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 Australia?
The honest answer is that days are the wrong unit. Count internal flights instead.
How many days do you need in Armenia?
Eight, and the reason is a piece of arithmetic plus a piece of psychology.
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…
Horse trekking in Mongolia, and the Altai on foot
Mongolia is a country where the horse is transport rather than recreation, and that single fact explains almost everything about riding here:…
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…
Hong Kong month by month
The best time to visit Hong Kong is a narrower answer than most cities give you, because Hong Kong has four seasons…
The Hong Kong hiking trails almost no visitor finds
Hiking in Hong Kong is the single most under-used thing in the territory, and the statistic behind it is the most useful…
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…
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…
What a trip to Hong Kong really costs
The cost of a trip to Hong Kong is a strange number to explain, because the city is simultaneously one of the…
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…
Eating your way through Hanoi in three days
Eating in Hanoi is not eating in Vietnam. It is eating in the north, and the north cooks in a way that…
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…
Walking the Hajar mountains and the wadis
Start with the sentence that matters most, because everything else depends on it.
Which Great Barrier Reef trip is worth the money
The Great Barrier Reef is not a place. It is about 1,400 miles (2,300 km) of separate reef systems, and the difference…
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…
What a trip to Georgia really costs
The cost of a trip to Georgia is the first question we get and the one the internet answers worst, because the…
Georgia month by month
The best time to visit Georgia is not one answer, because Georgia is two countries stacked on top of each other. There…
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…
Filipino food: where to start, and where to eat it
Filipino food is the least known of the major Asian cuisines and the one that most rewards being shown around. There is…
Everest or Annapurna: which trek suits which walker
Most people arrive at this decision having already decided, because Everest is a word and Annapurna is not. Then they ask us…
Everest North Base Camp: what it is actually like
The first thing to understand about Everest north base camp is that it is not a trek. There is almost no walking…
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…
What a trip to Dubai costs
Dubai has a reputation as an expensive city, and the reputation is half right. The food is not expensive. The transport is…
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