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None of this was luck. Each of these is a moment we planned into a trip. The right place, at the hour that mattered. That's the part we do for you.

UPDATED AUGUST 2026

Southern Africa

ZIMBABWE · SOUTH AFRICA · BOTSWANA — MOST RECENTLY 2025

Botswana

You find him because your guide read tracks at dawn, not because another vehicle radioed it in; the argument for a private concession over a park.

Botswana

The foals give away the season. As the country dries out the herds organise themselves around what water is left, which is exactly what makes them findable.

Fifteen seconds, one vehicle, nobody else on the road. This is what the concessions buy you.

Southeast Asia

THAILAND · CAMBODIA · VIETNAM · PHILIPPINES — MOST RECENTLY 2026

Angkor Wat in silhouette at sunrise, reflected in the moat

Cambodia

A thousand people are standing behind us to take this same photograph. Take it, then leave — the temples further out are empty until nine, and that is the morning you will actually remember.

Wat Arun seen across the Chao Phraya river at dusk with ferries in the foreground

Chao Phraya, Bangkok

The public commuter boat costs pennies and gives you this view. The private charter costs a hundred times more and gives you the same one.

Front row, and possibly one of the last: freight has already been pulled off this stretch and the city has agreed to move the passenger trains too. It has been written off before and come back twice, so we won't sell you a deadline. Ask us what's actually running the month you travel.

South & Central America

PERU · CHILE · COSTA RICA — MOST RECENTLY 2025

The lit oasis town of Huacachina seen from a dune ridge at dusk

Peru

Everybody books Peru for the Inca sites and gives the coast a single night in Lima. The desert between them is four hours from the capital and looks like this by seven in the evening.

Machu Picchu

Cloud like this is the normal condition, not bad luck, and it is better than blue sky; the ruin appears and disappears while you stand there. Book the earliest entry circuit and sleep in Aguas Calientes the night before.

Yes, it is organized, and it is still the right way to start the day. On this train the lunch, the bar car and the guide are the point rather than the transfer. If your budget stretches to exactly one indulgence in Peru, spend it here rather than on a hotel upgrade.

Europe

UNITED KINGDOM · FRANCE · NETHERLANDS — MOST RECENTLY 2024

The Seine at dusk with the Eiffel Tower faint on the skyline

France

Paris is a walking city that most people see through a coach window. Book the hotel for the arrondissement, not the lobby, and you will spend the week on foot.

The Palace of Westminster and the clock tower under heavy cloud

Westminster from the Eye

The one attraction we would still put on a first London itinerary, booked for the last rotation before sunset. Twenty minutes up there maps the whole city before you start walking it.

Everything here was built to be read from four feet above the water — the gables, the hoist beams, the front doors. Do it in the two hours before dinner, when the light comes down the canal rather than onto it.

Tell us the kind of days you want. We'll build the trip that puts you in them.

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