About
A travel planner that shows its working
Where Next is a small, independent site: a destination scorer built on public data, and seven field guides to the New 7 Wonders of the World.
What this is
The dashboard scores 128 countries on three things that actually decide a trip: what it costs, how safe it feels to visit, and how easy it is to get around. Those scores come from public sources — the World Economic Forum's travel index, the UN's Human Development Index, the Global Peace Index, Numbeo cost data and others — and each one is documented in the methodology.
The Destination Selector turns those scores into a shortlist of five places, based on what you say matters. It runs entirely in your browser: no account, nothing sent to a server.
The seven guides cover one monument each. They are the practical part — how to get there, which gateway or route changes the trip, what the tickets actually require, and what I would do differently next time.
How the guides are made
- Official sources first. Ticket rules, opening hours and access restrictions come from the site's own authority — the park service, the ministry, the official ticketing portal — not from a reseller's summary.
- Where sources disagree, the page says so. Fees and hours differ between official pages more often than you would expect; the guide shows the conflict rather than picking whichever number looks tidier.
- Personal experience is labelled as such. Six of the seven guides carry notes from my own visits. Chichén Itzá does not, because I have not been there yet, and that page says so instead of pretending otherwise.
- Photographs are credited. Most come from Wikimedia Commons under Creative Commons licences, with the photographer and licence named under each image.
What this is not
Not a booking site. Nothing is sold here. Links go to official sellers and to the platforms I use myself; you book with them, not with me.
Not pay-to-play. No hotel, tour operator or tourist board has paid for a mention, a ranking or a rating. The scores are a formula, and the guides are written from sources and first-hand experience.
Not a source of affiliate income at launch. The site currently carries no affiliate links. If that changes, the affected pages will say so plainly before you click, and it will never change a recommendation.
Who writes it
I am Collin. I have travelled to six of the seven wonders — the Great Wall as a child, the Taj Mahal on a Golden Triangle tour, Petra as a very long day trip, the Colosseum on foot, Christ the Redeemer by train, and Machu Picchu on a day trip from Cusco that I would plan differently now. Chichén Itzá is still on the list.
I built this because the planning information for these places is scattered across official portals, resellers and forum threads, and the useful part — which decision actually changes the trip — is buried under all of it.
Corrections
Travel information goes stale faster than anything else on the web. If a fee, an opening time or a route has changed, or a source is out of date, tell me and I will fix it.