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100 iconic multi-stop journeys — by road, rail, bus and ferry — each built from verified places and checked for feasibility.

Europe

Gjirokastër's stone roofs stacked on the hillsideⓘ
The Albanian Rivieraself-driveTirana → Sarandë · 5–8 days
Pastel houses of Positano stacked above the Tyrrhenian Seaⓘ
Amalfi Coast & Bay of Naplesbus & ferryNaples → Salerno · 3–6 days · bus & ferry
Tallinn's medieval spires and red rooftops from Toompeaⓘ
Baltic Capitals by Railby railTallinn → Warsaw · 4–8 days
Bruges' Rozenhoedkaai canal and medieval belfryⓘ
Benelux Cities by Railby railAmsterdam → Brussels · 4–7 days
Dubrovnik's walled old town jutting into the Adriaticⓘ
Dalmatian Coastbus & ferryZadar → Dubrovnik · 4–8 days · road + ferry
Český Krumlov's castle tower over the Vltava loopⓘ
Prague, Vienna & the Imperial Townsbus & ferryPrague → Salzburg · 6–8 days
Colmar's Little Venice — half-timbered houses reflected in the Lauchⓘ
Alsace Wine Routeself-driveStrasbourg → Eguisheim · 3–5 days
The hilltop village of Gordes overlooking the Luberon valleyⓘ
Provence & the Rivieraself-driveAvignon → Nice · 4–7 days
The half-timbered Plönlein corner of Rothenburg ob der Tauberⓘ
Romantic Roadbus & ferryWürzburg → Füssen · 3–6 days
Whitewashed houses and blue domes of Oia above the Santorini calderaⓘ
Greek Island Hoppingbus & ferryAthens → Santorini · 5–9 days · by ferry
Skógafoss waterfall thundering off the cliffs of Iceland's south coastⓘ
Iceland Ring Roadself-drive1,332 km loop · 6–12 days · best Jun–Sep
The hexagonal basalt columns of the Giant's Causewayⓘ
Causeway Coastself-driveBelfast → Derry · 2–4 days
The Cliffs of Moher rising from the Atlantic on Ireland's west coastⓘ
Wild Atlantic Wayself-driveGalway → Cork · 4–8 days
The three towers of Tre Cime di Lavaredo in the Dolomitesⓘ
Dolomites Loopself-drive230 km loop · 3–7 days
A cypress-lined lane through the rolling hills of the Val d'Orciaⓘ
Tuscany Loopself-driveFlorence circle · 4–7 days
Sheer cliffs and waterfalls dropping into Geirangerfjordⓘ
Norway Fjordsbus & ferryBergen → Ålesund · 4–8 days · road + ferry
Red rorbu cabins beneath the peaks of Reine in Lofotenⓘ
Lofoten Islandsself-driveSvolvær → Å · 3–6 days
Kraków's Cloth Hall and Main Market Square at duskⓘ
Kraków & the Tatrasself-drive450 km loop · 5–7 days
Golden sea stacks and grottoes of Ponta da Piedade at Lagosⓘ
Porto to the Algarveself-drivePorto → Lagos · 5–9 days
The Transfăgărășan's switchbacks climbing the Făgăraș rangeⓘ
Transylvania & the Transfăgărășanself-drive700 km loop · 4–8 days
The aurora curling green over Abisko's frozen lakeⓘ
The Arctic Circle by Railby railStockholm → Narvik · 6–8 days
Ardvreck Castle ruin on Loch Assynt in the Scottish Highlandsⓘ
Scotland North Coast 500self-drive830 km Highland loop · 5–9 days
Lake Bled's island church backed by the Julian Alpsⓘ
Slovenia's Lakes & the Sočaself-drive320 km loop · 3–7 days
The Alhambra against the snowy Sierra Nevadaⓘ
Andalusia Loopself-drive660 km loop · 4–8 days
A red train crossing the Landwasser Viaduct into the cliff tunnelⓘ
Swiss Scenic Railby railZurich → Zermatt → Geneva · 4–8 days

Asia

Tatev Monastery on its gorge-edge plateauⓘ
Armenia's Monasteries & Mountainsself-drive650 km loop · 5–7 days
Baku's Flame Towers glowing over the old cityⓘ
Baku & the Caucasus Foothillsself-drive700 km loop · 5–7 days
Angkor Wat's towers reflected at sunriseⓘ
Angkor to the Cambodian Coastself-driveSiem Reap → Kampot · 5–8 days
The Yangtze surging through Tiger Leaping Gorgeⓘ
Yunnan from Kunming to Shangri-Labus & ferryKunming → Shangri-La · 7–10 days
Gergeti Trinity Church beneath Mount Kazbek's snowsⓘ
Tbilisi & the High Caucasusself-drive700 km loop · 5–8 days
A houseboat gliding Kerala's palm-lined backwatersⓘ
Kerala's Backwaters & Hillsself-drive600 km loop · 6–9 days
Pangong Tso's impossible blues beneath bare mountainsⓘ
Manali to Leh & Ladakhself-driveManali → Pangong · 7–10 days
The Taj Mahal glowing white above its reflecting poolⓘ
Rajasthan & the Golden Triangleself-driveDelhi → Udaipur · 6–10 days
The lakeside temple of Ulun Danu Bratan in Baliⓘ
Bali Loopself-drive300 km loop · 4–8 days
Mount Bromo smoking above a sea of dawn cloudⓘ
Java's Volcanoes & Templesbus & ferryJakarta → Ijen · 7–10 days
Chureito Pagoda framed against snow-capped Mount Fujiⓘ
Japan Golden Routeby railTokyo → Kyoto → Osaka · 5–10 days
Rows of lavender striping the fields of Furanoⓘ
Hokkaidō Loopself-drive550 km loop · 4–8 days
Steam rising across Mount Aso's vast green calderaⓘ
Kyūshū's Volcano Loopself-drive700 km loop · 6–9 days
Petra's Treasury glowing rose through the Siqⓘ
The King's Highwayself-driveAmman → Aqaba · 4–7 days
Yurts and horses on the Song-Kul plateau at duskⓘ
Issyk-Kul & Song-Kulself-drive900 km loop · 6–9 days
Kuang Si's turquoise pools stepping through the forestⓘ
Luang Prabang & Northern Laosself-driveLuang Prabang → Vientiane · 5–7 days
Tea bushes contouring the Cameron Highlands hillsⓘ
Kuala Lumpur to Penangself-driveKuala Lumpur → Penang · 5–7 days
The painted eyes of Boudhanath stupa over prayer flagsⓘ
Kathmandu & Pokharaself-driveKathmandu → Pokhara · 5–8 days
Emerald pools winding into the canyon of Wadi Shabⓘ
Oman's Grand Loopself-drive1,000 km loop · 6–9 days
Limestone towers around El Nido's turquoise lagoonⓘ
The Palawan Island Hopbus & ferryPuerto Princesa → Coron · 6–9 days
Gyeongbokgung Palace's throne hall and courtyard in Seoulⓘ
Seoul to Busanby railSeoul → Busan · 5–8 days
A train crossing Ella's Nine Arch Bridge in the tea hillsⓘ
Sri Lanka's Hills to Coastbus & ferryColombo → Galle · 5–9 days
Marble cliffs closing over the river in Taroko Gorgeⓘ
Taiwan's Round-Island Railby rail900 km loop · 6–9 days
The lit chedis of Wat Phra That Doi Kong Mu above Mae Hong Son at duskⓘ
Mae Hong Son Loopself-drive600 km loop · 3–6 days
Longtail boats beneath Railay's limestone cliffsⓘ
Phuket, Krabi & the Islandsbus & ferryPhuket → Ko Lanta · 6–8 days
Hot-air balloons drifting over Cappadocia's fairy chimneysⓘ
Istanbul to the Turquoise Coastself-driveIstanbul → Antalya · 6–10 days
The tiled madrasahs of Samarkand's Registan squareⓘ
The Silk Road Citiesby railTashkent → Khiva · 6–9 days
The Mã Pí Lèng pass road carved above the Nho Quế riverⓘ
Hà Giang Loopself-drive350 km loop · 3–5 days
The Hai Van Pass coast road curving high above the South China Seaⓘ
Hanoi to Saigon by Railby rail1,700 km south · 7–14 days

North America

The Alaska Highway running empty toward distant peaksⓘ
The Alaska Highwayself-driveDawson Creek → Fairbanks · 8–12 days
The Cabot Trail hugging Cape Breton's highland coastⓘ
Cabot Trailself-drive300 km loop · 3–5 days
Turquoise Peyto Lake below glaciated peaks on the Icefields Parkwayⓘ
Icefields Parkwayself-driveBanff → Jasper · 3–5 days
The fjord walls of Western Brook Pond in Gros Morneⓘ
Newfoundland's Viking Trailself-driveDeer Lake → L'Anse aux Meadows · 6–8 days
Arenal volcano's cone rising over rainforestⓘ
Costa Rica's Classic Loopself-drive520 km loop · 6–9 days
A classic American car cruising Havana's Malecónⓘ
Havana to Trinidadself-driveHavana → Trinidad · 5–8 days
Volcanoes ringing Lake Atitlán's blue calderaⓘ
Antigua & Lake Atitlánself-drive300 km loop · 4–6 days
El Arco's stone arch where the Pacific meets the Sea of Cortezⓘ
Baja California Surself-driveLoreto → Cabo · 5–7 days
The stepped pyramid of El Castillo at Chichén Itzáⓘ
Yucatán Peninsula Loopself-drive700 km loop · 4–8 days
The Blue Ridge Parkway winding through autumn mountainsⓘ
Blue Ridge Parkwayself-driveShenandoah → Smokies · 3–7 days
Yosemite Valley's granite walls from Tunnel Viewⓘ
Yosemite to Death Valleyself-driveYosemite → Death Valley · 6–8 days
The long straight road into the buttes of Monument Valleyⓘ
US Southwest Grand Circleself-drive1,450 km canyon loop · 5–9 days
Blazing red and orange fall foliage over a New England valleyⓘ
New England Fall Loopself-drive640 km loop · 4–7 days
Bixby Creek Bridge spanning a Big Sur cove on Highway 1ⓘ
Pacific Coast Highwayself-driveSan Francisco → LA · 4–7 days
An open stretch of Route 66 running toward desert buttesⓘ
Route 66self-driveChicago → Santa Monica · 8–14 days
The rainbow rings of Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstoneⓘ
Yellowstone & Grand Tetonself-drive480 km loop · 3–7 days

South America

The seven-coloured hill rising behind Purmamarca villageⓘ
Argentina's Northwestself-drive800 km loop · 5–8 days
A lake on the Seven Lakes Road backed by Andean peaksⓘ
The Seven Lakes Roadself-drive420 km loop · 4–7 days
The Salar de Uyuni mirroring the sky after rainⓘ
Salar de Uyuni & the Altiplanoself-driveUyuni → Sucre · 4–7 days
Rio de Janeiro's bays and Sugarloaf seen from aboveⓘ
Rio & the Costa Verdeself-driveRio → Paraty · 3–6 days
Iguazú Falls pouring around its jungle horseshoeⓘ
Iguazú & the Pantanalbus & ferryFoz do Iguaçu → Bonito · 6–9 days
The Valle de la Luna's ridges glowing at sunsetⓘ
The Atacama Desertself-drive450 km loop · 4–6 days
The gravel Carretera Austral threading Patagonia's peaksⓘ
Carretera Australself-drivePuerto Montt → Cochrane · 5–10 days
Towering wax palms in the Cocora Valley's green pasturesⓘ
Colombia's Coffee Axisself-drive380 km loop · 4–6 days
Cotopaxi's snow-capped cone above the páramo grasslandsⓘ
The Avenue of the Volcanoesself-driveQuito → Cuenca · 5–8 days
The carved adobe walls of Chan Chan near Trujilloⓘ
Lima & Peru's North Coastself-driveLima → Trujillo · 4–6 days
Machu Picchu's terraces beneath Huayna Picchuⓘ
Cusco & the Sacred Valleybus & ferry250 km loop · 3–6 days

Oceania

A whale shark cruising Ningaloo's clear waterⓘ
Western Australia's Coral Coastself-drivePerth → Exmouth · 7–10 days
The Twelve Apostles sea stacks off the Great Ocean Roadⓘ
Great Ocean Roadself-driveMelbourne → Warrnambool · 3–5 days
Uluru glowing deep red at sunsetⓘ
The Red Centreself-drive1,150 km loop · 5–7 days
Wineglass Bay's perfect curve from the Hazards lookoutⓘ
Tasmania Loopself-drive1,020 km loop · 5–9 days
A palm-fringed Fijian island ringed by lagoonⓘ
Fiji's Coral Coastbus & ferry400 km loop · 5–8 days
The Emerald Lakes steaming on the Tongariro Crossingⓘ
New Zealand North Islandself-driveAuckland → Wellington · 4–8 days
Mitre Peak reflected in the still water of Milford Soundⓘ
New Zealand South Islandself-driveChristchurch → Queenstown · 5–10 days

Africa

The pyramids of Giza rising above the desert plateauⓘ
Cairo & the Nile Valleybus & ferryCairo → Aswan · 6–9 days
The white ramparts of Cape Coast Castle above the Atlantic surfⓘ
Accra & the Gold Coastself-drive640 km loop · 5–7 days
Wildebeest crossing the Mara river on the great migrationⓘ
Kenya Safari Circuitself-drive900 km loop · 6–9 days
A ring-tailed lemur troop warming up in the morning sunⓘ
Madagascar's RN7self-driveAntananarivo → Toliara · 7–10 days
The orange dunes of Erg Chebbi at the Sahara's edgeⓘ
The Atlas & the Saharaself-drive1,120 km loop · 4–8 days
A blue-washed lane climbing through Chefchaouen's medinaⓘ
Morocco's Imperial Citiesbus & ferryCasablanca → Chefchaouen · 5–8 days
Dead camelthorn trees on Deadvlei's white clay panⓘ
Namibia Desert Loopself-drive1,550 km loop · 6–10 days
Bloukrans Bridge arching over its forest gorge on the Garden Routeⓘ
Garden Routeself-driveCape Town → Plettenberg Bay · 4–7 days
The Blyde River Canyon's Three Rondavels above the river bendⓘ
The Panorama Route & Krugerself-drive900 km loop · 5–8 days
The green floor of Ngorongoro Crater from the rimⓘ
Tanzania Northern Circuitself-driveArusha → Serengeti · 5–8 days
A mountain gorilla at rest in Bwindi's dense forestⓘ
Uganda's Gorilla Trailself-drive1,100 km loop · 7–10 days
Victoria Falls thundering into its mile-wide gorgeⓘ
Victoria Falls & Chobeself-drive220 km loop · 3–5 days