Issue 37 · Summer 2025

Where the
Ocean Meets
the Sky

Dispatches from the edge of the world — stories of wanderlust,
solitude, and the colours that only distance reveals.

Begin the Journey

Now Reading The Pacific Collection

Featured Destinations

Four Places That
Rewrite the Map

Faroe Islands

The Edge of the Atlantic

Where sea cliffs rise two hundred metres from a slate ocean and the wind carries the cries of a million puffins. The Faroes are what Iceland looked like before Instagram found it — raw, untranslatable, and utterly indifferent to your itinerary.

Photography by Elsa Mikkelsen

Vietnam

Into the
Karst Kingdom

Phong Nha-Ke Bang is a landscape that shouldn't exist. Limestone towers erupt from impossibly green jungle, hiding cathedral-sized caves that were unknown to science until a decade ago. We spent three weeks inside.

Read the full dispatch

Norway · Lofoten

The Light That
Lingers at Midnight

In summer, the sun circles the archipelago like a watchful eye, painting the fishing villages gold and rose long after the rest of Europe has gone to sleep.

12-page feature · pp. 42–53

Morocco · Fez

The Living Labyrinth

Fez el-Bali is a thousand-year-old puzzle of plaster and tile, copper hammers and cedar smoke. Every wrong turn leads somewhere worth being.

Visual Stories

Photo
Essay

A curated sequence — not a grid. Let your eye wander through six frames captured on four continents.

Kyoto, Japan

Zakynthos, Greece

Patagonia, Argentina

Sahara, Morocco

Lake Bled, Slovenia

Dolomites, Italy

Tromsø, Norway

Bagan, Myanmar

Practical Wanderlust

Field Guides

48-Hour Guide

Tokyo on Foot

Skip the bullet trains. The real Tokyo reveals itself to those who walk — from Yanaka's wooden alleys to the neon narrows of Shinjuku.

16 stops · 4 walks

Seasonal

Amalfi in November

The tourists leave. The lemons stay. A month-by-month guide to having the coast entirely to yourself.

22 pages · Illustrated

Food & Market

Eating Through Hanoi

Thirty dishes, twenty streets, zero forks. A rotational guide to the world's greatest street-food city.

30 dishes · 1 map

Wilderness

Patagonia: The W Trek

Five days, one trail, zero cell signal. Everything you need to walk the world's most beautiful circuit.

5 days · 80 km

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The Masthead

We believe travel writing should be as vivid as the places it describes — and as honest.

VISTA was founded on a simple premise: the world deserves better travel media. Not listicles dressed in serif fonts. Not influencer itineraries. Real reporting, real photography, stories that respect both the reader and the destination.

Each issue is built around a theme — not a season, not a destination, but a way of seeing. We send writers to stay. Not to visit. The difference shows in every paragraph.

Founded 2018 · Quarterly

37 Issues

64 Countries

120+ Writers

48 Photographers

Editorial Team

Clara VossEditor-in-Chief

Tomás HerreraCreative Director

Anika PatelPhoto Editor

James OkaforSenior Writer

Where theOcean Meetsthe Sky

Four Places ThatRewrite the Map