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 didnât 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.
I have visited 45 countries, and I have seen some genuinely beautiful places along the way. Cradle Mountain belongs in that list. Standing at the edge of Dove Lake with the mountain’s jagged dolerite peaks reflected in still blue water, I understood immediately why Tasmanians speak about this place the way they do. This guide covers everything you need for a...
Most people flying into Tasmania head straight to Hobart. I didn’t. I flew into Launceston instead â and it turned out to be a great decision. Starting in the north put me right at the beginning of a route that took me through Cradle Mountain, the historic village of Ross, and eventually down to Hobart by bus. If you’re planning something similar...
Twenty kilometres inland from Taormina, a river runs through a canyon that lava made. The Alcantara Gorges â Gole dell’Alcantara in Italian â are what happens when a volcano erupts, lava flows into a riverbed, cools rapidly in the water, and fractures into columns of dark basalt. The Alcantara River then spends the next nine thousand years carving its way...
I arrived in Sicily on a cheap flight from Malta. That is the honest version of how this trip started â not a carefully planned grand tour of southern Italy, but a budget airline alert and a two-day window. Malta to Catania, âŹ30 each way, grab a bus to Taormina, figure out the rest later. This is how slow travel actually works when you are watching prices across...
I am Muslim, from Bangladesh, and the Vatican is not my faith’s holy site. That is the honest starting point for this guide. I had no particular religious connection to the place. I was visiting because it is one of the most significant sites on earth â because the art inside is among the greatest ever made and because Vatican City is, technically, its own...
I had four days in Melbourne. No rental car, no local knowledge, no group to share the planning with. Just a Myki card, a rough idea of what I wanted to see, and a city that turned out to be far more generous to the car-free visitor than most guides suggest. This is the 4 days in Melbourne itinerary I actually followed – four days, four genuinely different...
Melbourne is one of the best cities in the world for food. That is not a controversial take – it is just what the city is. Forty-three countries later, I have eaten in a lot of places. Melbourne still surprised me. What makes it unusual is the range. In a single day you can have a bowl of Japanese curry for AUD 10 in the morning, walk past some of the most...
The first decision most visitors get wrong about Melbourne is not what to do – it is where to sleep. Pick the wrong area and you spend your entire trip on trams trying to get somewhere. Pick the right one and the city opens up immediately – everything is walkable or a short ride away, and you spend your time actually in Melbourne rather than commuting to...
I had been looking at photographs of the Colosseum since I was a child. In school textbooks, on television, in the film Gladiator â that image of the great oval amphitheatre was so familiar it had almost become abstract. Just a symbol. A logo for Ancient Rome. Then I stood inside it. The goosebumps were immediate and embarrassing. I am not someone who gets emotional...
Everything has a limit. You can put a boundary around most things in life. But the beauty of Nepal’s remotest corners? That has no limit at all. I had been telling myself for years that I wasn’t ready. Not fit enough. Not brave enough. Not free enough. And then, one day, photos of the Annapurna Base Camp trek appeared in my newsfeed â and something...