The Cocos (Keeling) Islands sit in the Indian Ocean roughly equidistant between Australia and Sri Lanka, and getting there from the Australian mainland takes about as long as a flight to Japan. That combination, an Australian external territory you need a serious journey to reach, with coral reefs that average 25 metres visibility and no resort chains, is the reason it remains one of the...

Tehran contains some of the most extraordinary museums and historic sites in the Middle East; the Golestan Palace complex, the National Museum of Iran with 300,000 artefacts spanning 7,000 years of Persian civilisation, the Grand Bazaar, and the Treasury of National Jewels housing a collection that genuinely has no equivalent in the world. The city itself is a sprawling, energetic, surprising...

The Cocos (Keeling) Islands cap daily visitor numbers at 144 people. If you are there, you and 143 other people are sharing an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean roughly 2,750 km northwest of Perth, sitting above a marine park with some of the healthiest coral reefs in Australia and average underwater visibility of 25 metres. The scarcity is the point. Getting There Flights operate from...

Czech Republic: 5-Day Itinerary Prague gets around forty million visitors a year and still surprises people who have been told to expect a beautiful but tourist-exhausted city. What they find is that the Old Town is indeed exhausted, but the Czech Republic extends well beyond it: medieval towns, a church decorated entirely in human bones, and a castle town in the south that the crowds have not yet...

Mexico City sits at 2,240 metres above sea level, and if you arrive from a coastal city the altitude will remind you within the first few hours. Drink water, walk slowly on the first day, and do not schedule a long uphill walk in the afternoon. Everything else about this city is generously easy for visitors: the food is exceptional, the Metro is cheap and efficient, and the neighbourhoods you...

Two days in Tanzania is not enough to do a safari properly, but it is enough to understand why people come back for two weeks. The northern circuit: Arusha, Tarangire, Ngorongoro, the Serengeti: contains some of the highest concentrations of large mammals remaining on earth, and even a single game drive in Tarangire, the closest major park to Arusha at about two hours by road, will almost...

3-Day Itinerary for Exploring Montenegro Montenegro is smaller than Connecticut and contains the deepest canyon in Europe, one of the best-preserved medieval walled cities on the Adriatic, and a mountain plateau with glacial lakes that barely registers on most travel itineraries. Three days does not cover it, but it covers enough to understand why the country punches far above its geographic...

Jeddah is the entry point to the two holiest cities in Islam, which tells you something about the volume of international travel through here, but the city itself is worth more than a transit stop. The Al-Balad historic quarter is a UNESCO World Heritage Site of layered coral-stone architecture, timber-latticed windows, and narrow lanes that have been trading since medieval times. The Red Sea...

Muscat is the cleanest capital city in the Arab world by some measures, and the most underrated. It sprawls for 90 km along the Gulf of Oman coast without a single skyscraper (building heights are legally restricted). Six days here is enough to reach Wadi Shab’s cave waterfall, sleep above a 1,000-metre canyon in the Hajar Mountains, and watch green turtles nest on a moonlit beach. Before...

Brunei Darussalam 3 Day Itinerary Brunei has 400,000 people, no income tax, and the largest per-capita mosque-to-citizen ratio in Southeast Asia. The Sultan of Brunei has been on the throne since 1967, making him the world’s longest-serving current head of government, and the palace he occupies is by floor area the largest residential building in the world. These facts are not incidental:...

Geneva Airport used to hand out a free 80 minute public transport ticket at the baggage carousel with no strings attached, and plenty of guides still repeat that as current fact. It has quietly stopped in the arrivals hall itself, though most hotels now issue a digital Geneva Transport Card by email before you even land, valid for your whole stay. That single change says a lot about visiting...

Beijing 4-Day Travel Itinerary Four days is tight for a city where the single biggest attraction sits an hour and a half outside town, so this itinerary front-loads the center and treats the Great Wall as the standalone day it actually requires, not a bolt-on to another packed morning. Day 1: Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City, and Wangfujing Snack Street Morning: Start at Tiananmen Square, still...

Reunion Island 6-Day Travel Itinerary Piton de la Fournaise has been erupting on and off since January 2026, with the alert level raised more than once as lava output increased. It is one of the most active volcanoes on earth and the eruptions themselves rarely threaten anyone, the caldera is uninhabited, but any itinerary that treats a summit hike as a guaranteed activity hasn’t checked the...

Alexandria, Egypt: A 6-Day Travel Itinerary Almost nothing survives of the ancient library that made this city legendary, no scroll, no column, not even a confirmed foundation stone, which makes the modern Bibliotheca Alexandrina an odd kind of monument: a building constructed on faith that the idea mattered more than the physical ruins ever could. Day 1: Arrival and Orientation Fly into Borg El...

Kunming 3-Day Travel Itinerary Three days is enough for the city center plus one solid day trip, not two. Dongchuan Red Land alone is a 150 to 170 kilometer, three to three and a half hour drive each way, meaning six to eight hours in a car for a single day trip, there’s no realistic way to pair it with an ethnic minority village visit in the same 24 hours despite what some itineraries...

Papeete does not have a beach of its own, a detail that trips up first-time visitors who assume the capital sits on postcard sand. The good beaches are all a short drive down the coast, and this itinerary splits three days on Tahiti against three on Bora Bora. Day 1: Arrival in Papeete Land at Faaa International Airport, transfer into Papeete, and let yourself rest before doing anything else,...

The monks walking Luang Prabang’s main street at dawn each morning are collecting alms in total silence, and the ceremony works precisely because almost nobody talks; the fastest way to ruin it for everyone nearby is to shove a phone in a monk’s face from two feet away, which happens daily and is exactly what the posted etiquette signs are trying to prevent. Laos rewards a slower pace...

Shanghai 6-Day Travel Itinerary Citizens of around 45 countries, including most of Europe plus Australia and New Zealand, can currently enter China visa-free for stays up to 30 days under a policy running through the end of 2026, and there’s a separate 240-hour visa-free transit option for travelers from a wider list including the US and UK who are passing through to a third destination....

Xi’an, China: 2-Day Itinerary The Terracotta Warriors were discovered in 1974 by farmers drilling for a well in Lintong County. The first farmer to strike the pit later spent decades signing replica pots in the museum gift shop for a fee. Xi’an’s relationship with its history is like that: simultaneously extraordinary and entirely practical. The city was the starting point of the...

Djibouti 4-Day Itinerary Djibouti is about the size of Massachusetts, has a population of roughly one million, and contains one of the saltiest lakes on earth, a lake with no outlet at 155 metres below sea level, a forest of 50-metre limestone chimneys that look borrowed from a science-fiction film set, and reliable humpback whale shark encounters in season. It is also one of the more expensive...

Guangzhou is the city that invented dim sum as a daily ritual rather than an occasion: the morning yum cha (drink tea) culture here runs from 6am in the old teahouses, with families occupying the same tables for two hours while trolleys of dumplings and rice rolls circulate continuously. This alone is worth the trip. The city also happens to be one of China’s most economically significant...

Rio de Janeiro 6-Day Itinerary Day 1: Arrival & Copacabana Beach Arrive at Galeao International Airport (GIG), the main international gateway, roughly 25km north of the tourist beach zone. A ride-hail app like Uber or 99 into Copacabana runs about 50 to 80 reais and takes 55 minutes to over an hour depending on traffic, noticeably cheaper than a yellow taxi, which can run 150 to 200 reais for...

Jeddah has been a port city on the Red Sea for over 1,400 years, the historic gateway for pilgrims heading to Mecca from Africa, South Asia, and beyond. The flavours absorbed from a millennium of that trade, Hejazi spiced rice dishes, grilled Red Sea fish with Yemeni hot sauce, Indian biryani variants that arrived with Hajj pilgrims and stayed, make Jeddah one of the most interesting food cities...

Bergen gets around 240 rain days per year. This is the most important fact about the city and the one most often softened in travel writing. It rains here routinely, sometimes persistently, and your itinerary should be built around that reality rather than around hope. The good news is that Bergen in the rain is still excellent: the Bryggen warehouses are more atmospheric under grey skies, the...

The blue of Jodhpur is not uniform across the whole city. It clusters in the oldest lanes immediately below Mehrangarh Fort, where the indigo-washed houses were traditionally the homes of Brahmin families who used the colour to signal their caste. The fort itself stands on a sheer 125-metre cliff and dominates the skyline from virtually every point in the city. Seven days here is generous; you...

Romania joined the Schengen Area in January 2024, which removed border checks with its EU neighbours and made it significantly easier to include in a Central European trip. That timing is worth knowing because the country’s prices remain among the lowest in the EU while its architecture and landscape remain among the most dramatic. Four days gets you from Bucharest through Transylvania to...

Namibia 3-Day Itinerary Three days in Namibia is objectively not enough, but it is enough to see one thing that will recalibrate your sense of scale: the Sossusvlei dunes. At 300-400 metres high, the dunes at Sossusvlei are among the tallest on earth. Standing at the base of Big Daddy before sunrise, looking across the dead camelthorn trees in Deadvlei against a white salt pan, is one of those...

Accra, Ghana: 6-Day Travel Itinerary Ghana is consistently ranked among the safest countries in West Africa for foreign visitors, and Accra, its coastal capital, is the easiest entry point into a continent that rewards curiosity and punishes laziness. The city has the infrastructure of a genuinely functional African capital, a restaurant scene that has improved sharply since 2020, and a population...

San Francisco covers 47 square miles on a peninsula, has more restaurants per capita than almost any US city, and greets most summer mornings with a wall of fog that burns off by noon. The hills are real: the steepest streets have gradients above 25 percent, which matters if you are navigating on foot or choosing a hotel with luggage. Six days is enough to move between the city’s distinct...

Boston covers about 90 square kilometres, which makes it one of the most walkable large cities in America, and it holds two of the best universities in the world within a 20-minute subway ride of the downtown. Conde Nast Traveller named it a top food destination for 2026, which is a belated recognition of what the South End and Cambridge have been doing for fifteen years. Six days here is enough...

Bermuda 2-Day Itinerary Bermuda is a British Overseas Territory of about 21 square miles sitting alone in the North Atlantic, around 1,000 kilometres east of North Carolina. What it lacks in size it compensates for with specificity: pink sand beaches produced by crushed coral and red organisms, a cuisine centred on rockfish and wahoo, and a transport rule that baffles every first-time visitor. You...

Title: 5-Day Itinerary for Exploring Srinagar, India About two kilometres before Srinagar’s Sheikh ul-Alam International Airport, your taxi will stop for a CRPF baggage scan and frisking, a routine checkpoint rather than anything to be alarmed by, and it’s worth knowing about in advance so it doesn’t feel jarring when it happens. Kashmir’s tourism circuit through Srinagar,...

Do not plan a stop at the Caicos Conch Farm, the world’s only commercial conch farm and a fixture of every old Turks and Caicos guide. Hurricane damage from 2017 shut it down permanently, and it has shown no sign of reopening as of 2026, the ruins are visible from the Bird Rock Trail and by boat but there is nothing to tour anymore. Plenty of blogs still list it as an active stop because...

Uruguay 5 Day Itinerary What Uruguay Actually Is Argentina tends to dominate travel coverage of the southern cone. Uruguay, sandwiched between Argentina and Brazil along the Rio de la Plata and Atlantic coast, is consistently underestimated. It is the smallest Spanish-speaking country in South America, with a population of around 3.5 million, most of whom live in or near Montevideo. The capital...

Book your Hal Saflieni Hypogeum ticket before you leave home, not once you land. Malta caps entry to this underground Neolithic burial complex at 80 visitors a day, tickets go on sale three months ahead, and the tour genuinely sells out well before travelers realize they need to plan for it. Last-minute tickets exist in tiny numbers, twenty a day, sold in person the day before, and they are not...

The Boardwalk rolling chairs look like a novelty but they run on a real fare schedule, roughly a dollar a block after the first five, and you should agree the price with the pusher before you sit down, not after. That single habit saves more arguments than any other piece of advice in this guide. Day 1: Arrival and Boardwalk Orientation Check into Borgata or Hard Rock rather than chasing the...

The Palace Bar is on Fleet Street in Temple Bar, not tucked inside Phoenix Park, and it is one of the few Dublin pubs that has resisted the theme-pub makeover long enough to still feel like a working newspaper hangout, which it was for decades. Get that geography sorted before you plan anything else, because Phoenix Park itself has no pubs inside its walls at all. Day 1: Arrival and City...

Skip anyone who approaches you in the arrivals hall at Arturo Merino Benítez offering a taxi. It is a well-documented scam involving fake meters and card readers that overcharge by ten times the normal fare. The safe route is the Centropuerto bus, which runs every 5 to 15 minutes between 6am and 11:30pm, connects to Pajaritos or Los Héroes metro stations, and gets you downtown in about an hour for...

Tan Son Nhat Airport sits just 6 kilometres from District 1, yet the journey can take 45 minutes in morning traffic. That gap between distance and reality is a good introduction to how Saigon works: everything here has a layer of complexity that rewards the visitor who slows down enough to read it properly. Day 1: Arrival and District 1 From the airport, Grab is the most reliable option into the...

Strasbourg has been French, German, and French again inside one century, which is exactly why its food, architecture, and self-understanding don’t resemble anywhere else in either country. The tarte flambee costs around 15 euros at a decent winstub. The cathedral tower costs 8 euros to climb and closes for lunch even when the queue wraps the square, so plan accordingly. A tram single ticket...

Lesotho 3-Day Adventure Itinerary Lesotho is the only country on earth entirely above 1,400 metres. Every road, village and waterfall sits at altitude, and that fact shapes everything from the pace of travel to the ferocity of afternoon thunderstorms between November and March. Plan accordingly. Visa and Entry Most visitors can obtain a free 30-day visa on arrival at Moshoeshoe I International...

Taiwan fits roughly 36 million people into an island the size of Maryland, yet still manages to feel genuinely uncrowded in its mountain towns and eastern coast. Five days is tight but workable if you move smart and skip a few tourist traps. Visa and entry: Most Western passport holders get 90 days visa-free. Confirm on Taiwan’s Bureau of Consular Affairs website before travelling, as rules...

Turkmenistan 5-Day Travel Itinerary Fewer than 15,000 foreign tourists visit Turkmenistan each year, making it one of the least-visited countries on Earth. That figure is not an accident. Independent travel is still illegal here; every visitor needs a licensed Turkmen tour operator to arrange the Letter of Invitation that unlocks the visa, file the itinerary with the State Migration Service, and...

Copenhagen 4-Day Itinerary Denmark’s capital runs on a city-scale social contract that tourists rarely notice: nearly every Copenhagener cycles to work, pays 50 percent income tax without resentment, and eats lunch at noon with near-religious punctuality. Understanding that rhythm makes the city much easier to navigate and, frankly, more enjoyable to visit. Getting In Copenhagen Airport...

Innsbruck airport sits just 4 km west of the Old Town, which means your taxi drops you at the hotel in under 15 minutes for around 15 euros. The IVB bus does the same journey for 2.80 euros, if you are not carrying mountains of luggage. Very few European cities hand you that kind of convenience, and Innsbruck does it against a backdrop of 2,000-metre peaks that frame every street corner.

3-Day Itinerary for Travelling in Ireland Few countries pack this much contrast into such a small landmass: a medieval monastic valley less than an hour from a European capital, a crystal factory on a Viking riverside, and pub sessions that start at 6pm and finish when the landlord decides. Three days is genuinely enough to leave with a real sense of the country, as long as you plan the logistics...

Marrakech Menara Airport sits just 6 km from the medina, which sounds convenient until you meet the unlicensed drivers waiting inside the terminal. Skip them entirely: the official petit taxis outside charge a regulated 100 to 150 MAD for the 15-minute ride by day (150 to 240 MAD at night), or you can book a private transfer in advance for around 200 to 300 MAD. Uber relaunched in Morocco in 2025...

A word of caution before the day-by-day: Bali is bigger and its roads slower than most first-time visitors expect, and a common mistake in itineraries is stringing together south Bali, Ubud, the north coast at Lovina, and the far east coast at Amed into one five-day loop. Lovina to Amed alone is roughly 85 kilometers on a coastal road with no shortcuts, closer to three hours than one, and cramming...

Palermo’s street food is among the cheapest and most interesting eating in all of Europe, yet most visitors spend their euros in sit-down restaurants they could find in any Italian city. The three historic markets (Ballarò, Vucciria, Capo) each have a distinct character and together represent an Arab-Norman heritage that the city’s stone monuments can only hint at. Six days is enough...

France’s second city gets a bad press it doesn’t deserve. Marseille is loud, sun-bleached, and chaotic in ways that Paris is not, and that is precisely the point. The city has been a trading port for 2,600 years and still smells like it: diesel, pastis, salt air, and frying fish. Give it a week and it will reward you more than almost anywhere else in the south. Getting In Marseille...