Philippines

South East Asia has all the ingredients you could want in an overseas adventure: awesome beaches, super-cheap food, and all the temples and ruins you could ask for.

If you’re guilty of organising your travel itinerary around local food you’re desperate to try, check out these emerging culinary scenes and prepare to venture off the eaten track.

Once you’ve sampled the food, culture and magnificent temples of southeast Asia, you’ll want to relax – and these are the best beaches to do it.

Whether it’s dressing as Roman soldiers in Costa Rica, following Jesus’ footsteps in Israel, or drenching each other with buckets of water in Poland, here are some of the ways Easter is celebrated globally.

With over 7,000 islands to explore in the Philippines, unspoiled natural beauty is in serious surplus. Throw a dart at a map and you’re going to hit paradise.

Travelling alone doesn’t mean you have to travel alone. One of the best ways I’ve found to explore a country during my two years of solo travel is to join a tour group.

It doesn’t really matter where you’re from, it wouldn’t be Christmas without good food. But growing up in Australia, I naturally assumed that everyone in the world rang-in the season with a barbecue. How wrong I was.