Join us for a range of experiences, cultural, natural and culinary. We will walk through forest and gardens in autumn colours and past Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples. We will sample kaiseki meals; sushi and sashimi with the occasional Western meal. We will take part in the tea ceremony and taste Saké of the highest quality.
This 14-day tour (14 – 27 Aug ’26) allows you to experience the landscapes that inspired ‘America’s Artist’ Georgia O’Keeffe and to see three operas in the memorable Santa Fe opera theatre . There will be time for walks in river canyons and through forests of aspen, Ponderosa pine and Gambel oak.
Join us to explore Hyderabad, the city of Pearls, Moghuls and Nizams. We visit two nearby cities and discover the Deccan Sultanates, Hindu temples and unique forest reserves. After a tiger safari, we return to Hyderabad to stay in a former Nizam palace, restored by the Taj group, where our tour displays the exotic history of this famous dynasty.
Georgia, a Cultural Walking tour, encompasses many facets of this ancient Christian country, set in the Greater Caucasus - mountain walks, ancient stone towers, vineyards below snowy peaks, remote monasteries , Silk Road caravanserais and the Legend of the Golden Fleece. Running in September 2026, this guided holiday has a maximum of 14 guests.
During our visit (16 – 22 Aug '26, from £ 4646 pp) we attend 4 concerts of the Gstaad Menuhin Festival in Switzerland. Our 5 star hotel is the epitome of Swiss style and service levels (with meals to match) and a network of cable cars and little mountain railways enables us to enjoy easy daily walks in superb Alpine scenery.
Our walking tour in Kyrgyzstan offers mountain valleys, full of flowers, rivers carving pathways through the unique terrain as snow-capped peaks reveal themselves on our gentle climbs, the world’s second largest mountain lake, Issy-Kul, petroglyphs, ancient forts and a historic caravanserai, plus the Soviet era architecture of the capital, Bishkek.
We experience the magic of two festival performances in a Finnish mediaeval castle set in a lake, travel through silver birch forest for chamber music concerts at Kuhmo on the Russian border and enjoy exploring the attractive capital Helsinki on a guided tour running 17 - 24 July 2026.
Northern Cyprus in the Spring is a walking holiday designed for walkers and gourmets with an interest in history. Running 20 Mar - 1 April 2026 (max 14 guests), the trip highlights half day walks, atmospheric Crusader Castles, a profusion of orchids and the remote Korucam and Karpaz peninsulas.
This is an adventurous walking tour that goes off the beaten track in some style (with comfortable hotels and very good food and wine). Running from 12 - 26 May 2026 (max 14 guests), tour highlights include walking to isolated churches with Byzantine frescoes, to hilltop castles and ruined cities, and high in the Albanian Alps for flowers.
This tour, running 2 - 13 Sep 2026, introduces the country which gave birth to Janáček, Smetana, Dvořák, Martinů - and Mahler. We visit birthplaces and walk in the countryside that inspired these great musicians. We end in Brno, the Republic’s second city, where our centrally based hotel is ideal for an exploration of this capital of Moravia.
