Itineraries

The thing most itineraries get wrong is transit. They list six places in a week and quietly assume you teleport between them. These build the travel time in, so the days are honest about how much you'll actually see.

Almaty runs five days or seven, Bali covers four areas in ten, Central Europe four countries in fifteen, and Vietnam splits into 10- and 14-day routes because its regions are never in season at the same time. The slow-travel guide is the counterweight: how to plan around fewer places rather than more, and when that is the better call.

Each one carries what the days cost, which months to avoid, and where to cut if you have fewer days than the plan assumes. If a route only works in one direction, or only outside monsoon season, that's stated up front rather than left for you to work out.