Signal
Jordan Drops the Petra Entry Fee for Anyone Staying Two Nights
The cheapest way into the Treasury is now to sleep in Wadi Musa first.
Reasons to go
For the plot
Trips undertaken specifically so you’ll have something to tell at brunch. Or also, dad lore.
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Dispatch from Mexico City
Nobody in Mexico City Eats Dinner Before Ten
What a night out looks like when the best food in the city starts serving around the hour your program calls curfew.
Dispatch from Sydney
Sydney Costs a Fortune. The Harbour Doesn’t.
An exchange semester spent finding out how much of this city you can see for the price of one ferry ticket.
Signal
Kenya Extends Visa-Free Entry to Student Passport Holders
The electronic travel authorisation still applies. The fee does not.
Dispatch from Hong Kong
What Nobody Tells You About a Semester in Hong Kong
The skyline is the easy part. Four months of actually living there involves a set of logistics that no exchange brochure has ever mentioned.
Dispatch from Cape Town
What I Got Wrong About Cape Town Before I Got There
A semester in a city that refuses to fit the two paragraphs a study-abroad brochure gives it.