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 Kathmandu valley in four days, beyond the checklist
The Kathmandu valley is treated by most itineraries as an arrival formality: two days of durbar squares before the real trip starts.…
Korea and Japan in two weeks: the best fourteen-day route out of Seoul
Every destination in our library gets an article called "the best two-week route through X". For South Korea, the honest version of…
Hong Kong in four days, district by district
Hong Kong in four days is the route we argue for more than any other, because four days is where the city…
Hoi An and the centre, honestly
Central Vietnam is the part of the country most people fall in love with and the part most often planned badly. It…
Ha Long, Bai Tu Long or Lan Ha? An honest comparison
Almost everyone arrives in Hanoi wanting to see Ha Long Bay, and almost nobody arrives knowing that Ha Long, Bai Tu Long…
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…
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.…
The best two-week route through Tibet
A two week Tibet itinerary is the length we would choose ourselves, and the reason is not that fourteen days fits more…
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…
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…
The best two-week route through Thailand, and why we build it this way
There is one two-week Thailand route that works better than the alternatives for most first visits, and we are going to argue…
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-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 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 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 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 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 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 Armenia
We will start with the unhelpful thing, because it is the honest one. Two weeks in Armenia alone is more country than…
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 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 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 Georgia
There is one two-week route through Georgia that we build more than any other, and this article is the argument for it.…
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…
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