Cheap destinations to travel

Mexico City is world-class. Add the coast, ruins, and food culture.

The complete package for warm-climate travel.

Warm, affordable, endlessly deep — beach, wellness, and culture in one place.

Buenos Aires has the best steakhouses and nightlife in South America.

Medellin is one of the most exciting cities in the world right now.

Budapest is the best-value great city in Europe.

Overwhelming, beautiful, and utterly unlike anywhere else.

The most underrated food trip in Southeast Asia.

Medinas, desert, mountains, and coast — sensory and varied.

Machu Picchu, the Sacred Valley, Lima's food scene, and the Amazon.

Europe's best-value city break, with the history to match.

The best food in Southeast Asia, remarkable scenery, a long coastline.

Angkor is one of the great sights on earth. Build the trip around it.

The pyramids and Luxor — unmatched ancient sites.

Seventeen thousand islands of volcanoes, reefs, and temples — the most varied country in Southeast Asia.

Beaches, ancient ruins, tea country, and wildlife in one compact island.

The cheapest stretch of Mediterranean coast left in Europe — for now.

East meets West in one small, absurdly cheap country layered with living history.

Andes, Amazon, Galápagos, and colonial Quito — packed into a small country.

Extraordinary food, wine, hospitality, mountains, and old cities — all cheap.

Maya ruins, volcano hikes, and a lake ringed by villages — cheap and intense.

The Himalayas. Trekking that changes how you see scale.

The most atmospheric, least touristed corner of Europe — at a fraction of the price.

The cheapest serious travel on the continent — and the highest.

Frescoed monasteries, Roman old towns, and empty mountains at prices Europe forgot.

The slowest, gentlest country in Southeast Asia, and the better for it.

Bali’s quieter neighbour — the same warm sea and volcano drama, with a fraction of the crowds.

Rome-grade ruins, real Sahara, and blue-and-white coast — a cheap hop from Europe.

The Silk Road made real — turquoise-tiled cities that look like nowhere else, at prices that barely register.

Central America’s comeback story — world-class surf, volcanoes, and prices nobody has caught up to yet.

West Africa’s friendliest first trip — deep history, big culture, and beaches, in fluent English.

Costa Rica’s wilder, cheaper neighbour — volcanoes, colonial cities, and empty surf, for a fraction of the price.

The Balkans’ best night out — grilled meat, rakija, and river clubs, in Europe’s most underrated capital.

The most accessible corner of nomad Central Asia — high alpine lakes, yurts, and horses, for almost nothing.

Paris is only the opening act — wine country, the Alps, and two coastlines.

The benchmark for food, history, and beauty.

Ruins in the morning, a swim by noon, taverna until dark.

Food, beaches, and three or four cities that each justify the trip.

Ancient history and hypermodern cities at a scale that's hard to grasp until you're there.

Dubrovnik, the Adriatic coast, ancient cities. Compact and beautiful.

Prague earns the crowds. The rest of the country is the bonus.

The best value city in Western Europe.

Seoul alone justifies the flight — food, nightlife, and mountains inside the city.

The Alps done properly — skiing, hiking, and Vienna for the culture.

A continent of a country. Pick two or three things and commit.

Surfing, rainforest, volcanoes, and wildlife in extraordinary density.

Serious cities, river valleys, and the Alps in the south.

Atlantic beaches, excellent food and wine, slow pace.

Istanbul alone is worth the trip. Add Cappadocia, the coast, and ancient ruins.

Year-round warm weather, volcanic landscapes, easy from Europe.

Music, classic cars, and crumbling grandeur — go for the country, not the comfort.

Cheap flights, warm sea, and a lot more country than the resort brochure admits.

Reef diving, island-hopping, and a country that takes hospitality seriously.

The most characterful island in the Caribbean — and the one that asks a little more of you.

Petra alone justifies the trip.

The original safari, plus an Indian Ocean coast to land on afterward.

A sun-baked limestone island with more history per square mile than almost anywhere.

A whole country where mountains drop straight into the Adriatic.

Over 7,000 islands and the best beaches in Asia.

Europe’s sunny western edge — Lisbon’s hills, Porto’s port, Algarve cliffs, and the best value in the west.

The Caribbean with a US plug socket — old-city romance, rainforest, and a bioluminescent bay.

Newly open, and the most surprising trip in the region right now.

Italy at its most layered and intense — Greek temples, Baroque towns, street food, and a live volcano.

Alps, coast, and a capital you can cross on foot — all in one small country.

Cape Town, safari, and wine country in one self-drive trip.

Best street food in the world, dramatic gorges, deeply welcoming culture.

Serengeti, a volcanic crater full of animals, Kilimanjaro, and Zanzibar — in one country.

The largest sheet of falling water on Earth, with a town on either side.

The classic wind-down after a Tanzanian safari — beaches, spice, and a Swahili trading city.

Green volcanic islands in the mid-Atlantic, half-empty and gloriously weird.

A reef-and-jungle two-parter where everyone speaks English.

A 4,000km country of deserts, wine valleys, lakes, and southern fjords.

A country-sized Greek island — Europe’s oldest civilisation, pink-sand lagoons, and a mountainous wild south.

Dependable Mediterranean warmth, ancient mosaics, and cool mountain wine villages on one easy island.

A steep, green volcanic island in the Atlantic — spring-like all year and built for walkers.

Far more than package beaches — turquoise coves, a UNESCO mountain range, and one of the Med’s best cities.

A self-drive epic through some of the emptiest country on Earth.

The calm, scenic alternative to the Gulf — wadis, mountains, and empty desert.

A canal, a real skyline, Caribbean islands, and cloud forest — all inside one small country.

The Mediterranean’s best beaches, wrapped around a wild, ancient interior most visitors never see.

One small island, two countries — Dutch nightlife on one side, French cooking on the other.

The lagoon of your dreams, at a fraction of Bora Bora money.

The most characterful of the Dutch ABC islands — a candy-coloured capital, below the hurricane belt, over great diving.

A medieval old town wired to one of the most digital states on earth.

The Spice Island — nutmeg, a genuinely lovely harbour capital, and no crowds.

Two islands in one — a rainforest volcano on the left wing, beaches on the right.

A big-distance island epic where nine-tenths of the wildlife lives nowhere else.

France in the tropics — rum distilleries, a volcano, and food that takes itself seriously.

An expedition across the empty steppe to one of the last nomadic cultures on Earth.

The Caribbean’s biggest party and its best birding — on two islands that share nothing but a flag.

The calm, safe, well-off corner of South America — beef, wine, and empty Atlantic beaches.

The best shore diving on earth, outside the hurricane belt, with flamingos in the salt pans.

The Nature Island — a volcanic rainforest with a boiling lake and almost no beaches.

A UNESCO fortress, a sugar-train railway, and a two-mile channel to a much quieter island.

The place to look a mountain gorilla in the eye — plus the classic savanna safari, on far quieter ground.