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.
Stories
Our flagship travel writing is made by young people, for young people, driven by a commitment to real experiences and a curiosity to look beyond the obvious. Through our content, we aim to make travel feel more meaningful and accessible to a broad range of backgrounds, budgets, and levels of expertise.
Dispatches
Reporting from the ground, our writers share their unique experiences, encounters, and lessons learned in faraway places. From eye-opening cultural reflections to the thrill of stumbling upon a hidden gem, our Dispatches bring you closer to the places we visit and make the world feel just a little more magical.
Dispatch from Amman
Learning to Sit Still in Amman
Six weeks of intensive Arabic taught me less than the hours I spent alone in the same café on Rainbow Street.
Dispatch from Seoul
Seoul Doesn’t Close, and Neither Should Your Weekend
The 24-hour cafés, night markets, and bathhouses that make two days feel like four.
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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.
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.
Signals
What is changing in the world of travel, and what does it mean for you as a young traveler? Signals briefings cut through the noise to track the developments that could shape your next journey, from airline changes and visa policies to shifting prices and emerging trends across travel and hospitality.
Signal
Portugal Extends Digital Nomad Visa Eligibility to Non-EU Students
A policy change buried in this month’s immigration bulletin quietly widens who can stay past a semester.
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.
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