28 city guides · 3-day budget travel itineraries
3-day city guides for budget travellers — free attractions, cheap eats and low-cost adventures.
Iranian dhow souks, cook-your-catch fish markets and AED 2 bus rides across a city built for expense…
Free Ottoman gates and caravanserai courtyards, 8,000-pound breakfasts, and a shared servees out to …
Roman ruins you can see through a fence, half-dinar street food, and the seven hills climbed on publ…
Abbasid gates with no ticket office, wholesale spice alleys, dinar-priced shawarma and a Tigris boat…
Free gorge viewpoints, rock-cut monasteries that ask only a donation, village bakery breakfasts and …
Sunset on the Corniche costs nothing, a manousheh costs less than a bus ticket, and the best museum …
Free shrines and Roman gates, spice-souq grazing, 1,000-pound minibus rides and the Qasioun ridge at…
State-funded museums that charge nothing, 88-hectare parks open past midnight, and Gulf street food …
Creek abras, public beaches, Alserkal galleries and Karama canteens — the Dubai you can do on under …
Public reef beaches, a duty-free food boulevard and four-country desert viewpoints — almost all of i…
Free mountain balconies, a museum with no walls, ₪7 funicular rides and the cheapest falafel counter…
Working mosques that charge nothing, a 600,000-rial lunch that locals queue for, and bridge arches w…
Unfenced Miró sculptures, tandoor bakers at Bab Makkah, cook-your-catch fish grills and free public …
Sacred stones, market leftovers at half price and panoramic hills — Jerusalem's greatest hits cost a…
Free national museums, 400-fils shawarma, seafront parks that never charge, and a whole city crossed…
Free forts, 500-fils biryani plates, 300-fils bus rides and a souq where haggling is the entertainme…
Free Safavid shrines, bazaar lunches under half a million rial, shared-taxi runs to Tus and hillside…
Free-entry museums, worker-district biryani, no-ticket mountain hikes and the SAR 3 city bus that li…
Free mosques and battlefields, bazaar haggling near Bab al-Salam, broasted chicken under 20 SAR and …
Hilltop parks, public beaches, Mwasalat buses and Ruwi canteens — the version of Oman's capital that…
Free museums, mud-brick heritage villages, wholesale souqs and shawarma under SAR 8 across the Saudi…
Unticketed springs, escarpment viewpoints and a fish market you grill yourself — Dhofar on under 10 …
Mud-brick gates, flood-channel walks, dabab minibuses and clay-oven bread — three days in the highla…
Free art foundations, a AED 10 museum ceiling, wholesale souks and a AED 25 bus to the east coast wa…
Zand-era courtyards you can walk into for nothing, 150,000-rial falafel sandwiches and a sunset ridg…
Free UNESCO corridors, 80,000-rial kababi lunches, 5,000-rial city buses and hilltop panoramas that …
Free shrines and 24-hour parks, 100,000-rial sandwiches, a metro that crosses the city for pocket ch…
Free Bauhaus tours, municipal beaches that never charge, market leftovers at half price and the Rav-…