taste2travel
Travel guides, quizzes and photography from a traveller exploring destinations worldwide.
About taste2travel
taste2travel is the personal travel website of Australian traveller Darren McLean. A full-time traveller since August 2013, McLean launched taste2travel in 2016 while living in Cali, Colombia after three years travelling South America. The site has grown to more than 360 posts offering destination guides, photo galleries, quizzes and in-depth features drawn from his own journeys; McLean reports having visited 247 of 251 UN+ countries. The guides emphasise remote, lesser-visited places and are based on firsthand experience. Posts are image-rich, relying largely on original photography, and the site includes practical tools like a downloadable country checklist.
If you like off-the-beaten-path photo essays and brain-teasing quizzes, taste2travel delivers both in tidy, well-informed doses. Darren writes in a clear, factual tone that reads like a seasoned companion rather than a glossy guidebook: the newest quiz runs long and thorough, the photo galleries are generous, and articles link heavily to related content. The site is strongest when you want detailed, experience-based guides to obscure places - think Nakhchivan, Sudan or tiny island nations - plus a steady stream of quizzes and galleries to spark curiosity. Updates arrive at a modest monthly pace, but each post tends to be substantial and well illustrated.
Where They Travel
worldwide
Pros
- Detailed guides for obscure destinations
- Extensive original photography throughout posts
- Regular travel quizzes and photo galleries
- Practical, experience-based planning material
Cons
- Updates are modest, about once a month
- Recent content mix leans toward quizzes and galleries over itineraries
How Popular Is taste2travel?
- Open PageRank1.1 / 10
- Best-of lists1