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 44 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.
The Kuranda Skyrail, officially the Skyrail Rainforest Cableway, is a 7.5km gondola ride over the rainforest from Smithfield, north of Cairns, to Kuranda village. It takes about 90 minutes one way with its two stops and costs about A$74 one way for an adult. Most visitors pair it with the Kuranda Scenic Railway, Skyrail one way and the heritage train the other, and...
Nagoya doesn’t hand you a single obvious neighbourhood to base yourself in the way Kyoto or Osaka does. It comes down to what you’re actually prioritising: transit logistics, a livelier evening, or waking up across the moat from the castle itself. This guide breaks Nagoya into three real bases, Nagoya Station, Sakae, and the small cluster right by the...
Nagoya’s food culture has a name: Nagoya meshi. It’s bold, built on rich red hatcho miso, and it doesn’t apologise for any of it — this is a city that serves pork cutlets under miso sauce instead of the usual tonkatsu sauce, and treats deep-fried chicken wings as a food group. If you’re wondering where to actually eat it, here are thirteen...
Hobart sits close enough to the rest of southern and eastern Tasmania that most visitors end up choosing between five or six properly different days out, and every “best day trips” listicle online treats them as interchangeable. They are not. I did two of these myself, researched three more properly rather than guessing, and there is one that gets...
I got into Nagoya on a late Shinkansen from Tokyo, checked into a hotel two minutes from the station, and had exactly one day to see a city most people skip entirely. Nagoya sits on the Tokaido Shinkansen line between Tokyo and Kyoto, and a lot of travellers treat it as nothing more than a place the train passes through. I wanted to know if that reputation was fair...
This is the 7 days in Tasmania itinerary I actually did, Launceston to Hobart, one way, no backtracking. It is not the only way to see the island, and if you have longer, I have included an honest section on what I would add rather than pretend a week covers everything. But if you have seven days and want to see the real range of what this island does, this is the...
Three days in Hobart is enough for the city and one day trip, and four lets you add a second. This is how I’d use them: Day 1 for the waterfront and the CBD (with Salamanca Market if it’s a Saturday), Day 2 for TMAG, kunanyi / Mount Wellington and sunset at Bellerive, Day 3 for Bruny Island, and Day 4 for Freycinet and Wineglass Bay. Every day works...
I did not plan this post the way I planned the others. There was no single walk, no single day. This is what happens when you add up four nights of wandering Hobart’s waterfront, its heritage streets, its markets, and its museums, then step back and look at what you actually did. If you are planning a Hobart trip and want the real shape of the city rather than...
For a first visit, the best place to stay in Hobart is Sullivans Cove or Salamanca Place on the waterfront, where the CBD, Salamanca Market and Battery Point are all within walking distance. Battery Point suits a quieter heritage stay, the CBD has the widest choice of value chain and apartment hotels a few blocks back from the water, and Sandy Bay, the northern...
Where to eat in Hobart, in short: the Drunken Admiral for a classic waterfront seafood dinner, Bar Wa Izakaya for Japanese share plates (those are the two I ate at myself), Dier Makr, Fico or Aloft for a splurge at Hobart’s top-scoring restaurants, Van Diemens Land Creamery for dessert, and Lark’s cellar door on Davey Street for whisky. I spent four...