Travel & Chai is a travel blog designed to make your life easier. With a small team of world travellers, Travel & Chai is here to help make your travel plans easier through honest travel reviews, guides, itinerary suggestions, and tried and tested tips to help you get the most out of every destination!
Hi! I'm Riz
My name is Riz, and you might know me from Chocolates & Chai, my food blog featuring recipes from around the world. I'd often receive emails and comments about my holiday photos or international recipes, asking for more information about the countries I was visiting. I started Travel & Chai as a way of sharing my travel knowledge with you.
Prior to moving to Canada, I've lived in the United Kingdom, France, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Prior to her arrival in Canada, my wife, Reem, lived in Egypt, and Albania. But that's just where we've lived...
We both love to travel, and Travel & Chai is a way of sharing our travel experiences to make your travel experiences easier and more fulfilling.
I'm not the only one here though. I want you to get the best and most honest travel advice possible here on Travel & Chai, and I acknowledge that I may not always be the one that can provide that. That's why Travel & Chai will occasionally feature travel writers, bloggers, and experts to share their knowledge of the world with you.
The Travel & Chai blog provides travel advice in two forms: Travel for Tourists, as well as Travel...According to Locals.
Travel guides
This is what you usually find on a travel website - we're going to provide tips, tricks, guides, and information for things to do when you're on holiday. Wherever you want to go, Travel & Chai will make sure you see all the best sights and sounds. Need a quick itinerary to make the most of your next Mexican resort vacation? Here's a 7 Day Itinerary for Xcarat Arte.
A local's guide to...
If you've spent any significant amount of time at a holiday destination, you may have noticed that locals rarely ever visit tourist attractions. This side of Travel & Chai is filled with guides, tips, tricks and cultural information to help you enjoy a destination in the same way a local would. These articles are either written by locals or in conjunction with them.
Keep in touch
Travel & Chai is new! And we don't have a large social footprint, help us grow by following along on our social channels.
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Instagram - posts, stories and reels that'll give you behind the scenes views as well as tips and summaries of the longer form posts you see here.
Pinterest - Pinterest is a weird social media platform these days. I don't think it's great for discovering new ideas any more, but it still works as a fantastic planning tool.
Youtube - Okay, full disclosure. Travel & Chai has absolutely nothing on our Youtube channel just yet. As the blog grows, we're hoping to have the resources to be able to create accompanying travel videos for each blog post. Start following the channel from now so you don't miss out!