Thirty-one days, thirty nights, six regions, one country I gave a full month for the first time. Every hotel and every tour below is one I actually booked and actually did.
Thirty-one days, thirty nights, six regions, one country I gave a full month for the first time. Every hotel and every tour below is one I actually booked and actually did.
This 7-day Cairns and Great Barrier Reef itinerary comes from my own week in Cairns: Daintree, Fitzroy Island’s fringing reef, the Atherton Tablelands, Kuranda and a slow Palm Cove day, plus the outer reef day I’d add if I went back. Seven nights, one day trip a day, and no rental car needed. I flew into Cairns from Melbourne on 17 January, a motel on...
Twenty-eight nights, every flight and every day I actually spent, across a country I'd tell anyone to give real time to.
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...
I have been asked more times than I can count: “How do you actually plan a trip to Bhutan?” It is a fair question, because Bhutan does not work like anywhere else I have travelled to. You cannot book a flight, land, and figure the rest out as you go. Almost every visitor arranges their entire trip — guide, driver, hotels, permits — through a licensed...
Nikko is a small but beautiful city in Japan. It is located in Togichi prefecture in a mountainous setting and is a popular tourist weekend gateway from Tokyo. This photo guide will tell you about a list of things to do in Nikko.
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 kinder to the car-free visitor than most guides suggest. This is the 4 days in Melbourne itinerary I followed: one day in the city, the Great Ocean Road, the Puffing Billy...