Routes & loops

34 routes · 22 countries

A wonder is a place; a route is a trip. These itineraries stitch the atlas’s natural wonders into real, takeable journeys — each with an interactive trip map, a day-by-day flow with drive and ferry legs, the best season to go, how to get around, and an honest budget range in the local currency. The set launched in the Philippines and now reaches around the world.

Philippines 11 routes

Bicol Fire & Water

Luzon · Southeast Asia

Perfect volcanoes, gentle giants, and hidden island coves — the elemental south of Luzon.

5–6 days
4 stops
₱16,000–46,000 pp

Central Visayas Reef & Karst

Visayas · Southeast Asia

Chocolate Hills, sardine tornadoes, and turtle sanctuaries — a Bohol–Cebu–Negros triangle.

5–6 days
5 stops
₱18,000–50,000 pp

Grand Philippine Loop

Philippines · Southeast Asia

Three weeks, five islands — rice terraces to a perfect volcano, karst lagoons to a surf island.

18–21 days (grand loop)
5 stops
₱57,000–152,000 pp

North Luzon Cordillera Loop

Luzon · Southeast Asia

Rice terraces, caves, and a sea of clouds — a full clockwise loop through the roof of Luzon.

6–7 days (loop)
5 stops
₱13,000–35,000 pp

Palawan Island Hop

Palawan · Southeast Asia

Underground rivers, towering lagoons, and shipwreck lakes — the classic Palawan traverse, south to north.

6–7 days (extendable)
4 stops
₱22,000–65,000 pp

Cebu & Bohol Long Weekend

Visayas · Southeast Asia

Chocolate Hills, a sardine tornado, and a turquoise gorge — the Visayas greatest hits in four days.

4 days / 3 nights
4 stops
₱12,000–34,000 pp

Davao & the Southeast Highlands

Mindanao · Southeast Asia

The country's highest peak, a mountain of century-old bonsai, and a giant staircase of falls.

4–5 days (longer if you summit Apo)
3 stops
₱16,000–45,000 pp

Luzon Volcano Trail

Luzon · Southeast Asia

Four of the country's great volcanoes, north to south — a lesson in fire down the spine of Luzon.

6–7 days
4 stops
₱15,000–40,000 pp

Manila Weekend Escapes

Luzon · Southeast Asia

A volcano in a lake, a conservation karst trail, and a gorge of falls — three days, no flights.

3 days / 2 nights
3 stops
₱7,000–21,000 pp

Negros & Siquijor Hop

Visayas · Southeast Asia

A living volcano, a turtle sanctuary, and a raised-coral island of blue springs — the quiet southern Visayas.

5 days / 4 nights
3 stops
₱13,000–34,000 pp

Siargao & Surigao: Islands and Enchanted Rivers

Mindanao · Southeast Asia

Surf-island lagoons, a stingless-jellyfish cove, and impossibly blue springs — the wild northeast of Mindanao.

5–6 days
4 stops
₱18,500–51,000 pp

Belize 1 route

Belize: Pine Ridge, Jaguar Jungle & the Barrier Reef

Cayo, Stann Creek & the northern cayes · Latin America

Waterfalls in the pine hills of Cayo, the jaguar forest of Cockscomb, then out to the cayes for the barrier reef and the Great Blue Hole — Belize inland to offshore in a week.

8 days
4 stops
$800–2,600 pp

Bolivia 1 route

Bolivia: Dinosaur Canyons, Sajama & the Salt Flat

Cochabamba, La Paz, the western Altiplano & the Lípez · Latin America

Torotoro's canyons and dinosaur tracks, the snow cone of Sajama, then the Salar de Uyuni and the red waters of Laguna Colorada — Bolivia's high country in two weeks, climbing in stages.

14 days
4 stops
$1,100–3,600 pp

Botswana 1 route

Botswana: Chobe to the Kalahari Pans

Northern Botswana · Africa

Elephant herds on the Chobe River, the salt pans of Makgadikgadi, Baines' Baobabs and the waterways of the Okavango — Botswana's great loop.

9–10 days
4 stops
$2,200–9,000 pp

Canada 1 route

Canadian Rockies: Banff & the Icefields Parkway

Canadian Rockies · North America

Turquoise lakes and a road along the spine of the Rockies to a living glacier.

4–5 days
2 stops
C$900–2,400 pp

Chile 1 route

Patagonia: Ice & Granite

Patagonia · Latin America

The towers of Paine, a glacier you can hear calving, and caves of swirled marble — the deep south.

8–10 days
3 stops
$1,800–5,700 pp

Ecuador 1 route

Ecuador: Avenue of the Volcanoes

Ecuadorian Andes · Latin America

Cotopaxi's perfect cone, the green crater lake of Quilotoa and ice-capped Chimborazo — Ecuador's high Andes in five days from Quito.

5 days
3 stops
$350–1,100 pp

Iceland 1 route

Iceland: Golden Circle to the Glacier Lagoon

Iceland · Europe

Geysers, waterfalls, rifts, and a lagoon of drifting icebergs — the south of Iceland in a week.

6–7 days
5 stops
ISK 375,000–900,000 pp

Japan 1 route

Wild Japan: North to South

Japan · East Asia

A drift-ice coast, the perfect volcano, and a rainforest island of thousand-year-old cedars.

10–12 days
3 stops
¥250,000–650,000 pp

Kyrgyzstan 1 route

Kyrgyzstan: Tian Shan Lakes & Red Rocks

Northern & central Kyrgyzstan · Central Asia

Glaciers on Bishkek's doorstep, the vast blue of Issyk-Kul, the red cliffs of Jeti-Ögüz and yurt camps on high Song-Köl — a summer loop through the Tian Shan.

8 days (loop)
4 stops
$450–1,300 pp

Madagascar 1 route

Madagascar: Tsingy, Baobabs & the Road South

Menabe & Melaky in the west, the RN7 through the highlands to the south-west · Africa

The Avenue of the Baobabs, the razor-edged Tsingy de Bemaraha, then south on the RN7 to Ranomafana's rainforest lemurs and Isalo's sandstone canyons — Madagascar's west and south in 15 days.

15 days
4 stops
$1,600–5,400 pp

Morocco 1 route

Morocco: Atlas Mountains & the Sahara

High Atlas & the south · Africa

Over the High Atlas to the Todra Gorge, the dunes of the Sahara, and the tiered Ouzoud Falls — a Marrakech loop.

6–8 days (loop)
4 stops
MAD 5,000–15,000 pp

Namibia 1 route

Namibia: Deserts, Canyon & Coast

Namib, Damaraland & Etosha · Africa

The red dunes of Sossusvlei, Fish River Canyon, the Skeleton Coast, granite Spitzkoppe, and the game of Etosha — a grand self-drive loop.

12–14 days (loop)
7 stops
$1,500–4,500 pp

New Zealand 1 route

New Zealand: South to North

New Zealand · Oceania

A drowned fjord, the tallest Alp, a volcanic crossing, and geysers — both islands' wild best.

9–12 days
4 stops
NZ$4,000–12,000 pp

North Macedonia 1 route

North Macedonia: Canyon, Mountains & Lake Ohrid

Skopje, the western mountains, Ohrid & Bitola · Europe

Matka Canyon from Skopje, the high country of Mavrovo, a few days on Lake Ohrid, then up through Balkan pine forest to Pelister's glacial lakes — North Macedonia's nature in a week.

8 days
4 stops
€450–1,400 pp

Norway 1 route

Norwegian Fjords & Cliffs

Norwegian Fjords · Europe

Pulpit Rock, the tongue of Trolltunga, and a UNESCO fjord — the great cliffs of the Norwegian west.

6–8 days
4 stops
NOK 18,000–49,000 pp

Peru 1 route

Peru: Andes & Altiplano

Andes · Latin America

A condor canyon, the highest navigable lake, a painted mountain, and the Amazon's edge.

9–11 days
4 stops
S/ 4,000–12,300 pp

Slovenia 1 route

Slovenia: Alpine Valleys, Lakes & Karst Caves

Upper Savinja Valley, the Julian Alps & the Karst · Europe

A glacier-cut valley in the Kamnik-Savinja Alps, Lake Bled and Lake Bohinj under the Julian Alps, then down to the Karst for Postojna and the river canyon of Škocjan — Slovenia's nature in eight days.

8 days (loop)
5 stops
€600–1,800 pp

South Korea 1 route

South Korea: Granite Peaks, the Great Ridge & Jeju

Seoul, Sokcho, Gurye & Jeju · East Asia

Seoul's own granite mountain, the towers of Seoraksan, two days on Jirisan's high ridge and a volcanic island to finish — South Korea's mountains in ten days.