Six days sounds generous until you realize the ferry between Coron and El Nido alone eats half a day, and both towns deserve more time than a rushed itinerary gives them. Manila is really just a landing pad here; the real trip starts once you’re on Palawan, so don’t linger in the capital longer than a single afternoon. Day 1: Manila Most nationalities, including US, UK, EU, and...

Suzhou, China 6-Day Travel Itinerary Suzhou does not have its own airport, and any itinerary that tells you to fly in is sending you somewhere else by mistake. Nearly every visitor arrives by high speed rail from Shanghai Hongqiao, a 25 to 45 minute ride on one of roughly 240 daily bullet trains that top out around 310 kilometers per hour. That single detail changes how you should plan the whole...

Cars drive on the left in Grand Cayman, a hangover of British colonial rule that catches out plenty of American visitors used to driving the other side of the road, and the island’s roundabouts will test you within the first ten minutes of picking up a rental. Seven days is a generous stretch for an island roughly 22 miles long, so this itinerary spreads out rather than rushes, and corrects...

Three days is not enough time to do Kingston, the Blue Mountains, Port Antonio, and Ocho Rios, and any itinerary that tries is setting you up for six hours a day in a car. Ocho Rios sits on the opposite side of the island from Port Antonio, roughly three hours apart by road, so pick a coast and commit to it. This version keeps you on the southeast, where Kingston is your base, because that’s...

Azerbaijan is the only country where you can watch mud volcanoes bubble in the morning and eat dinner beneath Flame Towers lit up like a stage set the same evening, and seven days is barely enough to cover both the capital and the mountains behind it. Here is how to actually use the week. Day 1: Baku old town Heydar Aliyev International Airport sits about 21 kilometers from the city center, and a...

Ships still queue for hours to cross the Panama Canal, and watching one squeeze through the Miraflores Locks with feet to spare on either side is a better use of a morning than most guidebooks give it credit for. Three days is tight for a country with a canal, a rainforest, and two coastlines, so the trick is picking one region well rather than chasing all of them. Day 1: Panama City Breakfast...

Skip the cab line at PHL. The SEPTA Airport Line train runs every 30 minutes from all four terminals straight into Center City, takes about 20 to 25 minutes, and costs 5 dollars if you tap a contactless card or SEPTA Key, versus 7 dollars paying cash on board. A taxi or rideshare covers the same ground in roughly the same time for 25 to 35 dollars depending on traffic, so unless you’re...

Locals joke that summer in Seattle does not start until July 5th, and there is truth in it: June brings a roughly one in four chance of rain on any given day, while July drops that to just a handful of days all month. Time this trip for late June with a flexible itinerary order and you will likely still catch the dry stretch. Day 1: Arrival and Downtown Skip the taxi line at Sea-Tac.

Berlin, Germany 7-Day Itinerary Berlin is the only capital in Western Europe where a wall once divided the city in two, and the only one that still spends significant political energy debating what to do about the gaps that wall left behind. Thirty-five years after reunification, it functions as a city still mid-sentence: vast, cheap by Western European standards, perpetually under construction,...

Just tap your contactless bank card at the MRT gate and skip the EZ-Link line entirely, since SimplyGo now reads Visa and Mastercard directly at standard fares with no card purchase or deposit required. It’s a small detail, but it saves twenty minutes of queueing on day one that most itineraries don’t warn you about. Day 1: Marina Bay and Gardens by the Bay Start at the Marina Bay...

Ninety percent of Warsaw’s Old Town was rebuilt from rubble and photographs after 1945, which is why UNESCO listed it as a World Heritage Site for the reconstruction itself, not for any medieval original. That single fact changes how you should look at the cobblestones on day one: you’re not walking through preserved history, you’re walking through an act of civic defiance....

Auckland 4-Day Itinerary Auckland Airport sits 20 km south of the city in Mangere, and that gap matters more than most visitors expect. Taxis from the rank outside arrivals run $38-105 NZD depending on traffic. Uber averages $55-95. The SkyDrive express bus is $20 NZD and takes about 35 minutes to the CBD; it runs from 5am to 10:30pm. For the genuinely budget-conscious, the AirportLink bus...

Da Nang sits at the geographical centre of Vietnam, midway between Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, and functions as a launchpad for three of the country’s most visited sites: the UNESCO Ancient Town of Hoi An, the Marble Mountains, and the Ba Na Hills cable car and theme park. The city itself has a long sand beach (My Khe), a respectable street food scene, and one of Vietnam’s better...

Sweden is almost entirely cashless. You can spend a week here without touching a single banknote, and most Swedes will look mildly puzzled if you try to pay for a coffee in coins. Have a contactless card set up before you land. Visa: EU/EEA citizens need only an ID card. Citizens of most other Western countries get 90 days visa-free under the Schengen agreement. Confirm on the Swedish Migration...

Switzerland 3-Day Itinerary Switzerland is one of the most expensive countries in Europe and one of the most rewarding for train travel. Those two facts together define this itinerary: buy the right pass on day one, then let the rail network do what no car rental and no rental-car fuel bill can match. Three days is thin for a country this dense with things to see, so the focus is tight: Zurich to...

The most consistent complaint from first-time visitors to Manila is the traffic. They are right about the traffic, and most generic itineraries ignore it as a planning factor. A journey of 5 kilometres can take 45 minutes in the afternoon peak; what looks like a simple day of moving between neighbourhoods can collapse into a frustrating sequence of rides. The correct response is to organise each...

Vatican City covers 44 hectares, making it the world’s smallest internationally recognised state, yet it draws more annual visitors than most countries ten thousand times its size. The 2025 Jubilee Year brought an extra 30 million pilgrims and tourists to Rome and overflow crowds have carried well into 2026, which means the usual advice to book the Vatican Museums two weeks in advance is now...

4-Day Itinerary for Exploring Hungary Budapest is the rare city that manages to be both a thermal-bath destination and one of the most intense nightlife capitals in Europe, with ruin bars built inside post-war derelict factories and Soviet-era architecture that nobody bothered to tear down. Four days gives you enough time to understand why people who visit for a weekend end up staying a week....

Prague has been called the most beautiful city in Europe so many times the description has lost most of its meaning. What is harder to communicate is this: the city is surprisingly cheap by Western European standards, genuinely walkable, and still rewards the traveler who ignores the Charles Bridge selfie spots long enough to go deeper. Six days is enough to get past the surface. Arriving: Airport...

Sweden 6-Day Travel Itinerary Sweden does not use the euro. It uses the Swedish Krona (SEK), and most of the country has gone effectively cashless: buses, trains, museums, cafes, and many public toilets only take card. Bring a card with no foreign transaction fees and you will rarely need to think about money beyond that. The original file incorrectly states Sweden uses the euro, which would be an...

The three-day ticket to Petra costs 60 JOD and saves you 30 JOD over three single-day entries. Most people buy a one-day pass, see the Treasury, and leave exhausted, having missed the Monastery entirely. Three days is the right amount of time, and arriving with a plan makes a significant difference. Day 1: Arrival and First Walk Through the Siq Most visitors arrive via Wadi Musa, the town...

Angkor Wat is the largest religious monument ever built, covering over 400 acres, and most visitors spend exactly two days trying to see all of it rather than taking the time to understand why the Khmer built it the way they did. This itinerary is structured to get you into the temples before the tour buses arrive and out before the heat becomes oppressive, leaving time for the parts of Cambodia...

Quito sits at 2,850 metres above sea level, making it the second-highest capital city in the world. Your first afternoon here will feel noticeably harder than your first afternoon anywhere else, and the itinerary below is built around that fact rather than ignoring it. Day 1: Arrival and Acclimatisation Mariscal Sucre International Airport (UIO) is 45-60 minutes from the historic centre, depending...

Say “meter, krap” the moment you sit in a Bangkok taxi. By law every metered cab must run the meter, but drivers parked outside tourist spots will shake their head and quote a flat rate three or four times the real fare. If they refuse, get out and hail the next one, or just open Grab and skip the negotiation entirely. Day 1: Arrival and the Old City The Airport Rail Link from...

Phuket, Thailand: 6-Day Itinerary Most visitors to Phuket spend six days on one beach, mostly in Patong, and come home wondering why it felt more like a package resort than Thailand. The island has enough variety to avoid that entirely, but it requires treating the different coasts and Phuket Town as genuinely separate destinations rather than day trips from a beach hotel. Getting In Phuket...

Five days in Zambia is not enough time to string together Lusaka, Victoria Falls, South Luangwa, and Kafue in one loop, and any itinerary that promises otherwise is ignoring the map. South Luangwa sits roughly 1,000 kilometers from Livingstone with no direct flight and no sane road route between them in an afternoon: it is a six hour journey involving a connection through Mfuwe, and Kafue has no...

Zimbabwe packs more genuine spectacle per dollar than almost any destination on the African continent right now, partly because it spent years outside the mainstream safari circuit and still has not fully returned. Prices are lower than South Africa or Kenya, crowds at Victoria Falls are manageable compared to a decade ago, and Great Zimbabwe (one of the most significant archaeological sites in...

Step over the threshold, never on it. At Lalish, the sills of every doorway are believed to be resting places for angels, and stepping on one instead of over it is the fastest way to get a gentle but firm correction from a local caretaker. That single rule tells you more about how to behave in Iraqi Kurdistan than any packing list will. Day 1: Arrival and City Center Most Western passport holders,...

Five Days in Yogyakarta: The City That Still Has a Sultan Yogyakarta is the only city in Indonesia where the Sultan still governs: not as a ceremonial figurehead, but as the actual head of the provincial administration under a special autonomy arrangement that has no parallel anywhere else in the archipelago. That political quirk shapes everything: the city’s layout radiates from the Kraton...

Most visitors pass through Malaga as a transit hub for the Costa del Sol resorts, which is a shame because the city itself is genuinely excellent. Picasso was born here. The food is outstanding. The old town is compact, walkable, and largely spared from the overdevelopment that reshaped every beach town along this coastline. Getting In Malaga Airport (AGP) sits about 10 km southwest of the city....

Most people fly through Velana International Airport without looking up. They are transferring to a seaplane or a speedboat to reach a resort where a butler will hang flower garlands over their overwater bungalow, and Male, the actual capital city crammed onto an island barely two kilometres long, is just the gap between flights. That is their loss. Male is one of the most densely populated places...

Lomé’s airport carries three names depending on who you ask: officially Gnassingbé Eyadéma International Airport, still called Lomé-Tokoin by locals and older maps, and just LFW on your boarding pass. Whatever you call it, it sits only about 6 kilometers northeast of the city center, so the ride into town runs 15 to 30 minutes depending on traffic. Negotiate the taxi fare before you get in,...

Tram 28 is Lisbon’s most photographed ride and its most reliable pickpocket trap, organized teams work the crowded carriages specifically because tourists are busy filming the view instead of watching their pockets. Ride it before 9am or skip it entirely for a walk instead. That trade-off, charm against caution, runs through most of what’s good about Lisbon in three days. Day 1:...

Okayama Castle is nicknamed Ujo, the Crow Castle, because its exterior is finished in black lacquered wood rather than the white plaster most Japanese castles favor, and it sits directly across the river from Korakuen, one of the three gardens Japan itself ranks as its finest. That pairing, castle and garden, framing each other across the Asahi River, is the actual reason to build a trip around...

Day 1: Exploring Okayama City Most visitors treat Okayama as a Shinkansen layover on the way to Kurashiki or Naoshima, which is a mistake, since the city itself pairs one of Japan’s three great gardens with a striking black castle within a fifteen minute walk of each other. Morning: eat before you sightsee rather than trying to find breakfast inside Korakuen Garden itself. The garden opens...

3-Day Itinerary for Exploring Estonia Estonia dropped its own kroon fifteen years ago and has used the euro since 2011, which trips up a surprising number of guidebooks still floating around online. That is the kind of small correction that matters here, because Estonia rewards travelers who get the details right: it is a small, digitally obsessed country where you can pack a medieval capital, a...

Day 1: Exploring Ancient Wonders and Vibrant Markets Morning: Start with a proper Egyptian breakfast of ful medames, falafel, and flatbread at a local spot near your hotel rather than El Fishawy, which despite what some guides claim is actually a Cairo institution in the Khan el-Khalili bazaar, not an Alexandria address at all. Visit Pompey’s Pillar, a red granite column standing nearly 27...

Tunisia 2-Day Itinerary: Tunis, Carthage, and the Medina The Bardo National Museum in Tunis holds the largest collection of Roman mosaics in the world, larger than anything in Italy, France, or North Africa combined. They were assembled here because Tunisia was once among the most thoroughly Romanised provinces of the empire, and when the agricultural villas and urban baths were excavated, they...

Denver sits exactly one mile above sea level, a fact that affects visitors more than most travel guides adequately warn. The thin air at 1,609 metres means alcohol hits harder, dehydration happens faster, and physical exertion feels like effort sooner than it does at lower elevations. First-time visitors often feel fine on day one and genuinely unwell on day two after pushing too hard. Drink more...

Nassau, The Bahamas 4-Day Itinerary The conch at Potter’s Cay Dock in Nassau is pulled live from the ocean, cleaned in front of you, and seasoned with lime and scotch bonnet. The fritters at McKenzie’s Under the Bridge there are made from the same fresh catch and cost a few dollars. That is where to start understanding Nassau: not at the resort buffet or the Atlantis casino, but at the...

Kyoto fined tourists chasing maiko for photos so often that the city banned foot traffic on Gion’s private residential alleys entirely in 2024, with a 10,000 yen penalty for anyone who wanders in anyway. That single fact tells you more about how to behave in this city than most etiquette guides manage in a full page, so keep it in mind everywhere you go here, not just in Gion. Day 1: Arrival...

Dallas sits in a North Texas prairie where there is no natural reason for a major city to exist, which is exactly how it got built: by will, oil money, and the convergence of rail lines in the 1870s. The result is a sprawling, low-density metropolis of 385 square miles that requires a car for most of what makes it worth visiting, and offers genuinely world-class museums, barbecue that rivals...

Title: 2-Day Itinerary for Pisa: A Comprehensive Tourist Guide The second your arms go up for the classic hold-up-the-tower photo is exactly when a pickpocket team wants your attention elsewhere, and Piazza dei Miracoli’s lawn is thick with tourists doing precisely that pose at any given moment. Keep your bag zipped and worn to the front while you take the shot, and treat the fake-petition...

Haedong Yonggungsa, the seaside temple everyone photographs at sunrise, is completely free to enter, a detail a surprising number of guides get wrong or leave out entirely. What costs money is getting there, and the cheapest legitimate route is bus 181 from Haeundae subway exit 7, about 45 minutes, versus a 12,000 won taxi that cuts it to 20. Day 1: Coastal Busan Start in Seomyeon with a real...

Montenegro compresses an extraordinary amount of geographical variety into a country the size of Northern Ireland: a deeply indented Adriatic coastline, a medieval walled city recognised as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the second-deepest canyon in the world, and a glacier-carved national park with alpine lakes. Six days is enough to cover the coast, a mountain day, and the national park in the...

4-Day Jerusalem Itinerary Jerusalem contains roughly one square kilometre of walled city that holds the holiest sites in Judaism and Christianity and the third holiest site in Islam, plus two millennia of layered history beneath its streets. It is also a functioning city of nearly one million people with a restaurant scene, a university district and a market that has been operating continuously...

Day 1: Arrival and the Medina Monastir Habib Bourguiba International Airport is the usual entry point for Sousse, and the drive between them is short, around 20 minutes and rarely more than 30, with a metered taxi running roughly 35 dinars, closer to 11 euros, in daylight. Agree the fare or confirm the meter is running before you pull away from the rank; airport taxi drivers here are more prone to...

Xi’an, China: 6-Day Itinerary Before You Go: The Essentials Xi’an sits at the eastern end of the ancient Silk Road and served as the capital of thirteen Chinese dynasties, including the Qin and Han. The Terracotta Warriors alone justify the journey, but six days gives you time to understand what makes the city genuinely interesting: the continuous layering of history from the Bronze...

Jerk chicken cooked over pimento wood at a roadside shack outside the airport does more to explain Jamaica than any resort buffet ever will, and that’s the tone worth setting from day one. Montego Bay rewards travelers who split time between the resort strip and the actual city rather than staying inside a compound the whole trip. Day 1: Arrival and Settling In Land at Sangster International...

Turkmenistan 7-Day Travel Itinerary Before anything else on this list: you cannot simply fly into Ashgabat and start touring. Turkmenistan requires a certified Letter of Invitation from a licensed local travel agency before you can even apply for a visa, the LOI itself typically takes 10 to 15 business days to process, and the whole planning window realistically runs 6 to 8 weeks. Anyone who tells...