There’s no rental car waiting for you in Bermuda, no matter your budget, visitors are legally barred from renting standard cars on the island. Your options off the ferries and buses are a scooter, at roughly 40 to 60 dollars a day, or taxis that run metered and add a dollar per bag, expect 40 to 55 dollars and 20 to 40 minutes from L.F. Wade International into Hamilton. Day 1: Arrival and...

Fes, Morocco 6-Day Itinerary Fes el-Bali has roughly 9,000 alleys and almost no motor vehicles can enter, which means the boy pushing a handcart shouting “balak” is not a quaint detail, it is the actual traffic system, and stepping aside fast is not optional. This is the densest surviving medieval medina in the world, and six days here rewards a slower pace than most people plan for....

A tuk-tuk from Techo International Airport into central Phnom Penh should cost 9 to 12 dollars and take 45 minutes to an hour depending on traffic. Skip the drivers waving fixed-rate cards at the arrivals curb quoting 20 to 30 dollars: that’s double the honest fare. Open Grab or PassApp before you even clear the terminal and book the ride from inside the building. A metered bus also runs the...

The downtown arena where the Suns play has changed its name six times in six years, most recently to Mortgage Matchup Center, so don’t be surprised if whatever it’s called by the time you read this is already outdated again. That instability is a decent metaphor for Phoenix generally: fast-growing, a little rootless, but genuinely worth five days if you plan around the heat instead of...

Phuket 4-Day Itinerary Base yourself in Phuket Town for this trip rather than Patong, and rent a scooter or lean on Grab for the beach runs. You lose the walk-to-the-sand convenience but you gain real Thai food, a curfew-free old town, and prices that are noticeably lower than the tourist strip. Day 1: Arrival & Exploring Phuket Town Where to Stay A boutique hotel in the Old Town shophouse...

Book the Hypogeum before you book your flight. Only sixty people a day are allowed inside Hal Saflieni’s underground burial chambers, tickets open three months ahead through Heritage Malta’s own site, and if you turn up hoping for a walk-in slot you will most likely be turned away or stuck paying nearly fifty euros for a last-minute ticket sold same-day from a handful of other museums....

Okayama gets called Japan’s sunniest prefecture and undersells itself constantly because of it. It sits an hour from Kyoto by shinkansen but somehow avoids the crowds, has a mountaintop castle that floats above clouds for half the year, and is the actual gateway to Naoshima, the art island everyone photographs but few realize how to reach properly. Seven days here means slowing down rather...

The Acropolis now runs on a strict timed-entry system with a daily cap of twenty thousand visitors, which means the days of just showing up and queuing are over, and if you don’t book ahead you may not get in at all during peak months. Plan around that reality and the rest of Athens falls into place easily over five days. Day 1: Arrival and the Acropolis Eleftherios Venizelos Airport...

Mehrangarh Fort’s ramparts sit 400 feet above Jodhpur on a solid rock outcrop, and from the top the old city genuinely does look like it’s been dipped in blue paint, which sounds like a cliche until you’re standing there and realize the color scheme is not exaggerated for photos. Two days is tight for Jodhpur if you also want a desert side trip, so this version keeps you inside...

The Registan’s laser show is free every night from the public viewing platform, so skip anyone trying to sell you a ticket for the basic version. There is a genuinely paid, elaborate light and sound production reserved for private groups willing to pay several thousand dollars, but the nightly free show at dusk from the steps below the square is the one worth your time. Day 1: The Registan...

You cannot rent a standard car in Bermuda no matter how much you offer, and that single rule shapes the whole trip. The island caps private vehicles by law, so visitors get scooters, small electric two-seaters like the Twizy, or taxis and the public bus and ferry network, and figuring out which of those suits your three days matters more than any single attraction on this list. Day 1: Hamilton and...

Phnom Penh, Cambodia: 6-Day Itinerary Tuk-tuk drivers parked outside the Royal Palace will tell you it’s closed for the day, then offer to take you somewhere else “better.” It is almost never actually closed. Walk to the ticket counter yourself and check. That one habit will save you more hassle in this city than any packing list. Day 1 - Arrival & Settling In Phnom...

The Blue Line from O’Hare to downtown takes about 45 minutes and runs 24 hours a day, which makes it the obvious choice over a cab that can run $40 to $60 to the Loop in normal traffic, more if a driver quotes you something absurd at the curb. Skip the single-ride taps entirely: buy a 3-Day Pass for 15 dollars in the Ventra app before you land, because tapping a card on every trip almost...

A lot of itineraries send you to Sintra and Cascais in one afternoon by train, and it does not work the way they describe. Rossio Station handles the Sintra line and Cais do Sodre handles the Cascais line, and there is no track connecting the two, so you cannot ride to Sintra and simply change trains onward to the coast. Pick one per day, or accept a taxi or bus transfer between them if you are...

Title: 5-Day Itinerary for Exploring Nice, France Nice does not have a single grain of sand on its main beaches. Every one of them is smooth river pebble, “galets,” hauled in from the Var and Paillon rivers, and nobody warns first-timers before they show up in flip-flops and regret it within ten steps. Pack water shoes before anything else on this list. Day 1: Arrival & Orientation...

A standard Colosseum ticket now includes the Roman Forum and Palatine Hill in one entry, and it’s timed, meaning you pick a specific slot and show up with a passport matching the name on the booking. Three days is tight for Rome, so the whole plan below hinges on booking those slots before you land, not after. Day 1: Ancient Rome Start with breakfast at Regoli, a pasticceria near Termini...

Title: 7-Day Itinerary for Exploring Suva, Fiji Most Fiji itineraries assume Suva and Nadi are neighbours. They are not. The road between them is 122 miles and takes just under three hours by car, so any plan that has you doing a casual afternoon side trip to the Coral Coast resorts near Nadi and back to Suva by dinner is fiction. Suva is a working capital, wetter and greener than the dry resort...

Bahamas 4-Day Itinerary The Bahamas is 700 islands and only a handful of them have roads. The tourists who arrive and leave disappointed are almost always the ones who stayed on Paradise Island and judged an archipelago by one resort’s swim-up bar. Four days done right means at least one full day away from Nassau, ideally on the water. Arrival: Getting from the Airport Without Getting Ripped...

The ticket machine at Nice airport sells a round-trip tram ticket for 10 euros, and it is a quiet rip-off: the same tram into the city center costs 1.70 euros each way if you buy it from any regular Lignes d’Azur machine at a tram stop instead. That one detail saves you more than half the cost of getting into town, and it sets the tone for how this itinerary treats Nice, a city where knowing...

The Citadel of Erbil sits on a mound that has been continuously inhabited for roughly 6,000 to 8,000 years, making it one of the oldest continuously occupied settlements anywhere on earth, and it is the reason a five day itinerary here is worth planning properly rather than treating Erbil as a stopover before somewhere else. Iraqi Kurdistan runs its own visa system separate from federal Iraq, and...

The Choeung Ek Killing Fields and the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum are both in Phnom Penh, not Battambang, so any itinerary that has you visiting them the same morning you leave Battambang has its geography backwards. The drive between the two cities alone runs five to seven hours. This itinerary keeps the two cities properly separated, with Phnom Penh’s darker history handled as its own...

Six-Day Itinerary for Exploring the Maldives Every nationality gets a free 30-day visa on arrival here, no advance application, no fee. What actually trips people up is the Traveller Declaration: you must file it electronically through the IMUGA portal within 96 hours of your flight, and immigration wants proof of a confirmed return ticket and a paid booking at a registered guesthouse or resort...

Colosseum tickets now sell out within minutes of release, 30 days out at 8:45am Rome time, so the old advice to “book skip-the-line tickets online in advance” is not optional anymore, it is the difference between seeing the arena floor and not seeing it at all. Five days is the right amount of time to do Rome properly without the death-march pace most first-timers fall into. Day 1:...

Before you book anything, know this: Nigeria replaced visa on arrival with a mandatory e-visa in May 2025, and showing up without pre-approval now means getting turned back at the gate rather than paying a fee in the arrivals hall. Apply through the official Nigeria Immigration Service e-visa portal, budget 24 to 48 hours for approval, and have your yellow fever certificate ready since it is...

Sudan: A Note Before Any Itinerary An itinerary that sends you to Khartoum, Karima and Dongola right now is describing a country that does not currently exist for tourists. Sudan has been at war since April 2023, and as of mid-2026 the conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces has hardened into something close to a de facto partition of the country. The government...

A Do Not Travel Advisory Comes First Before any itinerary content, the honest version of this page has to lead with a warning rather than bury it at the bottom. The US State Department has maintained a Level 4 Do Not Travel advisory for the entire Russian Federation since February 2022, its highest and most serious rating, and the language has only hardened since. Current guidance cites the...

By 2025, roughly 60% of Burkina Faso’s territory sat outside government control, with the jihadist coalition JNIM running coordinated attacks across the Sahel, Boucle du Mouhoun, and Centre-Nord regions well into 2026. The US State Department rates the entire country Level 4, Do Not Travel, for any reason, citing terrorism, crime, and kidnapping, and advises against travel outside...

Fiji 4-Day Itinerary: Exploring Paradise Four days is barely enough to pick one region of Fiji properly, and the biggest mistake first-timers make is trying to combine Suva with the Yasawas, two destinations that sit roughly four hours apart by road. This itinerary stays on the Nadi and Coral Coast side of Viti Levu, where the airport is, and treats a Suva day trip as the wrong call for a short...

Cape Verde does not use the Euro. It runs on its own currency, the Cape Verdean escudo (CVE), pegged to the Euro but not interchangeable with it at every till, and getting that wrong before you land is a quick way to overpay at your first taxi stand. A trip built on that kind of small mistake tends to compound, so here is a six-day route across four islands with the currency, the ferry logistics,...

Hoi An’s Ancient Town is a UNESCO World Heritage Site where the electricity goes off once a month and 1,000 silk lanterns take over. On those full-moon evenings the alleyways of the old trading port, built by Japanese, Chinese, and Vietnamese merchants in the 15th to 19th centuries, look the way they probably did before electric light arrived. The rest of the time, Hoi An is the kind of...

4-Day Itinerary for Exploring Bologna, Italy Bologna operates on the assumption that you already know what you want to eat. Its residents rank pasta above monuments, have been making ragù for centuries in ways they will defend loudly at dinner, and live under 40 km of medieval porticoes that are now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Four days here is enough to eat well, walk everything important, and...

Sapporo does not behave like other Japanese cities. It was built on a North American grid plan by Meiji-era developers who hired foreign advisors from the United States, Germany, and the Netherlands, and the wide boulevards that resulted make it feel unexpectedly spacious compared to Tokyo or Osaka. What it is famous for, miso ramen, fresh seafood, snow sculpture, and very good whisky, is all real...

In July 2025, Tiwai Island and the Gola Forest were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, making Sierra Leone the most recent African country to gain such recognition. Most travellers still have not heard of either. For a country that spent the 1990s defined by conflict, Sierra Leone’s recovery has been remarkable and its beaches, wildlife corridors, and colonial-era history deserve a...

Strasbourg manages to be the seat of the European Parliament, a major university city, and one of the most photographed canal districts in France without feeling confused about what it is. The German-French identity is not a tension here; it is the product, visible in the food, the language mixing on street signs, and the architecture. Six days is enough time to move past the postcard version....

Oia’s sunset spot has no barriers, no timed entry, and no crowd control of any kind, so on a busy evening the alleyway near the castle ruins simply stops moving. Plan around that reality rather than pretending a four day trip here is only about photogenic blue domes. Day 1: Arrival and first impressions Fly into Santorini National Airport and budget accordingly for the transfer to Oia, which...

Guadeloupe is shaped like a butterfly, which is not just a picturesque detail: it means the island’s two main halves, Grande-Terre and Basse-Terre, are separated by a narrow sea channel called the Riviere Salee, and they are completely different in character. One is flat, dry, and lined with resort beaches; the other is forested, volcanic, and topped with an active stratovolcano. Most...

San Francisco, USA 2 Day Itinerary Two days in San Francisco is a test of discipline. The city is compact enough to walk significant chunks of it yet varied enough that you can spend the entire time in three neighbourhoods and never feel like you have wasted your time. The fog is real, the hills are steeper than photographs suggest, and the food scene is legitimately excellent once you move away...

Slovakia sits between Austria and Poland, shares a border with Hungary and the Czech Republic, and has somehow remained a secondary destination while its neighbours fill up with tour groups. That is an oversight worth exploiting. The capital is genuinely charming without being exhausting, the High Tatras are among the most dramatic mountain landscapes in Central Europe, and Spis Castle is one of...

Wellington’s airport sits eight kilometers from downtown in a suburb called Rongotai, right against Lyall Bay, one of the city’s own surf beaches. That detail matters because plenty of guides send tourists on a day trip to Porirua to see Lyall Bay, when Porirua is a separate town twenty kilometers north with its own beaches entirely. Get the geography straight before you build a...

Grenada calls itself the Spice Isle and it isn’t marketing spin, it’s the world’s third-largest nutmeg exporter and the smell hits you the moment you drive through Gouyave. Two days is tight for an island this layered, so split it cleanly: one day for the towns and coast, one day for the rainforest interior. Day 1: Coast and Culture Land at Maurice Bishop International Airport...

Sudan 3-Day Travel Itinerary This is not a trip to book right now, and it would be dishonest to write it as if it were. Sudan has been in active civil war since April 2023, and as of mid-2026 the country remains under a Level 4 Do Not Travel advisory, the same category as active conflict zones, with drone strikes hitting Khartoum International Airport itself as recently as May 2026. The Sudanese...

Munich is not the cheap, rough-edged city that Berlin gets credit for being, and it does not try to be. It is expensive, orderly, extremely good-looking, and has the largest urban park in Europe, the oldest beer garden culture on the continent, and three world-class art museums within a ten-minute walk of each other. Five days here is enough time to get under the surface rather than just...

Seoul, South Korea 4 Day Itinerary Seoul is one of the easiest major cities in Asia to navigate as a first-time visitor: the subway system covers almost everywhere you need to go, English signage is widespread, and the food culture rewards curiosity at every price point. The challenge is not logistics but scope. This is a city of ten million people with five UNESCO-listed royal palace complexes,...

Sofia is one of the few European capitals where you can hike a real mountain the same afternoon you toured a Roman ruin under a metro station, and most itineraries waste that fact by cramming a full-day excursion into a half-day slot. Get the logistics right first: Rila Monastery is nearly 120 kilometers south, and the Seven Rila Lakes are a separate, higher-altitude destination reached by...

Berlin, Germany 6-Day Travel Itinerary Tegel Airport has been closed since November 2020 and no longer handles flights, so drop it from your planning entirely. Every arrival now routes through Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER), roughly 25 to 30 minutes from the city center by the FEX express train or regional S-Bahn, both faster and cheaper than a taxi. Day 1: Arrival and Central Berlin Settle into...

Brussels is the capital of a country that technically does not have a shared national identity, a city split between French and Dutch speakers that somehow became home to both the EU and NATO, and a place where the most famous monument is a small bronze child urinating into a fountain. It should not work, but it does. Four days here rewards curiosity and punishes anyone who stays only in the...

Anne Frank House tickets sell out weeks in advance and the museum will not let you in without a timed-entry booking. This is the single most important logistical fact about a first trip to Amsterdam. Book as soon as the date window opens, check the website by 10:30am on Tuesdays when new slots release, and do not assume you can sort it on arrival. Everything else in the Netherlands is...

Two days is not enough time for Austria. That said, you can do Vienna and Salzburg in 48 hours without feeling like you rushed, as long as you are honest with yourself about how many palaces a person can reasonably absorb before switching to coffee and cake. Getting into Vienna Vienna International Airport (VIE) is 19 km east of the city centre. The cheapest option that is also fast is the S-Bahn...

Taiwan has more Michelin-starred restaurants per capita than almost anywhere in Asia, yet the cheapest meal you will eat all week will almost certainly be the best. Seven days in Taipei is enough time to move beyond the tourist checklist and into a city where convenience stores function as community centres and a NT$50 bowl of noodles at a street stall regularly beats what you pay NT$500 for...

Day 1: Exploring Downtown Chicago Only two CTA lines run all night, every night, the Red and the Blue. Everything else stops sometime after midnight and starts back up before 5am, so if your flight into O’Hare lands late, the Blue Line is your guaranteed ride into the Loop, about 45 minutes for $2.75 on a Ventra card, no matter the hour. Morning: Start with breakfast at Amy’s Cafe...