Transportation

Next-to-impossible destinations

Are the Galapagos Islands, Svalbard or Yakutsk not exotic enough? Perhaps then you should try to reach destinations you can be quite sure nobody you know has ever visited – places that are almost impossible to reach.

Driving

Driving a car gives a traveller more independence and flexibility than scheduled transportation, such as air travel, rail travel, or bus travel, and may be faster or more comfortable than cycling.

Boat travel

The following articles are about traveling with various types of vessels that are capable of sailing long distances.

Bus travel

All continents, including Antarctica, have some sort of bus travel and unless government regulations or geography prohibit it, you can find some – at least nominal – bus service almost anywhere you go. While comfort and prices range wildly, from the infamous chicken buses, the engines of which may or may not survive the next steep ascent, to luxury buses in countries such as Saudi Arabia, buses are usually the cheapest option at least on short distances.

Cycling

Cycling allows you to see places close up and at a slower pace. It keeps you aware of your surroundings and you get to experience a place more intimately than you would as a bus or taxi passenger.

Escorted tours

Escorted tours are comprehensive tour packages in which a professional tour director escorts a large tour group, usually by motorcoach, through a multi-day itinerary covering multiple travel destinations and multiple overnight accommodations. At a minimum, a standard package includes the services of the tour director, plus the costs of all transportation, accommodations, one or more mandatory excursions at each destination, and some meals.

Flying

Commercial airplane flight is a common form of long-distance travel and central to the travel experience of many. Wikivoyage has a wide array of information and advice for air passengers to make your experience of sitting in a metal tube at 35,000 feet for hours on end less stressful and more enjoyable.

General transportation subjects

Hitchhiking

Hitchhiking is one of the cheapest ways of traveling. By tradition, hitchhiking is defined as soliciting a ride by standing at the edge of a road, facing traffic, with one's thumb extended/upwards.

Lounges

If you need to be away from the hustle and bustle of the airport transit area whilst waiting for your flight, then consider going to a lounge. A lounge is a section of the airport that the airport company, an airline or third-party company allocates for selected passengers to wait for their flight in slightly more comfortable conditions.

Luggage delivery service

Luggage delivery services provide a door-to-door luggage delivery service, where your luggage or sports equipment is picked-up from your home, office or any physical address and delivered to your hotel, resort or any other physical address. Luggage allowances are decreasing and excess luggage fees increasing.

Motion sickness

Motion sickness, also known as seasickness, air sickness, car sickness, and kinetosis, is a common ailment for certain people, both during transportation and amusement rides.

National Grid (Britain)

On the streets of the UK's major cities, an address and a street atlas are probably all you need to locate places of interest. However a visitor intent on exploring rural parts England, Wales or Scotland will soon run up against the wide-spread use of national grid references.

Navigation

Mankind's eternal questions Where am I? Where am I going?

Public transportation

This article is about local travel. For information on long-distance trains and buses, see Rail travel and Bus travel.

Rail travel

Rail travel includes everything from heritage steam trains to high-speed bullet trains, from sightseeing or dinner trains to the convenience of speed as a means of modern transport.

Rickshaws

Rickshaws are a common mode of local transportation in Asia and Africa. The word "rickshaw" originally meant a human-drawn vehicle with 2-3 wheels.

Ride sharing

Ride sharing is an alternative to hitchhiking. Like hitchhiking, it involves seeking a ride in a vehicle operated by another traveller who is going to the same destination.

Ride-hailing services

Ride-hailing or ride-sharing services are apps that connect passengers and local drivers using their personal vehicles. Examples of ride hailing services include Bolt, Lyft and Uber.

Round the world overland

Overland travel or overlanding refers to a journey performed without the use of flights. This may include: Travel to relatively distant or inaccessible points (such as the Australian outback) with vehicles designed to be capable of off-road use.

Taxis

A taxi (also known as cab, taxicab) is, in most cases, a comfortable method for door-to-door transport. While taxis often are an expensive way (in all major ground transportation) of getting around; but in low-income countries with bad public transportation, taking a taxi for a whole day of sightseeing can be a practical option, even for daytrips around a region.

Travel without a car

A few countries are difficult to travel without a personal vehicle.

Truck stops

Truck stops are very interesting places. It is a good place to take a break and watch trucks come and go.