Travel Guides
Comprehensive travel guides and destination overviews
Travel GuidesBeijing vs. Shanghai: Which Chinese Megacity Deserves Your First Visit?
One is imperial and sprawling, the other is cosmopolitan and electric. After visiting both multiple times, here's how they actually compare.
Travel GuidesSao Paulo for Coffee Obsessives: A Specialty Cafe and Bean Trail
Brazil grows a third of the world's coffee — and SP's specialty scene rivals Melbourne and Tokyo. A pour-over-by-pour-over guide to the city's best cafes.
Travel GuidesThe Complete Antwerp Travel Guide: Diamonds, Rubens, and Belgium's Best-Kept Secret
Everything you need for Antwerp — when to go, how to arrive from Brussels Airport, where to sleep, the Rubens and diamond trail, bolleke and fries, a real budget, and the Dutch phrases that win you a warm welcome.
Travel Guides11 Things You Absolutely Have to Do on Phu Quoc Island
Vietnam's biggest island packs powder-white beaches, a record-breaking cable car, sizzling night markets, and jungle waterfalls into one tropical escape. Here's the must-do list.
Travel Guides12 Things to Do in Bruges That Actually Earn the Crowds
Bruges packs a thousand years of Gothic spires, canal views, chocolate and Trappist beer into a city you can walk end to end. Here are the 12 experiences worth your time — with the exact docks, opening hours and prices that save you from the tourist-trap version.
Travel Guides12 Unmissable Things to Do in Kamakura (That Aren't Just the Great Buddha)
The Great Buddha is only the start. From a quiet bamboo temple and a rickety coastal train to money-washing shrines and whitebait rice bowls, here are 12 things worth your time in Kamakura — barely an hour from Tokyo.
Travel GuidesRotterdam Architecture: A Design Lover's Guide to Europe's Boldest Skyline
Tilted yellow Cube Houses, a mirrored art depot, and an 802m 'Swan' bridge over the Maas. Rotterdam rebuilt itself into an open-air architecture gallery — here's how to see the best of it.
Travel GuidesHawaii for Nature Lovers: The Ultimate Island-by-Island Guide
Active volcanoes, 17-mile sea cliffs, underwater craters, and rainforests that get 400 inches of rain per year. Here's the nature lover's Hawaii, island by island.
Travel Guides11 Great Barrier Reef Experiences Worth Building a Trip Around
The reef is 2,300 km long and nobody sees all of it. Here are the 11 experiences — from Heart Reef flights to Lady Elliot's manta rays — that actually earn the trip, with real prices and who each one is for.
Travel Guides12 Reasons Wanaka Should Be on Your New Zealand Itinerary (Not Just Queenstown)
The same Southern Alps, half the crowds, and a lake town that feels like New Zealand before the tour buses arrived. Here's the case for giving Wanaka its due.
Travel GuidesVang Vieng Travel Questions, Answered
How to get there, whether it's still a party town, how to stay safe on the river, and 12 more of the questions travellers ask most about Vang Vieng, Laos — answered straight.
Travel GuidesYour Coron Questions Answered: Diving, Islands, Budget, and Getting There
Do I need a dive cert? Which island-hopping tour? Is it cheaper than El Nido? Twelve real questions about Coron, answered with real prices.