Travel Guides to Countries Around the World

Get inspiration and practical information for your next trip by reading our travel guides to countries and destinations all across the world. In each country guide, you will find numerous subpages detailing individual regions, cities, and other travel destinations within those countries.

Europe

** More travel guides will be added soon. As the Paliparan website is a hobby rather than a paid daytime job, it unfortunately takes some effort to compile these guides in our limited spare time. **

How are the travel guides compiled?

All our travel guides are based on in-person visits to the respective countries, personal experiences on the ground, and thorough research. This allows us to create in-depth travel guides that offer highly practical advice and useful tips, rather than just generic information about a country or travel destination that you probably already know.

Moreover, our travel guides are illustrated with our own pictures and go beyond simply listing the obvious sights in each country, so they can also serve as a source of inspiration for your next trip.

Indeed, one of our aims is to highlight the hidden beauty away from the tourist crowds, so you can also discover a wealth of information about off-the-beaten-track destinations.

Visited countries

Travel guides are only drafted when a country has been visited at least once in person. Most countries that are covered in our travel guides have, in fact, been visited multiple times, it not several dozens of times.

In total, we have visited around 90 countries across the world, along with a few unrecognised states or countries that no longer exist.

The ultimate goal is to create a travel guide for each country we visit and update these guides each time we return and discover new places within those countries. Eventually, we hope to visit every country in the world and write a travel guide for each one of them.

However, it’s important to note that visiting every country in the world is not a goal in itself, as in our opinion, that is a highly flawed approach to travel. Travel shouldn’t just be about “ticking off countries” from your list, as it doesn’t reflect how well you have actually explored a particular place.

To give an example, although you might say you have visited the United States after a weekend trip to New York, it doesn’t mean you have truly experienced the country. The US is such a diverse country with significant cultural and geographical differences between its states that it could take a month just to scratch the surface.

Similarly, many European countries, such as Germany, Italy, or Spain, or Asian nations such as China and India, are highly diverse and have significant regional differences.

Therefore, someone who has “only” been to 50 countries but has taken the time to explore them thoroughly might have far more travel experience than someone who has visited 150 countries but stayed just a day or two in each.

Trip reports

Although our country guides contain a wealth of practical information, you can also find travel inspiration in our trip reports. In these trip reports, you can follow us on our travels to destinations across the world.

Each trip report includes detailed reviews of airlines, trains, and other modes of transport used during the trip, as well as personal accounts of all the destinations we visit.