Planning a trip? Maybe one that’s a little bit out-of-the-ordinary? The guides here are full of important details and practical information, all based on our first-hand experience traveling in countries where things don’t always work out the way you expect.
This post is a trip report. It’s the itinerary we made for the eighteen days we spent in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, plus a bit of other info about how we got there in the first place, our route, traveling around, and lessons learned along the way.
Everyone going to Algeria – ourselves included – seems to have more than a few questions surrounding visas, money, transport, and guides. To save you some of the same difficulties we’re reporting our experience here, along with our eleven day itinerary for independent travel in northern Algeria, and Ghardaia.
Tunisia is a well-known tourist destination, mainly because of its beach resorts. But away from the coastal holiday zones, it’s also an easy country to travel around – no beach resorts required. We explored on our own as usual, and this post outlines what we saw and did in eight days, and how we got around from place to place.
Self-driving the Pamir Highway is one of the world’s ultimate roadtrips. This guide is our eight day itinerary, and the information you need to plan your trip.
A self-driving safari in southern Africa is definitely one of the world’s ultimate roadtrips. Thinking about taking it on? In this post I’ve outlined our twenty-one day self-driving itinerary from South Africa to Namibia and Botswana, and provided some information to help you plan your own ultimate African roadtrip.
This post is the itinerary for our nine day tour in Turkmenistan. It’s about how we arrived at this plan, what we loved about it, and things we’d change in retrospect. Feel free to copy our itinerary directly, or borrow a few of the days you like best and use it as a base to kick off your own plans.
This is a guide to inspire and help you plan an independent trip in Central Asia. It follows our route with information about border crossings, trains, and things to do along the way.
You can of course fly from Bangkok to Kuala Lumpur in no time. But if, like us, you’d vastly prefer a lengthy overland excursion instead, you can travel from one country to the other on public transport. Travelling by road between Thailand and Malaysia is easy, it’s just a bit more time consuming. Here’s how to do it.
Self-driving and wild camping in Mongolia definitely makes for one of the world’s ultimate roadtrips. Thinking about taking it on? In this post I’ve outlined our 16 day self-driving itinerary, and I’ve provided information to help you plan your own ultimate roadtrip.
Getting a Chinese visa outside your home country can be a bit of a gamble. But, you can get it at the Chinese Visa Application Service Center in Kathmandu. This post is about our experience getting a tourist visa for China in Kathmandu, in April 2024.
This post is a trip report. It’s the itinerary we made for the eighteen days we spent in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, plus a bit of other info about how we got there in the first place, our route, traveling around, and lessons learned along the way.
Everyone going to Algeria – ourselves included – seems to have more than a few questions surrounding visas, money, transport, and guides. To save you some of the same difficulties we’re reporting our experience here, along with our eleven day itinerary for independent travel in northern Algeria, and Ghardaia.
Tunisia is a well-known tourist destination, mainly because of its beach resorts. But away from the coastal holiday zones, it’s also an easy country to travel around – no beach resorts required. We explored on our own as usual, and this post outlines what we saw and did in eight days, and how we got around from place to place.
Self-driving the Pamir Highway is one of the world’s ultimate roadtrips. This guide is our eight day itinerary, and the information you need to plan your trip.
A self-driving safari in southern Africa is definitely one of the world’s ultimate roadtrips. Thinking about taking it on? In this post I’ve outlined our twenty-one day self-driving itinerary from South Africa to Namibia and Botswana, and provided some information to help you plan your own ultimate African roadtrip.
This post is the itinerary for our nine day tour in Turkmenistan. It’s about how we arrived at this plan, what we loved about it, and things we’d change in retrospect. Feel free to copy our itinerary directly, or borrow a few of the days you like best and use it as a base to kick off your own plans.
This is a guide to inspire and help you plan an independent trip in Central Asia. It follows our route with information about border crossings, trains, and things to do along the way.
You can of course fly from Bangkok to Kuala Lumpur in no time. But if, like us, you’d vastly prefer a lengthy overland excursion instead, you can travel from one country to the other on public transport. Travelling by road between Thailand and Malaysia is easy, it’s just a bit more time consuming. Here’s how to do it.
Self-driving and wild camping in Mongolia definitely makes for one of the world’s ultimate roadtrips. Thinking about taking it on? In this post I’ve outlined our 16 day self-driving itinerary, and I’ve provided information to help you plan your own ultimate roadtrip.
Getting a Chinese visa outside your home country can be a bit of a gamble. But, you can get it at the Chinese Visa Application Service Center in Kathmandu. This post is about our experience getting a tourist visa for China in Kathmandu, in April 2024.