Travel Blogs

Solo travel later in life can be one of travel’s great luxuries. There is nobody else’s timetable to follow, no compromise over where to stay and no obligation to fill every waking hour. For many gay travelers, the reasons for...

Few Asian destinations pack as much into a small area as Sri Lanka, which is why a slow, layered itinerary works so well here. Ancient cities in the Cultural Triangle, tea plantations climbing the central hills, a wildlife-dense south, and...

Sri Lanka and the Maldives sit close enough together that combining them has become one of the most popular ways to build a longer Indian Ocean trip. The question that comes up almost every time is less about whether to...

Beyond its temples and tea country, Sri Lanka also boasts some of Asia’s most rewarding safari experiences. Three parks in particular come up most often when building an itinerary here, and each one offers something distinct enough that the choice...

Between 2011 and 2018, HBO filmed Game of Thrones across four Croatian cities, transforming medieval old towns and Roman ruins into the capitals of Westeros and Essos without building a single set. Croatia became the most-used non-British filming location in...

Argentina’s Lake District is Patagonia at its most accessible. Instead of the glaciers and bare steppe farther south, this part of the country is a landscape of deep blue lakes, forested mountains, small alpine towns and roads that seem designed...

Croatia has spent the last decade quietly becoming one of the Adriatic’s most rewarding destinations, not just for its walled cities and island-hopping, but for how it treats the LGBTQ+ travelers who visit them. This guide covers everything worth knowing...

Ask most travelers what Croatia tastes like, and they will describe an oyster in Ston or a glass of wine on the Dalmatian coast. Ask a Croatian, and they will likely point north, to Istria, the wedge-shaped peninsula bordering Slovenia...

Iguazu Falls is one of those places that feels almost impossible to take in at once. Hundreds of cascades thunder through the rainforest on the border of Argentina and Brazil, sending mist high above the river and turning even a...

Few honeymoon destinations offer as much variety as Argentina. Start in Buenos Aires with grand hotels, late dinners and neighbourhoods made for exploring on foot. From there, you can fly west to Mendoza for vineyard stays beneath the Andes, or...

Cambodia tends to arrive on a travel list for one reason: Angkor Wat, and the sprawling temple complex that surrounds it. It stays on that list, and gets booked, for a longer set of reasons that have less to do...

Vietnam and Cambodia sit close enough together, and complement each other well enough, that most travelers weighing one against the other eventually realize the better question is not which country to choose, but which one to see first. This guide...