Action stations: 12 months of fitness holidays for 2018

Let this year be one of get up and go rather than fly and flop with our pick of activity holidays for each month – around the UK and abroad

Readers’ best travel discoveries of 2017

From a Norwegian glacier to an exotic garden in Chennai, and from vegan burgers in Warsaw to a sherry bar in Madrid, readers share their holiday highlights

The best travel discoveries of 2017 – chosen by Guardian writers

This year the Guardian Travel team enjoyed a Hooghly in India, meditated in Bali and hitched a wagon in the Wye valley – among other unforgettable experiences

Mountain: a movie that reaches new peaks of cinematography

Prepare to be taken to dizzying heights as a new documentary explores the physical beauty of the world’s highest places in ‘an exhilarating game of vertical pinball’

Travelling in the Andes: readers’ travel tips

From subtropical Colombia to Tierra del Fuego in the shadow of Antarctica, our tipsters have explored, eaten, slept and imbibed among these astonishing peaks

Caribbean dream: mixing it up in the Grenadines

The Caribbean isn’t just for minor royalty and hedge fund hoorays. A DIY island-hopping adventure guided by locals reveals amazing wildlife and an unaffected vibe

Monkeying around in Borneo: a voluntourism trip with a difference

Voluntourism is popular but controversial. In Indonesian Borneo, however, the Orangutan Foundation puts conservation (and graft) first, as our writer discovers

Xilitla, Mexico: where Day of the Dead meets carnival

Forget what you’ve seen in James Bond films, the best town for this November festival is Xilitla, amid the hills and waterfalls of the eastern Sierra Gorda

10 of the best wildlife trips around the world: readers’ travel tips

Polar bears, rare wolves, aye-aye and gorillas – our readers share their heart-racing encounters with the world’s wildest animals

A cycling tour of the Balkans: two wheels, three countries, four days

Our writer and his friends recapture their youth and the joy of cycling, with a challenging trip taking in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Montenegro

Water worlds: top 10 marine adventure holidays worldwide

Ahead of the BBC’s new David Attenborough series Blue Planet II, we pick 10 trips that explore the oceans, from diving the Pacific’s ‘underwater Serengeti’ to reef conservation in Belize and kayaking in Komodo

St Helena’s airport finally ready for touchdown

Flights to one of the most isolated islands in the world start this week, heralding a rise in tourists for the British overseas territory – whether it’s ready for them or not

Travels with my dad: a bothy-to-bothy hike in north Devon

Phoebe Smith is keen to try a hiking route between two of the National Trust’s new camping bothies in north Devon, but is unsure how her recently retired father will take to staying in a ‘stone tent’

Revolutionary road: on the trail of Che Guevara’s last days in Bolivia

Ahead of the 50th anniversary of Che’s death, our writer follows in his final footsteps in the Bolivian villages of La Higuera and Vallegrande

Nepal-Tibet border reopens to tourists after 2015 earthquake

The famous Himalayan road from Lhasa to Kathmandu, partly destroyed by the earthquake, is back on the travel wishlist as the Kerung-Rasuwa border crossing reopens to international visitors