How we check what we publish

Every guide on this site mixes three kinds of information, and they are not checked the same way. This page explains which is which, so you know how much to trust each line and when to double-check before you book anything.

Hard data: always against the official source

Ticket prices, opening hours, entry requirements, paperwork, quotas and fees come from whoever sets them: tourism boards, national park services, museums, transport operators; and for visas, embassies, consulates and immigration departments. Never from another travel blog.

• Each page lists the sources it used, with a link to the official one where it exists.
• Next to the data you will find the date we checked it. If it is old, treat it as old.
• When an official source does not publish a figure, we say “not published” instead of quoting a number from somewhere else.

Context: encyclopedias and UNESCO

History, geography and cultural background lean on encyclopedias and on UNESCO for World Heritage sites. It is the part that changes least, and we say on the page when a claim comes from there.

Recommendations: guides, reviews and our own trips

Where to eat or sleep is, by definition, an opinion. Those come from guides, reviews and — in the places we have actually been — from the trip itself. Pages based on a first-hand visit say so.

What we do not do

• We do not process visas and we are not a travel agency.
• We do not replace the official source: before starting any application, confirm there.
• We do not publish a figure we could not verify just to fill a gap.

Found a mistake?

Write to viajacongus@gmail.com with the page and what is wrong. Rules, quotas, fees and prices change often, and a reader who is right is the fastest way for us to find out.