Cycling

Reading Time: 4 minutes Cycling Morocco was not only an exhilarating physical adventure, it was the best way to truly experience the gorgeous geography and diverse cultural regions of this country in a way that is still somewhat a secret.

Reading Time: 4 minutes While the frenetic streets of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City offer a unique insight into Vietnam’s urban life, it’s not until you’ve ridden through the serene – and surreal – surrounds of Mai Chau that you get to know the real Vietnam.

Reading Time: 7 minutes When my partner casually announced over dinner that we were going to take our next holiday cycling through Cambodia I admit I was a bit confused. The same Cambodia that has the worst roads I’d ever seen? Where I had munched on local ‘delicacies’ like tarantulas and grasshoppers? Where one in every three adults owns a motorbike, and isn’t afraid to use it?

Reading Time: 5 minutes 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.

Reading Time: 5 minutes To help you in your quest to discover the next big thing in travel (before everyone else does), we’ve done the legwork. Literally. Here are six of the hottest travel trends you’ll see in 2020.

Reading Time: 4 minutes A look of pity creeps across a person’s face when you tell them you didn’t go hot air ballooning in Cappadocia, Turkey. It’s like admitting you visited Paris and missed the Eiffel Tower, or politely passed on eating pizza in Naples.

Reading Time: 6 minutes “You can do it.” I wish I could tell you that was my own voice, strong and positive, cheering myself on as I attempted to bike up my first mountain. Yes, that’s right: mountain.

Reading Time: 4 minutes Isn’t riding a bike just so easy, so carefree, so simple? I have a confession to make – I never really learned how to ride a bike, not until I went to Bali.

Reading Time: 4 minutes Most people picture cycling tours through the rolling green hills of Europe. But cycling in Iran offers riders a new perspective of the country.