4-Day Itinerary for Travelling in Kenya One correction before you plan anything: you cannot do Nairobi, Lake Nakuru, the Maasai Mara, and Mombasa’s coast in four days and still see any of them properly. The Mara alone is a five to six hour drive from Nairobi, and Mombasa is a different world again on the coast, roughly eight hours further by road or a separate one-hour flight. Older...

Plan your Agra trip around a Thursday arrival, because the Taj Mahal closes completely on Fridays for prayers, and nothing wastes a travel day faster than showing up to a locked gate on the one monument you flew here to see. Day 1: Arrival and the Taj Mahal Kheria Airport sits close to the city, about five to six kilometers out, so the ride into central Agra takes ten to twenty minutes barring...

Before you book anything, know this: since 25 February 2026 most visa-exempt visitors, including Americans, Canadians, Australians and the entire EU, must hold a UK Electronic Travel Authorisation before boarding, not on arrival. Skip it and airlines will refuse to let you check in. It costs 20 pounds, is applied for through the official UK ETA app, and clears in minutes for most people, so do it...

No car has driven into Zermatt in decades, and that single fact shapes everything about a two day visit here. You will not arrive by road at all. Drivers must park in Tasch, four kilometers down the valley, and finish the trip by shuttle train or electric taxi. Plan your bags accordingly, since dragging a hard-shell suitcase over cobblestones from the station is a rite of passage nobody enjoys....

Two days on Mauritius means picking one coast per day and accepting you’ll miss the other three. The island looks small on a map, but the roads loop around a mountainous interior, and trying to squeeze the north, east, and south into 48 hours turns half your trip into a car seat. Pick north and east, since that’s where the beaches, the boat trips, and the direct routes actually line...

Every hotel guest in Geneva gets a free transit pass emailed before arrival, which is the single most useful thing to know before you land, since it turns the whole city into a walk-on, no-ticket-machine experience from the airport onward. That perk shapes this whole itinerary, because it means the smart move is to stay based in Geneva and use trains for day trips rather than switching hotels. Day...

Land at Robert L. Bradshaw International and the first number you need is 20: that is roughly what a licensed taxi charges, in US dollars, for up to four people heading to Frigate Bay. Taxis here run on a fixed government fare sheet rather than meters, so agree the price before the driver pulls off, and skip any unmarked car offering a “special rate.” Day 1: Basseterre and the fortress

Algeria 5-Day Travel Itinerary The Roman ruins at Timgad in northeastern Algeria are described by archaeologists as better preserved than most of what survives in Italy, with complete street grids, public baths, a triumphal arch, and what was once the largest library in Roman Africa. Most of Algeria’s Roman sites receive fewer visitors in a year than Pompeii sees in a morning. That...

Male, Maldives 7-Day Itinerary The Maldives spreads across 26 atolls and roughly 1,200 islands, yet the entire country is smaller than the city of New York. Male itself occupies barely two square kilometres and holds a third of the national population, which makes it one of the most densely inhabited places on earth. Most visitors fly straight through and miss the fact that the capital has its own...

Manchester 4-Day Itinerary The free Metroshuttle bus network that older guides still mention stopped running years ago, folded into the Bee Network. That single fact trips up more visitors than any museum queue, so get your Bee Network app sorted before anything else. A train from the airport into Piccadilly takes about twenty minutes and costs roughly five to six pounds if you buy on the day,...

Beirut, Lebanon: A 4-Day Itinerary Before anything else: check the current foreign ministry advisory for Lebanon before booking. Several governments have flagged Baalbek-Hermel, the area south of the Litani River, and the Syrian border as extreme-risk zones, and conditions there change quickly depending on the security situation. Beirut itself functions day to day, but this itinerary assumes calm...

Riga has more Art Nouveau buildings per square kilometre than any other city in the world, over 800 of them concentrated in a neighbourhood most visitors never find because they spend all their time in the medieval Old Town. That imbalance is the single best argument for staying five days instead of three: Latvia rewards the traveller willing to get beyond the obvious, both inside the capital and...

Brussels Airport’s Diabolo rail link drops you at Central Station in about 17 minutes for roughly 5 to 6 euros, which makes the taxi touts lined up outside arrivals a bad deal by comparison. Skip them and buy your ticket from a machine or the SNCB counter, never from anyone who approaches you offering to help. Day 1: Brussels Grand Place still earns the hype, but go at 8am before the tour...

Four days is not enough to see Tahiti and Bora Bora properly, so stop trying. Spend one night grounding yourself in Papeete, then get to the lagoon as fast as the domestic flight schedule allows. That is the itinerary that actually works. Day 1: Arrival & Papeete Faa’a International Airport sits close enough to downtown that the taxi ride is short and, on paper, painless. In practice,...

Tashkent, Uzbekistan 7-Day Itinerary As of January 2026, citizens of the US, UK, EU, Japan, Australia and South Korea can enter Uzbekistan visa free for stays up to 30 days, which has quietly turned Tashkent from a transit stop into a real destination in its own right. Seven days here is enough to actually slow down instead of sprinting between the Registan and the airport. Day 1: Arrival &...

Bahrain packs more history per square kilometre than almost anywhere in the Gulf: a UNESCO World Heritage fort that has been continuously occupied since 2300 BC, a temple complex predating the Pyramids, and a contemporary dining scene that punches well above the country’s size. Four days is genuinely enough to cover the highlights without rushing. Getting There and Around Bahrain...

Road signs on the highway into Mecca tell non-Muslims to exit now, and checkpoints enforce it. This is not a general-interest destination and this is not a generic city guide. Mecca is closed to non-Muslims by Saudi law, full stop, so what follows is written for Muslim travelers performing Umrah or Hajj, and everyone else should read it as an explanation of why the city stays off their map rather...

Bilbao 4-Day Itinerary The city that convinced the world a titanium museum could revive a post-industrial port economy now draws more visitors annually than the entire Basque population. Four days is the right amount of time here: enough to eat your way through the Old Town’s pintxos circuit, catch a day out on the coast, and avoid the trap of mistaking the Guggenheim for the whole story....

Forty years ago Shenzhen was a fishing town of about 30,000 people. Today it’s a metropolis pushing 18 million, and it has better infrastructure than most cities that had a thousand-year head start. That’s the whole pitch: come here for the contrast between raw ambition and genuine leisure, not for temples and old town charm, because there isn’t much of either. Day 1 - Land,...

A lot of guides lump Mtskheta into “Old Tbilisi.” It isn’t. Mtskheta is a separate town twenty minutes north, the former capital and the seat of Georgian Orthodoxy, and if you only have three days you have to decide whether it earns a slot or gets cut. My call: cut it this trip and spend that half-day properly in Tbilisi instead. You can always come back for Mtskheta on a longer...

Chiang Mai’s name literally means new city, but the old capital it replaced in 1296 was Chiang Rai, not some ruined city that got attacked. King Mangrai simply kept moving his capital as his Lanna kingdom grew, and Chiang Mai was the final, deliberate choice, built as the political and cultural center of a kingdom that called itself the land of a million rice fields. That founding date...

Bahrain packs a walkable capital, a 4,000-year-old fort, and a desert Grand Prix circuit into an island smaller than most metro areas, and almost nobody visiting the Gulf puts it first on the list. That is the appeal. Five days here move at a different pace than Dubai or Abu Dhabi: fewer tour buses, more actual pearling heritage under your feet, and a taxi ride that rarely tops twenty minutes no...

A country the size of Maryland gave the world Tintin, the saxophone, and a beer culture with more styles than France has cheeses. Six days is enough to see four cities properly if you resist the urge to sleep in Brussels every night, though basing yourself there works fine too since nothing in this itinerary is more than an hour away by rail. Day 1: Brussels Land at Zaventem and take the train...

4-Day Itinerary for Cape Town, South Africa Table Mountain shuts down for scheduled cable car maintenance for two weeks most winters, and the ride itself gets cancelled on short notice whenever the wind picks up past 30 knots. Build slack into any Cape Town plan around that mountain, because it decides the schedule, not you. Day 1: City Arrival and Table Mountain Skip the hotel shuttle hustle at...

The Blue Line runs all night, every night, and that single fact should shape your whole trip: land at O’Hare at 2am, and you can still be downtown in 45 minutes for a flat $5 fare. Skip the cab line entirely. Day 1: Downtown and the Loop Morning: Grab breakfast at The Original Pancake House (1735 N Lake Shore Drive), whose apple pancake is genuinely enormous and meant for sharing, not solo...

A taxi from El Dorado Airport to La Candelaria takes about 20 minutes and should run somewhere between 25,000 and 35,000 pesos on the meter, so if a driver quotes you a flat 80,000 before you get in, walk to the official taxi counter inside the terminal instead. Four days is not enough time to properly cover Bogota, Medellin, and Cartagena in one trip, whatever the ads for “Colombia in 4...

Within thirty seconds of clearing customs at IGI Airport, someone will offer you a “tourist office” recommendation. Ignore it. The only government tourist office in Delhi sits at 88 Janpath, and anyone flagging you down near baggage claim or Connaught Place is working commission, not the public interest. Four days is enough time to get a real feel for Old and New Delhi if you plan the...

A sulfur bath in Tbilisi’s Abanotubani district smells like rotten eggs for the first five minutes and then you stop noticing, which is roughly how most visitors’ relationship with Georgia goes: a little bewildering, then completely absorbing. Seven days is enough to string together the capital, the mountains, the wine country, and the Black Sea coast without feeling like you’re...

3-Day Itinerary for Traveling in Gibraltar A limestone crag barely six square kilometers, wedged between Spain and the Strait, packs in a cable car, a colony of wild monkeys, a Second World War tunnel network and an airport runway that crosses the only road out of town. Most visitors fly into Malaga and cross the land border on foot rather than fly directly, and that single decision shapes how the...

Liechtenstein has no airport, no border checkpoints, and no passport stamp waiting for you at arrival, which trips up a lot of first timers who assume a whole country must have some kind of gate. It does not. You fly into Zurich, ride a train to Sargans or Buchs, then hop a LIEmobil bus into Vaduz, and nobody checks anything because this is Schengen open border territory. The stamp exists, but you...

Marseille 6-Day Itinerary Marseille Provence Airport sits in Vitrolles, a good 25 to 30 minutes from the city, and the shuttle bus to Gare Saint-Charles runs every 10 minutes through the day for around 10 euros one way. Skip the taxi rank unless you’re arriving after 1am, when the shuttle thins out to twice hourly. Day 1: Arrival and the Old Port Stay at: Hotel Les Terrasses du MuCEM...

Land at SSR International Airport in the far south of the island and you are still a good 70 minutes from Grand Baie in the north, so the first decision of the trip is really about that transfer, not the beach. A pre-booked private car runs roughly 40 to 50 euros, while a metered taxi off the rank can swing higher after 8pm surcharges kick in, so agree a fixed price before you load the bags.

The first glimpse of the Treasury through the Siq is narrower than photos suggest, a sliver of carved sandstone that widens into the full facade only in the last few steps, and no camera angle prepares you for how tall it actually is. Two days is the minimum for Petra, not the ideal, but it’s enough if you stop trying to see everything and instead pick two or three deep hikes over rushing...

Cambodia’s capital moved its airport in 2025, and that single change reshapes day one of any trip here. Techo International Airport sits roughly 20 kilometers south of the city, well past the old Phnom Penh International site, so budget 45 minutes to over an hour for the drive in depending on traffic. A tuk tuk from the fixed-price counter runs somewhere between 8 and 15 dollars, a metered...

Sky Harbor is one of the few US airports where you can skip the taxi entirely and still get downtown fast. The free PHX Sky Train connects every terminal to the 44th Street/Washington light rail station, and from there Valley Metro rail runs into downtown Phoenix in about 15 minutes for a 2 dollar fare. Rideshare from the terminal runs 12 to 25 dollars for the same trip, and a private transfer can...

Rotterdam was flattened in a 1940 bombing raid and rebuilt from scratch, which is why it looks nothing like Amsterdam and everything like a laboratory for architects who never had to work around a medieval street plan. That single fact explains almost everything you will see this week: the Cube Houses, the Markthal’s horseshoe of glass, the harbor cranes standing next to glass towers. Seven...

Al-Masmak Fort costs nothing to enter, which surprises people who assume every Saudi attraction comes with a ticket booth. It is also the one stop on this itinerary that genuinely earns the word historic: this is the mud-brick fort where Abdulaziz Al Saud’s 1902 raid kicked off the unification of the country. Two days is not much time for a nation the size of Western Europe, so this plan...

3-Day Itinerary for Tbilisi, Georgia The taxi driver who “examines” your lari note at the airport and declares it counterfeit is running the oldest trick in Tbilisi. Skip that whole scenario by booking a Bolt in the arrivals hall, where a ride into the center runs roughly 15 to 30 GEL and takes 20 to 30 minutes depending on traffic. Keep that in your pocket, because everything else in...

Tunisia 5-Day Travel Itinerary Day 1: Tunis Most nationalities, including US, UK, EU and Canadian passport holders, can enter Tunisia visa free for up to 90 days as long as the passport has six months of validity left. Landing at Tunis-Carthage International Airport (not “Habib Bourguiba” as some guides claim, that name belongs to the country’s first president and adorns the main...

Most visitors flying into Guangdong land at the wrong airport for Zhuhai and only realize it in the taxi queue. Zhuhai Jinwan Airport sits about 40 kilometers from the downtown Gongbei district, and the honest metered taxi runs somewhere around 150 yuan and 40 to 60 minutes depending on traffic on the Jinwan Avenue approach. Skip the drivers hanging around the arrivals exits offering a flat rate...

Abu Dhabi International Airport sits roughly 32 km from the city centre. A metered taxi to downtown runs around AED 80 (roughly USD 22), taking 35 to 45 minutes depending on traffic. The public A1 bus covers the same route in about an hour for AED 4, though you first need to purchase a Hafilat card (AED 10 deposit) at the airport bus stop. Private transfers booked in advance start at around USD 35...

Belgium fits more into two days than most countries manage in a week, and that compression is exactly why first-timers underestimate it. The country runs on chocolate, beer, and an almost militant pride in regional identity, and the gap between Brussels and Bruges, a one-hour train ride, is the gap between a city that takes itself seriously and a medieval stage set that knows it’s beautiful...

Chengdu, China: A 2-Day Travel Itinerary Forty million people live within a two-hour drive of Chengdu and most of them have never eaten a bowl of mapo tofu as transcendently numbing as the ones served at the street stalls off Chunxi Road after midnight. That capsaicin heat is as good a starting point as any for understanding why this city rewards a short, focused visit far more than a lazy,...

Djibouti City’s airport sits about 7 kilometers from downtown, close enough that a negotiated taxi ride costs somewhere between 1,800 and 3,000 Djiboutian francs and takes twenty minutes, yet the drivers here never quote a meter because there isn’t one. That single fact tells you almost everything about traveling in this country: small, sun-blasted, and run on personal negotiation...

Three days in Guatemala is not enough. You will know this by the time you reach the shore of Lake Atitlán on the final afternoon, watching the three volcanoes catch the last light. But three well-planned days still cover the colonial grandeur of Antigua, a hike on an active volcano, and one of the most photogenic lakes on earth, which is a decent start. Most travelers from North America, Europe,...

Fewer than 400,000 people live in Iceland, yet over two million visit every year. That ratio shapes everything: the roads are emptier than you expect, the prices are higher than you hope, and the landscapes are so disproportionately dramatic that first-time visitors often pull over and just stand there, unable to process what they are looking at. The 1,332-kilometre Ring Road (Route 1) is the...

Lima, Peru: 6-Day Travel Itinerary Lima sits under a grey coastal sky for most of the year, yet it produces some of the most technically accomplished food on the planet. That perpetual garua (sea mist) keeps temperatures mild, and the city’s culinary reputation is well earned: four of Latin America’s top fifty restaurants are here. Use that as your north star for six days. Getting In...

3-Day Itinerary for Philippines Travel (Manila & Banaue) Three days is not enough to see the Philippines properly, and honestly it is barely enough to see Manila and the Cordillera mountains without feeling rushed. But if that is the window you have, pair a single day in the capital with a hard push north to Banaue, because the rice terraces are the one sight in this country that photos...

Three days is not enough time to see Transylvania properly, but it is enough to fall for it, and that is really what this route is built for. Skip the temptation to cram in a fourth castle. Go slower, eat better, and let Sighisoara’s cobblestones do the talking. Day 1: Bucharest, Sinaia, Bran Land at Henri Coanda Airport (still commonly called Otopeni) and ignore anyone in the arrivals hall...

Taipei is a city that feeds you constantly, whether you want it to or not. Street vendors materialise at every corner, temple incense mixes with the smell of pork fat from the stall next door, and the MRT arrives before you have finished checking which line you need. Two days is tight but absolutely workable if you resist the urge to cross the whole city in a single afternoon. Getting in from...