
The cost of a trip to Taiwan surprises people twice, in opposite directions. Food is cheaper than they expect, dramatically so for…
How much does two weeks in Sri Lanka cost?
Sri Lanka is one of the best value countries we work in, and it is also one where the published numbers are…
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…
How much do two weeks in New Zealand really cost?
New Zealand costs more than most visitors expect, and the reason is not the hotels. It is that the country's signature days…
What does a trip to Mongolia really cost?
Mongolia is cheaper than most people expect and priced in a way that surprises them. The hotel line, which dominates a budget…
What a trip to Myanmar costs
Two things make Myanmar unlike anywhere else we price. The first is that it is genuinely cheap on the ground and genuinely…
What a trip to Nepal costs, trek included
Nepal is the cheapest country in our library to travel in and one of the easiest to get the budget wrong in,…
What does a trip to Kyrgyzstan cost?
Kyrgyzstan is the least expensive country in our library and the one where money buys the least improvement. Both halves of that…
What a trip to the Maldives costs
The Maldives has a reputation for being expensive, and the reputation is only half right. The country runs across a wider price…
What does ten days in South Korea actually cost?
The cost of a trip to South Korea is the first question on most of the enquiries that reach my desk, and…
What a trip to Kazakhstan really costs
Kazakhstan surprises people twice on price. The first surprise is how cheap the ground is: food, taxis, guides, entries and domestic flights…
How much does two weeks in Japan really cost?
What two weeks in Japan costs in yen, per person per day by travel style, with Shinkansen fares, the 2026 Kyoto hotel…
How much does two weeks in India really cost?
India is the country where the honest answer to the cost question is the widest, because the same fourteen days can cost…
What a trip to Hong Kong really costs
The cost of a trip to Hong Kong is a strange number to explain, because the city is simultaneously one of the…
What a trip to Georgia really costs
The cost of a trip to Georgia is the first question we get and the one the internet answers worst, because the…
What a trip to Dubai costs
Dubai has a reputation as an expensive city, and the reputation is half right. The food is not expensive. The transport is…
How much does two weeks in China really cost?
The cost of two weeks in China is harder to research than almost any country in Asia, because the honest answer has…
What does a trip to Cambodia cost?
The honest summary of the Cambodia trip cost question is that the country is inexpensive to move around and to eat in,…
What does a trip to Bhutan really cost?
The cost of a trip to Bhutan is a different kind of question from the cost of a trip to Thailand, and…
What a trip to Azerbaijan really costs
The cost of a trip to Azerbaijan is unusually hard to research, because the two things people find online are a backpacker's…
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