Countries, priced and scored.

You'll find more mosques than temples, and the best nasi goreng is always from a street cart.

Hawker food worth flying for, two monsoon coasts that never line up, and Borneo rainforest a short flight east.

People come for the beaches and leave talking about the hospitality instead

A city that runs with near-perfect order, yet somehow never feels entirely relaxed.

Longtail boats, burnt chili smoke, and monks scrolling phones at 7-Eleven.

Motorbikes flood the streets, but the country slows down the moment you sit down to eat.

Vending machines dispense hot coffee on every corner, yet finding a public trash can is a day-long quest.

Palaces between office towers, mountains at the edge of every city, and dinner grilled at your table.

Tea-country trains, leopard jeeps at dawn, and two coasts that take turns being dry.

Tiled streets on steep hills, grilled fish on the Atlantic coast, and port aging in cellars across the river from Porto.

Penguins on a Cape Town beach, elephants on a self-drive road in Kruger, and wine farms half an hour from the airport.

Colonial cities in the highlands, a capital 2,300 m up, and two coastlines a short flight away.

Volcanoes, cloud forest and beaches on two coasts. You can often spot sloths and monkeys in the trees near the road.