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Hello everyone,

We’re thrilled to officially announce the reopening of VoyageForum, now under the MyAtlas Group banner (click here to learn more about the acquisition of VoyageForum)! After four long years of closure, VoyageForum and its community are finally coming back to life! 🙂

Starting next week, we’ll begin sending out the newsletter announcing the forum’s reopening to all registered members, gradually over several weeks. This approach will give us enough time to train the new team while ensuring the new site server runs smoothly. So, please bear with us a few more weeks before the forum returns to its pre-2020 levels of traffic and participation.

We have plenty of ideas to not only grow VoyageForum further but also make it more financially stable. It’s important to note that the forum’s closure in 2020 was due to a lack of profitability following the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis. We’re committed to doing everything we can to prevent this financial situation from happening again, while ensuring a good balance between user experience and displaying our partners’ offers on the site.

We’d also like to publicly thank François Boucher, the founder of VoyageForum, for not only creating VoyageForum in 2002 and managing it for so many years with his team, but also for recognizing the skills within MyAtlas Group to ensure a smooth transition and continued development of the site. François will continue to collaborate with us for at least a few more months, mainly handling the technical aspects (programming and server management) and training the new team. Thanks again, François, for everything! 🙂

We can’t wait to see VoyageForum come back to life, with thousands of travelers helping each other, sharing great tips, and celebrating their passion for travel! Dear VoyageForum members, it’s now your turn to breathe new life into the forum by coming back regularly to share your travel experiences. Welcome back to your travel forum, and we look forward to seeing you all in large numbers! 🙂

Happy travels,

Hervé Degauchy, President of MyAtlas Group

In these post-COVID years, South Africa has drawn me back again... The veterans on the forum might say I’m a bit obsessed (I’ve now made over twenty trips to the country, including two to Namibia)...

I'm restarting my travel journals with my 2023 trip that took me from Costa Rica all the way to Suriname in a month and a half. First stop: Costa Rica. I arrived in San José at the end of September—a city I know well and never linger in.

Greece. Again, always. To nestle into the only European promise we’ve been given. To lull ourselves with illusions, just for the pleasure of it.

A difficult period came to an end in 2022. Many of us started taking big trips again after only making small ones—or none at all. The joy of traveling again probably brought back smiles that some vacationers hadn’t dared to show before!

On the road in Belgium with my camper van and my e-bike, eager to deepen my theoretical and practical knowledge of this country’s iconic brew while exploring the land—this guide was my trusty companion throughout the adventure, which took place from June 4 to July 4, 2024.

I’ve decided to do all my sightseeing on foot. I pass by the museum and head toward the central market, Psar Thmey. Along the way, I stop at a pagoda. A ceremony is taking place right now. The monks are seated in the middle, a young novice faces them, and his family is on the sides. I don’t dare go in, but a man gestures for me to join him. He explains that the young monk is trading his civilian clothes for the kesa, the sacred robe of monks.

Our trip to Norway was two years ago already, but I thought it might still be interesting to share, and it’ll let me dive back into it and relive it a little by proxy.

All my trips combined, I’ve spent at most the equivalent of a year in Thailand, and I’m not a big expert on it. Still, after many stays, lots of reading on VoyageForum and other sites, conversations with plenty of locals and expats, my view of the country is getting clearer—though it’s always evolving. You never stop discovering and learning.

Ready to join us on a safari to see some animals?

Our transatlantic flight will cross the snow-capped line of the Andes, arriving in Santiago de Chile and returning from Lima! Between the two, two domestic flights and a big road loop starting from the coastal city of Arica to discover the treasures of Northern Chile.

Who among us hasn’t dreamed of having a ticket to Tahiti, Bora Bora, or the Marquesas in their pocket—preferably a one-way trip to "paradise"?

As mentioned in the title, this will be a trip around Tuscany in parts that aren’t the region’s most visited. No Florence-Siena-Pisa trilogy, no San Gimignano; there’ll be a quick stop in Siena, but without visiting the most famous sites. This choice, plus traveling in September, should help avoid overtourism.

I hope to take you along with me for 19 nights and 18 full days this autumn 2024. On the itinerary: gastronomy, crafts, festivals, waterfalls, meet-ups, and leisurely strolls—all in simplicity.

Slovenia was the originally planned destination for summer 2022, as an addition to a road trip through Croatia and Montenegro. The plan changed on a whim in February of that year. Our Balkan road trip was eventually narrowed down to just Slovenia, and we’ll be there for 10 days during the Easter school holidays.

So, I’m diving into the short story of our all-too-brief trip to Iceland at the end of April 2024. And even if it’s not the done thing, I’m gonna spoil it and start with the conclusion: it was amazing!!!

Just back from a week in the Algarve. The goal was to get some fresh air, take it easy with walks, and catch up with friends.

While borders were closed, I started imagining what an ideal itinerary might look like—one that strings together all the Southwest’s must-see spots in just two weeks, during the best time of year: September to October. When the U.S. announced in September 2021 that borders would reopen in the coming weeks, I regained hope and began scanning for flight tickets for a departure in September 2022.

After returning to South Africa with my family in July 2019, this trip, planned for September 2019, will be all about discovery and a few firsts—first trip with friends, first trek, first time in East Africa.

Big lovers of India, where we’ve been six times, my co-traveler husband and I decided to explore Rajasthan this time around. And if we waited so long to come here, it’s because we were dreading the tourist crowds in this state. But thanks to the timing (late March to early April 2024, which is starting to get really hot) and Aleph’s great tips, we were very, very far from mass tourism.

So, on these rainy days, I’m starting to write a little travel journal about the Drakensberg. The Dragon Mountains, uKhahlamba in Zulu and Maluti in Sotho or Tswana...

The market sprawls outside all around the large, circular, multi-story hall. We buy some grapes and bottles of pomegranate juice pressed right in front of us for just a few sums. Tonight, we’re meeting up with Nasrullo. Such a warm encounter—we’ve been exchanging messages for over two years, and I’ve really put him through the wringer with my constant itinerary changes and shifting trip durations.

After about 12 hours of flying from Toulouse (via Paris), we landed in Bogotá 6 years after our first trip to Colombia. This time, our journey will be very different—the only common part being this stop in the Colombian capital.

The Cyclades attract a lot (a LOT) of people in the summer, and it’s not always clear how to visit them. For our first family trip to the Cyclades, we followed an itinerary that seems great for exploring...

We spent 21 nights there and covered a 3,400 km loop by car and 160 km on foot (we’re still trying to hike as long as we’re in shape) starting from Denver in September 2024. Our goal with this road trip was to explore Colorado a bit more—we’d stayed there for 6 nights in 2019—and especially to see it during the arrival of autumn and the changing colors of the leaves in the mountains.

Here’s a little story about my first trip to Japan with my partner. For a first-time visit, we went from October 29 to November 13, 2024.

The years go by and Machu Picchu has been on our "to-do list" for a few decades now... But Peru, fortunately, is so much more than just this legendary site... The two of us set off for a 15-day trip.

Before heading to Mexico in the summer of 2023 with my family (my partner and our two boys, aged 18 and 16), I honestly don’t even remember why, but I thought the Yucatán was too touristy, too cliché, too expensive, and overrated! The country didn’t really appeal to me, but faced with my wife’s insistence—she’d been there years ago, before we met, and had promised to show our sons the place—my arguments didn’t hold much weight.

Autumn is the perfect season to visit Corsica: fewer tourists, ideal temperatures around 25°C, and most importantly, less stress on the roads. You can feel it everywhere. Servers and shopkeepers are more relaxed and have time to chat...

The Empire State Trail is a 900 km route specifically designed for biking, with 75% on dedicated bike paths. First, it follows the Erie Canal to Albany, then heads down the Hudson Valley all the way to the tip of Manhattan.