Title: 4-Day Seattle Tourist Itinerary The gum wall at Pike Place isn’t some decades-old civic tradition dating back to 1970, it started as theatergoers sticking gum to a wall near the Market Theater in the early 1990s while waiting in line, and the market only decided to embrace it as an attraction around 1999. It’s been pressure-washed clean multiple times since 2015 and always grows...

Before anything else: the US State Department currently rates Russia a Level 4, Do Not Travel, its highest and most severe advisory category, and it has held that rating continuously since February 2022. This is not boilerplate caution. The advisory specifically cites the risk of wrongful detention of foreign nationals with no guarantee of consular access, the ongoing war with Ukraine, and drone...

Qom does not have an airport. That single fact undoes half the practical planning in older versions of this itinerary, which pointed travelers to a “Shahid Sadooghi International Airport” serving the city; that airport code and name belong to Yazd, several hundred kilometers away, not Qom. Before anything else, though, the honest starting point for this itinerary is a safety advisory,...

Bonifacio 5-Day Itinerary Bonifacio’s citadel sits on a limestone finger that has been quietly eroding into the Mediterranean for centuries, which is exactly why the town is famous and exactly why a few of its cliffside houses genuinely look like they are about to slide into the sea. Corsica’s south end rewards a slower trip than the northern resorts, and five days is enough to do it...

Seven days is generous for a territory you can walk across in under two hours, so this itinerary deliberately slows down rather than padding the schedule with repeat casino visits. Taipa and Coloane, once separate islands, have been fused into one landmass by decades of land reclamation around Cotai, so forget any plan involving a ferry between them. Buses and a short taxi ride cover the whole...

The actual port wine ages in Vila Nova de Gaia, across the river from Porto itself, a detail that surprises people who assume the whole thing happens on the postcard side of the Douro. Two days is tight for Porto but workable if you accept you can’t do every wine lodge and every museum, and pick a handful of things deliberately rather than trying to walk the whole city. Day 1: Old Porto and...

Day 1: Arrival and Karnak Temple Luxor splits cleanly into East Bank, where you sleep and eat, and West Bank, where almost all the tombs and mortuary temples sit. Keep that geography straight from day one, it shapes every transfer decision below. Accommodation: The Sofitel Winter Palace is the grand old choice for a splurge, colonial-era gardens and a genuinely historic building rather than a...

Day 1: Exploring the Colonial Charm of Antigua Guatemala Antigua sits on an active fault line and was leveled by a major earthquake in 1773, which is why half the city’s charm is ruin rather than restoration; the Spanish colonial capital was abandoned for Guatemala City afterward and Antigua spent two centuries as a quiet backwater before UNESCO listing revived it. Keep that history in mind...

Title: Sri Lanka 6-Day Travel Itinerary Six days is barely enough to cover Sri Lanka’s cultural triangle and one beach town, so this route drops the fantasy of squeezing in Ella or the south coast on top of everything else. Pick the cultural loop and do it properly rather than rushing a country that punishes rushing. Day 1: Colombo Places to go: Galle Face Green, Independence Square, and...

Khan el Khalili is in Cairo, not Luxor, roughly 400 miles away, so any itinerary sending you there for an afternoon of shopping between temple visits has confused two different cities. Luxor has its own souk, simply called El Souk or the Luxor Bazaar, running parallel to the Corniche near the Winter Palace Hotel, and it is the one you actually want for this trip. Day 1: East Bank and the Valley of...

Goma’s airport has been closed to commercial flights since the city fell under M23 rebel control, and the classic Kinshasa to Goma to Virunga gorilla trek that older itineraries describe simply does not exist as a bookable trip right now. Any plan built around it needs a hard rewrite, not a tweak, so here is what’s actually true and what a realistic three days in the Democratic...

Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque is free to enter, every single day, no ticket, no booking fee, and that single fact says more about how Abu Dhabi wants to present itself than any brochure line could. Seven days here moves between grand civic monuments and Yas Island’s theme-park sprawl, and pacing that mix correctly matters more than cramming in every site on the map. Day 1: Arrival and the...

Two days in Nepal means picking one city properly rather than chasing three. Kathmandu and Pokhara are both worth your time, but they sit six to ten hours apart by road and a short hop apart by air, so plan the transition honestly instead of pretending you can squeeze a sunrise trek and a jungle safari into the same afternoon. Visa and arrival Most nationalities get a visa on arrival at Tribhuvan...

Sydney 6 Day Itinerary Sydney’s two most famous landmarks, the Opera House and the Harbour Bridge, are visible from each other at Circular Quay. That geographical compression is somewhat misleading about the city as a whole: Sydney sprawls across an area larger than London and its best neighbourhoods are spread far apart. This itinerary resists the temptation to fit everything into a tidy...

Before you book anything, know that entering New Zealand now costs more than it did a couple of years ago: the NZeTA travel authority runs around 117 to 123 New Zealand dollars depending on whether you apply through the app or the website, and on top of that nearly every visitor pays a separate 100 dollar International Visitor Levy at the same time. Neither is optional, both are paid during the...

Afghanistan 2-Day Itinerary: Exploring Kabul Before any list of sights, the honest fact: the US State Department currently rates Afghanistan Level 4, Do Not Travel, its highest warning category, citing civil unrest, crime, terrorism, and a documented high risk of kidnapping or wrongful detention of foreign nationals. The US embassy in Kabul has been closed since August 2021, meaning consular staff...

Four-Day Itinerary for Traveling in Afghanistan Before anything else: this is a Level 4, Do Not Travel country as of the most recent advisories in early 2026, the same category reserved for active war zones, and that status has not budged since the Taliban takeover in 2021. The US Embassy in Kabul has been closed since August 31, 2021, and it means that if something goes wrong, there is no...

The US Embassy in Tripoli has not operated normally since it suspended in 2014, and anyone needing consular help in Libya today is directed to the embassy in Tunis instead, a fact that alone should tell you something about how this destination is currently classified. The US State Department rates Libya at its highest advisory level, Do Not Travel, citing terrorism, kidnapping, armed conflict...

Two days is not enough to see Albania properly, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something. What it is enough for is a genuinely satisfying taste: one day in the capital, one day inland to a UNESCO hill town, done at a pace that doesn’t feel like a relay race. Day 1: Tirana, morning to night Landing at Tirana International Airport Nënë Tereza, still called Rinas by everyone...

Since February 2026 the UK has been strictly enforcing its Electronic Travel Authorisation scheme, and airlines will not let you board without one if you’re a national of a visa-exempt country. This is separate from a visa and it catches out a lot of travelers who assume visa-free means paperwork-free. It costs 20 pounds, covers multiple visits over two years, and the UK ETA app usually...

Sapporo invented miso ramen. In 1955, a chef named Morito Omiya at Aji no Sanpei in Susukino added miso paste to his ramen broth, and the result spread across Japan and eventually the world. That single detail tells you something about how Sapporo operates: Hokkaido’s largest city tends to produce things quietly and get on with it while the rest of Japan takes the credit. The city is planned...

The currency here is technically the new dobra, coded STN, not the old STD you’ll see quoted in outdated guides. Sao Tome redenominated its currency back in 2018 at a rate of 1000 old dobras to 1 new one, and it’s pegged to the euro at roughly 24.5 to 1, which makes budgeting fairly predictable once you know the peg. Day 1: Sao Tome island, arrival Most visitors from the US, Canada,...

Quokkas don’t live in Tasmania, they’re a Western Australian animal, mostly famous from Rottnest Island near Perth, so if a wildlife park itinerary near Hobart promises you quokkas, that’s wrong. What you’ll actually meet at a proper Tasmanian sanctuary are wombats, eastern quolls, Tasmanian devils and echidnas, arguably a more interesting lineup anyway. Day 1: Arrival and...

Italy 3 Day Itinerary Three days in Italy with Rome, Florence, and Venice is possible but only honest if you treat it as what it is: a first contact, not a survey. You will see the most famous things in each city and miss most of each city. That is fine. This itinerary assumes you are connecting the three by high-speed train (which is what makes a three-day Italian circuit feasible) and that you...

Frankfurt is named the World Design Capital for 2026, which is a good reason to look more carefully at a city that most visitors write off as a banking hub with a nice old square and a decent airport connection. The city is both of those things, but four days here gives you time to discover that the Sachsenhausen apple wine district, the Museum Embankment, and the day trips available by rail are a...

Title: 6-Day Adventure Itinerary in Honduras A correction before anything else: Ramon Villeda Morales International Airport is in San Pedro Sula, not Tegucigalpa, and Tegucigalpa’s old airport, Toncontin, no longer handles international flights at all. Honduras confirmed in 2026 that Toncontin will stay domestic-only, permanently, because its concession agreement with the newer Palmerola...

Portugal has been one of Europe’s most visited countries for several years running, and the crowds show. Knowing where the tourist footprint is heaviest, and planning around it, is the difference between a frustrating trip and a genuinely good one. This five-day route takes in the big highlights but flags the pinch points honestly. Visa: Portugal is part of the Schengen Area. Most Western...

Kyrgyzstan is one of those places that genuinely surprises people who expected a difficult, remote destination and found instead a country that has been quietly refining its approach to independent travellers for two decades. The mountains are extraordinary. The logistics, while not simple, are manageable if you understand the cash situation and the road conditions before you arrive. Visa...

Tunisia contains the best-preserved Roman colosseum outside Italy, a medina in Tunis that has been continuously inhabited for over a thousand years, pre-Saharan desert landscapes used as Star Wars filming locations, and underground troglodyte dwellings still in use by some families. It also offers all of this at price levels that make comparable Mediterranean destinations feel expensive by...

If you show up at Diamond Head or Hanauma Bay without a reservation booked days ahead, you will be turned away at the gate, full stop, no exceptions for tourists who didn’t know. Both sites moved to mandatory advance booking systems, and this single fact will make or break your two days more than any restaurant pick below. Day 1: Iconic Honolulu Morning breakfast should lean toward a plate...

Surabaya calls itself the City of Heroes for one specific reason: the Battle of Surabaya on November 10, 1945, when local militias fought British and Dutch forces in the bloodiest single engagement of Indonesia’s independence war. That date is now a national holiday, and the 41-meter Heroes Monument downtown exists purely to mark it. Almost everything else worth doing in this city sits...

Bahrain 2-Day Itinerary Bahrain is an archipelago of about 700 square kilometres in the Arabian Gulf, connected to Saudi Arabia by the King Fahd Causeway. It is small, manageable, and underestimated. Most visitors encounter it as a transit stop or a Formula 1 weekend. What they tend to miss is that Bahrain has three UNESCO World Heritage Sites, a pearl diving tradition that fed jewellers like...

The famous sculpture on Playa Brava in Punta del Este is a giant hand emerging from the sand, not the wave-shaped restaurant nearby that shares billing in a lot of trip write-ups. Los Manantiales is a real place, a striking brick shell-vault building designed by engineer Eladio Dieste, but it’s a restaurant, not sculpture, and mixing the two up is a common error worth correcting before you...

A ferry from Papeete to Bora Bora runs seven to eight hours and costs somewhere around 60 to 90 US dollars, while an Air Tahiti flight covers the same route in under two hours for anywhere from 170 to 360 dollars depending on how far out you book. Most six-day itineraries fly this leg without a second thought, but if your budget is tight and you have the stomach for it, the overnight ferry option...

Bratislava has been proposing a metro system since the 1980s and cancelled the plans for good in 2002, opting for expanded trams instead, so if a guide mentions hopping on the metro here, it does not exist and never has. What the city does have is one of the smallest, most walkable capital old towns in Europe, small enough that a lot of first-time visitors underestimate how much time they actually...

The Cathedral Santa Maria la Menor in Santo Domingo’s Zona Colonial holds a genuine claim most cities cannot make: it is the oldest cathedral in the Americas, with construction starting in 1512, decades before anything comparable existed anywhere else on the continent. That density of firsts, first cathedral, first paved street, first university in the New World, is what makes the old town...

Varanasi 4-Day Travel Itinerary A rowboat that quotes 1,500 rupees at noon can jump to 2,200 for the same ride at 5:30am, and a boatman who approaches you directly on the ghat steps rather than through a booked operator will often stop mid-river and demand several times the agreed price before he’ll row you back. Knowing that before you land changes how you handle the first hour in this city...

Nairobi is the only city on earth with a national park inside its boundaries where you can photograph lions with skyscrapers in the background. That specific absurdity, lions and glass towers in the same frame, is a reasonable metaphor for the city as a whole: simultaneously African capital, safari gateway, and a fast-changing metropolis with a coffee culture, tech sector, and restaurant scene...

Temple Bar was ranked the second worst tourist trap in the world in a 2026 survey, and a pint of Guinness there now regularly clears ten euro, versus six to seven a ten-minute walk away in Stoneybatter or Phibsborough. That single fact should shape where you drink on this trip more than any list of pub names. Day 1: Historic Dublin Start with breakfast somewhere off the main Temple Bar strip, a...

Day 1: Arrival and the City Center Book The Last Supper before you book your flight. Tickets to Leonardo da Vinci’s mural at Santa Maria delle Grazie release in quarterly blocks exactly three months ahead, at noon Italian time on specific Wednesdays, and peak summer dates sell out within hours. If you missed the release window, a guided tour through a reseller is your fallback since those...

Fiji 2 Day Itinerary Two days in Fiji is not enough to reach the outer Yasawa islands or the Lau Group, and that is fine. It is, however, enough time to get off Viti Levu’s main island corridor and onto the Mamanuca Islands, which sit 20 to 45 minutes by boat from Port Denarau and contain some of the best coral snorkelling in the South Pacific. A two-day trip structured well covers genuine...

Bagan’s plain holds more than 2,200 surviving temples and pagodas spread across 104 square kilometres, the remnants of a city-state that between the 9th and 13th centuries commissioned religious structures at a rate that rivals any civilisation in history. At its peak, Bagan contained perhaps 10,000 such buildings. The ones that remain are extraordinary. Getting to them in 2026 requires...

Nice is not French in the way Paris is French. The city was part of the Kingdom of Sardinia until 1860, and the local cuisine, architecture, and dialect (Nissart) reflect that mixed identity. Most visitors spend five days eating the wrong food in the wrong part of town. This itinerary starts with the things locals actually do. Day 1: Vieux-Nice and Cours Saleya Drop your bags and walk directly to...

Lhasa: 6-Day Itinerary Lhasa sits at 3,650 metres above sea level, and that number governs everything about visiting it. The altitude is not incidental background information; it is the single most important practical fact about the destination. First-time visitors who arrive and immediately walk up the 13 storeys of the Potala Palace steps reliably spend the next 48 hours in bed. Plan around this...

Bahla Fort sits roughly 200 kilometers from Muscat, closer to a two hour drive than a same-day side trip from the capital, so it belongs with Nizwa later in the week, not squeezed into a Muscat sightseeing day. That single correction reshapes this whole itinerary from what you’ll find in most generic guides. Day 1: Arrival in Muscat Most passports, including the US, UK, Canada, and all EU...

South Africa 4-Day Itinerary Four days is not enough to properly do Johannesburg and Cape Town, and any plan that tries to squeeze Soweto, the Cradle of Humankind, a domestic flight, Table Mountain, the whole Cape Peninsula, and Robben Island into ninety-six hours is setting you up to see everything through a car window. The honest version of this trip picks one city to do properly and treats the...

Panama City, Panama 5-Day Itinerary Panama City contains two skylines that have almost nothing to do with each other: a cluster of modern glass towers that looks more like Singapore than anywhere else in Central America, and Casco Viejo, a crumbling-graceful colonial peninsula where 17th-century Spanish and French buildings share the same blocks as rooftop bars and the oldest operating cafe in the...

Check the Blue Lagoon’s status before you build your last day around it. The Reykjanes peninsula has had repeated volcanic activity in the Svartsengi system over the past few years, and the lagoon has closed on short notice more than once when eruptions got close. It usually reopens within days once the lava stops moving, but do not lock in a nonrefundable ticket for day four without...

Ecuador 3-Day Itinerary The Panama hat is not from Panama. It has always been made in Ecuador, primarily in the town of Montecristi, and got its misnomer during the construction of the Panama Canal when American workers were photographed wearing them. This is a useful entry point to Ecuador in general: a country that frequently gets credit assigned elsewhere, hiding remarkable things in plain...

Kunming, China: 4-Day Itinerary Before You Arrive: Two Things to Sort First, visas. As of 2025, China’s expanded visa-free policy covers citizens of over 70 countries for up to 30 days, including most of Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and Brazil. Check the current list against your passport before assuming you qualify; the policy has been updated in stages and...