Follow our day-by-day travel itineraries that pack the highlights into a few days. These tested travel routes help you see the best of each destination without wasting a minute. Pick a plan and hit the road!
Hong Kong is two cities stitched together by one of the world’s great harbours: the skyscraper canyons of Hong Kong Island on one side, the markets and museums of Kowloon on the other, and a mountain-and-sea island escape — Lantau — waiting out by the airport. Three days is enough to do all three properly … Read more
Osaka is Japan’s kitchen, its comedy capital, and one of the easiest cities in the country to enjoy on a first visit. It is compact, friendly, and full of flavour, and three days is enough to see its castle, its neon streets, its markets, and its quieter neighbourhoods without rushing. This itinerary is built for … Read more
Oslo rewards the traveler who looks twice. At first glance it’s a compact Scandinavian capital — clean, quiet, pricey, end of story. Give it three days and it reveals itself: a city built around a fjord, where you can walk up the sloping roof of an opera house in the morning, wander a park of … Read more
Stockholm is built on water and spread across 14 islands, and that single fact shapes everything about a first visit. This is not a city you “do” from one base camp of sights — it is a city you cross, by bridge, ferry and cobbled lane, moving between a medieval old town, a green museum … Read more
Munich rewards anyone who slows down. Bavaria’s capital is famous for beer halls and Oktoberfest, but a first visit is really about three different cities layered on top of each other: a medieval old town built around one great square, a royal capital of palaces and grand gardens, and a modern, sobering city that does … Read more
Krakow is the rare European city that survived the Second World War with its medieval heart almost intact — and then kept living in it. Poland’s capital until the court moved to Warsaw at the end of the 16th century, it packs a royal castle, Europe’s largest medieval market square, a storied Jewish quarter and … Read more
Istanbul is really two cities — Europe on one shore, Asia on the other — and three days is enough to feel both if you sequence it well: the imperial old town first, the Bosphorus second, and an island escape to finish. This itinerary groups sights by neighborhood so you are never zig-zagging across the … Read more
Three days is the sweet spot for Sydney: enough to do the icons properly, take the ferry across the harbour, walk the coast, and still fit the Blue Mountains. This itinerary sequences it the way locals would — harbour first while you’re fresh, beaches second, mountains last — with the practical calls that save you … Read more
Marrakech rewards travellers who learn its rhythm. Sightsee in the cool of the morning, retreat to a shaded courtyard while the afternoon heat builds, then head back out as Jemaa el-Fnaa — the great square at the heart of the medina — fills with grill smoke, drum circles, and a thousand dinner stalls. Get that … Read more
Tulum stacks a clifftop Maya city, swimmable jungle sinkholes, a vast wild biosphere reserve and a turtle-filled bay into one small town — and three days is exactly enough to do it justice without rushing. This itinerary sequences it the way I would for a good friend: ruins and beach first, a full cenote day … Read more