Fourteen thousand guides filed by people who actually live in the places they cover. Start with a continent; we’ll help you narrow it from there.
Every region hub on Faraway Places is built by the same three layers of editorial work, in the same order, before a single recommendation ships to a reader.
It starts with our correspondents — 240 writers across 92 countries, most of them residents of the place they cover, all of them paid out-of-pocket for every hotel, tour, and meal they recommend. They file raw notes from the road: which guesthouse in Chefchaouen has finally reopened, which Lisbon tasca closed in March, which Tokyo neighborhood is worth the extra subway stop.
From there, our editors back in Lisbon turn those notes into a navigable hub: a region overview, country sub-pages, themed guides (by interest, by season, by trip length), and a reading-room of long-form features. Each guide averages 6,400 words of original reporting and is read by at least two editors before publication.
“The point has never been to out-list the internet. It’s to write the kind of destination guide you’d want to read on the plane over — the one that tells you which side of the souk the souk is actually on.”
Three guides pulled from different regions — a small taste of what waits behind each region tile.
Twelve days on foot, by grand taxi and by the occasional mule — through Berber villages where the road still ends at the last walnut tree. Our Marrakech correspondent files the season’s most quietly radical walk.
Read the full guide →
Skip the art-festival crowds. A working editor’s notes on the islands most guides never quite find.
Read the full guide →
Past the rooftop bars and the influencer brunch — the bookshops, the mezcal tastings, and the family-run fondas our Mexico City desk loves.
Read the full guide →Every Sunday, our correspondents file the writing behind the guides: the unedited notes, the restaurants they can’t quite stop returning to, the destinations they’re watching for next year. Same writers, same regions — just a quieter, longer-form kind of conversation.
