About
How these itineraries are made
Vacadu is a trip planner: you build a trip day by day, plotted on a map, and change it as plans change. The itineraries in this gallery are complete example trips — which places, in which order, on which day — that you can read here, or open in the app and make your own.
They exist because the hardest part of planning a trip is not finding places to go, it is deciding what fits in a day and in what order. This page says exactly how each one is put together, what it is checked against, and what you should still verify yourself.
How each itinerary is put together
Drafted with AI, then edited by a person
A first draft of each itinerary is written with AI assistance. Nothing is published from that draft: every stop, travel time, order and note is then checked and rewritten against primary sources — the operator's or park's own site, the transport operator's timetable, official opening seasons — and anything that cannot be verified is cut rather than softened.
Coordinates come from Wikidata, by exact entity match
Every point on the map is resolved from Wikidata (whose data is released under CC0) by an exact entity match: either the precise English Wikipedia article title or an explicit Wikidata item id. There is deliberately no fuzzy name search anywhere in the pipeline, because a fuzzy search turns a typo into a confidently wrong pin. Each resolved point is also gated against the trip's own bounding box, so a correctly-titled article about a place on another continent fails loudly instead of quietly moving a stop.
Photographs are freely licensed, and credited per image
Each hero photograph is the image the Wikimedia community itself associates with that place, taken from Wikimedia Commons under a free licence. The photographer and the exact licence are named in the caption beneath every image, and the caption links back to the file page and the licence text.
Stays are neighbourhoods, never specific hotels
Where a plan says where to sleep, it names an area and says why that area works — not a hotel. That is deliberate: a public itinerary that names one hotel implies a recommendation nobody is maintaining and a booking that does not exist. Pick your own place in the area, then add it to your own copy of the trip.
Nothing here is sponsored
No stop, area or route on these pages is paid for, affiliated or exchanged for anything. There are no affiliate links, and no ratings or prices are claimed — we publish the plan, we do not operate the trip and nobody has rated it.
What to re-check before you travel
Opening hours and closing days
A day plan is a template, so it cannot know that a museum closes on Mondays this year or that a road opens late after a hard winter. Check anything time-sensitive against the operator directly, close to your dates.
Days are numbered, not dated
Each itinerary is stored as Day 1 to Day N with no calendar dates, which is why these pages cannot go stale between updates. Real dates appear only when you open the trip in the app, where they land in the future and you can move them.
Times are a suggested rhythm
The clock times exist to show the shape of a day — two to four stops, with honest travel between them — not to be followed to the minute. Travel times assume no traffic drama and no queue.
Who is responsible for this, and how to reach us
These itineraries are written, checked and published by Vacadu. There is no ghost byline here on purpose: no individual author is named because none would be accurate, and editorial responsibility for every page in this gallery sits with us.
If a stop has closed, a pin is in the wrong place, a photo credit is wrong, or a travel time is simply not true any more, tell us and we will fix it or remove it: trips@vacadu.com. Corrections to the facts are the most useful mail we get.