How a group tour differs
How a group tour differs Same guides, same hotels · you share the vehicle Never merged, never a coach
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8—1201
In the group
One vehicle, one guide, one table that fits.
Average 20269
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1402
Dates before June
Fixed and confirmed — none of them moves.
Nearly full2
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$1 90003
Per person, from
About 30% under the same route, run privately.
Private, from$2 700
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604
Minimum to run
Below it we run anyway, or refund in full.
Cancelled 20251 of 26
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$005
Single supplement
Share a twin and pay nothing extra, or take a room at the hotel's own rate.
Travel solo1 in 3
We have never merged two groups to make the numbers work — the date you book is the group you travel with. See all 14 dates
EIGHT SEATS
TO CHOOSE FROM
Every date confirmed, every guide named, with the years they have been with us. Filled dots are seats already taken.
- 8dates before June
- 44seats still open
- 3with 4 or fewer
- 20%holds one of them
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12
SEP
2026
4 SEATS LEFT
LIS → OPO
PORTUGAL
Atlantic coast
Vineyards, three coast towns, one long lunch in Comporta.
4 of 10 left
$2 400
pp · single $0
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02
OCT
2026
1 SEAT LEFT
KIX → HND
JAPAN
Kyoto & the Kiso valley
Two nights on the old post road, walking between inns.
1 of 10 left
$4 200
pp · single $0
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14
NOV
2026
LIM → CUZ
PERU
Andes & Sacred Valley
Machu Picchu at first entry, 06:00, permits in your names.
6 of 10 left
$3 900
pp · single $0
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28
NOV
2026
RAK loop
MOROCCO
Atlas & the medinas
Two nights in the mountains, the rest at market pace.
7 of 10 left
$1 900
pp · single $0
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18
JAN
2027
2 SEATS LEFT
JRO → crater
TANZANIA
Northern circuit
Migration week. Joseph has fifteen years of dates in a notebook.
2 of 10 left
$4 100
pp · single $0
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09
APR
2027
TAS → UGC
UZBEKISTAN
The Silk Road
Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva — by train where the train is better.
8 of 10 left
$2 300
pp · single $0
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21
MAY
2027
KEF loop
ICELAND
The ring road
Light until midnight; two days deliberately left empty.
9 of 10 left
$3 400
pp · single $0
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06
JUN
2027
SEZ → PRI
SEYCHELLES
Three islands
Mahé, Praslin, La Digue — by ferry, no internal flights.
7 of 10 left
$3 700
pp · single $0
Deposit 20% holds a seat · balance 45 days before departure · six more dates open between June and September. Hold a seat
WHO WILL BE
WITH YOU
Four of our twelve guides run the group departures. You know which one before you pay a deposit.
- 4guides on groups
- 50years between them
- 6—9groups each a season
- 0subcontracted
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EUROPE
RUI BETTENCOURT Porto · with us since 2014
“I plan around lunch. Everything else on the day moves to fit it.”
7 groupsthis season
PT · EN · ES · next: 12 Sep
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ASIA
KENJI AOKI Kyoto · with us since 2015
“Nine people walking a valley is quiet. Thirty is a parade.”
6 groupsthis season
JA · EN · next: 02 Oct
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AFRICA · LONGEST SERVING
JOSEPH MWANGI Arusha · with us since 2012
“Fifteen years of migration dates in a notebook I will not digitise.”
9 groupsthis season
SW · EN · next: 18 Jan
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AMERICAS
MATEO QUISPE Cusco · with us since 2013
“Day six, first light. I have stood there forty times and it still stops me.”
8 groupsthis season
ES · EN · QU · next: 14 Nov
The same four people, season after season — never an agency filling in, never a name you meet at the airport. All twelve guides
WHAT NINE
PEOPLE LOOK LIKE
Four real departures, photographed by the guide leading them. Every caption says how many people were actually there.
- 9average group, 2026
- 1table, every night
- 0microphones, ever
- 4departures shown
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01 · ONE TABLE
9
PORTUGAL · SEP 2026 · RUI
EVERYONE FITS AT ONE TABLE
Second night in Comporta. No split sittings — a restaurant can seat nine without notice.
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02 · ON FOOT
8 OF 12
JAPAN · OCT 2025 · KENJI
THE KISO ROAD
Two days walking between inns, nobody hurrying.
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03 · ON THE ROAD
10 OF 12
TANZANIA · JAN 2026 · JOSEPH
A WINDOW EACH
Two vehicles, five to a row — nobody in a middle seat.
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04 · FIRST ENTRY, 06:00
9 OF 12
PERU · NOV 2025 · MATEO
AHEAD OF EVERYONE ELSE
Permits in nine names, ninety minutes before the crowd.
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What the size buys youvs a 30-seat coach
- A table booked the same morningnot three weeks ahead
- Roads a coach cannot takethe Atlas, the Kiso
- Your name known by day twoby everyone
- A morning changed at breakfastif all nine agree
6is the fewest we will run a date with — below that we refund rather than merge groups.
Every photograph here is from a departure we ran, taken by the guide who was leading it — no stock, no staging. See the gallery
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She reads every request herself and answers from her own address.
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- 2 roundsOf changes, free
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