Travel bargains

Bhaktapur is the site of one of the oldest kingdoms in Nepal, one of three major city-states in the Kathmandu Valley. It thrived and functioned as a prosperous kingdom and for a while was the main capital of Nepal, with some of the structures dating back to more than 600 years ago. It’s a UNESCO …

If you’ve read books like Thinking Fast, and Slow or The Power of Habit, you know our brains rely on gut instinct, visual cues, or habit to make quick decisions. We’re collectively terrible at tasks that require us to do math, or be logical, or solve problems based on objective evidence only. Instead we jump …

“Iceland is done.” “Myanmar was last year’s story.” “Nicaragua’s not hot anymore.” “We can’t cover Albania yet—there’s nowhere to stay.” These are all actual reasons an editor stated when rejecting a pitch from travel writers I know in the past six months. Add to that “We’ve done enough about Canada.” For editors of the big …

I wrote a post back in 2006 about how magazines don’t really like budget travelers. It was the year I launched PerceptiveTravel.com, partly in response to the folding of nearly every publication geared to those of us looking for value. At that time the magazine Budget Living had folded, despite having one of the most …

As the author of a book on the cheapest places to travel in the world, I know we have a tendency to generalize about a whole country in terms of prices. Obviously when you get somewhere though, a beach where all the rich people go is going to cost more than a beach where it’s …