Fisherman’s Bastion, the fairytale white towers everyone photographs on Buda Hill, only started charging admission a few years ago and the fee still surprises visitors who remember it as free. It is not much, a couple of euros, but the fact that a chunk of the terrace remains free before 9am or after 9pm tells you something about how to time this trip generally, early mornings here beat the...

Pena Palace now requires a timed-entry ticket booked for a specific date and hour, and in July and August the slots you actually want sell out three to five days ahead. If you’re building a seven-day loop through Lisbon, Sintra, and Porto, that one booking rule decides whether your Sintra day runs smoothly or turns into a queue. Day 1: Lisbon arrival From Lisbon Portela Airport, the...

In 1914, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on Sarajevo’s Latin Bridge set in motion the First World War. In the 1990s, the city endured the longest siege of a capital city in the history of modern warfare. Sarajevo has every reason to be grim. It is, instead, a city that makes very good coffee and keeps its history close without being consumed by it. Four days is enough to...

Nearly every Strip hotel now tacks on a resort fee of 40 to 65 dollars a night before tax, charged whether or not you touch the pool or the gym, and it rarely shows up in the headline room rate you compared when booking. Budget for it up front rather than getting surprised at checkout, because that single line item can add more to a three-night stay than an entire day of meals.

The Forbidden City stopped selling same-day tickets years ago, and it still trips up visitors who show up expecting a walk-up counter. You now have to book online in advance, tickets for a given day release exactly seven days ahead at 8pm Beijing time, capped at 40,000 visitors, and popular dates disappear inside five minutes. Plan around that constraint first and the rest of a three day Beijing...

4-Day Itinerary for Exploring the Solomon Islands Gizo is 380 kilometers from Honiara by air, not a coastal suburb you can drive to on a whim, and Tetepare sits further still in Western Province waters. Four days genuinely isn’t enough to combine Guadalcanal’s WWII history with the outer islands properly, so this itinerary keeps you on Guadalcanal, where the history is, and treats the...

Giardini Naxos sits on Sicily’s opposite coast, near Taormina, a good two and a half to three hour drive from Palermo, over 250 kilometers each way. It cannot reasonably anchor a day trip alongside Cefalù, which is a 40-minute train ride in the other direction. This itinerary keeps the geography honest and swaps the impossible pairing for what actually works. Day 1: Arrival and Orientation...

Do Not Travel to Mali This page describes a hypothetical itinerary through Bamako, Djenné, Ségou, and Dogon Country. It is not a trip you should currently plan or take. The US State Department rates Mali Level 4, Do Not Travel, its highest warning category, citing terrorism, kidnapping, violent crime, and civil unrest. The UK and Canada issue equivalent blanket warnings against all travel to the...

Day 1: Exploring the Heart of Buenos Aires Morning: Start in San Telmo with coffee and something from the bakery counter, medialunas rather than a full breakfast is how most porteños actually start the day. San Telmo’s cobblestone blocks around Calle Defensa are the oldest part of the city and worth walking slowly rather than rushing to the next stop. Mid-Morning: Plaza de Mayo remains...

The country has been officially North Macedonia since February 2019, following a name settlement with Greece that also cleared the way for NATO membership, so drop the old shortened name if you want to sound like you’ve actually been paying attention rather than working from an outdated guidebook. Day 1: Skopje and Matka Canyon Start in Skopje’s Old Bazaar, one of the largest and...

Title: 4-Day Itinerary for Exploring Morocco A correction before the plan starts: citizens of the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and every EU and Schengen country get 90 days visa-free entry into Morocco as of 2026, not the other way around as some guides claim. Only a smaller list of nationalities need to apply through Morocco’s e-visa system beforehand. Confirm your specific case, but for most...

Most visitors fly into Brussels, not Antwerp, since Antwerp’s own airport handles only a handful of regional routes. From Brussels Airport, a direct train to Antwerpen-Centraal takes around 30 to 45 minutes with no transfer, the station platform sits one level below the arrivals hall so you’re on a train within minutes of clearing customs. That single detail changes how you should plan...

4-Day Itinerary for Exploring Medina, Saudi Arabia Fewer than 200 kilometres from Mecca, Medina sits in a rocky volcanic basin and draws millions of pilgrims annually, yet the city opened to general tourism only in 2021. Non-Muslim visitors can walk the old streets, stand at the outer gates of Al-Masjid al-Nabawi and visit most surrounding sites, but they cannot enter the mosque itself or its...

Cannes 7-Day Itinerary Most visitors to Cannes spend their week walking La Croisette between the same three hotels and the same two beach clubs, convinced they are experiencing the French Riviera. The actual Cannes, the one locals use, starts about 200 metres uphill in Le Suquet, the medieval quarter, where the food costs half as much and tastes considerably better. This itinerary tries to cover...

Bulgaria finished joining the Schengen Area in stages, air and sea borders opened in March 2024 and the remaining land crossings followed in January 2025, so if you’re arriving from another Schengen country there’s no passport check at all anymore, and your days here now count against the same 90-in-180 Schengen clock as a stop in France or Germany. That’s a real change from...

Rome 4 Day Itinerary The Colosseum sells out. The Vatican Museums sell out. In peak summer, the Borghese Gallery, which caps daily admissions, sells out months in advance. If you are planning a Rome trip without booking tickets two to four weeks ahead, you will spend your first morning in a queue rather than inside a monument. That is the core practical fact about Rome in 2025 and 2026, and...

Bus 119 to the airport metro connection doesn’t exist anymore. It was replaced by trolleybus 59 back in 2024, which covers the same route to Nádraží Veleslavín in about 16 minutes, where you switch to metro Line A into the center. A single 90-minute transit ticket covering the whole trip costs 40 CZK, roughly 2.50 euros, and beats a taxi on both price and predictability during rush hour. If...

Sierra Leone 5-Day Travel Itinerary The country’s main gateway is Freetown International Airport, still commonly called by its old name, Lungi International Airport, since it sits across the water in the town of Lungi rather than in Freetown itself. The Sierra Leone River separates the two, so plan for a ferry, water taxi, or helicopter transfer into the capital rather than assuming a quick...

Orlando 4-Day Itinerary Splash Mountain closed for good in early 2023 and reopened in June 2024 as Tiana’s Bayou Adventure, same drop, new story built around Princess and the Frog. Any itinerary still sending you to Splash Mountain is years out of date, which tells you how fast this town changes and why the details below matter more than the ride names you remember. Day 1: Disney’s...

Venezuela 7-Day Itinerary In January 2026, US special operations forces captured Venezuela’s president inside Caracas and flew him to New York to face trial. That single event tells you more about the current risk of visiting this country than any packing list could. As of this writing the State Department has since eased its designation from Do Not Travel down to Level 3, Reconsider Travel,...

A metered tuk-tuk in Colombo can cost you three or four times the fair rate if the driver claims the meter is broken, which it never actually is, it’s just switched off. Book through PickMe or Uber instead for anything crossing the city, both apps quote the fare upfront and log the trip. From Bandaranaike International Airport, a PickMe or Uber car into central Colombo runs somewhere around...

Palermo 4 Day Itinerary Palermo’s street food culture descends directly from the Arab souk tradition: the city was under Fatimid Arab rule from 831 to 1072 and the street market vendors still use a chanting style called abbanniata, an operatic sales call that has been passed down through generations. When you eat a pani ca meusa (a veal spleen sandwich from a market stall) in the Ballarò...

5-Day Adventure in Puerto Rico The ferry to Vieques hasn’t left from Fajardo since 2018. It sails from Ceiba now, a different town about ten minutes south, and travelers who show up at the old Fajardo terminal expecting to catch a boat waste half a morning figuring that out. Small detail, but it’s the kind of thing that wrecks a tight five-day schedule if nobody checks it first. Day 1:...

Car break-ins are the one legitimate safety concern for visitors here, not the headlines about downtown decline that circulated a few years back. Portland’s tourist neighborhoods are thriving again, foot traffic is up and car theft citywide just hit its lowest point in nearly a decade, but leaving a bag visible on a seat overnight is still asking for a smashed window. With that out of the...

Madrid does not have a single unlimited transit pass the way some cities do, it has a zoned tourist ticket called the Abono Turistico, and picking the wrong zone wastes money fast. Zone A covers the city plus the airport supplement and runs about 17 euros for two days; Zone T stretches across the whole region including Toledo’s rail corridor and costs more, roughly 25 euros for the same two...

Panama City, Panama: 2-Day Itinerary Panama City is the only capital in the Americas where you can stand in a colonial district, look left at a modern financial skyline, and look right at ships queuing for a passage that connects two oceans. Two days is tight but enough to understand why this city surprises most visitors who expected something forgettable. Getting In Tocumen International Airport...

Taxis lined up outside Piarco arrivals don’t run a meter. They post fares by zone instead, and the ride into downtown Port of Spain runs somewhere around 350 to 500 Trinidad and Tobago dollars, roughly 50 to 75 US, for the whole car rather than per person. Split it four ways with fellow travelers and it’s cheap; take it solo at 2am and expect a night surcharge on top. Day 1: Arrival in...

Vilnius has the largest surviving Baroque old town in Northern Europe, a functioning bohemian republic within its city limits, and a restaurant scene that has quietly become one of the most interesting in the Baltic states. Lithuania is also one of the most affordable EU destinations, which is worth knowing when you are deciding between cepelinai at a tavern for eight euros or a tasting menu at a...

Trunk Bay on St. John has an underwater snorkeling trail with submerged signs that identify coral species as you swim along them: it is one of the only such trails in the entire Caribbean. That one detail captures something important about the US Virgin Islands: they give you extraordinary natural experience packaged in a way that is easy to navigate and requires no special preparation. Three days...

Before anything else: as of mid-2026, every major Western government, including the US State Department, UK Foreign Office, Canada, Ireland, and the EU, advises against all travel to Belarus. The reasons are specific and serious: the Lukashenko government has a documented record of detaining foreign nationals arbitrarily, including tourists with no political connections. The US has no functioning...

The fixed taxi fare from Queen Beatrix International Airport to a Palm Beach hotel jumped to 41 dollars one way in 2026, and the driver will not haggle because the rate is set by the government, not the meter. Budget for that on arrival and again on departure, since round trips run about 82 dollars. Day 1: Arrival and Beach Relaxation Clear customs, grab your fixed-fare taxi, and check in. Before...

A driver at IGI Airport will tell you the prepaid taxi counter is closed for the night. It is not. That single lie costs first-time visitors more money than any other scam in the city, so walk past every tout in Arrivals and look for the Delhi Traffic Police prepaid taxi booth, where a ride to Connaught Place runs somewhere between 350 and 500 rupees on the meter, not the 1,200 to 1,800 rupees an...

Before anything else: the situation in the West Bank changes rapidly, and this itinerary cannot substitute for checking current government travel advisories before you book or travel. As of mid-2026, the UK FCDO advises against all travel to the northern West Bank and Gaza, and against all but essential travel to substantial parts of the central and southern West Bank. The US State Department...

Columbus, Ohio 2-Day Itinerary Schmidt’s Sausage Haus in German Village has been serving its jumbo cream puff, a half-pound wedge of choux pastry stuffed with whipped filling for about five dollars, since 1886. That single dessert says more about German Village’s staying power than any historical marker on the block. Day 1 Morning Start at Northstar Cafe, a Columbus-grown farm-to-table...

Ljubljana has a car-free old town, a fully walkable castle hill, and the Ljubljanica River running through the middle of it, which means you can cover a lot without transport logistics getting in the way. It is also considerably less crowded than Prague or Krakow despite offering comparable architecture and a better food scene than either. Four days is comfortable. Getting There Jože Pučnik...

In July 1944, thousands of Japanese civilians jumped from the cliffs at the northern tip of Saipan rather than surrender to American forces. Today those same cliffs, draped in memorials and overlooking turquoise water, are where visitors come to snorkel and watch sea turtles. The Northern Mariana Islands carry this collision of history and natural beauty through every day of a proper visit, and...

Moldova is not in the EU and it’s not in Schengen, whatever some lazy itinerary might tell you. It’s an EU candidate country whose accession talks are moving faster than most, but as of 2026 it’s still outside both the bloc and the passport-free zone, which matters for anyone assuming their Schengen visa or EES registration covers a trip here. Get that straight before you plan...

Bergen 7-Day Itinerary Bergen gets roughly 240 rainy days a year, more than almost any other European city its size, so the first rule of planning here is to build in indoor backup for every outdoor plan rather than treat rain as an interruption. Locals shrug it off and so should you. Day 1: Arrival and Settling In Land at Bergen Airport Flesland and take the Bybanen light rail into the city...

Every evening the Man Mandir Palace facade at Gwalior Fort lights up for a son et lumiere narrated in Hindi by Amitabh Bachchan and in English by Kabir Bedi, a small detail that tells you how seriously this city takes its own history. Plan your four days around that show rather than treating it as an afterthought. Day 1: Gwalior Fort and the old markets Check in somewhere central, breakfast at a...

Lisbon, Portugal: 7-Day Itinerary Pena Palace draws over 8,000 people a day in peak season and the queue between 11am and 3pm can run two to three hours, so the single most useful thing in this whole itinerary is booking a 9:30am entry slot and being at the gate by 9am. Everything else here bends around that fact. Day 1: Arrival and settling in Arrive at Lisbon Portela Airport (LIS), which sits...

Nuuk is the world’s northernmost capital city and home to roughly 20,000 people, which makes it simultaneously a genuine city and an outpost at the edge of one of the world’s least-accessible landmasses. Two days here will not reveal the full reach of Greenland’s ice sheet and wilderness, but Nuuk itself rewards close attention. Practical Matters First Greenland is an autonomous...

The Naghol land diving on Pentecost Island (men leaping from 30-metre wooden towers with vines tied to their ankles to break the fall a few centimetres from the ground) predates bungee jumping by centuries and is the reason Vanuatu sits on many travellers’ shortlists for the Pacific. But if you time your trip correctly, you get that and Mount Yasur, the world’s most accessible active...

The Peak Tram just got its biggest overhaul in decades, new green cars, wider doors, step-free access, and a fare hike to match: adult round trip tickets jumped to roughly HK$116 in late 2025, up from HK$88 the year before. That’s the kind of detail that changes a Hong Kong trip budget more than people expect, so it’s worth planning around rather than discovering at the ticket counter....

There is no airport called Roland Garros in Diego-Suarez, because Diego-Suarez is a city in Madagascar and Roland Garros is the airport that serves Réunion Island, a completely different French territory thousands of kilometers away. A 3-day itinerary through the actual French Southern and Antarctic Lands is not possible for any traveler, tourist or otherwise, and understanding why is more useful...

South Sudan: A Note Before Any Itinerary The world’s largest land mammal migration happens in South Sudan, not East Africa. Roughly six million white-eared kob, tiang and Mongalla gazelle sweep across Boma and Bandingilo National Parks each year in a circuit that dwarfs the Serengeti’s wildebeest migration in raw numbers, confirmed by aerial survey and covered by African Parks and...

There is no JR Yumesaki Line, and there is no Aqua-City in Osaka either, that is a Tokyo waterfront mall with a similar name. Getting the transit details wrong in Osaka wastes real time, so here is a corrected six-day plan built around the trains that actually exist. Day 1: Arrival and Downtown Osaka Check into a centrally located hotel around Umeda or Namba, then buy an ICOCA card the moment you...

Million Dollar Point is not a boat ride from Port Vila. It sits off Luganville on Espiritu Santo, a separate island reached by its own domestic flight, and any itinerary that lists it as an Efate day trip alongside Iririki Island has confused two islands roughly 250 kilometers apart. Three days is genuinely tight for Vanuatu once you accept that its best sites are scattered across different...

7-Day Seoul Itinerary Buy a T-money card the moment you land, it covers subway, bus, and most taxis across the entire trip, and skip the outdated blog advice about the old Korea Tour Card, that product has been discontinued and replaced with the Tmoney Travel Card. Foreign credit cards still cannot reload balance at most convenience store terminals due to commission fees, but Seoul Metro’s...

Fiji Airways flies to Tarawa exactly twice a week, Mondays and Thursdays out of Nadi, and that single fact should shape your entire trip before you book anything else. Miss one of those two flights and you are looking at days added to your schedule waiting for the next one, since Kiribati is not a place with backup connections. This is one of the least-visited countries on earth, and the itinerary...

6-Day Travel Itinerary for Bahrain Bahrain sits in the Persian Gulf as a cluster of 33 islands that once controlled the pearl trade for most of the known world. The pearl industry collapsed in the 1930s when cultured Japanese pearls undercut the market, and the islands pivoted to oil. Today the country occupies a strange middle position: economically dependent on Saudi Arabia yet culturally...