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
Taiwan with children: what works, what does not, and what we change
Taiwan is one of the two or three easiest countries in Asia to travel with children, and it is the one families…
Taiwan month by month, and why the two coasts disagree
The best time to visit Taiwan is October to December, with March and April as a second window, and November is our…
Taiwan’s high mountains, and how the permits actually work
Taiwan has 268 peaks over 9,840 feet (3,000 m), which is more than most people expect from an island 245 miles (394…
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…
Taiwan for the first time: what actually surprises people
Taiwan is the easiest country in Asia to travel independently. The trains run on time, the signage is in English, crime is…
What does a trip to Taiwan really cost?
The cost of a trip to Taiwan surprises people twice, in opposite directions. Food is cheaper than they expect, dramatically so for…
Taipei night markets, ranked honestly, and what to order at each
The Taipei night market is not an attraction with food in it. It is dinner. Taiwanese people eat here on a Tuesday…
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…
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…
Svaneti or Tusheti: which one to walk
Georgia has two high regions worth building a trip around, and almost everybody who asks us about them has read the same…
Sri Lanka with children
Sri Lanka is one of the two or three easiest countries in Asia to travel with children, and the reasons are practical…
Which month to visit Sri Lanka, and why it depends on the coast
Sri Lanka is roughly the size of Ireland and it has two separate monsoons, arriving on opposite sides of the island, at…
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…
The hill country on foot: which walks are worth the day
Sri Lanka's hill country is the best walking in the country and one of the more overlooked walking regions in Asia. Tea…
Sri Lanka for the first time: what we would tell you first
Sri Lanka is the easiest country in South Asia to travel in and the one most often planned badly, and the two…
How much does two weeks in Sri Lanka cost?
Sri Lanka is one of the best value countries we work in, and it is also one where the published numbers are…
Song-Kul and horse trekking, described honestly
Song-Kul is the photograph that sells Kyrgyzstan: a lake at about 10,000 feet (3,000 m) with no building on its shore, white…
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,…
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,…
Hiking Seoraksan, and how Koreans actually hike
South Korea is roughly seventy percent mountain and it is one of the great walking countries of Asia, which almost nobody says…
Ryokan etiquette, without the anxiety
Almost every client who books a ryokan asks us some version of the same question: what if I get it wrong?
The road to Xinaliq, and the walking above it
Xinaliq is a village of stone houses stacked along a ridge in the far north of Azerbaijan, at roughly 7,500 feet (2,300…
Australia month by month, starting with the red centre
Australia does not have a season. It has at least three climates running on different calendars, and the reason we keep recommending…
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…
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