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
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…
The best two-week route through New Zealand
The best two-week route through New Zealand does not include the North Island, and that is the argument this article has to…
The best two-week route through Myanmar
Fourteen days is the length we would choose for Myanmar, and not because there is twice as much to see as there…
The best two-week route through Mongolia, and the alternatives
Two weeks is where Mongolia stops being a highlights trip. There is one route at this length that we build more often…
The best two weeks including the Maldives
The Maldives is a poor destination to fly across the world for and an outstanding one to finish a trip with. That…
The best two-week route through Kazakhstan
There is no single correct route through a country the size of Western Europe, so this article argues for one route, states…
The best two-week route through the Gulf
There is one fortnight in this region that is better than the others, and it is not fourteen days in the UAE.…
The best two-week route through Georgia
There is one two-week route through Georgia that we build more than any other, and this article is the argument for it.…
The best two-week route through Bhutan, and the alternatives
There is one two-week route through Bhutan that we build more often than all the others combined, and this article is the…
The best two-week route through Azerbaijan and Georgia
Two weeks inside Azerbaijan alone is more than the country asks for. Ten days covers it thoroughly, and the eleventh day onwards…
The best two-week route through Australia
There is a standard two-week Australia route and it is standard because it is right: Sydney, the red centre and the reef.…
The best two-week route through Armenia
We will start with the unhelpful thing, because it is the honest one. Two weeks in Armenia alone is more country than…
Best time to visit Vietnam: month by month, region by region
There is no best time to visit Vietnam, and any article that gives you one month is describing a third of the…
Beijing in four days, by district and by time of day
Beijing is not a difficult city to visit. It is a difficult city to visit badly, which most four-day itineraries manage, because…
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…
Three days in Bangkok, by neighbourhood
The most common thing we change on a client's own Thailand draft is the length of the Bangkok stay. It arrives as…
Baku in three days
Three days is the right length for Baku. Two is enough for the sights and misses the city. Four works if you…
Bagan in three days
Bagan is the reason most people come to Myanmar and it is the place most people get wrong, in a predictable way:…
Azerbaijan with children
Azerbaijan is better with children than almost anyone expects, and the reason is unusual. Most countries we work in give families either…
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…
Azerbaijan month by month
The best time to visit Azerbaijan depends on which Azerbaijan you are asking about, because there are three of them stacked in…
Azerbaijan for the first time
There is one thing to understand before you book Azerbaijan, and it decides whether you come home pleased or puzzled.
Australia with children: what works, what does not, and what we change
Australia is one of the easiest long-haul countries in the world to travel with children. Everything works, everyone speaks English, the healthcare…
Australia for the first time: what surprises people, and what we would do differently
Almost every disappointing Australia trip we have been asked to rescue had the same cause. The traveller looked at a map, saw…
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