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
Kyrgyzstan for the first time
People arrive in Kyrgyzstan with a photograph in their head. It is usually the same photograph: white yurts on green grass, horses,…
What does a trip to Kyrgyzstan cost?
Kyrgyzstan is the least expensive country in our library and the one where money buys the least improvement. Both halves of that…
Kyoto in autumn, week by week
Autumn colour in Japan is treated as the quieter sibling of cherry blossom, and in Kyoto it is nothing of the kind.…
Walking the Kumano Kodo: which route, which season
The Kumano Kodo is not one trail. It is a network of pilgrimage routes across the Kii peninsula south of Osaka, walked…
What to eat in South Korea, and where
Korean food is why a large minority of our clients come, and it is the part of the trip that first visits…
South Korea with children
South Korea is one of the two or three easiest countries in Asia to travel with children, and it is the one…
South Korea month by month
The best time to visit South Korea is mid-September to early November, with late April to early June a close second. Month…
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…
South Korea for the first time
Most first visits to South Korea go well. The country is safe, clean, superbly connected and easier to travel than almost anywhere…
What does ten days in South Korea actually cost?
The cost of a trip to South Korea is the first question on most of the enquiries that reach my desk, and…
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…
Walking the Kolsai lakes and Kaindy
Let us start with the sentence that will save some people a disappointment and others a wasted permit application.
Khmer food: what to order, and where
Khmer food is the least known of the four great mainland Southeast Asian cuisines and the one visitors are most likely to…
Khao Sok and Thailand’s national parks: what the walking is actually like
Thailand is not a trekking country in the way Nepal is a trekking country, and anybody who tells you otherwise is selling…
Kazakhstan with children
Every question people ask us about Kazakhstan with children has the same answer, and the answer is the driving.
What a trip to Kazakhstan really costs
Kazakhstan surprises people twice on price. The first surprise is how cheap the ground is: food, taxis, guides, entries and domestic flights…
Kazakhstan month by month
Most countries have a season. Kazakhstan has four regions that each have a different one, and the single most useful thing we…
Kazakhstan for the first time
Almost nobody arrives in Kazakhstan with an accurate picture of it in their head. The country is barely represented in Western travel…
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.…
Karakol and the Issyk-Kul shore
Song-Kul gets the photograph. Karakol is where a Kyrgyzstan trip actually works.
The Kandy to Ella train in 2026: what is running, and how to actually get a seat
The hill country line through Sri Lanka's tea estates is one of the great train journeys, and since Cyclone Ditwah only its…
The Kalaw to Inle trek
If we could put one thing into a Myanmar itinerary and remove everything else, it would be this walk. Not because it…
How much does two weeks in Japan really cost?
What two weeks in Japan costs in yen, per person per day by travel style, with Shinkansen fares, the 2026 Kyoto hotel…
Is the Japan Rail Pass still worth it? We ran the numbers
For twenty years the answer was yes, automatically, for almost everyone. Buy the pass, stop thinking about it.
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