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…
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Perspective
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…
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…
Africa
Kruger Is Not a Checklist With Lions
Kruger National Park is often sold through five animals and one dramatic sunset. The Big Five may help organize a brochure, but…
Africa
A Long Weekend in Cape Town Is Only an Introduction
Cape Town makes a long weekend feel both generous and absurd. Mountain, ocean, museums, neighborhoods, vineyards and the Cape Peninsula all sit…
Belize
Belize Is Not the Affordable Bora Bora. It Is Belize.
Calling Belize the affordable version of Bora Bora sounds flattering until you notice what disappears in the comparison. Belize becomes turquoise water…