The Reality of Sapporo: The Grid Without a Reason
Travellers arriving in Japan expecting medieval streets, irregular wooden alleys, and organic growth encounter an unfamiliar urban layout in Sapporo. In Hokkaido's…
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Asia travel guide on PenguFly: top attractions, best places to visit, routes and practical tips — plus cheap flight ideas to plan your trip to Asia.
Cheap Flights to Sapporo: The Train Under the Wrong Building
The train station at New Chitose Airport sits inside the complex, but international arrivals land in the wrong building. New Chitose Airport…
The Reality of Almaty: The City the Apple Came From
On the northern slopes of the Tian Shan, in the mountain forests beyond the edge of Almaty, grows a tree that explains…
Cheap Flights to Almaty: The Country That Moved All Its Clocks at Once
On 1 March 2024, Kazakhstan moved its entire territory onto a single time zone, UTC+5. Before that shift, the country had been…
The Reality of Muscat: The Capital That Chose Not to Build Up
You come over the last ridge expecting a skyline, because this is the Gulf and that is what the Gulf does. There…
Cheap flights to Muscat: the calm Gulf connection, the stopover you can actually book, and the taxi advice that quietly expired
Here is the one thing to know before you land, and it will save you an argument with the internet. Half the…
The Reality of Kathmandu: Three Royal Squares in One Valley
You are standing in a square of brick and carved wood, in front of a palace with more windows than a palace…
Cheap flights to Kathmandu: the visa you get at the airport, the one-stop menu, and the Everest flight that leaves from a different city
Picture the morning you've been planning for a year. You fly into Kathmandu, spend a day sorting permits, and take the early…
The Reality of Tashkent: Palaces Underground
It is forty degrees on the street and the pavement is doing that thing where it seems to be breathing. You go…
Cheap flights to Tashkent: the visa that quietly disappeared, the nonstops nobody mentions, and the train that does the rest
Two things about flying to Uzbekistan changed while most of the internet wasn't looking, and both of them are in your favor.…
The Reality of Yerevan: The Capital Older Than Rome
In a museum on a hill at the southern edge of Yerevan there is a slab of basalt with wedge-shaped marks cut…
Cheap flights to Yerevan: the London nonstop that just appeared, the one-stop menu, and the airport bus that isn’t the one you’ve read about
Here is the mistake I want you to avoid, because it is the single most common thing written wrong about arriving in…