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
Everest North Base Camp: what it is actually like
The first thing to understand about Everest north base camp is that it is not a trek. There is almost no walking…
Dubai with children
Dubai is genuinely one of the easiest destinations in the world to take children to, and we say that without qualification. It…
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…
Dubai month by month
In most destinations the season is a matter of preference. Some people like the rain, some people like the crowds thinner, and…
Dubai for the first time
Most people arrive in Dubai with a picture of it already assembled from other people's photographs, and most of that picture is…
What to eat in Hong Kong: dim sum, cha chaan teng and the rest
Knowing what to eat in Hong Kong matters more than knowing what to see. The skyline is famous and the food is…
Delhi in three days, and what to do with the third
Most India itineraries give Delhi one day, and most of them are wrong. Delhi is not a place you pass through on…
China with children, and what we change
China is easier with children than most parents expect and harder in exactly two places. The easy part is almost everything practical:…
China month by month, and why the region matters more than the month
The best time to visit China is April to May or September to November. That is the true answer and it is…
Paying for things in China, and getting your phone to work
Paying for things in China is the single thing that catches first-time visitors out, and it is entirely fixable in about twenty…
How Chinese high-speed rail actually works
China is roughly 3,100 miles (5,000 km) from the eastern coast to the western border and runs on a single time zone…
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…
Cherry blossom, region by region: when to actually be where
Cherry blossom in Japan is not a date. It is a wave, and it moves.
Cambodia on foot: the Cardamoms and Mondulkiri
Trekking in Cambodia is not trekking in Nepal and it is not trekking in northern Vietnam. There are no passes, no altitude…
Cambodia with children: what works, what does not, and what we change
Cambodia with children works, and it works better than most people expect, for a reason that has nothing to do with the…
Cambodia month by month
The best time to visit Cambodia is a narrower question than it looks, because the country has two seasons rather than four…
Phnom Penh, and how we place Tuol Sleng and Choeung Ek
Two of the most important places in Cambodia are a former school and a former orchard on the edge of Phnom Penh.…
Cambodia for the first time: what actually surprises people
Most people arrive in Cambodia for the first time with one image in their head, a temple at dawn, and very little…
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,…
Cambodia beyond Angkor: Battambang, Kampot and the coast
Almost every Cambodia enquiry we receive starts at Angkor and runs out of ideas by day four. That is understandable, because the…
Bukhara or Khiva: which one, if you can only do one
This question comes up on roughly half our Uzbekistan files, and it is almost always the same underlying problem. Somebody has eight…
Bhutan with children: what works and what we change
Bhutan is not an obvious family destination. There are no theme parks, no aquariums, almost no playgrounds, and the drive times look…
Bhutan month by month: when to go, and what you get
The best time to visit Bhutan is March to May or October to November, and if you only read one line of…
Bhutan for the first time: what surprises people
We have sent a lot of people to Bhutan for the first time, and the debriefs are remarkably consistent. The same six…
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