Find fun places worth exploring, near and far.
Each place is researched, sourced and dated. Wander the map, pick a place to start, or throw the dart. Daily travel games are in testing.
Not sure where to start?
Throw the dart and let the adventure begin.
Illustrated map, not to scale. Coastlines: Natural Earth.
Photo credits for the eight
- Great Sand Dunes: Photograph: Patrick Myers, NPS via NPGallery · Public domain (PD-USGov, US National Park Service)
- Iberá Wetlands: Photograph: Papa Pic · CC0 · cropped
- Alhambra: Photograph: Jebulon · CC0 · cropped
- Svalbard: Photograph: Bernt Rostad · Adventfjorden, Svalbard · CC BY 2.0 · cropped
- South Luangwa: Photograph: Geoff Gallice · Luangwa River crossing · CC BY 2.0
- Flaming Cliffs: Photograph: Richard Mortel · Bayanzag (Flaming Cliffs), Gobi Desert, Mongolia (29) · CC BY 2.0
- Mount Fuji: Photograph: Steven Lynn via Unsplash · Unsplash licence
- Milford Sound: Photograph: Szilas · Public domain
- Easter Island: Photograph: Otávio Nogueira · Fabrica de Moais-13 · CC BY 2.0 · cropped
- Grand Canyon: Photograph: Romain Guy · CC0 · cropped
- Great Blue Hole: Photograph: © Xiquinho Silva · CC BY 4.0 · cropped
- Iceland’s South Coast: Photograph: NIR HIMI via Unsplash · Unsplash licence · cropped
- Dolomites: Photograph: Michael Hutter via Unsplash · Unsplash licence
- Kolmanskop: Photograph: Ralf Hüsges · CC BY 4.0 · cropped
- Paro Taktsang: Photograph: Arian Zwegers from Brussels, Belgium · Paro, Taktsang Goemba (Tiger's Nest) (15841919411) · CC BY 2.0
- Blue Mountains: Photograph: Unyxium · CC0
- Bora Bora: Photograph: Fabien Bellanger via Unsplash · Unsplash licence · cropped
- Banff: Photograph: TerryDOtt · Sunrise Reflections - Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada · CC BY 2.0 · cropped
- Blue Ridge Parkway: Photograph: Ashley Knedler · CC0 · cropped
- Atacama Desert: Photograph: Wescottm · CC BY 4.0 · cropped
- Príncipe: Photograph: Cgaffga · CC0 · cropped
- Santorini: Photograph: Massimiliano Morosinotto via Unsplash · Unsplash licence
- Ha Long Bay: Photograph: Marina Lobato via Unsplash · Unsplash licence · cropped
- Raja Ampat: Photograph: Rolandandika · CC BY-SA 4.0
Seven regions
Every place has exactly one region. Each region has its own map.
Ten collections
Collections cut across regions. A place can belong to several.
From the Field Guide
Entry № 033Sossusvlei & Deadvlei
Deadvlei is a white clay pan in Namibia's Namib-Naukluft National Park where camel thorn trees that died…
Entry № 043Lofoten
Lofoten is a Norwegian archipelago in Nordland, north of the Arctic Circle, whose settlement, wealth and…
Entry № 045Meteora
Meteora in Thessaly, Greece, is a cluster of conglomerate pinnacles up to about 200 metres high, formed from a…
Entry № 046Raja Ampat
Raja Ampat in Southwest Papua, Indonesia, holds the highest recorded reef biodiversity on the planet: around…
Entry № 021Katmai & Brooks Falls
At Brooks Falls in Alaska's Katmai National Park, brown bears stand at the lip of a waterfall catching leaping…
Entry № 023Kaikōura
A deep-sea canyon starts almost at the beach, so sperm whales feed year-round within sight of a town whose…
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Photo credits for these six
- Sossusvlei & Deadvlei: Photograph: Giles Laurent · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Lofoten: Photograph: Christoph Strässler · Loaded Drying Racks for Stockfish at Reine, Lofoten, Norway · CC BY-SA 2.0 · cropped
- Meteora: Photograph: Giles Laurent · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Raja Ampat: Photograph: Rolandandika · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Katmai & Brooks Falls: Photograph: Christoph Strässler from Oberdorf BL, Schweiz · Brown Bears at Brooks Falls, Katmai National Park (10106289804) · CC BY-SA 2.0 · cropped
- Kaikōura: Photograph: Whale Watch Kaikoura / Destination Kaikōura via Destination Kaikoura · CC BY 4.0
Field Notes
SockMonkey.com is a free travel guide to places worth exploring, near and far, from national parks and scenic drives to remote islands. Each entry is researched, names its sources and is dated, and covers the place's geography, its history and how to get there. The site also has a map of every place and a history of the sock monkey as an American folk-craft tradition. Daily travel games about the places are in testing. Each place page also carries a diary page from Tally, our travelling sock monkey.
What's in the hold
- № 01
The Field Guide
301 places worth knowing, each researched and sourced, with Tally's diary page, list and keepsake from every stop.
- № 02
The Map of Everywhere
Every place in the guide on one map. Circle the ones you dream about and stamp the ones you have been. In beta.
- № 03
Where's Tally?
A daily guessing game: one hidden place, five clues that start with a feeling and end with the country. In testing now.
