Kyoto in Cherry Blossom Season: Your Complete Hanami Guide
Witness Kyoto's legendary sakura in bloom — where to go, when to go, and which hotels put you closest to the action.
Witness Kyoto's legendary sakura in bloom — where to go, when to go, and which hotels put you closest to the action.
Everything you need to plan a self-drive circuit of Iceland's legendary Route 1 — waterfalls, glaciers, geysers and the Northern Lights.
Budget
Southeast Asia remains one of the world's great backpacking destinations — extraordinary diversity, world-class street food, stunning beaches and ancient temples, all at a cost that makes three months feel achievable on a modest budget.
Adventure
The W Trek through Torres del Paine in Chilean Patagonia is one of the world's most spectacular hiking routes — granite towers, turquoise glacial lakes, hanging glaciers and winds that could knock you sideways. Nothing else quite compares.
Adventure
The Everest Base Camp trek is one of the world's great high-altitude walks — not for its technical difficulty (it requires no climbing skills) but for the landscape, the altitude and the knowledge that you are walking to the foot of the world's highest mountain.
Gastronomy
Mexico City has one of the most extraordinary and diverse food cultures on Earth — from tacos al pastor consumed standing at a taquería at midnight to the avant-garde Nahua-influenced tasting menus of the world's best restaurants.
Culture
Athens is the city where Western civilisation began — philosophy, democracy, theatre, the Olympic Games all emerged from this rocky peninsula. Four days lets you walk through its entire history, from the Bronze Age to the Byzantine.
Culture
Florence in the 15th century produced more extraordinary art per square kilometre than any city in history. Five hundred years later, Botticelli's Birth of Venus, Michelangelo's David and Brunelleschi's dome are all still here, still astonishing.
Gastronomy
Vietnamese cuisine is simultaneously one of the world's most refined and most accessible — fresh, herb-laden, perfectly balanced between sour, sweet, salty and umami, and almost always served at a plastic table by someone who has been making the same dish for thirty years.
Culture
Kyoto was Japan's imperial capital for over a thousand years, and it remains the country's cultural heart — a city of 1,600 Buddhist temples, Shinto shrines, traditional arts, geisha districts and the world's most refined cuisine.