Access Travel’s most recommended destinations this year, chosen for their depth, pacing, and experiences worth lingering over
After 14 years and over 150 countries, Access Travel founder Angely Dub has earned the right to be direct about one thing. The best trips are never about what's trending. They're about what stays with you.
Every year, Angely and her team sit down and ask the same question before recommending a single destination. It's not about what's going viral or what's selling. The Access Travel team picks what actually delivers. These are their 10 most recommended destinations for 2026, grouped not by geography but by the kind of experience they give you. Because where you go matters less than how it makes you feel when you get there.
Nature, Wildlife and Raw Wonder
Tanzania during migration season is one of those destinations Access Travel never stops recommending, because it's one you genuinely cannot Google your way into understanding. The Serengeti during that time moves with a rhythm that has to be witnessed. The timing matters, the guides matter, the intention matters. Access designs safaris around all three. In Costa Rica, Monteverde and Arenal offer something rarer than drama. They offer stillness. Cloud forests, volcano views, and eco-lodges that make you exhale properly for the first time in months. Even silence feels alive here.
Culture, Heritage and Inner Journeys
Sicily is a place the team keeps returning to because it keeps giving. From Taormina's coastal light to Noto's sun-bleached baroque streets, nobody rushes anything here, and after a day or two, you start to understand why. Bhutan is for the traveler who wants more than sightseeing. Angely traveled there herself before ever running a single expedition, which is how Access works with every destination on this list. Paro and Thimphu stay with you long after you leave. This is travel as a spiritual act, not a checklist.
Mountain Drama and Alpine Beauty
Canada in winter, specifically Banff and Lake Louise, is cinematic in a way that photographs don't fully capture. It's the solitude that gets you, the part nobody talks about enough. New Zealand's Queenstown through Fiordland is built for private road trips where the landscape just keeps opening up. Pure, unrushed, and the kind of restorative that only makes sense once you're actually there.
Winter Light and Otherworldly Landscapes
Norway, specifically Lofoten and Tromsø, is winter done right. Northern lights, sculptural fjords, architecture that seems to grow from the land itself. It's one Angely scouts personally before every expedition. Antarctica is for the traveler who is done being impressed by the ordinary. The world's last true frontier, vast and humbling in a way that's hard to put into words. When experienced with intention and care, there is nothing else like it on this planet.
Coastal Calm and Barefoot Luxury
Seychelles, North Island and La Digue, is where Access sends clients who genuinely need to stop. Not slow down. Stop. Barefoot luxury, quiet beaches, and space that actually feels like yours. Chile, from the Pacific coast through to Patagonia, offers scale and silence in equal measure. You don't conquer those landscapes. You listen to them.
None of these destinations made this list because they're popular. Every single one has been experienced firsthand by the Access team, because that's the only way Access recommends anything. That standard hasn't changed in 14 years, and it won't.
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About Access Travel
Access Travel crafts deeply personal journeys built on firsthand experience and genuine local knowledge. Founded by Angely Dub at 19, it has spent more than 14 years redefining what thoughtful, intentional travel looks like for Filipino travelers.
