Asia
Marina Bay Is Better on Foot
Marina Bay is usually photographed as a collection of objects: three towers with a ship on top, a lotus-shaped museum, artificial trees…
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Australia
A Working Holiday in Australia Is Still Work
Australia’s working-holiday programs are often advertised as a year of beaches interrupted by occasional paid shifts. The beaches are real. So are…
Australia
The Great Barrier Reef Is Alive, Damaged, and Worth Seeing Carefully
The Great Barrier Reef is often written about as if it were one flawless underwater postcard. It is neither one place nor…
Australia
Three Days in Melbourne, Not Melbourne Plus Everything
Melbourne is a city that rewards wandering, which makes the phrase “must-see weekend” slightly self-defeating. The best three days here are not…
Australia
Five Australian Beaches, Five Different Journeys
Australia has enough coastline to make any list of its “best beaches” collapse under the weight of geography. Turquoise Bay, Whitehaven, Wineglass…
Bucket List Ideas
What Skydiving in French Polynesia Actually Requires
Skydiving in French Polynesia is easy to sell. Put a lagoon beneath an open aircraft door, add one photograph of a person…
French Polynesia
Bora Bora on a Budget Starts With the Right Expectations
Bora Bora is often sold in two extremes: the overwater bungalow that costs more than a sensible person wants to calculate, or…
Oceania
Bora Bora Underwater, Without the Aquarium Metaphor
Bora Bora‘s lagoon is routinely described as a natural aquarium. The phrase is flattering and slightly misleading. An aquarium is controlled. A…
Africa
Two Weeks in South Africa Means Choosing a Route
South Africa is large enough to make a two-week itinerary look sensible on a screen and exhausting on the ground. The old…
Africa
South Africa’s Adrenaline Days Need More Than Nerve
South Africa has no shortage of ways to put a harness on a traveler and introduce them to gravity. Bungee jumping near…