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TRAVEL GUIDE

Travel guides.

Practical guides to cities and towns: what’s worth seeing, where to eat, where to stay and how to spend the day.

Venice

Venice, Italy

Venice Italy Rialto Cicchetti Bars Murano and Burano

Venice is a city built on more than a hundred small islands in a shallow lagoon, linked by hundreds of bridges and threa...
Jhang

Jhang, Pakistan

Jhang Pakistan Heer Ranjha Tomb and Sufi Shrines

Jhang is a historic city on the Chenab River in central Punjab, best known as the resting place of the legendary lovers...
Hokkaido

Hokkaido, Japan

Hokkaido Japan Sapporo Otaru Furano Fields and Shiretoko

Hokkaido is the northernmost of Japan's main islands and the one that feels most unlike the rest of the country.
Mexico City

Mexico City, Mexico

Mexico City Mexico Templo Mayor Xochimilco and Street Tacos

Mexico City, known locally as CDMX, is one of the largest cities in the Americas and one of the most rewarding to explor...
Lahore

Lahore, Pakistan

Lahore Pakistan Badshahi Mosque Walled City and Food Streets

Lahore is Pakistan's cultural capital, a city of Mughal grandeur, Sufi shrines, colonial avenues and some of the best fo...
Bruges

Bruges, Belgium

Bruges Belgium Canal Boats Belfry Beer and Chocolate

Bruges is one of the best-preserved historic cities in Europe, a compact maze of cobbled lanes, step-gabled brick houses...
Dolomites

Dolomites, Italy

Dolomites Italy Tre Cime Seceda and Mountain Hut Meals

The Dolomites look like no other mountains in Europe. Pale towers of rock shoot straight out of green meadows, turning p...
Hong Kong

Hong Kong, China

Hong Kong China Victoria Peak Star Ferry and Big Buddha

Hong Kong packs an astonishing amount into a small space. Skyscrapers crowd a narrow strip between mountains and harbor,...
Phuket

Phuket, Thailand

Phuket Thailand Old Town Big Buddha and Phang Nga Bay

Phuket is Thailand's largest island and its most famous beach destination, but it is far more varied than its party-town...
Havana

Havana, Cuba

Havana Cuba Old Town Plazas Malecon Sunsets and El Morro

Havana rewards anyone who walks slowly. The Cuban capital was founded by the Spanish in 1519 on a deep, sheltered bay, a...
Oaxaca

Oaxaca, Mexico

Oaxaca Mexico Mezcal Monte Albán and Hierve el Agua

Oaxaca City, officially Oaxaca de Juárez, sits in a high valley in southern Mexico, surrounded by mountains and some of...
Taipei

Taipei, Taiwan

Taipei Taiwan Night Markets Hot Springs and Taipei 101

Taipei is a city that rewards curiosity.
Florence

Florence, Italy

Florence Italy Duomo Climb David and Tuscan Food

Florence packs an extraordinary amount into a compact, walkable center.
Varanasi

Varanasi, India

Varanasi India Sacred Ghats Ganga Aarti and Sarnath

Varanasi, also called Banaras and Kashi, is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world and the holiest...
Seville

Seville, Spain

Seville Spain Royal Alcázar Flamenco and Plaza de España

Seville is the capital of Andalusia and the city that, for many travelers, sums up southern Spain: orange trees lining t...
Porto

Porto, Portugal

Porto Portugal Port Wine Cellars and Riverside Ribeira

Porto rises in steep, granite tiers from the north bank of the Douro River, a jumble of tiled facades, church towers and...
Hanoi

Hanoi, Vietnam

Hanoi Vietnam Old Quarter Hoan Kiem Lake Pho and Bun Cha

Hanoi is a city of contrasts that somehow fit together. Motorbikes stream through narrow streets lined with century-old...
Madrid

Madrid, Spain

Madrid Spain Prado Mornings Retiro Strolls and Tapas Nights

Madrid wins people over slowly and then completely. It has no beach and no single postcard monument, but it has three of...
Geirangerfjord

Geirangerfjord, Norway

Geirangerfjord Norway Seven Sisters Falls and Eagle Road

The Geirangerfjord is a narrow, fifteen-kilometre arm of water in the Sunnmøre region of western Norway, the inner end o...
Hallstatt

Hallstatt, Austria

Hallstatt Austria Salt Mine Skywalk and Lakeside Lanes

Hallstatt squeezes onto a ledge between a deep alpine lake and a mountain wall, and every building seems to have been pl...
Neuschwanstein and Füssen

Neuschwanstein and Füssen, Germany

Neuschwanstein and Füssen Germany Fairytale Castle Views

Few places in Europe are as instantly recognizable as Neuschwanstein, the white-towered castle that King Ludwig II of Ba...
Paris

Paris, France

Paris France Eiffel Tower Louvre Montmartre and Marais

Paris needs little introduction, yet it still surprises first-time visitors with how walkable and varied it is.
Hunza Valley

Hunza Valley, Pakistan

Hunza Valley Pakistan Ancient Forts and Attabad Lake

Hunza Valley sits deep in the Karakoram range in Gilgit-Baltistan, northern Pakistan, ringed by some of the highest moun...
Lofoten Islands

Lofoten Islands, Norway

Lofoten Islands Norway Fishing Villages and Arctic Beaches

The Lofoten Islands rise out of the Norwegian Sea like a broken wall of granite, a chain of jagged peaks, white sand bay...

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