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
How many days do you need in New Zealand?
The number that decides a New Zealand trip is not days. It is nights per base.
How many days do you need in Taiwan?
Taiwan is about 245 miles (394 km) long and 89 miles (144 km) wide, and the high speed train crosses the whole…
How many days do you need in Japan?
Twelve to sixteen, and fourteen if you want one number. That is the answer we give on the phone and it is…
How many days do you need in Hong Kong?
How many days in Hong Kong is the question we answer most often, and our answer costs us money, so you can…
How many days do you need in India?
Fourteen. That is the short answer for a first visit, and if you stop reading here you will not go far wrong.
How many days do you need in Azerbaijan?
The short answer is seven for a first visit, ten if the northern mountains matter to you, and fourteen if you are…
How many days do you need in Bhutan?
In most countries, trip length is a scheduling question. In Bhutan it is a budget question, because every additional night adds the…
How many days do you need in China?
The honest answer is twelve to sixteen, and the reason is arithmetic rather than taste. China is about 3,100 miles (5,000 km)…
How many days do you need in Dubai?
Here is the answer before the argument: Dubai is a four or five day city. Three if you are passing through. Six…
How many days do you need in Georgia?
The honest answer is nine, and the reason is arithmetic rather than taste.
How many days do you need in Australia?
The honest answer is that days are the wrong unit. Count internal flights instead.
Hong Kong for the first time
Hong Kong for the first time is easier than most of Asia and stranger than people expect. It is one of the…
Hong Kong with children
Hong Kong with children is one of the easiest trips in Asia and one of the easiest to get wrong, and the…
How far ahead to book Asia, country by country
Almost everyone who asks us this question is thinking about flights. Almost nobody whose trip went wrong on timing was let down…
How many days do you need in Armenia?
Eight, and the reason is a piece of arithmetic plus a piece of psychology.
Georgia with children
Georgia is one of the warmest countries towards children that we work in anywhere, and it is one that families rarely think…
Georgia for the first time
Most people arrive in Georgia with two expectations, and both of them are slightly wrong. The first is that it will be…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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:…
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…
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…
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