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Vietnam is the destination we most often hear described as “the best trip we’ve ever taken” — and the one where tour style matters most. The same fortnight can be a greatest-hi …

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Here’s the quiet truth about Portugal and Spain: the peak-summer months everyone fights over can be the least enjoyable time for sightseeing, particularly inland. Seville hits the mid-40s in Jul …

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It’s the phone call we get every June: “Is it too late for the July holidays?” The honest answer is no — but the list of what genuinely books well at four to eight weeks out is …

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Make a coffee and give this fifteen minutes — it’s the same checklist we run through with every Pack Ya Bags traveller before departure, and it prevents essentially every avoidable travel …

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The Balkans reward road travel — Lake Bled to Plitvice’s waterfalls to the Bay of Kotor in one unbroken run of scenery — but they punish the driver: three countries’ border que …

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The most useful thing to know about Sri Lanka is that it has two monsoons — which means it also always has a dry coast. When the southwest (Galle, Mirissa, Colombo’s beaches) turns wet fro …

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When the southern winter bites, the Pacific is the family escape that makes practical sense: three to five hours from east-coast Australia or Auckland, minimal or no time difference — no jet-lag …

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Japan has the world’s best transport system and the world’s most anxious first-time visitors — an irony we see every booking season at Pack Ya Bags Travel. The truth: getting around …

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Puglia is what Tuscany was thirty years ago — Italy before the queues — and the best way to meet it is on foot with a fork in hand. Our nine-day gourmet walking tour through Italy’s …

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Every week someone sits across from us — in person or by email from anywhere in Australia or New Zealand — and asks the same set of questions about their first African safari. They’r …

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The Philippines is the best-value serious diving in Asia, and the Cebu–Bohol corridor is its most accessible slice: thresher sharks at dawn, sardine tornadoes off Moalboal, turtle-thick reefs ar …

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Most people have never seen what happens between “we’re thinking about Japan in November” and stepping onto the plane with everything arranged. Here’s the process at Pack Ya Ba …

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