Read their trip. Plan yours.

Planning a trip to Nepal usually means twenty open tabs. A blog post from 2019. A forum thread arguing about permits. A tour listing with no dates. Somewhere in there is the information you actually need, but it's hard to know which parts are still true.

Recent Visits started from a simple idea: the best way to plan a trip is to read about someone else's. Read their trip. Plan yours.

Guides that say when they were checked

At its core, Recent Visits is a travel publication. It has destination guides, treks with altitude, difficulty, permits and day-by-day routes, things to do, practical travel guides and suggested itineraries.

Some facts change all the time: visas, permits, seasons, fees. Those carry their source and the date we last checked them, and the site shows when a guide is due for another look. It's a small thing, but it's the difference between "this is true" and "this was true when we checked".

Stories from people who've been

Alongside our guides, travellers can share their own trips in their own words. Every story is reviewed before it's published. Photos are re-encoded to remove location data, and if someone used AI to help write their story, that's disclosed. We label these as first-hand accounts. They're there for inspiration and real experience, and the guides are where you check the rules.

An AI planner that doesn't make things up

Tell Recent Visits AI how long you have, who you're travelling with and what you love, and it suggests places, treks and a day-by-day outline. The one thing we refused to accept was a travel assistant that invents things: a price, an agency, a permit rule.

So it doesn't answer from memory. It looks things up in Recent Visits' own guides and listings and works from what it finds. Which tours to suggest is decided by plain code that checks what actually fits your trip and gives its reasons. Day-by-day plans come from a planner or from itineraries our team has published. The AI's job is to explain all of that in a friendly way, not to make it up.

And it still says, in the interface, that it can make mistakes, and that visas, permits and prices should be checked with official sources.

Local agencies, on fair terms

When you're ready, you can ask up to three local agencies for a quote, then compare their answers and message them from your account.

Agencies pay a flat fee to be listed and to receive quote requests. That fee doesn't buy a better position. Results are matched to your trip first, and anything that doesn't fit is left out, whoever it belongs to. Agencies can pay to be Featured, but that only reorders tours that already fit, and it's always labelled. Ads appear only on editorial pages, are marked as ads, and show only after you accept cookies. The whole arrangement is written up on a public page, How Recent Visits makes money.

Still growing

Recent Visits is live and in beta. Some agency and tour listings are shown for demonstration while they're confirmed with the agencies, and the site says so. We'd rather be upfront about that than pretend we're finished.

If you're thinking about Nepal, start at recent-visit.com. And if you've already been, we'd love to read your trip.