Road trips: our driving itineraries, stop by stop
Itineraries built for the car: the order of the stops, distances and driving times calculated on the real roads, a checked hotel at every stop, the country's rules, car hire and what the fuel will cost. Every road trip comes as a PDF road trip guide.
Italy road trip
A two-week loop from Milan Malpensa: Lake Maggiore and Lake Como, Verona and Lake Garda, Florence, the Chianti vineyards, the Val d'Orcia, Assisi in Umbria, Lucca and…
American West road trip
A three-week loop from San Francisco: the Big Sur coast, Los Angeles, Route 66 across the Mojave Desert, the Grand Canyon, Monument Valley, Page, Bryce, Zion, Las…
Scotland road trip
A two-week loop from Edinburgh that heads north through the Trossachs and Glencoe, crosses to the Isle of Skye by ferry, follows the Wester Ross coast along a stretch…
Western Canada road trip
A three-week loop from Vancouver: the Sea-to-Sky Highway to Whistler, the Duffey Lake Road, the Okanagan lakes, Revelstoke, then Yoho, Banff and Jasper national parks…
Iceland road trip
The tour of Iceland on Route 1, the Ring Road: about 1,320 km, fully paved since 2019, which you can loop in 10 to 14 days from Reykjavik. The Golden Circle, the…
Ireland road trip
A two-week loop from Dublin that crosses the island westwards to follow the Wild Atlantic Way: Connemara, the Burren and the Cliffs of Moher, the Dingle Peninsula…
Portugal road trip
A two-week loop from Lisbon that heads up the Atlantic coast to Porto and the Douro Valley, comes back down through the hilltop villages and plains of the Alentejo…
Norwegian fjords road trip
A two-week loop from Bergen along the National Tourist Routes: the Hardangerfjord, the Sognefjord, the Sognefjellet pass, Geiranger, the Trollstigen, the Atlantic…
Spain road trip: the grand tour
A two to three-week loop from Madrid: Segovia and Toledo in Castile, Roman Mérida, Seville and Granada, then the Mediterranean via Cartagena, Valencia and Barcelona…
The Wild Atlantic Way by car
The waymarked coastal route of the west of Ireland, followed from north to south along most of its 2,500 km, from Malin Head on the Inishowen Peninsula to Kinsale. It…
Andalusia road trip
A two-week loop from Seville linking Andalusia's three great cities (Seville, Córdoba, Granada), climbing into the Alpujarras, dropping down to the Costa del Sol…
Morocco road trip
A 13-night loop from Marrakech: the High Atlas over the Tizi n'Tichka pass, the kasbahs of Aït Benhaddou and Ouarzazate, the Dadès and Todra gorges, the dunes of…
Brittany road trip
A two-week loop from Rennes that circles the peninsula along the coast: Saint-Malo and Cancale, Cap Fréhel, the Pink Granite Coast, the Crozon peninsula, the Pointe…
France road trip
A grand three-week loop from Paris through France's best-known regions: the Normandy cliffs, Mont-Saint-Michel, the Gulf of Morbihan, the Loire châteaux, the…
The North Coast 500 by car
The North Coast 500 is a loop of about 830 km (516 miles), launched in 2015, that starts in Inverness and circles the northern Highlands via the west coast, the north…
Australia road trip, from Sydney to Melbourne
The south-east coast from Sydney to Melbourne, then the Great Ocean Road and the Grampians: about 2,000 km, all sealed, in a hire car over two and a half weeks, with…
Albania road trip
A two-week loop from Tirana: Shkodër and the Theth valley in the Albanian Alps, Krujë, the Ottoman towns of Berat and Gjirokastër, the Blue Eye, Sarandë and Butrint…
Dolomites road trip
A ten-day loop from Venice that climbs via Verona and Bolzano into the heart of the Dolomites: Val di Funes, Val Gardena and Seceda, the Alpe di Siusi, the Sella loop…
Switzerland road trip: the Grand Tour by car
An eleven-night loop from Geneva, inspired by the Grand Tour of Switzerland: Lake Geneva and the Lavaux vineyards, Zermatt at the foot of the Matterhorn…
Corsica road trip
A loop around the island from Bastia: Cap Corse, the Balagne, the Gulf of Porto and the Calanques de Piana, Ajaccio, Bonifacio, the beaches of Porto-Vecchio, then…
Croatia road trip
Two weeks from Zagreb to Dubrovnik, through the hilltop villages of Istria, the Plitvice Lakes and the Krka waterfalls, then the whole Dalmatian coast from Zadar to…
Namibia road trip
A two to three-week loop by 4x4 from Windhoek: the red dunes of Sossusvlei, the Atlantic coast at Swakopmund, the granite of Spitzkoppe, the rock engravings of…
Réunion road trip
A drive around the island from Saint-Denis: the Salazie cirque and Hell-Bourg, the Route des Laves through the wild south, the volcano road up to Piton de la…
Austria road trip
A 10 to 12-day loop from Vienna: the vineyards of the Wachau, the Salzkammergut lakes and Hallstatt, Salzburg, Innsbruck, then the Grossglockner High Alpine Road…
California road trip
A two-week loop from San Francisco without leaving California: the Napa vineyards, Yosemite, the giant trees of Sequoia, Los Angeles, the Joshua Tree desert, then…
Florida road trip
A two-week loop from Miami: the Overseas Highway to Key West, the Everglades via the Tamiami Trail, the Gulf coast from Naples to Tampa, then Orlando, St. Augustine…
Quebec road trip
A two-week loop from Montreal: the Laurentians, La Mauricie National Park, Quebec City, the Route du Fleuve through Charlevoix, the whales of Tadoussac and the…
Sicily road trip
A two-week loop from Palermo: Cefalù, Taormina, Etna, Syracuse, the Baroque towns of Noto and Ragusa, the Valley of the Temples, Selinunte, Trapani and San Vito Lo…
Sardinia road trip
A two-week loop from Olbia: the Costa Smeralda and the La Maddalena archipelago, the granite of Gallura, Catalan Alghero, the Bosa coast road, the Sinis peninsula…
Thailand road trip: the Northern loop
A two-week loop from Chiang Mai: Doi Inthanon, the roof of the country, the Mae Hong Son loop via Mae Sariang and Pai, then Chiang Rai, Phrae and the ruins of…
Puglia road trip
A loop from Bari taking in Castel del Monte and the Sassi of Matera, the trulli of the Itria Valley, Ostuni the white town, Baroque Lecce, then the Salento coast from…
Costa Rica road trip
A two-week loop from San José linking the two oceans: the Caribbean coast at Cahuita, Arenal Volcano, the beaches of Guanacaste, the Monteverde cloud forest, then the…
Denmark road trip
A loop from Copenhagen that links the islands and the Jutland peninsula by the great bridges: the castles of Zealand, the chalk cliffs of Møn, Andersen's Funen…
Mainland Greece road trip
Two weeks on a loop from Athens: Delphi and Meteora to the north, then the Peloponnese via Olympia, the Mani, Monemvasia and Nafplio. Recent toll motorways link the…
Japan road trip: Hokkaido by car
A two-week loop from Sapporo, via the lavender fields of Furano, the Asahi-dake volcano, the wild Shiretoko peninsula, the caldera lakes of Akan and Lake Tōya. In…
Mexico road trip
A two-week loop from Cancún through the Maya cities of the Yucatán, Campeche and Palenque, then Calakmul deep in the forest, before returning via the Bacalar lagoon…
New Zealand road trip, from Auckland to Christchurch
Both islands in three weeks, from Auckland to Christchurch, with the car on board the Cook Strait ferry: about 2,600 km, with 2 to 4 hours of driving per stage. The…
Netherlands road trip
A ten-day loop from Amsterdam: the Afsluitdijk to Friesland, the canals of Giethoorn, Utrecht, the windmills of Kinderdijk, Rotterdam, Delft and The Hague, then the…
Sweden road trip
A two-week loop from Stockholm: Uppsala and the Falun mine, Lake Siljan in Dalarna, the forests of Värmland, the granite coast of Bohuslän, Gothenburg, Lake Vättern…
Italian Lakes road trip
A ten-day loop from Milan linking five lakes at the foot of the Alps: Orta, Maggiore, Como, Iseo and Garda, before finishing in Verona. You cross from shore to shore…
South Africa road trip, from Cape Town to the Garden Route
A west-to-east crossing from Cape Town to Addo Elephant Park: the Cape Peninsula, the Stellenbosch vineyards, the whales of Hermanus, the southern tip of Africa…
England road trip
A two-week loop that starts on foot in London, then heads off by car from Heathrow to Oxford, the Peak District, the Cotswold villages, Stonehenge and Bath, before…
Guadeloupe road trip
A two-week loop from Pointe-à-Pitre around both wings of the butterfly: the beaches and limestone cliffs of Grande-Terre, from Sainte-Anne to Pointe des Châteaux and…
Basque Country road trip
A ten-day loop from Biarritz that crosses the border twice: the coast and villages of Labourd, Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, the Baztan valley, then San Sebastián, Bilbao…
Pyrenees road trip
Two weeks from west to east, from the inland Basque Country to the Mediterranean at Collioure, via the Ossau valley, Gavarnie, the Tourmalet, the Ariège and Andorra…
Route 66 by car
The legendary 1926 road, from Chicago to Santa Monica Pier: eight states, the museums and signs of the 66, and its original stretches running alongside the…
Tuscany road trip
A 7 to 10-day loop from Florence, via the Chiantigiana, Siena, the Val d'Orcia, Montepulciano, Cortona, San Gimignano, Volterra and Lucca. Short stages on hill roads…
Turkey road trip
Two weeks from Istanbul to Cappadocia: see Istanbul on foot, then pick up the car for the Dardanelles, Troy, Pergamon, Ephesus, Pamukkale, the Lycian coast from…
Northern Spain road trip
A two-week loop from San Sebastián, a few minutes from the French border at Hendaye, along the Cantabrian coast to Galicia: the Basque Country, Bilbao, Cantabria, the…
Argentina road trip
A two-week loop through north-west Argentina from Salta: the Quebrada de las Conchas, the vineyards of Cafayate, Ruta 40 on gravel to Cachi, then the Quebrada de…
Crete road trip
Two weeks from east to west, from Heraklion airport to Chania airport: Knossos, the Lasithi Plateau and its windmills, Spinalonga, Rethymno, Balos, Elafonisi, then…
French Atlantic coast road trip
Two weeks by car from Nantes to the Basque Country, never straying far from the ocean: the Passage du Gois, the Île de Ré, the Gironde estuary, the Dune du Pilat, the…
Normandy road trip
A ten-day loop from Rouen following the coast: the cliffs of Étretat, the Vieux Bassin in Honfleur, the Côte Fleurie, the D-Day beaches, the tip of the Cotentin…
Slovenia road trip
A ten-day loop from Ljubljana: Lake Bled and Lake Bohinj, the Vršič Pass and its 50 hairpins, the Soča valley, the caves of the Karst and the Adriatic coast at Piran…
Texas road trip
A two-week loop from Fort Worth: Austin, the German Hill Country, the Spanish missions of San Antonio, then the long border road to the Chihuahuan Desert. The heart…
Martinique road trip
A drive around the island from Fort-de-France: the Route de la Trace through the rainforest, Saint-Pierre at the foot of Mount Pelée, Grand'Rivière at the end of the…
Germany road trip: the Romantic Road, the Bavarian Alps and the Black Forest
A two-week loop from Frankfurt: Heidelberg and the Neckar valley, the Romantic Road via Rothenburg to Munich, the German Alpine Road from Berchtesgaden to Lindau via…
Auvergne road trip
A one-week loop from Clermont-Ferrand through the volcanoes: the Puy de Dôme, the Sancy massif, Lac Pavin, Salers, the Puy Mary and Le Puy-en-Velay. Not a single toll…
Camargue and Rhône Provence road trip
A one-week loop from Nîmes: the Pont du Gard, the Alpilles and Les Baux-de-Provence, Roman Arles, then the Rhône delta with its salt pans, its flamingos and its two…
French Riviera road trip
A week driving from Marseille to Menton on the coastal roads: the calanques of Cassis, the Route des Crêtes, the Gulf of Saint-Tropez, the Esterel's Corniche d'Or…
Jura road trip
A week from the north to the south of the range, from the citadel of Besançon to the Col de la Faucille, by way of the Royal Saltworks, the Arbois vineyards, the…
Madeira road trip
A tour of Madeira in 7 to 10 days: an island 57 km long that you loop from Funchal along the south coast, the lava pools of Porto Moniz, the north coast at Seixal and…
Mallorca road trip
A one-week loop from Palma: the Ma-10 clinging to the cliffs along the whole Serra de Tramuntana, Valldemossa, Deià and Sóller, the descent to Sa Calobra, Alcúdia and…
Tenerife road trip
A one-week loop around Mount Teide: Santa Cruz and La Laguna, the Anaga ridge, the crossing of the national park above 2,000 m, the cliffs of Los Gigantes, Masca and…
Verdon Gorge road trip
A one-week loop from Aix-en-Provence: the lavandin fields of the Valensole plateau, Moustiers, the Route des Crêtes, Castellane, the Corniche Sublime and the shores…
Yellowstone road trip
A two-week loop from Bozeman, Montana: the geysers of Yellowstone, Jackson and the Tetons, the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, the Lamar Valley, then the Beartooth…
Algarve road trip
A one-week loop from Faro: the lagoon and white villages in the east, the golden cliffs of Benagil and Lagos, Cape St Vincent, then the wild west coast and the Serra…
French Alps road trip
A two-week loop from Annecy, via Mont Blanc, the Beaufortain and three giants of the Route des Grandes Alpes: the Iseran, the Galibier and the Izoard. The return leg…
Belgium road trip
A one-week loop from Brussels: Mechelen and Antwerp, the Flemish cities of Ghent and Bruges, the coast and the Ypres battlefields, then Namur, Dinant and the Ardennes…
US East Coast road trip
A two-week one-way trip from New York to Boston: three days on foot in Manhattan, then the car for Philadelphia, Washington, Shenandoah's Skyline Drive, Annapolis…
Finland road trip, from Helsinki to Lapland
A one-way trip of about 1,000 km, from Helsinki to the Arctic Circle: the old wooden town of Porvoo, the Saimaa lakes around Savonlinna and Punkaharju, Kuopio, Oulu…
Peninsular Malaysia road trip
A two-week loop from Kuala Lumpur: Malacca, the east coast at Cherating, the Taman Negara jungle, the tea plantations of the Cameron Highlands, Ipoh, then Penang…
Oman road trip
A ten-day loop from Muscat: the coast road from Wadi Shab to Sur, the turtles of Ras al-Jinz, a night at a camp in the dunes of the Wahiba Sands, the forts of Nizwa…
Alsace road trip
A one-week loop from Strasbourg: Mont Sainte-Odile, the Alsace Wine Route from Obernai to Eguisheim, Haut-Kœnigsbourg, Colmar, then the Route des Crêtes along the…
Loire Valley châteaux road trip
A week from Orléans to Saumur following the Loire downstream: Chambord, Blois, Cheverny, Chaumont, Amboise, Chenonceau, Villandry, Azay-le-Rideau and Fontevraud…
Chile road trip, from Santiago to Chiloé
Two weeks one way from Santiago to the island of Chiloé: Valparaíso and its funiculars, the Colchagua vineyards, then the Ruta 5 to the Lakes and Volcanoes region…
Dordogne and Périgord road trip
A one-week loop from Périgueux: Brantôme, Hautefort, Lascaux IV, the Vézère valley, the châteaux of the Dordogne, Sarlat and Rocamadour. Little motorway, lots of…
Amalfi Coast road trip
A ten-day loop from Naples: Pompeii, the Sorrento peninsula, the clifftop SS163 via Positano, Amalfi and Ravello, then the temples of Paestum, the Cilento coast and…
Gaspé Peninsula road trip
The Gaspé Peninsula loop on Route 132, more than 930 km around the peninsula, extended here from Quebec City along the Lower St. Lawrence coast. Two weeks of…
Romania road trip
A two-week loop from Bucharest: Peleș and Bran castles, the Saxon towns of Brașov, Sighișoara and Sibiu, the wooden villages of Maramureș, then back over the…
Provence road trip: Luberon and Alpilles
A one-week loop from Avignon: Fontaine-de-Vaucluse, the hilltop villages of the Luberon, the ochres of Roussillon and Rustrel, the lavandin of the Valensole plateau…
Ardèche road trip
A one-week loop from Vallon-Pont-d'Arc: the Pont d'Arc and Chauvet Cave 2, the gorge road and its viewpoints, the Aven d'Orgnac, the villages of Balazuc and Vogüé…
Vosges road trip
A one-week loop from Nancy, via Épinal and the lakes of Gérardmer, Longemer and Retournemer, then the whole Route des Crêtes, from Lac Blanc to the Vieil Armand…
Georgia road trip
A two-week loop from Tbilisi: the vineyards of Kakheti, the Georgian Military Road to the foot of Kazbek, the monasteries of Imereti, then the Svan towers of Mestia…
Jordan road trip
An 8-night loop from Amman: Jerash, the Dead Sea, Madaba and Mount Nebo, the King's Highway through the Mujib canyon, Kerak and Dana, then Petra and the Wadi Rum…
Patagonia road trip
Two weeks of glaciers and granite on both sides of the border: Perito Moreno, Fitz Roy from El Chaltén, then Torres del Paine in Chile, all the way to the Strait of…
New England road trip
A two-week loop from Boston, from Cape Cod to the cliffs of Acadia, by way of the Newport mansions, the Berkshires, Vermont and the White Mountains. Do it in autumn…
Louisiana road trip
A ten-day loop from New Orleans: the River Road plantations, the mansions of Natchez in Mississippi, the Atchafalaya Basin, Cajun country around Breaux Bridge and…
Colombia road trip, from Medellín to the coffee region
A ten-day loop from Medellín via the Guatapé reservoir, the village of Jardín in south-west Antioquia, then Filandia, Salento and the Cocora Valley, before heading…
Cornwall and Devon road trip
A ten-day loop from Exeter that crosses the Dartmoor moorland, follows the south coast to the Lizard and Land's End, then heads back up the north coast via St Ives…
Sri Lanka road trip
A two-week loop from Negombo, next to the airport: the Cultural Triangle of Sigiriya, Dambulla and Polonnaruwa, Kandy, the tea plantations of Nuwara Eliya, Ella, a…
Poland road trip
A two-week loop from Warsaw: Kraków with the Wieliczka salt mine and the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial, the Tatras at Zakopane, then Wrocław, Poznań and Toruń up to…
Lofoten road trip
Ten days from Evenes to Bodø via Andøya, the E10 through the Lofoten Islands to the village of Å, then the Moskenes ferry with the car. White-sand beaches, fishing…
Cévennes road trip
A one-week loop from Anduze: the bamboo garden and the steam train, the Corniche des Cévennes, the Gorges du Tarn from Sainte-Enimie to La Malène, the Millau Viaduct…
Burgundy road trip
A one-week loop from Dijon: the Route des Grands Crus to Beaune, the Côte Chalonnaise, Cluny, Autun and the Morvan, Vézelay, the Guédelon building site and the…
Botswana road trip
A two-week 4x4 loop from Maun: the baobabs of Nxai Pan, the rhinos of Khama, the elephants of Chobe, the Savuti marshes and the lagoons of Moremi. In the north…
North Cape road trip
A two-week loop from Tromsø: the Finnmark coast via Alta and Hammerfest, the North Cape from Honningsvåg, then back through Sámi Lapland via Karasjok, Inari…
Tasmania road trip
A two-week loop from Hobart: the Port Arthur convict settlement, the granite of Freycinet and the Bay of Fires, Launceston's gorge, Dove Lake beneath Cradle Mountain…
Aveyron road trip
A one-week loop from Rodez through Aveyron's listed villages, Belcastel, Najac, Sauveterre-de-Rouergue and Estaing, as far as the abbey church of Conques, taking in…
Baja California road trip
A two-week loop from La Paz, heading up Highway 1 to the Jesuit missions of Loreto and the oasis of San Ignacio with its grey whale lagoon, then back down via Bahía…