Ultimate overland expedition across Europe and through Asia
For a truly epic adventure across borders, cultures and even time zones, take a look at Oasis Overland’s 27-week tour from London to Singapore, where you’ll travel in an open-sided truck across Europe and Asia. This year’s new route takes in the spectacular landscapes and cultures of Georgia, Armenia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. Book it all, or individual sections where you join and leave the expedition mid-route.
Price: from £6,450 plus local payment from US$3,750
Action photography safari, Sweden and Norway
Led by photographer and guide Fredrik Broman, this nine-night Nordic adventure mixes active adventure with unusual accommodation and photography advice from an expert. You’ll see and photograph the midnight sun, glamp at the Aurora Safari Camp, and sleep at Sweden’s Treehotel. Meals and lodging included, plus rafting, Sami village and reindeer visit, Midnight Sun drive, Icehotel visit and National Park hiking.
Price: from £4,025 pp
Tour Italy’s Tuscany and Umbria by eBike
Either expert-led or self-guided, this is a cycling tour designed to show off some of Italy’s most celebrated wine and food regions. With your eBike flattening the rolling hills you’ll pedal the ancient via Flaminia highway of the Roman Empire, tour traditional vineyards and Tuscan castles, and explore historic pan-tiled towns such as Assisi. Take the fully guided tour option and you’ll be introduced to authentic Tuscan eateries off the beaten track, as well as get to enjoy a dinner by celebrity chef Giancarlo Polito. Living up to the company’s name, Cycling For Softies’ tour includes restaurant meals every night, baggage transfers, eBikes, and comfortable B&B accommodation, with only 2 to 3 hours of cycling per day.
Price: from £1,055 for 5 nights self-guided
Walk in the footsteps of Byron through Southern Albania
With a landscape described as ‘like Scotland with Minarets’ Southern Albanian’s mountainous vistas are still rarely visited, despite being just a few hours from the UK. New for 2017 this 8-day guided tour includes an ascent of Mount Cika, the Albanian Riviera, the 18C fortress of Ali Pasha where Byron stayed, plus Butrint and Gjirokastra, before finishing in Tirana.
Price: from £1,299 pp including flights and 7 nights half board.
Walk the whole Welsh coast in 80 days
Longer than the classic Camino de Santiago, yet shorter than the End-to-End, the 870-mile, recently opened, unbroken Wales Coastal Path is sure become a classic in its own right. Celtic Trails is now offering an 80-day self-guided trip with baggage transfers and accommodation booking. The journey begins in historic Chester, heads over the Menai Strait to Anglesey, past the Llyn Peninsula and Cardigan Bay, through Britain’s only coastal National Park in Pembrokeshire, around the Gower, through Cardiff and on to the Severn Bridge and Chepstow. There are 69 days of walking, with 11 days of rest planned in for side trips – all you need now is 80 days holiday.
Price: from £5,800 pp
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