The Longest Way Home
Solo travel journal turned guidebooks, offering independent Nepal and overland Asia guides.
About The Longest Way Home
The Longest Way Home is the personal travel website of David Ways, who began an overland journal in 2005 and has since built it into a platform of independently researched travel guides and guidebooks. David presents more than 20 years of travel experience and over a decade of publishing, and the site claims thousands of photographs and articles, noting over 220,000 photos and 2,360 articles while the public sitemap lists 841 posts. The site offers hands-on Nepal guidebooks, day-by-day trek reports, itineraries, transport advice and personal hotel and restaurant reviews. Posts are illustrated with the author’s own photography and long, practical in-country reporting.
Reading The Longest Way Home is like trailing a single obsessive, careful traveller who refuses to leave a mountain pass unexplored. David writes in a plain, authoritative voice that favours long-form, on-the-ground detail over listicle fluff, his recent posts are literal day-by-day trek journals through Nar Phu and the Annapurna circuit, and his safety updates draw on local sources and concrete figures. The site is actively updated, with new material most weeks, and readers will find the kind of granular planning notes, maps and route commentary that work for serious trekkers and overlanders. The photography and linked resources make it easy to move from inspiration to trip planning.
Where They Travel
Nepal and overland Asia
Pros
- Detailed day-by-day trek journals and itineraries
- Independent, unsponsored firsthand recommendations
- Extensive, original in-country photography
- Regular weekly updates and active site
Cons
- Pages display Google AdSense ads
- Very long, dense posts can be time-consuming to read
How Popular Is The Longest Way Home?
- Majestic Million rank338,707
- Open PageRank3.8 / 10
- YouTube subscribers124
- Best-of lists3