
Mexico Alone: One Region, and Which One
Mexico's regions are far apart and genuinely different, and a solo trip works best committed to one of them.

Mexico's regions are far apart and genuinely different, and a solo trip works best committed to one of them.

Bali's regions are effectively separate destinations, and moving between them alone wastes most of a short trip.

The easiest solo trips are the ones where something else provides the schedule and the company.

A three-day solo trip is a different proposition from a long one, and the destinations that suit it are small.

Some adventure activities are entirely reasonable alone and some are genuinely dangerous without a second person.

Vietnam's north-to-south route is worn enough that a solo trip along it runs itself.

Tulum has two entirely separate parts and staying in the wrong one alone is expensive and isolating.

Cape Town's attractions are spread across a 60-kilometre peninsula, and how you move around determines the trip and the budget.

Marrakech is intense in a specific way, and knowing what to expect in the medina turns it from stressful into interesting.

Edinburgh's old and new towns sit at different heights connected by bridges and staircases, which is the first thing to understand about it.

Berlin's main sights are free, outdoors and about the twentieth century, which makes them better absorbed alone.

Chiang Mai has the infrastructure, the price level and the constant flow of other solo travellers that makes arriving alone effortless.

A solo Barcelona trip can be built almost entirely around things that need no booking, which is the opposite of how it is usually done.

Two weeks in Thailand alone works as two regions, and the season decides which coast.

Lisbon is small enough to walk in three days and steep enough that the walking is the main physical demand.