Thailand receives forty million visitors a year concentrated in about six places. The provinces between them are cheap, welcoming and almost empty of foreigners.
Tokyo defeats the checklist approach. Choosing one district and treating it as a temporary home reveals more than crossing the city ten times.
Altitude sets the pace in Nepal whether you plan for it or not, and the trekkers who ignore that are the ones who get evacuated.
Outside Ulaanbaatar Mongolia has almost no paved roads and almost no fences, which makes independent travel here unlike anywhere else.
Mongolia has almost no sealed roads outside the capital and almost no fences. How you travel there is a bigger decision than where you go.