This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). Looking at the winter landscape in Rovaniemi, the capital of Finnish Lapland, you might think little goes on here during the year’s coldest months. The ground, blanketed in a thick layer of powdery snow, is frozen solid, as are rivers and lakes. TheContinue Reading
This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). Switzerland’s sporty mountain resorts have traditionally offered far more than just downhill skiing. In these long-settled local towns, getting from A to B in winter has often required ingenuity. In Arosa, a horse-drawn sleigh takes riders from railway station to hotel,Continue Reading
Booking affordable airfare can be a turbulent process. Prices rise and fall day by day, or in some cases, hour by hour. In the past, frequent fliers swore by loose strategies to find deals—book on a Tuesday! No, on a Wednesday! Never on a weekend! But experts caution that manyContinue Reading
This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). Cutting through Peru’s Sacred Valley like a lifeline, the Urubamba River is fed by ancient glaciers and flanked by Inca ruins, terraced farmland and eucalyptus-covered hillsides. It’s along this historic waterway that I find myself donning a wetsuit and helmet onContinue Reading
This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). When Eric Peythieu was growing up in Chantemerle in the French Alps, he and his friends had a simple way of deciding whether you were a proper skier. “We came to the top of this slope,” the 58-year-old ski instructor remembers,Continue Reading
This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). In the Tokyo pleasure district of Shibuya, amid the nightclubs and the love hotels, an electric sign flickers a pink slogan: ‘Music from the BYG’. I walk through the door and find myself inside a classic rock ’n’ roll drinking hole.Continue Reading
This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). In November 2021, the Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) made an ambitious proposal. Its member lines, which together form 95% of the global cruise fleet, announced a collective pledge to pursue net-zero emissions by 2050. Perhaps recognising the scale of theContinue Reading
This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). Manicured orchard rows fan out before me, branches heavy with picture-book apples in glistening lipstick red. Between the succession of trunks, tufts of grass are tickled by breeze; in the sky above, clouds drift by lazily. Green and pleasant, this scene couldContinue Reading
Thirty years ago, the world of travel was a far simpler place. There were no online travel agents; there was no seat-back inflight entertainment or in-car GPS. Mobile phones were brick-like, and could do little more than make calls — using them for navigation was, at that point, unthinkable. InContinue Reading
This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). I’m kneeling on the tiled floor of my host Annise Lee’s kitchen, sitting next to three of her pink-rubber-gloved Korean girlfriends. Wafts of pungent fish sauce fill the air. It’s a brisk November afternoon in the hills of Coquitlam, Vancouver’s unofficialContinue Reading
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