Destination Guides

The Philippines is the most beautiful place in Southeast Asia that most people underrate, and the reason is simple: it punishes the greedy itinerary.…

Curaçao is the Caribbean for people who want more than a beach lounger — a Dutch-colonial UNESCO capital painted in sherbet colours, more than 70 dive…

Egypt rewards the traveller who builds the trip around two things: a couple of days in Cairo for the Pyramids and the new Grand Egyptian Museum, and a…

Tanzania is the country that holds the two biggest things in African travel at once — the greatest wildlife spectacle on Earth in the Serengeti, and the…

Vietnam is not a destination you “do” from one hotel — it’s a 1,650 km transect through three climates, three cuisines and a thousand years of competing…

Morocco is the rare country where you can be lost in a thousand-year-old labyrinth at breakfast, crossing a 2,000-metre mountain pass by lunch, and…

Most people meet the Dominican Republic as a wristband and a swim-up bar in Punta Cana, and then go home thinking they’ve seen it. They haven’t. This is…

Oman is the country people fly to when they’ve seen Dubai and wanted something real. There are no fake palm islands and no race to build the tallest…

Montenegro is the size of Connecticut and yet you can stand on a mountaintop at 1,657 m where the kings are buried, see the fjord-like Bay of Kotor far…

Jamaica is two countries wearing one flag. There’s the all-inclusive Jamaica of swim-up bars and wristbands behind a manned gate, and there’s the Jamaica…

Jordan is the rare country where the headline acts — Petra, Wadi Rum, the Dead Sea — actually live up to the postcards, and it packs them into a space…

Kenya is the original safari country, and it still does the two things that matter best: huge, predictable game in the Masai Mara, and a Swahili coast…

Iceland is a road trip more than a destination — a 1,300-km loop of waterfalls, lava fields, glacier tongues and steaming hillsides, with one small…

Zanzibar is two trips stitched together: a culture trip in Stone Town — a sweat-soaked Omani-Swahili maze of carved doors, call-to-prayer and…

Sri Lanka packs more variety into a teardrop the size of Ireland than countries ten times its size: you can watch a leopard at dawn, climb a 5th-century…