Nepal is open for the autumn season, and glad you are coming.
Everest, Annapurna and Thorong La are open. Langtang treks stay paused while the Rasuwa road is rebuilt; Mustang and Manang roads are still being repaired.
Nepal News
Where to go now: global destinations, trends and inspiration.
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Members backed a consultation 15 to 1 on 30 September, so the one-email route to a temporary campsite could end. Here’s who it hits and who it doesn’t.
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Four real options for one week, from a 4-day ridge walk to a 7-day Everest view trek, with altitude, price and the catch in each.
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He fell about 60 metres descending Torrecerredo on Thursday, on ground climbers don’t rope up for — proof an ‘easy’ mountain can still kill you.
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Colorado's Black Canyon of the Gunnison is deeper than it is wide, and some stretches get barely 30 minutes of direct sun a day.
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France will require advance hut or bivouac bookings on the Tour du Mont Blanc from spring 2027, and booking opens 15 October 2026.
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US law names them, Bhutan lets in a handful of its own pilots, and Lukla has a 527 m runway on a 12% slope. Why these six close when the cloud comes in.
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€20 a person per stop until 30 September, then €12 in October and €4 from November. Other Greek ports charge €5, €3 and €1.
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Maine went from 12% to 100% in drought in seven weeks while southern New England got wetter. What that means for this year’s color, and how to time a trip.
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661,929 Americans visited Iceland in 2025, nearly three in ten visitors. This year is flat overall, hiding swings of more than 20% from month to month.
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Return trips from the US rose 8.8% in August, a fifth straight monthly rise. Car trips are still 27.4% below August 2024.
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Arrivals fell 9.6% in August while US visits ran at a record pace, up 6.1% for the year. One market explains almost the entire drop.
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323 million visits in 2025, down on the year before. The busiest place in the system is not a national park at all, and Zion now outdraws Yellowstone.
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No US law requires a single paid day off, and most workers get 10 to 14 after a year. Here is the trip arithmetic that comes out of that.
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Altitude illness starts around 2,450 m, and Cusco, La Paz and Lhasa all sit above it. Flying straight in is harder on you than walking to Everest Base Camp.
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From Torres del Paine to the Serengeti to Nepal’s own Everest and Chitwan — nine UNESCO-grade parks worth planning a whole trip around, and the season each is best.
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From Nepal’s Himalaya on a backpacker budget to the street-food value of Vietnam, India and Kyrgyzstan — the great-value Asian destinations for 2026, why each is cheap, and when to go.
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Skip the ticketed queues at Venice, Santorini, Bali and Dubrovnik. Here are the quieter, cheaper equals — from Bologna and Naxos to Kotor, the Faroes and Nepal's Manaslu — that deliver the same experience with a fraction of the crowds.
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From Kraków and Budapest to Porto, Sofia and Tirana — the European cities where an old-town weekend costs a fraction of London, Paris or Zurich, why each is cheap, what to see, and the best season to go.
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A season-first calendar of where the weather works best in every month of 2026 — from Southeast Asia’s dry winter and Japan’s cherry blossom to Europe’s summer, Nepal’s autumn trekking peak and the Caribbean’s dry-season sun.
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The best-value coastlines for warm sand on a small budget in 2026 — why each is cheap, when to go, and the honest trade-off, from Southeast Asia and Bali to Sri Lanka, the Red Sea, Albania, Mexico and Zanzibar.
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Southeast Asia has no one best month — the monsoon differs by country and coast. Here is the 2026 pattern-by-pattern map: the dry mainland season, Vietnam’s three climates, Bali flipped, and Thailand’s opposite coasts.
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A clear, no-hype guide to catching the aurora next winter — the best destinations from Tromsø to the Yukon, the September–March season, why the solar cycle still favours 2026, and honest expectation-setting.
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The best-value places to ski in 2026 — Bulgaria, Bosnia, Slovakia, Poland, Georgia and Andorra — what makes each one cheap, and the trade-offs in size and snow.
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From Amsterdam’s hotel tax to Venice’s day-tripper fee and Bhutan’s nightly levy, what the big-name destinations charge visitors in 2026, and how to budget.
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From $25-a-day Nepal, Vietnam and Bolivia to Europe’s cheapest corners, honest 2026 backpacker budgets covering bed, food and local transport.
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The best-value Caribbean islands for warm sand on a budget — what each costs, when to go to dodge hurricane season, and what you actually get.
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From 34°C Zanzibar beaches to Nepal’s clear-sky, 20°C+ lowlands — the temperature-checked map of where to chase winter warmth this season.
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Shoulder-season timing is the traveller’s cheat code: here is when prices and crowds drop across Japan, Italy, Greece, Thailand, Bali, Iceland and Nepal — and what you trade off.
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From about $8,000 across Southeast Asia to $50,000+ in Western Europe — the real 2026 numbers for a year on the road, broken down by travel style and region, and where a Nepal trek fits a round-the-world budget.
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Where a pension stretches furthest in 2026 — real monthly costs, retirement-visa income thresholds and healthcare for Portugal, Thailand, Panama, Mexico, Malaysia and Vietnam, with the rule changes that caught retirees off guard.
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The Mark in New York, the Royal Mansion in Dubai, a Damien Hirst suite in Las Vegas — a look at the priciest hotel rooms on Earth in 2026, the verified nightly rates, and what six figures a night actually gets you.
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