Twenty-eight nights, every flight and every day I actually spent, across a country I'd tell anyone to give real time to.
Fuad loves to travel! A lot! Carrying a Bangladeshi passport means he needs a prior visa for visiting most of the countries. He got detained in many borders because of his nationality but; he didn’t give up - he set his foot to 43 countries. He believes, if he could travel the world despite all the odds, you can, too. Fuad is a Computer Engineer by profession, and author of a travelogue in Bangla. He currently lives in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Twenty-eight nights, every flight and every day I actually spent, across a country I'd tell anyone to give real time to.
If someone had blindfolded me on my first evening in Cairns and left me on a street corner with every sign covered, I don’t think I could have told them I was in Australia. That’s not a complaint. It’s the single most interesting thing about the place, and it took me until my second day here to actually admit it to myself. I’d flown in from...
Cairns isn’t really the destination – it’s the gateway. I flew this route in January 2026 while making my way around Australia. Five days in Melbourne, then a straight shot north into the tropics: you leave laneways and coffee culture in the cool south and land in Far North Queensland’s heat and rainforest a few hours later. This is where you...
Ubud’s budget scene is unusually good for what it costs. Pools, free breakfast, and daily yoga are standard rather than a luxury add-on, and the difference between a big social hostel and a quiet family homestay is really a difference in what kind of trip you want, not in comfort or cleanliness. This guide covers both ends properly: proper social hostels with...
Ubud has thousands of places to stay, from ten-dollar homestays to resorts that open with a walk across a suspended bridge. Rather than one long undifferentiated list, these picks are sorted by what each hotel actually does best, so you can jump straight to the category that matches your trip. This guide focuses on the 32 strongest picks across every style and...
Where to stay in Ubud comes down to one real question: how much walking are you willing to trade for how much jungle? Ubud isn’t a single town so much as a scatter of villages that grew into each other. Central Ubud gets you Jalan Raya’s markets, temples and traffic all within a few minutes’ walk. Ten minutes further out, in either direction, the...
Cairns punches above its size for a city built around one purpose: getting you to the Great Barrier Reef. The Esplanade alone has three Crystalbrook-branded five-stars within a few blocks of each other, a Pullman on either side of the CBD, and a lagoon pool standing in for the beach the city itself doesn’t have. Up the coast, Palm Cove does the beach properly...
Cairns has an odd secret for a city built entirely around the Great Barrier Reef: the CBD itself has no beach. The Esplanade waterfront is a mudflat at low tide, crocodile warning signs and all, and everyone swims in the free saltwater lagoon instead. That single fact decides more about where you should stay here than anything else. Want to walk to your reef boat and...
The mosquitoes found me before the tree did. I was standing under a strangler fig that had been alive for something like 500 years, and all I could think about was my ankles. That was the first ten minutes of a full day on the Atherton Tablelands, the highland plateau that sits an hour or two inland from Cairns, cool where the coast is humid, green in a completely...
Singapore does not do average hotels. Within a few square miles you can find a 139-year-old colonial icon where the Singapore Sling was invented, a converted 1895 shipping warehouse with the original pulleys still bolted to the ceiling, and a capsule pod on Smith Street with a better guest-review record than some full-service hotels charging four times as much. This...