Yazar: John
John
John has spent the last several years travelling through Europe, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and beyond, trading a desk job for a backpack and a one-way ticket. He writes Travel Route Blog to share the routes, costs and honest mistakes that most guidebooks leave out, from budget breakdowns to the one temple, trail or dish worth rearranging a trip for.
Southeast Asia has more islands than any traveller can visit in a lifetime. Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam together have tens of thousands of them,…
The Caribbean is not one place. It is a hundred different places that happen to share warm water and year-round sunshine. The tourist-brochure Caribbean — white…
The Mediterranean has been drawing people to its islands for three thousand years. The Romans built villas on Capri. The Venetians fortified Corfu. The Phoenicians traded…
Route 1 — the Ring Road — circles Iceland for 1,332 kilometres. It passes glaciers, active volcanoes, sea cliffs with puffin colonies, geothermal fields, and fjords.…
Norway’s scenic routes are designated by the government — eighteen roads officially selected for exceptional landscape. Driving them is not a commute with views; it is…
Bali does not need defending. It is the most visited island in Southeast Asia for reasons that are immediately obvious from the moment the plane descends…
Portugal is one of the best road trip destinations in Europe. It is compact enough to cross in four hours but varied enough to sustain three…
The American Southwest is where road trips acquire their logic. The distances between the highlights are too large to walk and too dramatic to see from…
Tokyo operates at a frequency that most visitors do not expect. It is the largest city in the world — 37 million people in the greater…
Japan beyond Tokyo is a different country. The shinkansen network means that Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima, Nara, and the Kumano Kodo pilgrimage trail are all within a…