Singapore’s hawker centres are regulated by the government, inspected regularly, and have been recognised by UNESCO as intangible cultural heritage. A plate of Hainanese chicken rice from a stall that has been making only chicken rice for 40 years costs SGD 5 to 8. The same city has hotels that run SGD 1,200 a night. You do not need to spend at the top end to eat extraordinarily well here,...

The LAX/Metro Transit Center opened in June 2026, and it changes the math on this whole trip: a $1.75 train ride with a free terminal shuttle now beats a $25 to $40 rideshare for anyone traveling light, though anyone with checked bags or a red-eye landing should still book a car. Plan your six days around that trade-off rather than defaulting to a rental car the moment you land. Day 1: Downtown LA...

Title: 5-Day Taipei Itinerary The Airport MRT from Taoyuan is the move, not a taxi. The express service reaches Taipei Main Station in about 35 minutes for 160 New Taiwan Dollars, and the commuter service that stops everywhere along the line takes closer to 50 minutes for the same fare. Buy an EasyCard at the airport station rather than single-ride tickets; it covers the metro, buses and most...

Sevusevu is not a village name, it’s the ceremony itself, the formal presentation of a bundle of yaqona root to a village chief that grants you welcome and permission to be there. If an old itinerary sends you looking for a place called Sevusevu Village, you’ve been given a made-up destination; what actually exists is a ritual you take part in before entering almost any traditional...

Two days is not enough for the Netherlands but it is enough for Amsterdam done properly, with a half-day in Rotterdam or The Hague tacked on if you start early on Day 2. The trap most short-stay visitors fall into is over-scheduling Day 1: they try to do the Rijksmuseum, Van Gogh Museum, Rijksmuseum, Anne Frank House, and a canal cruise before dinner, and end the day having skimmed everything....

Paraguay 5-Day Travel Itinerary Paraguay is the only country in South America where the indigenous language, Guaraní, is an official language spoken on equal standing with Spanish, and you’ll hear the two mixed together in everyday conversation in a code-switching dialect called Jopara. The country is one of the most overlooked in South America, partly because it sits landlocked between...

Vietnam 7-Day Itinerary Seven days in Vietnam is enough to see the north and central regions properly, or to scratch the surface of north and south combined. Most first-time visitors try to do too much. The train from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City takes 30+ hours; the country is 1,650 kilometres long. This itinerary runs north to central, ending in Hoi An, which gives you coherent pacing without...

Four-Day Itinerary for Exploring Varanasi Before you set foot near a Ganga Aarti boat, agree on three things out loud with the boatman: the exact price, the duration by the clock, and the route. Say it plainly and get a nod before you climb in, because the classic Varanasi move is to quote a price without saying whether it’s per person or per boat, then cut the ride short twenty minutes in...

Figari-Sud Corse Airport, not Ajaccio and not Bastia, is the airport that actually serves Bonifacio, sitting just 20 kilometers and a 25-minute drive away. Ajaccio is over two hours by road, so flying into it and then transferring to Bonifacio wastes half a travel day for no reason if a Figari flight is available on your dates. This itinerary corrects that, and also fixes a second geography...

Moldova holds the Guinness World Record for the largest wine cellar on the planet, and it’s not close, Mileștii Mici stretches across roughly 200 kilometers of underground limestone tunnels, most unused, with around two million bottles aging in the sections that are. That single fact tells you more about how to plan five days here than any list of monuments would: this is a country built...

The alms giving ceremony happens at dawn, not in the evening, and this trips up more first-time visitors than any other detail in Luang Prabang. Plan on being riverside by 5:30 to 6:30am between March and October, or a little later, 6 to 7am, from November through February. Show up expecting a sunset ritual and you will miss it entirely. Day 1: Temples and old town Check into wherever you are...

Alcohol in Qatar is legal only inside licensed hotel bars and restaurants, never on the beach, never at the Corniche, and public intoxication is treated seriously regardless of nationality. That single rule shapes evenings here more than almost anything else in the itinerary below, so plan your dinners accordingly rather than assuming a regular restaurant will pour you a beer. Day 1: Arrival and...

There is no direct road linking Andasibe and Antsirabe, they sit in opposite directions from the capital, one east toward the coast and one south along the RN7, and a four day route that tries to string them together in sequence is simply not how the geography works. Any real itinerary this short has to loop back through Antananarivo between the two, which changes how you should budget your days...

Suwon, South Korea: 3-Day Travel Itinerary Hwaseong Haenggung Palace sits inside the fortress walls, a five-minute walk from Paldalmun Gate, not on some separate day trip requiring a train ride out of town. Get that wrong and you’ll waste half a planning session looking for a station that doesn’t need finding. Day 1: Hwaseong Fortress Get to Suwon from Seoul on Subway Line 1, about 49...

Cusco still flies you into Alejandro Velasco Astete, the older airport a few minutes from downtown, despite years of talk about the newer Chinchero International Airport eventually replacing it. Chinchero remains under construction and years behind schedule, with reported progress hovering around a third complete as of early 2026, so book your flights against the existing CUZ airport code and...

Lyon, France: A 5-Day Itinerary The traboules of Vieux Lyon were built by silk workers, not for tourists, so hunting them down feels like actual discovery even now: look for small bronze shield plaques marking unmarked doorways, since the passages themselves give no hint from the street. The whole district is UNESCO listed as the largest Renaissance urban ensemble in France, and it deserves a full...

Mosul, Iraq: A 7-Day Travel Itinerary An honest starting point matters more here than in almost any other destination on this site. The US State Department maintains a Do Not Travel advisory for all of Iraq, and the security situation in 2026 has been described by multiple governments as having deteriorated rather than improved, with attacks against Western targets reported across the country...

Exactly one airline flies into Tuvalu, and it lands on a strip that doubles as the town’s soccer field and evening gathering spot once the plane has taxied off. Fiji Airways runs three flights a week from Suva or Nadi into Funafuti, a two hour thirty five minute hop on an ATR turboprop, and if you miss it there is no backup carrier and no next-day alternative. Tuvalu is regularly cited as...

Punta Cana, Dominican Republic: 5-Day Travel Itinerary An unlicensed driver at the Punta Cana airport will quote you 70 to 100 dollars for the ride to a Bavaro resort. The actual going rate through an official counter or prearranged transfer is 25 to 35 dollars per person. That gap alone is worth knowing before your plane lands, because the arrivals hall solicitation is aggressive and constant,...

4-Day Adventure in Trinidad and Tobago Doubles are not a side dish here, they are practically a civic institution, two pieces of fried bara dough wrapped around curried chickpeas with a splash of tamarind and pepper sauce, and every Trini has a fierce opinion about whose recipe is the best. Ali’s roadside stand in Barataria has been running the same secret recipe for fifty years and locals...

Auckland sits on an isthmus so narrow that on a clear day you can stand on one of its volcanic cones and see both the Tasman Sea and the Pacific at once, and the city itself is built across roughly 50 extinct volcanoes. That geography shapes almost everything worth doing here, from the black sand west coast beaches to the harbor islands a short ferry ride out, so a five day trip works best...

The new Chinggis Khaan International Airport is 52 kilometres from Sukhbaatar Square. That distance is not a minor inconvenience: it is the first practical negotiation you will have with Mongolia’s scale. Everything here is further away, more exposed, and more demanding than you expect, including the capital city. Ulaanbaatar is a city of contrasts between Soviet-era apartment blocks and new...

Ain Dubai, the giant ferris wheel on Bluewaters Island, spent nearly three years shut for “enhancements” after closing in March 2022, reopened in December 2024, and has since gone dark again for stretches with no public explanation. Check its status the week you travel rather than building a day around it, because betting an afternoon on a wheel with a history of vanishing without...

Dubrovnik limits cruise ship arrivals to two ships and 4,500 passengers per day, which sounds like a lot of management until you stand on Stradun at 11:00 AM in July and realise that 4,500 people plus overland visitors still turns the Old Town into a walking obstacle course. The city is more beautiful than the crowds deserve. The answer is simple: get up early. Arrival and Currency Note A private...

Prague 6-Day Itinerary Prague just doubled the price of its Airport Express bus, from 200 to 400 crowns round trip as of January 2026, and most visitors still do not know it. Skip it and take bus 119 to the Nádraží Veleslavín metro stop instead: it runs every five to ten minutes, costs a flat 40 crowns, and gets you into the city just as fast once you factor in waiting for the express to depart.

French Polynesia has 118 islands spread across an ocean area roughly the size of Europe, but most visitors spend their entire trip within about 250 kilometres of Tahiti, on two or three islands that sit in the same Society Islands chain. That is not a criticism; Moorea and Bora Bora justify the journey on their own. But understanding the scale helps calibrate expectations: five days in French...

Skip the rental car on arrival day. MARTA’s train runs straight from a station inside the domestic terminal to Five Points downtown in about fifteen minutes for 2.50 dollars one way, which beats sitting in Atlanta’s notorious rush hour traffic in a shuttle before you’ve even checked into a hotel. Day 1: Arrival and Downtown Check into a downtown or Midtown hotel, The Westin...

The village of Ganvie in southern Benin translates roughly to “we survived,” a name its Tofinu founders gave it after building an entire settlement on stilts over Lake Nokoue specifically because local religious taboo prevented rival slave-raiding parties from attacking anyone on the water. That single defensive decision three centuries ago is the reason 3,000 wooden houses now stand...

Flying into Santo Domingo and out of Punta Cana, or vice versa, is one of the smartest moves you can make on a trip like this, since it avoids doubling back across the country on your last day. Most itineraries that route you in and out of the same airport waste half a travel day you didn’t need to spend. Day 1: Arrival and Santo Domingo Most visitors, including from the US, Canada, the UK,...

Do not plan your first night around the Symphony of Lights, the nightly 8pm harbour laser show that ran for 22 years. The government confirmed in its 2026 budget that it is being retired in the second half of the year, replaced by rotating holiday-themed projections at the Peak and other spots rather than a fixed nightly fixture. Check what is actually running the week you arrive instead of...

Tarapith Temple is not a Kolkata morning stop, it sits roughly 260 kilometres away in Birbhum district and takes the better part of a day to reach one way, so any itinerary pairing it with a same-morning visit to the Marble Palace is working from a map nobody checked. Save Tarapith for a dedicated overnight trip and spend your four days properly inside the city instead. Day 1: colonial core and...

Read this before anything else: as of 2026, the US State Department advisory for Iraq sits at the highest level, do not travel, citing terrorism, kidnapping, armed conflict, and civil unrest, and that warning has hardened rather than softened through the year with renewed attacks tied to Iran-backed militias against Western targets. This is not the standard cautious boilerplate attached to half...

Get the airport code right before you book anything. Punta Cana International Airport carries the code PUJ, not SDQ. SDQ is Las Américas International Airport, which serves Santo Domingo and sits roughly 165 kilometers and a two-hour-plus drive away from Punta Cana on the other side of the country. Booking a flight into SDQ by mistake means starting your beach vacation with an unplanned...

Eswatini 5-Day Travel Itinerary The country dropped the name Swaziland back in 2018, when King Mswati III renamed it Eswatini to mark fifty years of independence and shed a name that was frequently confused with Switzerland. Guidebooks and old itineraries that still say Swaziland aren’t wrong exactly, just out of date, and locals now use Eswatini almost universally. Worth knowing before you...

Iceland, 2 Days: Reykjavik and the Golden Circle Two days in Iceland means picking one direction out of the city, not two, because the Blue Lagoon sits toward the airport on the Reykjanes Peninsula while the Golden Circle heads inland in the opposite direction, and trying to chain them together in a single day turns a relaxed trip into a driving marathon. Split them across your two days instead....

Lyon calls itself the gastronomic capital of France and mostly earns it, but the label attracts menu-in-five-languages restaurants aimed squarely at day-trippers. Knowing which door to walk through matters more here than in almost any other French city on a short visit. Day 1: Vieux Lyon and the Hills Base yourself in Vieux Lyon, the Renaissance quarter that UNESCO listed as a World Heritage site...

France 5 Day Itinerary Five days is not enough for France, but it is enough for a coherent trip if you resist the impulse to cover too much ground. This itinerary moves from Paris to the Loire Valley to Lyon, which is a logical south-east diagonal and avoids backtracking. The TGV handles the long distances, and each city rewards staying put rather than rushing to the next one. Visa Requirements...

Kosovo has used the euro since 2002 without ever asking the European Central Bank’s permission, and it isn’t in the EU, hasn’t minted a single coin of its own, and still relies entirely on notes and coins already in circulation elsewhere. That contradiction runs through the whole country: a place shaped by recent conflict, competing national narratives, and genuine warmth toward...

Nassau has two distinct tourist tracks. One involves a resort wristband, a water park, and a swim-up bar at Atlantis. The other involves eating conch salad made to order at a dockside shack, walking colonial forts with almost no one else around, and paying a tenth of the price. Both tracks are valid. This itinerary combines them, weighted toward the second. Day 1: Arrival and Bay Street Lynden...

Four days in New York City is not enough to understand it, but it is enough to stop being afraid of it. The subway goes everywhere, the food is genuinely as good as people say, and the most useful thing to know is this: ignore the tourist priority list for at least one full day and just walk through a neighborhood without an agenda. The city reveals itself at street level.

Shanghai’s Maglev train covers the 30 km from Pudong Airport to Longyang Road Station in 7 minutes and 20 seconds at speeds approaching 430 km/h. It costs CNY 50, or CNY 40 with a same-day boarding pass. Since 2025, foreign bank cards can be tapped directly at the gate. From Longyang Road, Metro Line 2 connects to most of the city. This is where the trip should start, not with a taxi queued...

Funchal, Madeira: 4 days As of January 2025, Madeira started charging non-residents an access fee on its most popular PR-numbered hiking trails, and since January 2026 you also need to book a timed entry slot online before you show up. That single regulatory change reshapes how you should plan day three of this trip, and most older itineraries floating around online do not account for it. Day 1:...

Before you plan a climb up the Asinelli Tower, know that it has been closed since late 2023 over structural safety concerns tied to its leaning neighbor, the Garisenda Tower, and that closure has dragged into 2026 without a confirmed reopening date. That single fact should reshape the itinerary you build for Bologna more than any other, because half the older guides still send visitors to a tower...

Kyiv, Ukraine: Why This Is Not a Tourist Itinerary Right Now Boryspil International Airport has been closed to civilian flights since February 24, 2022, and it remains closed as of mid-2026, along with the entirety of Ukrainian airspace. There is no functioning way to fly a tourist into Kyiv today. The US State Department rates Ukraine at Level 4, Do Not Travel, its highest advisory tier, and that...

Shanghai is the only city in the world where a 1920s Art Deco skyline stands directly across the water from a forest of supertall towers built in the last 30 years, and where neither side looks temporary. The city moves fast, the food is exceptional at every price point, and the gap between what a tourist pays and what a local pays is wide enough to cross through basic preparation. Six days is...

Five days in Botswana is barely enough to justify the internal charter flights, so this itinerary leans into fewer stops rather than the scattershot version that tries to hit Gaborone, the Delta, the Kalahari and Chobe all in one trip. US and UK passport holders get entry permission on arrival with no advance visa needed, up to 90 days, but that only applies to a full passport, a temporary or...

You cannot legally rent a scooter on Rarotonga on your foreign license alone. Take that license to the police station in Avarua, pay a small fee around NZD 2.50, and they issue you a local scooter permit on the spot, which then also covers you to ride on Aitutaki if you island-hop later in the trip. Skip this step and a rental company still might hand you the keys, but you’ll be uninsured...

Okayama, Japan 6-Day Travel Itinerary Mount Daisen sits three hours from Okayama Station by limited express and bus, not a quick afternoon add-on, and Takamatsu is a different island entirely, reached by crossing the Great Seto Bridge rather than a plain local train. Get the geography right first and this trip stops feeling rushed. Day 1: Arrival & Korakuen Garden ICOCA works across the whole...

Manikarnika Ghat has no evening aarti, and no guide should send you there expecting one. It is Varanasi’s principal cremation ground, where fires have burned continuously for centuries, and the correct way to experience it is by boat at a respectful distance, never with a raised phone camera. The main Ganga Aarti happens a short walk away at Dashashwamedh Ghat, timed at 6:45 PM in summer and...

Glasgow 4-Day Itinerary Glasgow has been labelled the friendliest city in Britain so many times that the label has worn out. What the cliche cannot quite say is what makes it true: a particular kind of flat, dry wit from people who will tell you exactly what they think of your restaurant choice, then give you three better ones. The city has also, in the past decade, become a genuinely serious food...