James Shackell

You don’t have to sit upside down in silence for 14 days to experience wellness travel. Dedicated wellness retreats and detox ‘boot camps’ are really just the tip of the chakra. There’s a whole world of wellness travel out there – literally.

The words ‘French Riviera’ and ‘budget travel’ don’t usually squeeze into the same sentence. This is the Côte d’Azur, right? Summer playground for billionaires, movie stars and people with private helicopters.

For a lot of travellers to Malaysia, Mt Kinabalu is the whole reason they visit: to get up at 2am, drink several cups of strong coffee, and watch the sun rise over Low’s Peak.

Think you can guess your fav show’s shooting locations? You know nothing, Jon Snow.

The mid-trip crisis is not quite homesickness, and not quite depression. But this feeling of existential angst can put a serious dampener on your holiday.

Airport layovers and heavy luggage might not seem like a recipe for mental health, but there’s a surprising amount of science that says travel is actually good for your brain.

You might think the highest, driest, coldest and most remote continent in the world would be immune to overtourism. But it’s not.

These big cruise liners invariably market their ships as an escape from reality, which is kind of appropriate, because the reality of cruising is not so good. In fact, environmentally speaking, it’s a disaster.

So you want to visit Malaysia? Nice choice. It’s a beautiful country. But being equatorial, it does get a little steamy from time to time.