There is a latitude — somewhere around 50 degrees south — where the landscape stops resembling anything you’ve seen before. The trees lean permanently east from the prevailing wind. The light, even in summer, arrives at an angle that makes…
Bali and Phuket are extraordinary islands. TrotRadar is not in the business of pretending otherwise. But they are also two of the most visited tourist destinations on earth, and the experience of spending time on either during peak season —…
The Middle East doesn’t have a shortage of destinations that promise dramatic landscapes and ancient culture. What it has a shortage of is destinations where those promises are fulfilled at every turn, where the infrastructure is excellent without erasing the…
Train travel across Europe has never been more relevant — and it has rarely been more confusing to actually book. The continent’s rail network is extraordinary: a web of high-speed, regional, and sleeper services connecting cities from Lisbon to Istanbul,…
If you search for Kyoto travel tips and find a list that reads Kinkaku-ji, Arashiyama, Gion, Fushimi Inari, Philosopher’s Path — you’ve found the correct list, and also the list that roughly 55 million annual visitors to Japan also have…
West Africa is the part of the continent that most international travelers manage to fly over without stopping. East Africa gets the safari circuits; North Africa gets the Mediterranean-adjacent tourism; Southern Africa gets the wildlife and the wine. West Africa,…
The Azores sit in the middle of the North Atlantic — roughly 1,500 km west of Lisbon, halfway between Portugal and the east coast of North America — and they have absolutely no business being as green as they are.…
Here is a piece of travel advice that sounds counterintuitive until you’ve acted on it: the off season in Sri Lanka is, for most travelers, the best time to visit. Not despite the weather patterns but because of what those…
Europe has a reputation for being expensive, and in certain corners of the continent that reputation is entirely earned. A coffee in Zurich, a hotel night in Amsterdam during summer, a restaurant meal in central Paris — these things are…
There is a moment that happens to almost every traveler who visits Samarkand for the first time. You turn a corner somewhere near the center of the old city, and the Registan simply appears — three enormous madrasas arranged around…
The first thing to say about solo female travel in Africa is the thing that tends to get buried between caveats and worst-case scenarios: it is entirely achievable, done safely by thousands of women every year, and for many of…
There’s a photograph that circulates endlessly on travel feeds — a small, grass-roofed village perched on cliffs above a black-sand beach, with the Atlantic hammering in from all sides and a rainbow inexplicably completing the scene. That village is Gásadalur…