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About Beyond the Map
Beyond the Map is an online travel magazine for readers who would rather spend a week in one valley than a day in five cities. It publishes long stories about places and the people who keep them going, practical travel guides built around real routes and timetables, photography-led features and a calendar of festivals worth planning a trip around.
What the magazine covers
The stories section follows rewilding projects, pilgrim roads, island harbours and mountain towns. The travel guides are written for the days on the ground: how the ferries connect, how long a walk really takes and which town makes the better base. Photography features look at dark-sky reserves, deserts and wild places, and events covers ceremonies, races and music festivals with the months they fall in.
Where the magazine travels
The map is wide on purpose. Europe is covered from the Curonian Spit and Transylvania to Corsica, Monaco and the Greek islands; Asia from Cappadocia and Konya to Bhutan, Arunachal Pradesh, Chin State and Singapore; Oceania from Fiordland and Mount Taranaki to Melbourne and the highlands of Papua New Guinea; and the Americas from Maine and Route 66 to Holbox, Costa Rica, the Iberá Wetlands and Patagonia. The Places page lists every piece by region.
What the pieces share is pace. The magazine prefers a week in one valley to a day in five cities, a ferry crossing described properly to a list of ten islands, and a festival explained from the inside to a date in a calendar.
Reading the magazine
Long stories carry a reading time under the headline and end with the questions travellers most often ask before a trip. Travel guides are laid out in the order the days happen, with figures where numbers help, such as typical sailing times on the Dalmatian coast or road distances from a base town in Cappadocia. Under each figure a short note explains where the numbers come from and what may have changed since.
Corrections are part of the work. When a route closes, a festival moves or a hut is replaced, the affected page is revised and its updated date changes.
Who it is for
The magazine is written for independent travellers who plan their own trips and like to understand a place before they arrive: readers who want to know why the boats to Vis leave from Split, why the dervishes turn on 17 December, or why the Iberá marshes have jaguars again. It suits a slow first visit as much as a return trip, and it assumes readers will check the details that change, such as fares and timetables, against the official source before they book. It also suits readers who will never make the trip and simply want to know how a far-off place works.
Each piece carries two dates: the date it was first published and the date it was last updated. The second one changes whenever a fact, a timetable or a recommendation in the piece has been revised.
How the pictures are made
Many photographs on the site are AI-generated images. Each of them carries a small “AI” or “AI image” label on the picture itself, so it is always clear which images were made this way. They are used to show what a place looks like in a given light or season, not to document a specific event or person.
How articles are checked
Facts such as dates, distances, opening seasons and permit rules are checked against official sources: national park authorities, event organisers, tourism boards and published reference works. Details that change often, such as ferry timetables or ticket prices, are described in general terms with a pointer to the official source, because a figure that was right last season can be wrong by the time a reader travels.
This website is an independent editorial publication and is not operated by Destinations Publishing.
