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Each of these is a complete trip: which places, in which order, on which day — with the travel times, the neighbourhoods worth sleeping in, and what most people get wrong. Read it here, or open it in Vacadu and make it yours: change a day, drop a stop, pick your own dates.
Costa Rica · 9 days
A nine-day self-drive loop: San José's museums, three nights under Arenal with a Rio Celeste day, two in the Monteverde cloud forest, then sloths and Pacific beaches at Manuel Antonio before the drive back.
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Greece · 7 days
Two days of Athens on foot, then the ferry out to Naxos for marble villages and long west-coast sand, on to Santorini's caldera rim for Akrotiri and the Oia sunset, and a short flight back for one last Athens night.
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Iceland · 8 days
Iceland's Ring Road in eight days, anticlockwise from Reykjavík: south-coast waterfalls, the glacier lagoon at Jökulsárlón, the East Fjords, Dettifoss and Mývatn, whale watching from Húsavík, and the long western run home. Honest driving times, summer only.
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Italy · 7 days
Three days in Rome — the ancient core, the Vatican, Trastevere — then the fast train south, Pompeii on the way, and three nights in Positano for Ravello's cliff gardens, an Amalfi ferry day and the Path of the Gods on foot.
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Japan · 10 days
The Golden Route done properly: four days in Tokyo, an onsen night in Hakone under Mount Fuji, three days in Kyoto, the deer and Great Buddha of Nara, and Osaka's street food — all by train, with dawn starts that get you the famous places empty.
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London · 5 days
Five gentle days at a family pace: Parliament and the wheel, the Tower and the glass floor, the free South Kensington museums, Greenwich by river boat, then the British Museum and the zoo — with a park or playground every afternoon.
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New York City · 5 days
Five days on foot and by subway: Midtown's icons and Times Square at dusk, the 9/11 memorial and a free ferry past the Statue, Central Park and the Met, the High Line down to Washington Square, then Brooklyn out to Coney Island.
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Paris · 4 days
Four days built around markets and market streets — Enfants Rouges, Montorgueil, Mouffetard and Aligre — with Notre-Dame, the Louvre, the Luxembourg gardens and the Eiffel Tower after dark folded in between the meals.
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Portugal · 8 days
Eight days north by train: Belém and Alfama, a full day in Sintra, the Baroque Joanina Library in Coimbra on the way, then Porto's tiled centre, a Douro Valley rail day, and the port cellars of Gaia.
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Thailand · 10 days
Ten days and three bases: Bangkok's river temples and Chinatown food stalls, Chiang Mai for the walled old city, the mountain temple and a day with elephants, then Krabi's karst coast — Railay by longtail and a boat day out to the Phi Phi islands.
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Every itinerary here is written as a real plan, then checked stop by stop before it is published: walkable distances, opening seasons, honest travel times, and two to four stops a day rather than a checklist. Nothing on this page is sponsored or paid for.
Days are numbered, not dated, so a plan never goes stale — open it in the app and it lands on real dates you can change. Coordinates come from Wikidata, and photos from Wikimedia Commons under the licence credited beside each image.
Spotted something out of date? Tell us: trips@vacadu.com.
More on where the coordinates and photos come from, and what to re-check before you go.
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