Almost everyone visiting Portugal stays within thirty kilometres of the Atlantic. The interior is emptier, cheaper and where the country's oldest places are.
Most of Iceland's visitors see the same 300 kilometres. The Westfjords and the east get a fraction of the traffic for arguably better landscape.
Scotland is one of the few countries where the slow route is the good one. The train, the postbus and the ferry reach further than most visitors realise.
Namibia is one of the great self-drive countries and the gravel roads are what catch people out — most rental accidents here are single-vehicle rollovers.
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Thailand receives forty million visitors a year concentrated in about six places. The provinces between them are cheap, welcoming and almost empty of foreigners.
The fjords are best seen from the local ferries that Norwegians actually use, which cost a fraction of the tourist boats and go to better places.
Rome punishes the wrong shoes and turns you away from its best buildings for the wrong clothes, and both are easy to get right.
Barcelona's famous sights take two days. What makes a longer stay worthwhile is the parts of the city that are not on the Gaudí route at all.
Tokyo defeats the checklist approach. Choosing one district and treating it as a temporary home reveals more than crossing the city ten times.
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