Amazing travel destinations in early retirement

We started our world tour in 2015 and have not stopped. We’re a bit surprised at how long this list of travel destinations has grown – time flies!

Often we are asked, ‘Where’s your favorite place?’ We never know how to answer that; we crave variety and still have many countries to visit.

That said, we aren’t “country counters.” We like to go slow, one country at a time. As a friend of ours says, the faster you go, the less you see.

Click on a country in our table of contents to see the list of cities and towns and villages where we’ve been. Use the search field at the end of a country’s list to find blog posts about these travel destinations. This website has hundreds of entries.

Travel destinations

Stops so far…

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Latin America

Mexico

Mahahual (Chetumal, Xcalak)
Tulum (Playa del Carmen and Cancun)
Campeche
Sabancuay (Ciudad del Carmen)
Puerto Vallarta
Yelapa
Huatulco
Puerto Angel (Zipolite and Mazunte)
Puerto Escondido
Ajijic/Chapala
Mexico City
Guadalajara
Tijuana
Rosarito Beach
San Cristobal de las Casas
Tuxtla Gutierrez
Oaxaca City
Zihuatenajo
Mazatlan
La Paz
Cabo San Lucas

Belize

Corozal
San Ignacio, Cayo District
Caye Caulker
Ambergris Caye

Guatemala

Peten
El Remate (Isla de Flores, Santa Elena)
Tikal
Guatemala City
San Pablo, Lake Atitlan (Tzuzuna, Panajachel, San Marcos, San Juan)
San Pedro, Lake Atitlan
Tecpan
Antigua
Acatenango Volcano

Europe & UK

Portugal

Lisbon (Sintra)
Porto (Gaia across the river)

Italy

Rome
Lerici (La Spezia, Tellaro)
Cinque Terre (Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, and Riomaggiore)
Florence (Siena, Gimignano, Pisa)
Venice (Burano, Murano, Torcello)
Ancon

Spain

Barcelona (Figueres, Girona, Tarragona, Montserrat)
Tarifa & Algeciras
Seville

United Kingdom

London
Greenwich

Croatia

Zagreb
Split
Omis (Supetar and Splitska)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Sarajevo

Montenegro

Kotor (Dobrota, Perast, Orahovac, Jaz Beach, Budva)

Albania

Tirana
Saranda (Butrint)

Greece

Athens
Corinth
Rio & Patras
Lefkada Island (Nidri, Kathisma Beach)
Corfu Island (almost every place on the island – 10 villages minimum)
Kalavryta

Northern Africa

Morocco

Marrakesh
M’hamid
Erg Chigaga (*Sahara desert*)
Ouarzazate
Casablanca
Fez
Chefchaouen
Tangier

Southeast Asia

Singapore

Malaysia

Cameron Highlands
Penang: George Town, Tanjung Bungah, Batu Ferringhi
Kuala Lumpur
Melaka (Malacca City)

Vietnam

Hanoi
Lan Ha Bay
Cat Ba
Ninh Binh
Phong Nha
Dong Ha (Cam Lo and Khe Sanh)
Hue
Danang (Ba Na Hills)
Hoi An (An Bang)
Nha Trang
Dalat
Can Tho/Mekong Delta
Cu Chi
Ho Chi Minh City

Thailand

Pai
Chiang Mai
Phuket
Krabi (Klong Muang, Ao Nang)
Hua Hin
Bangkok
Pattaya

Cambodia

Phnom Penh
Siem Reap

Indonesia

Katu, Semanyak, Legian
Lovina
Ubud
Labuan Bajo
Komodo National Park
Sanur
Nusa Penida

Philippines

Cebu City, Cebu
Liloan, Cebu
Moalboal, Cebu
Garcia Hernandez, Bohol (and Jagna, Anda, Valenica)
Panglao (Bohol)
Camiguin (Northern Mindanao region)
Valencia, Negros
Iloilo, Panay
Gigantes islands
Malay, Aklan, Panay (near Boracay)

Before these travel destinations…

Still here? Thanks for running down our long list!

Before these travel destinations in early retirement, we also visited Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Panama on vacations from work.

In fact, those vacations showed us this low-cost travel lifestyle was possible. We considered those trips successful short “test runs.”

We also kept track of our expenses during those glorious vacations to see exactly what it would cost to live like long-term travelers instead of short-term tourists.

We hardly ever stayed in big resort compounds. Where’s the adventure in that?!

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