If you’ve been furiously Googling “Tasman Glacier heli hike Reddit” trying to find a thorough, first-person Tasman glacier heli hike review, you’re in the right place! I did a glacier heli hike in February and am spilling all the info you need to figure out if heli hiking in New Zealand is worth your precious […]

When my boyfriend and I started our road trip through New Zealand’s South Island in a 22-foot camper van, everyone — from the grizzled barista in a Wanaka café to the Swiss couple spending a year working at a local winery — told me Milford Sound was a must-see destination. I felt a tangle of […]

I went skiing in Niseko having skied only once or twice in my life, and with basically zero planning. It’s how I ended up on the bunny slope with weaving trains of six-year-olds (who were already more graceful than me), accidentally sent myself down a red “challenge” course I had no business being on, and […]

If you’re trying to figure out the best time of year for a river safari in Borneo, here’s the honest answer: there isn’t one single perfect month, and Borneo is a year-round destination! But there are better times depending on what you care about most. Weather, river levels, wildlife visibility, and even how crowded the […]

For years, visiting the pyramids of Giza without a guide was the travel equivalent of juggling knives in traffic: perfectly possible, but maybe not the best decision someone could make. So when I say that in 2026 you should definitely go without one, it makes sense that your internal alarm bells are going off. So […]

My toxic trait is that I’ll plan an entire international trip around the possibility of seeing one specific animal during during an even more specific window of opportunity. Even if you aren’t irrationally rearranging your PTO around an obscure animal migration (yet), you probably are trying to figure out when a place is at its […]

Imagine you’ve just arrived in Marrakech, Morocco: you’re walking down a narrow cobblestone street dodging wayward roosters, donkey-drawn carts careening down alleyways, and men in long djellabas zipping by on mopeds between red mud buildings draped in mismatched fabric hangings. You pass hole-in-the-wall bread shops with hand-painted boulangerie signs—a reminder of Morocco’s French colonial past—and […]

This year, I boarded my first scuba diving liveaboard in Komodo National Park, Indonesia. I’ve been diving for 15 years, but the idea of being stuck in tight quarters at sea with no escape never appealed to me—until the temptations of manta season at one of the most spectacular dive sites on Earth convinced me […]