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Rebuilt medieval old towns, sobering WWII history and excellent trains, at very reasonable prices.
Grand thermal baths and Danube views in Budapest, easily paired with Vienna and Bratislava.
Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania
Three compact, walkable medieval capitals connected by an easy bus corridor, still overlooked by most travellers.
Atlantic coastline, tiled cities and port wine, priced noticeably lower than Spain or Italy.
Fairy-tale Prague, excellent beer culture and some of the best train connections in Europe.
Everything from Gaudí's Barcelona to Andalusian palaces and Mediterranean beaches, in one large, varied country.
Rome, the Amalfi Coast, Tuscany and the Alps — extraordinary depth, extraordinary crowds and prices to match.
42 itineraries
Sofia's Roman ruins in the metro station, Plovdiv's ancient theatre, and Veliko Tarnovo's fortress built into a river canyon.
Prague's fairy-tale old town, the storybook riverside village of Český Krumlov, and student-city Brno to finish.
Three medieval old towns connected by an easy bus corridor — a low-crowd alternative to Western Europe.
The rebuilt capital, medieval Kraków and Auschwitz-Birkenau, gnome-covered Wrocław, and the Baltic port of Gdańsk.
India's classic first-timer route — Delhi's Mughal monuments, the Taj Mahal at dawn in Agra, and Jaipur's pink-hued forts.
Three capitals, three countries, entirely by train — no rental car needed at any point.
Bangkok's temples and street food, Chiang Mai's mountains, and the Andaman coast's islands, by domestic flight.
Hanoi's Old Quarter, an overnight cruise through Ha Long Bay, lantern-lit Hoi An and the fast pace of Ho Chi Minh City, end to end by domestic flight.
Three small, easy-to-love countries linked entirely by train — canals, medieval squares, and a compact capital.
Lisbon's hills and trams, the fairy-tale palaces of Sintra, port-wine Porto, and Algarve beaches to close.
Three of Southeast Asia's classic backpacker highlights — Angkor Wat, Vietnam's coast, and Ha Long Bay — by short flights.
Bratislava's compact old town, hiking beneath the jagged High Tatras peaks, and the colourful Baroque centre of Košice.
Bogotá's altitude and street art, Medellín's spring-like climate and cable cars, and Cartagena's colourful colonial old town on the Caribbean coast.
Amsterdam's canal ring, laid-back Utrecht, and Rotterdam's bold modern architecture with a Hague day trip.
Portugal's coastal cities and Spain's Andalusian south, linked by train and one short flight.
Italy's classic first-timer route — ancient Rome, Renaissance Florence, a Bologna food stop and canal-side Venice, all by high-speed train.
Mexico City's museums and street food, Oaxaca's markets and mezcal, then Mayan ruins and Caribbean beaches on the Riviera Maya.
Seoul's palaces and K-culture energy, Busan's beaches and fish markets, and volcanic Jeju Island to close.
Jerusalem's Old City, floating in the Dead Sea, and the beach-and-nightlife energy of Tel Aviv, with a Haifa detour.
Lakes, mountains and car-free Zermatt, connected entirely by Switzerland's scenic rail network.
London's icons bookended by a day trip to Roman Bath and a rail hop to medieval York.
Berlin's Cold War history through baroque Dresden and Bavarian Munich to romantic Heidelberg and the Cologne Cathedral.
Auckland's harbour, Rotorua's geothermal and Māori culture, and Queenstown's mountains and adventure sports in the South Island.
Stockholm's island-spread old town, a day trip to Uppsala's university and cathedral, then west by train to Gothenburg's canals and archipelago.
Tokyo's density, Kyoto's temples, and Hiroshima's history, connected entirely by Shinkansen bullet train.
Madrid's museums into Andalusia's Moorish palaces, a Costa del Sol stop in Málaga, then Gaudí's Barcelona to finish.
Santiago's mountain-ringed skyline, colourful Valparaíso on the coast, then a flight north to the otherworldly Atacama Desert.
Copenhagen's design and cycling culture, Aarhus's arts scene, and Hans Christian Andersen's hometown of Odense.
From Paris's grand boulevards through Lyon's food scene to the Mediterranean glamour of Nice and Marseille, all by TGV.
Dubai's skyscrapers, desert and souks, with a day trip to Abu Dhabi's Grand Mosque and Louvre.
Buenos Aires' tango and steakhouses, Mendoza's wine country beneath the Andes, and lake-and-mountain Bariloche in Patagonia.
Vienna's imperial palaces, Salzburg's Mozart heritage, the postcard lake town of Hallstatt, and alpine Innsbruck to finish.
The Great Wall and Forbidden City in Beijing, the Terracotta Army in Xi'an, Guilin's karst rivers, and Shanghai's skyline to finish.
Rio's beaches and Christ the Redeemer, the thundering Iguazu Falls, and Salvador's Afro-Brazilian old town on the northeast coast.
Singapore's futuristic gardens and hawker food, then north overland through Malacca's colonial old town to Kuala Lumpur and George Town's street art and heritage.
Three Nordic capitals plus a fjord-town detour to Bergen — design, waterfronts, and Norway's most scenic train ride.
Oslo bookended by one of the world's most scenic train rides and a fjord cruise into Sognefjord, finishing in Bergen.
Helsinki's design-forward capital, then a flight north to Lapland for the Arctic Circle, huskies and the northern lights.
Cape Town's Table Mountain and Winelands, then a flight north for a safari in Kruger National Park.
Toronto's skyline and a Niagara Falls day trip, then east by train to Montreal's bilingual charm and the cobblestone streets of Old Quebec.
Sydney's harbour, Melbourne's laneway culture, and the Great Barrier Reef out of Cairns, connected by domestic flights.
A classic Southwest road trip: LA's beaches, the Las Vegas Strip, the Grand Canyon's South Rim, then up the coast to San Francisco.