Editorials

A Maldives honeymoon usually comes down to one early decision. Stay on a single island for the full trip, or divide the time between two resorts with different characters.

Most honeymoon planning defaults to summer, or to whichever destination is warmest on the day of the wedding. Autumn deserves its own shortlist. It is grape harvest in Italy, dry season settling in across the African plains, the last stretch of Caribbean heat before winter rates arrive, and a handful of weeks in Japan that […]

Italy or Greece for your honeymoon? Compare city hopping, beaches, culture, food, weather, and cost to find the right fit for the two of you.

A decade ago, Lima was a single overnight before the flight to Cusco. Now, a two-day trip can be filled with clifftop parks, spectacular culture, and some of the best cooking in the Americas.

Peru rarely makes the traditional honeymoon shortlist next to the beach destinations that usually fill it, but for couples who want the trip to mean something beyond the resort, few places offer as much. Machu Picchu, Cusco’s layered Inca and colonial architecture, the Sacred Valley’s living textile traditions, and a private stretch of Amazon rainforest […]

Peru and Mexico each hold one of the most recognized ancient sites on earth, Machu Picchu and Chichen Itza, and each pairs that landmark with a country’s worth of food, landscape, and history built around it. Neither trip disappoints, but the two experiences pull in genuinely different directions, and the choice usually comes down to […]

The peaceful, crowd-free version of Machu Picchu still exists; it just requires knowing exactly when to show up.

Ask someone who’s been to Kanazawa what they remember, and they rarely lead with a single landmark. They talk about the whole place, how it fit together, how little effort it took to feel like they’d actually seen it rather than rushed through it. That’s unusual for a Japanese city with this much history packed […]

Kyoto is the Japan of emperors, temples and centuries of tradition; Kanazawa is the Japan of preserved Edo streets, samurai homes and untouched neighbourhoods.

A kissaten is not a cafe in the way that word gets used everywhere else. It is a Japanese-style coffee house, usually small, usually dim, often unchanged since the decade it opened. Finding one, sitting down, and staying for an hour is a great way to catch a glimpse of a more traditional Japan.

Greater Kruger is often discussed as a single destination, but it is really two different safari experiences sharing one ecosystem. Kruger National Park and the private reserves along its western boundary sit on unfenced land, so wildlife moves freely between them, yet the rules, the pace, and the feel of a stay differ considerably depending […]

Kruger rewards visitors year-round, but the experience changes considerably depending on when a traveler goes. Wildlife visibility, weather, and crowd levels all shift with the seasons, sometimes in opposite directions from each other, which makes the question of timing more complicated than a single best month.