Travel guides to remote and unusual places: long road trips, extreme places and villages at the end of the road, with checked distances, fuel gaps, permits, costs and free stops.https://guides.nexaround.com/https://guides.nexaround.com/road-trips/adelaide-to-perth-nullarbor/https://guides.nexaround.com/road-trips/adelaide-to-perth-nullarbor/2,702 km on the Eyre Highway, or 3,607 km along the coast. Every leg measured, the fuel gaps, the clock changes, the WA quarantine check and the stops that cost nothing.Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://guides.nexaround.com/road-trips/carretera-austral/https://guides.nexaround.com/road-trips/carretera-austral/1,206 km from Puerto Montt to Villa O'Higgins, with three ferries, hanging glaciers, marble caves and a village built on boardwalks. The route, the ferries and the season.Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://guides.nexaround.com/extreme-places/coober-pedy/https://guides.nexaround.com/extreme-places/coober-pedy/An opal-mining town 846 km north of Adelaide where people live in dugouts to escape 48 °C heat. Underground churches, a spaceship from a film set, the Breakaways, and the Stuart Highway fuel gap.Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://guides.nexaround.com/road-trips/dalton-highway/https://guides.nexaround.com/road-trips/dalton-highway/414 miles of mostly gravel haul road beside the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, across the Arctic Circle and over the Brooks Range. Fuel stops, the 240-mile gap, and how to reach the Arctic Ocean.Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://guides.nexaround.com/free-stops/free-stops-nullarbor/https://guides.nexaround.com/free-stops/free-stops-nullarbor/Pink salt lakes, a giant kangaroo, a jetty to nowhere, cliffs over the Bight and Australia's longest straight road. Every free stop between Ceduna and Norseman, in driving order.Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://guides.nexaround.com/road-trips/gibb-river-road/https://guides.nexaround.com/road-trips/gibb-river-road/Derby to Kununurra on an old cattle road: gorges with swimming holes, river crossings, station stays and fuel stops hundreds of kilometres apart. Open only in the dry season.Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://guides.nexaround.com/road-trips/karakoram-highway/https://guides.nexaround.com/road-trips/karakoram-highway/783 km from Islamabad to the China border at 4,714 m, past Nanga Parbat, Rakaposhi, Hunza and a lake made by a landslide. The route, the current safety advice, and the border season.Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://guides.nexaround.com/extreme-places/la-rinconada/https://guides.nexaround.com/extreme-places/la-rinconada/A gold-mining town at about 5,000 m under a glacier, with no sewers, mercury in the water and a lawless reputation. What La Rinconada is, and why most travellers shouldn't go.Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://guides.nexaround.com/extreme-places/longyearbyen-svalbard/https://guides.nexaround.com/extreme-places/longyearbyen-svalbard/A town of about 2,800 people where the sun disappears for 111 days, polar bears roam outside town, and burials have been banned since 1950. How to get there and what to do in each season.Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://guides.nexaround.com/extreme-places/mawsynram-cherrapunji-monsoon/https://guides.nexaround.com/extreme-places/mawsynram-cherrapunji-monsoon/Nearly 12 metres of rain a year, a waterfall that drops 340 m, and bridges grown from living tree roots. How to visit Meghalaya's rain capitals, and when to go.Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://guides.nexaround.com/remote-villages/meemure-sri-lanka/https://guides.nexaround.com/remote-villages/meemure-sri-lanka/About 400 people, one rough road over the Knuckles Range, and a peak from the Ramayana. How to reach Meemure from Kandy, where to stay, and how to visit without spoiling it.Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://guides.nexaround.com/extreme-places/oymyakon-coldest-village/https://guides.nexaround.com/extreme-places/oymyakon-coldest-village/−67.7 °C on record, −46 °C on an average January day, 922 km of winter road from Yakutsk. How to reach Oymyakon, what the cold does, and what to know about Russia in 2026.Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://guides.nexaround.com/road-trips/pamir-highway/https://guides.nexaround.com/road-trips/pamir-highway/About 1,270 km through Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, over a 4,655 m pass and along the Afghan border. The route, the GBAO permit, the altitude, and where to sleep.Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://guides.nexaround.com/road-trips/road-of-bones-yakutsk-magadan/https://guides.nexaround.com/road-trips/road-of-bones-yakutsk-magadan/1,993 km of mostly gravel road across Siberia's Far East, built by Gulag prisoners. The route, the river crossings, the seasons, and the abandoned road your navigation app may send you down.Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://guides.nexaround.com/know-how/road-trip-no-phone-signal/https://guides.nexaround.com/know-how/road-trip-no-phone-signal/Offline maps, fuel range, water, and three ways to call for help when your phone shows no bars. Lessons from the remote roads we cover, including when navigation apps get it badly wrong.Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://guides.nexaround.com/road-trips/skeleton-coast-kaokoland/https://guides.nexaround.com/road-trips/skeleton-coast-kaokoland/Shipwrecks in the surf, a colony of Cape fur seals, fog-bound gravel roads, desert elephants and Epupa Falls on the Angolan border. A 907 km route from Swakopmund, and the park rules.Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://guides.nexaround.com/road-trips/trans-labrador-highway/https://guides.nexaround.com/road-trips/trans-labrador-highway/1,749 km from Baie-Comeau through Labrador's boreal forest to Blanc-Sablon: gravel in Quebec, paved in Labrador since 2022, gaps of 400 km, and free satellite phones on loan.Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://guides.nexaround.com/remote-villages/tristan-da-cunha/https://guides.nexaround.com/remote-villages/tristan-da-cunha/222 people, no airport, and six days at sea from Cape Town. How to get permission, find one of a handful of berths, and what to do once you land.Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://guides.nexaround.com/remote-villages/ushguli-georgia/https://guides.nexaround.com/remote-villages/ushguli-georgia/Medieval stone towers at 2,100 m, snowed in for half the year, beneath the 5,193 m wall of Shkhara. How to get there from Mestia, what to see, and when the road is open.Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://guides.nexaround.com/road-trips/westfjords-iceland/https://guides.nexaround.com/road-trips/westfjords-iceland/A 734 km loop of fjords, mountain passes and gravel, with Dynjandi falls, the bird cliffs of Látrabjarg and a red-sand beach. The route, the season, and which roads close.Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT