Explore our collection of hand-picked hiking and biking adventures, each with detailed reviews and insider tips.
Thailand's northernmost city trades Bangkok's chaos for hill tribe culture, extraordinary art temples, and a coffee scene rooted in Doi Chang's highlands.
Belgium's most liveable city rewards curious travellers who skip Bruges: medieval canals without the crowds, a world-class altarpiece, craft beer culture rooted in the city itself, and a Patershol neighbourhood that still belongs to its residents.
Taiwan's oldest city was the island's capital for two centuries, and the history never quite washed off. Tainan moves slower than Taipei, eats better, and has more temples per square kilometer than anywhere else in the country — most of them still alive with incense smoke and worshippers.
Four days in Yucatán's ancient capital: cochinita pibil at dawn markets, Uxmal ruins in the quiet morning, hammock shopping in the mercado, and a food culture entirely unlike the rest of Mexico.
The capital of Mexico's most culinarily obsessed state sits at 5,000 feet in a valley ringed by the Sierra Madre, where Zapotec civilization built pyramids and contemporary chefs are redefining what Mexican food can mean. Come hungry.
A four-day immersion in Java's cultural heart: batik workshops, all-night gudeg stalls, indie coffee bars in Prawirotaman, and sunrise over Borobudur.
Cambodia's second city keeps its French colonial streets, its famous circus school, and its bamboo train largely to itself — the kind of place that rewards lingering over travelers who rush.
The old royal capital of Laos sits at the confluence of the Mekong and the Nam Khan rivers, ringed by forested mountains and held together by the quiet rhythms of Buddhist temple life. It's the rare UNESCO town that the designation hasn't ruined.
Chile's most bohemian city stacks its cerros (hills) with colored houses, ascensores (funicular lifts), and a street art culture that's been developing for decades — and sits forty minutes from Santiago on the train.
A long weekend in Europe's most underrated capital. Espresso bars, repainted brutalism, a Cold War bunker turned art museum, and a nightlife district where the lights stay on past 4am.
Four days in Korea's salt-air second city: cliffside temples, street-art villages stacked up the hillsides, Jagalchi's raw fish stalls, and an indie coffee scene that quietly outpaces Seoul.
A long weekend in Uruguay's elegant, unhurried capital — where Art Deco facades shelter old-school confiterías, Mercado del Puerto fills with asado smoke on Saturday mornings, and the rambla carries you 22 kilometers along the Río de la Plata before you've had your second mate.
A long weekend inside Galle's Dutch-era fort — rampart walks at sunset, rice and curry lunches in converted mansions, and the south coast's best surf and spice just beyond the walls.
George Town's UNESCO-listed streets contain the most complex, layered street food culture in the world — Malay, Chinese, Indian, and Peranakan traditions that developed in parallel across centuries, and never merged into something generic.
The Italian city that feels like Vienna slid into the Adriatic — Habsburg grandeur, the most serious coffee culture in the country, Carso plateau wines, and almost no tourists.
Four days in Greece's second city — where the food is better than Athens, the history is older than you think, and nobody is performing for tourists.
A long weekend in Italy's food capital and most underrated city — where medieval porticoes shelter aperitivo bars, sfogline roll pasta by hand in the Quadrilatero, and the oldest university in the world sets the city's pace.
Four days in the city where Ottoman bazaar, Austro-Hungarian boulevard, and Yugoslav modernism share the same narrow valley — and the cevapi is better than anywhere else on earth.
The city that rewrote its own story now has the most interesting restaurant scene in South America, a cable car system connecting its hillside comunas, and a creative class that arrived specifically because of how much Medellín has changed.
Hội An's old town is genuinely beautiful and genuinely overrun. The city worth visiting is the one that exists in the surrounding villages, the rice fields, the tailors who've been perfecting ao dai for three generations, and the beaches the day-trippers leave by 5pm.
Georgia's capital has been continuously inhabited for 1,500 years, sits where Europe ends and Asia begins, and produces some of the world's most interesting wine in clay vessels buried in the earth. It's also one of the most hospitable places on the planet.
Morocco's coolest coastal town: a fortified white-and-blue medina where Gnawa music spills out of doorways, fishing boats unload the day's catch at the port, and the trade winds keep the crowds honest.
A week-long circuit through northern New Mexico's art towns, mesa landscapes, and adobe culture — from Santa Fe's canyon galleries to O'Keeffe's Ghost Ranch cliffs and Taos's mountain-village bohemia.
A long weekend in Turkey's most effortlessly cool city — waterfront promenades, Roman ruins, a sprawling Ottoman bazaar, and an Aegean food culture that makes the rest of the country look like it's trying too hard.
Armenia's rose-toned capital blends Soviet-era grandeur with 6,000 years of winemaking heritage and a café scene that gives third-wave cities a run for their money.
A slow few days on Japan's underrated Sea of Japan side: three intact geisha districts, gold-leaf workshops, market sashimi at dawn, and the country's most surprising contemporary art museum.
A compact port city on the northern tip of Kyushu where the food is world-class, the pace is human, and the locals are quietly pleased the rest of the world hasn't caught on yet.
Europe's oldest continuously inhabited city has a 2,000-year-old amphitheater in the middle of its old town, a thriving gallery district in 19th-century merchant houses, and beer prices that make it impossible to leave.
Montenegro's medieval port sits inside walls that climb straight up a limestone cliff above Boka Kotorska, Europe's southernmost fjord — and remains genuinely unsaturated for the density of extraordinary it contains.
One of Central America's best surf towns, perched on the wild Nicoya Peninsula — where the waves are consistent, the sunsets are violent orange, and nobody's in a particular hurry to leave.
Lisbon gets the headlines, but Porto is where Portugal's soul lives — terraced hillsides above the Douro, wine caves in Vila Nova de Gaia, and a food scene that's been world-class for centuries without needing to announce it.