Our tips to eating street food safely when you travel include doing a street food tour on your first day in a new place and eating where the locals eat to reduce your chances of getting sick. Whether you’re on a weekend away, a short holiday or long journey, you don’t want to spend a … Read more
The best things to do in Bali for us aren’t the things you gawk at in tourism ads or highlight in travel guides. In keeping with our slow, local and experiential travel quest, they’re as low-key and laidback as strolls through rice paddies and learning to cook Balinese food. Bali re-opened to all international tourists … Read more
Slow, Local and Experiential Travel – our mission, mantra, ethos, and reason we launched Grantourismo on New Year’s Day 2010. This year we’re celebrating 12 years of inspiring more immersive and enriching, and more meaningful and memorable travel. And we’re renewing our pledge to promote forms of travel that are more sustainable, responsible and ethical. … Read more
Historic Hoi An temples and pagodas you have to visit in the ancient port town include the colourful Quan Cong Temple, a Confucian temple established in 1653, and charming Chau Cua Pagoda on the Japanese Bridge, dating to the 17th century. Yes, there’s more to Hoi An than food! For many travellers, Central Vietnam’s Hoi … Read more
Asian wet markets are essentially where people across the region shop for their food – everything from fresh seafood to smoked fish, from fruit and vegetables to herbs, spices and condiments. Not every wet market in Asia sells wildlife, so why is there a movement to shut them down? As Wuhan in China recently emerged … Read more