Indie Traveller

I’ve spent over a year in Southeast Asia across multiple long trips and visited 10 of its 11 countries — and during my journeys, specific stretches stood out to me as near-perfect 2-week trips. These punchy routes pack in the most experiences for the fewest hours in transit. They also connect with major airport hubs ...

Lima is maybe not the city you imagine when thinking of Peru. Far from the Andean spirit of Cusco or the peachy squares and arched architecture of Arequipa, landing in Lima means getting dropped inside a whirling cauldron of traffic, pollution, and noise. But… there’s more to Peru’s capital than meets the eye. I once ...

Phu Quoc Island in Southwestern Vietnam has some of the prettiest sea-meets-sand environments in the country. It’s also huge (over an hour’s drive from north to south) with a slower pace than the rest of Vietnam, open roads, beach towns, jungle, and a mix of fishing villages and Disney-scale theme parks just a few kilometers ...

The sun was melting into the Caribbean and my pizza melting into a paper plate when Caye Caulker taught me its first lesson. After a long day of travelling from Chetumal, our sundown arrival called for an easy meal, and only after ordering did I realise my wallet was missing. It was over a mile away ...

On my favourite evening on Caye Caulker I did nothing at all. I pulled up a plastic chair on our guest apartment’s balcony, and watched palm trees sway in the wind as fishing boats got smaller and smaller and reggae music wafted from a bar down the street. A local we had met a few ...