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11/11/2022

10-Day Italian Fine Food and Fast Cars Adventure

A Unique Italian Food Tour in authentic Northern Italy with a big explosion of delicious cuisine, stunning landscapes, and very fast cars!

You will enter the temples of food by dining at Michelin Star Restaurants, enjoy cooking classes given by professional locals and tasting your way through the best cheeses, wines, and vinegar northern Italy has to offer.

Get the opportunity to feel the power as you drive the best sports cars in the world such as a Lamborghini and Ferrari.

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08/02/2022

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The band is slowly getting back together 🙌

30/01/2022

Belmond Andean Explorer, Peru
Almost 600 years ago, the Inca Road System was a feat of engineering, where locals used to trek the 25,000 miles of road by foot or by llama. Today, guests can travel in luxury on the Belmond Andean Explorer. The train starts at the ancient capital of Cusco and proceeds through the Andean Plains, up to Lake Titicaca. Because of the high elevation in Peru, this train claims itself as one of the highest in the world. Inside, the cars are festooned with local flair, complete with Peruvian tapestries (made from alpaca wool) on the bed and pisco sours served in the rear observation bar car.

For more information about luxury rail travel and the importance of booking with a travel agent, please contact us at [email protected]



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25/01/2022

Rovos Rail, South Africa
Get a taste of the diverse landscapes in South Africa on the Rovos Rail journey from Pretoria to Cape Town. The three-day excursion takes passengers on a wide-ranging tour of environments, from the grasslands of Highveld to the desert of Great Karoo. The view is particularly exceptional from the train's open-air balconies on the observation car. The train stops in the Cape Winelands for a parting drink before leaving passengers at the station in Cape Town.

For more information about luxury rail travel and the importance of booking with a travel agent, please contact us at [email protected]



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21/01/2022

British Pullman, A Belmond Train, England
Fans of director Wes Anderson can embark on a vintage train adventure inspired by his distinct style and eye for detail. One of his most famous films, "The Darjeeling Limited," speaks to the director's love for luxurious train travel. On the British Pullman, A Belmond Train, guests can ride in the "Cygnus" carriage built in the 1950s, on exciting routes across England. With themed rides, including a murder mystery luncheon, or star guest-chef dinners, this ticket is sure to transport passengers back into the glamorous past.

For more information about luxury rail travel and the importance of booking with a travel agent, please contact us at [email protected]



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17/01/2022

Rockies to the Red Rocks, United States of America
The newest route by Rocky Mountaineer, Rockies to the Red Rocks, is a two-day train journey between Moab, Utah and Denver, Colorado, with an overnight stay in Glenwood Springs. The train travels only during the day and features oversized windows, so your clients do not miss a moment of the ever-changing landscapes.

The Rockies to the Red Rocks route showcases scenic views that are unique to the Southwest United States, as it travels between Colorado and Utah. Between Denver and Glenwood Springs, your clients will journey alongside the Colorado River and through a series of canyons with steep, rugged rock walls. The route between Glenwood Springs and Moab offers a variety of scenery, including mountain vistas, desert cliffs and rock formations.

For more information about luxury rail travel and the importance of booking with a travel agent, please contact us at [email protected]

21/10/2021

Wildlife, Culture & Seafood – Eyre Peninsula
4 day fully immersive small group experience

Our partners at Crooked Compass delivers immersive journeys creating emotion through powerful storytelling and transforming travellers lives. Strategically and sensitively integrating with local communities and their values, whilst protecting the authenticity of their culture, Crooked Compass uses exquisite aesthetics and creative ingenuity offering new perspectives, showcasing the richness of your locality.

Taste oysters shucked straight from the ocean, savour bush foods, learn of dreamtime stories and connect on a deeper level to the local Indigenous community. Come eye to eye with wild koalas as you embrace an extraordinary side of Australia you could only dream of. Known as the Australia’s Seafood Frontier, an array of fresh prawns, mussels, squid and crab will tempt you. Your taste buds will lead the way. Discover rolling sand dunes, sapphire waters and white sandy beaches dotted with emus. For those seeking a thrill, swim with sealions or cage dive with sharks. Sip on sundowners listening to traditional Australian bush poetry as you watch the sunset over this wild rugged land. Welcome to South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula.

Limited departures for 2021 through to 2023. For more information or to discover the benefit of booking your next Australian experience through a travel agent, please contact us at [email protected]

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19/10/2021

West Arnhem Land & Top End Safari
6 days fully immersive small group experience

Our partners at Crooked Compass delivers immersive journeys creating emotion through powerful storytelling and transforming travellers lives. Strategically and sensitively integrating with local communities and their values, whilst protecting the authenticity of their culture, Crooked Compass uses exquisite aesthetics and creative ingenuity offering new perspectives, showcasing the richness of your locality.

Discover West Arnhem Land and the Top End on an exclusive journey, as you venture into some of Australia’s wildest, yet iconic national parks punctuated with lesser visited reaches. Explore the untouched wilderness of Arnhem Land where you will search for ‘sugarbags’ and weave with the local Jawoyn ladies. To be immersed in one of the most culturally intact Aboriginal nations in Australia is such a rare privilege. Canoe through Katherine Gorge and hike to remote waterholes. Enjoy privileged VIP access to sites restricted heavily by permits – limiting numbers to you and your group. Hear the rush of thunderous waterfalls, relax in natural horizon pools, snorkel in swimming holes amongst turtles and unique species of fish. Be educated by your Indigenous guide, as you delve into the world of Aboriginal x-ray art dating back over 20,000 years. Birdlife on the floodplains and in the wetlands will impress even the most avid twitchers. A beautiful journey through the ancient and the ecological world, breaking down cultural barriers and entwining culture and nature side by side.

Limited departures for 2022. For more information or to discover the benefit of booking your next Australian experience through a travel agent, please contact us at [email protected]

17/10/2021

Untamed Tasmania in Classe
8 days fully immersive small group experience

Our partners at Crooked Compass delivers immersive journeys creating emotion through powerful storytelling and transforming travellers lives. Strategically and sensitively integrating with local communities and their values, whilst protecting the authenticity of their culture, Crooked Compass uses exquisite aesthetics and creative ingenuity offering new perspectives, showcasing the richness of your locality.

Travel to Tasmania’s wildest and untouched reaches in your own private twin-engine Islander aircraft. Sleep amongst pine forests as wallabies hop by your bedside. Witness the grandeur of this lost world whilst embracing Tasmania’s world-renowned wilderness such as Federation Peak, the Western Arthur Range, Precipitous Bluff and the rugged coastline. Birders will be in their element, hikers will enjoy the endless trails to explore, cultural purists will indulge in the deep connection with the Indigenous community.

After spending time in the Southwest, fly to the far Northeast, to the Bay of Fires for an immersive Indigenous walking experience unlike anything else in Australia. This moving walk will deepen your understanding of Palawa (Tasmanian Aboriginal) culture and community, as well as immerse you in the natural and rugged beauty of Wukalina and Larapuna. Walk with Palawa guides in the footsteps of their traditional people on their cultural homeland. You will hear the Palawa creation story and participate in cultural practices that have been passed down for hundreds of generations. An infusion of wild luxury, cultural immersion, and untamed nature explored on foot. Perfect for the soft adventurer with a curious soul.

Limited departures for 2022. For more information or to discover the benefit of booking your next Australian experience through a travel agent, please contact us at [email protected]

15/10/2021

Indigenous & Wild Queensland
10 day fully immersive small group experience

Our partners at Crooked Compass delivers immersive journeys creating emotion through powerful storytelling and transforming travellers lives. Strategically and sensitively integrating with local communities and their values, whilst protecting the authenticity of their culture, Crooked Compass uses exquisite aesthetics and creative ingenuity offering new perspectives, showcasing the richness of your locality.

Escape to two of Australia’s most remote and untouched wilderness areas in style, rich with age-old wisdom and sheer raw beauty as your expert field guides connect you to the land, the sky and to a rich history. Incredible intimate experiences, gourmet surprises and comfortable wilderness accommodation form just part of your journey. This is a voyage which combines 4WD exploration and trekking, etched with indigenous culture, rare wildlife encounters and is accented with rustic luxe touches - Epicurean meals, sundowner drinks and sustainable, private glamping accommodation. Embrace time out from your busy lifestyle - free from mobile phone coverage and interruptions from the outside world. Witness rare, millennia old artworks as well as an insider’s glimpse into life on one of Australia’s largest cattle stations. Here, the skies are vast and the scenery spectacular – let the land work its magic on you as you explore some of Australia’s most remote and untouched landscapes. This is an experience like no other – soft adventure with a touch of perfect indulgence for those looking to experience the natural beauty of outback Australia.

Limited departures for 2022. For more information or to discover the benefit of booking your next Australian experience through a travel agent, please contact us at [email protected]

13/10/2021

Heli Hiking the Kimberley
9 day fully immersive small group experience

Our partners at Crooked Compass delivers immersive journeys creating emotion through powerful storytelling and transforming travellers lives. Strategically and sensitively integrating with local communities and their values, whilst protecting the authenticity of their culture, Crooked Compass uses exquisite aesthetics and creative ingenuity offering new perspectives, showcasing the richness of your locality.

Your unforgettable private helicopter safari exploring the stunning East Kimberley, pushes remote luxury to a new level. Soak in the extraordinary landscape, embracing life on an outback cattle station, viewing galleries of the oldest Indigenous rock art on earth, soaring through gorges and touching down to swim in secret springs and waterfalls. Follow trails to billabongs, water holes and river pools where you can watch (and listen) to the wildlife. Take in breathtaking views as you traverse through gorges, along ridgelines and explore Aboriginal rock art sites. Explore technicolour caves and crevices, towering red rock gorges and striped sandstone Bungle Bungle domes. Soar in your private helicopter over stunning sunburnt ranges and learn about the history of the spectacular man-made reservoir, Lake Argyle. The ultimate explorers luxury adventure by air and foot.

Limited departures for 2022. For more information or to discover the benefit of booking your next Australian experience through a travel agent, please contact us at [email protected]

11/10/2021

East Arnhem Land & the Wessel Islands
6 day fully immersive small group experience

Our partners at Crooked Compass delivers immersive journeys creating emotion through powerful storytelling and transforming travellers lives. Strategically and sensitively integrating with local communities and their values, whilst protecting the authenticity of their culture, Crooked Compass uses exquisite aesthetics and creative ingenuity offering new perspectives, showcasing the richness of your locality.

Discover East Arnhem Land and the Wessel Islands - a raw, rugged, ribbon like archipelago off the Northern Territory, so untouched and remote, it is very likely you will have this secluded reach of Australia all to yourself as you explore by water. Your arrival in Gove will allow you to disregard traditional maps, follow ancient songlines and delve into Yolngu land. Spearfish with locals for mud crabs, gather bush medicine and foods as you are educated on Yolngu kinship, traditional lore and language. Board the M/Y Wildcard, home of the Davey family, for 6 days exploring deep into Australia's backyard and into one of the country’s greatest untouched wilderness areas. Your mind will boggle as you become family with your crew and embrace their lifestyle of barefoot luxury on the water. Sail between virgin islands, hike on stunning sand bars and off-piste trails, kayak through cascading waterfalls that tumble straight into the ocean. Be absorbed in the wilderness.

Limited departures for 2022. For more information or to discover the benefit of booking your next Australian experience through a travel agent, please contact us at [email protected]

09/10/2021

Discover the Pilbara & Coral Coast
10 days fully immersive small group experience

Our partners at Crooked Compass delivers immersive journeys creating emotion through powerful storytelling and transforming travellers lives. Strategically and sensitively integrating with local communities and their values, whilst protecting the authenticity of their culture, Crooked Compass uses exquisite aesthetics and creative ingenuity offering new perspectives, showcasing the richness of your locality.

Join us where the ancient rugged outback meets white sand beaches. Venture through national parks etched with river gorges, dramatic rock formations, blankets of wildflowers and remote, natural plunge pools.

The Pilbara is home to some of Australia’s most stunning ancient natural landscapes, dating back to over four billion years old. With over 700 historic Indigenous archaeological sites and 1,000,000 rock engravings (Petroglyphs), many dating back some 30,000 years, this region is the perfect place to discover the unique art, history and culture of the Aboriginal people of the Pilbara. Encounter fascinating wildlife, both inland and in the underwater paradise that is the Coral Coast. Step off the shore and swim a few metres through the clearest turquoise water on earth and drift over the worlds largest fringing reef, World Heritage listed, Ningaloo Reef. An underwater paradise.

Limited departures for 2022 & 2023. For more information or to discover the benefit of booking your next Australian experience through a travel agent, please contact us at [email protected]

07/10/2021

Cape York & Torres Strait Explorer
9 days fully immersive small group experience

Our partners at Crooked Compass delivers immersive journeys creating emotion through powerful storytelling and transforming travellers lives. Strategically and sensitively integrating with local communities and their values, whilst protecting the authenticity of their culture, Crooked Compass uses exquisite aesthetics and creative ingenuity offering new perspectives, showcasing the richness of your locality.

Where the rainforest meets the sea and the most northern tip of Australia’s mainland meets a scattering of islands rich in history, culture and natural beauty, our Cape York and Torres Strait Explorer is a journey of soft adventure into Australia’s last frontier via 4WD. From wild Indigenous encounters and European explorer history, through to WWII relics, incredible sunsets and remote glamping at a pearl farm, this adventure north has something for everyone. Savour the countries freshest seafood prepared fresh from the azure waters that surround you. Swim in crystal clear waterfalls and bob in horizon pools. Hike through contrasting landscapes of rainforest to savannahs and try your hand at spearfishing and mud crabbing as you wade through lagoons of mangroves.

Limited departures for 2022 & 2023. For more information or to discover the benefit of booking your next Australian experience through a travel agent, please contact us at [email protected]

05/10/2021

Travel + Leisure Top Hotels in the World – 2021
1. Mahali Mzuri, Masai Mara, Kenya

Part of the Virgin Limited Edition collection, Sir Richard Branson's majestic safari camp in the Masai Mara is "just perfect," according to one voter. The seemingly space-age tents somehow rise up out of the landscape and blend in with it simultaneously. Wildlife remains abundant in the surrounding bush — ideal for the twice-daily game drives — and the guides are extremely knowledgeable. One respondent raved about the "excellent service," adding that "the hospitality provided at Mahali Mzuri resembles the name," which means beautiful place in Swahili. Another reader says simply that it's "the best luxurious camp to visit on the African continent."
Score: 99.73

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05/10/2021

Travel + Leisure Top Hotels in the World – 2021
2. Nayara Tented Camp, Arenal Volcano National Park, Costa Rica

The most recent entry to the Nayara brand has all the details covered. Cliff-top safari tents have spacious bathrooms with soaking tubs, private decks, and infinity plunge pools that overlook the lush Costa Rican rain forest and the imposing Arenal Volcano. Elsewhere on the property, guests can spot wildlife like sloths and toucans; take a dip in the dramatic, cantilevered, hot-spring-fed mineral pools; and indulge in the plush spa.
Score: 99.58

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03/10/2021

Travel + Leisure Top Hotels in the World – 2021
3. The Opposite House, Beijing

Japanese architect Kengo Kuma designed this emerald glass building with subtle references to traditional Chinese architecture. Rooms are minimalist with luxurious touches like oak soaking tubs and plush beds, the staff is über-attentive, and the location is close to all the Beijing attractions.
Score: 99.47

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