Americas

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

A continent pretending to be a country — cities, deserts, and the best national parks anywhere.

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

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

Wilderness on a continental scale — Rockies, coast, and the cities between.

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

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

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

Seven hundred islands of impossibly clear water, from cruise-port Nassau to the empty Out Islands.

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.

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

The most dramatic landscapes on earth.

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

Three islands, one national park, and no passport needed if you hold a US one.

The dry, breezy Caribbean island that sits below the hurricane belt — sunshine you can actually bank on.

Two coasts on one small island — calm Caribbean west, wild Atlantic east — with the best rum in the world.

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

The sailing capital of the Caribbean — sixty islands, short hops, and a bar you swim to.

Seven Mile Beach, world-class diving, and the smoothest logistics in the Caribbean — at a price.

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

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

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

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

The most dramatic-looking island in the Caribbean — two green volcanic spires rising straight out of the sea.

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

One of the great beaches on earth, and not a lot else — which is exactly the appeal.

A beach for every day of the year, and a sailing heritage to match — the Caribbean at its most classic.

Pink-sand coves and a very British subtropical island — a two-hour hop off the US coast, not the Caribbean.

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

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

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.

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

A French village with superyachts parked outside — the Caribbean’s most expensive small island.

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.

Thirty-three beaches, no high-rises, and not much else — deliberately.

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.

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

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

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