Practical guides
Clear itineraries, transport details and planning information designed to help you actually organise the trip.
About Travelisse
About Travelisse
Independent travel guides built from first-hand experience.
Practical itineraries, honest recommendations and the details I wish I'd known before each trip.
Still dreaming
My bucket list
No matter how much of the world I see, the list of places I want to explore somehow keeps getting longer. A few currently near the top:
- 🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan
- 🇵🇪 Peru
- 🇮🇸 Iceland
My story
From dreaming of travel to exploring the world
Growing up in Hungary, travel was a distant dream. My family didn't have the means to venture beyond our borders, so I spent my childhood imagining the places I saw in books and films. At 17, I left my country for the first time to visit Italy. By 22, I was boarding my very first flight — an experience that opened my eyes to the world's endless possibilities.
Since then, I've been on a mission to explore as much of the world as I can. I stretched my student budget to its limits, then juggled trips around my early career. Ever since, travel has always been a priority.
Today, I've been to 59 countries, taken 401 flights and spent more than 1000 hours in the air. I'm still planning the next adventure.
My passion for meticulously crafting each trip has turned into something I want to share. After hours of research for every destination, I hope my travel guides help you discover incredible places and make the practical side of planning them a little easier.
Travel with context
How I travel
I'm the kind of traveller who genuinely enjoys the planning almost as much as the trip itself. Before I go somewhere, I spend hours researching routes, neighbourhoods, transport, viewpoints and the places that are actually worth fitting into an itinerary.
I travel independently and tend to pack a lot into my trips. I love the famous places that live up to the hype, but I'm always looking for the lesser-known stop, unusual route or unexpected experience that makes a journey memorable.
Travelisse is where I turn all of that research and first-hand experience into practical guides. The goal is simple: help you spend less time figuring out the logistics and more time experiencing the destination.
The Travelisse approach
What you'll find on Travelisse
First-hand experience
Guides built around destinations, routes and experiences I have travelled myself.
Realistic itineraries
Trips designed around the time travellers actually have, with honest choices about what is worth fitting in.
Destinations
Places I've written about
Recently published
Latest from Travelisse
- Zhangjiajie, China
- Day Trips
Tianmen Cave: 999 Steps, Tickets & What to Know
Taking on Tianmen Mountain’s famous 999 Steps? Find out which route to take, how tickets work, what weather matters and what to expect at Heaven’s Gate.
- Zhangjiajie, China
- Day Trips
Furong Town, China: The Waterfall Village Near Zhangjiajie
Is Furong Town worth the trip from Zhangjiajie? Here’s how to get there, what the waterfall is really like, when to visit and why staying after dark matters.
- Hangzhou, China
- City Guide
- Day Trips
One Day in Hangzhou: West Lake, Tea & Temples from Shanghai
Only a short train ride from Shanghai, Hangzhou combines West Lake, Lingyin Temple, Longjing tea and historic streets into an easy city break or day trip.
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