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 Dubai
We make money when clients book more. This article argues them out of about a third of what a standard Dubai itinerary…
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 Armenia
This is the article that costs us money and earns the trust, so we write it carefully.
Tokyo in four days, by neighbourhood rather than by sight
The mistake most first-time visitors make in Tokyo is treating it as a city with a list of attractions. It is not.…
The Gobi in detail: what is actually out there
The first thing to say about the Gobi is that it is not sand. For the great majority of its area it…
Tbilisi in three days
Most people give Tbilisi a day and a half and treat it as the city with the airport in it. Then they…
Sydney in four days
Sydney is the arrival city for most Australian trips and it is usually given three days, of which the first is spent…
Tainan in two days: the oldest city and the best eating in Taiwan
Taipei is the capital and Tainan is the city Taiwanese people go to eat. It was the island's capital for more than…
The best two-week route through Taiwan, and the three alternatives
Fourteen days is the number that closes the circle in Taiwan. Ten days makes you choose between the east coast and the…
The best two-week route through Sri Lanka
There is a standard Sri Lanka circuit and it is standard because it works: the cultural triangle, Kandy, the tea hills, a…
Seoul in four days, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
Seoul is a city of about ten million people that was substantially destroyed in the early 1950s and rebuilt at extraordinary speed,…
The Silk Road in two weeks: Uzbekistan, and whether to add Kyrgyzstan
Uzbekistan is the easiest serious Silk Road trip in the world, and that sentence holds both the appeal and the risk. Easy,…
Punakha and the central valleys: the best part of Bhutan
If we could change one thing about the standard Bhutan itinerary, it would be this: more nights east of the Dochula pass…
Rajasthan in twelve days, and what to leave out
Most Rajasthan briefs that reach our desk contain eight places. Delhi, Agra, Jaipur, a tiger park, Jodhpur, Jaisalmer, Udaipur and something in…
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,…
Old Dubai in two days
The best part of Dubai is a saltwater inlet with wooden boats on it, and most visitors give it ninety minutes on…
Northern Vietnam: motorbike, or a car with a driver?
The northern Vietnam motorbike or car question comes up in almost every Ha Giang enquiry we receive, usually phrased as though there…
The best two-week route through Nepal
There is no single best route through Nepal, because the country offers three genuinely different trips and two weeks will carry one…
The best two-week route through Kyrgyzstan
Fourteen days is the length at which Kyrgyzstan stops being a lap of the north and becomes a country. It is also…
Lhasa in three days
Lhasa has about two days of sightseeing in it and we give it three, and the reason is not that we have…
Macau in one night or two
Macau from Hong Kong is an hour by ferry, which is why almost everybody does it as a day trip, and why…
Local islands versus resort islands
There are two Maldives sharing the same water, and most visitors only know about one of them.
South Korea in ten days, and why that is enough
Ten days is enough for a first trip to South Korea: four nights in Seoul, then Andong or Jeonju, Gyeongju and Busan…
Karakol and the Issyk-Kul shore
Song-Kul gets the photograph. Karakol is where a Kyrgyzstan trip actually works.
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