Rest of the World Tours

Our tours beyond Europe, Africa and the Middle East follow familiar subjects into places where they take an entirely different form. Japanese gardens evolved from sacred forest clearings into landscapes shaped by stone, water and carefully chosen plants, and Japan's own story runs back more than fourteen thousand years to the Jomon, among the earliest pottery-makers anywhere. In northern Chile and on Easter Island, rock art and massive earth pictures raise questions about who made them and why. Costa Rica's cloud forest holds extraordinary plant life, Mauritius has species found nowhere else, and along the Silk Road stand Khiva, Bukhara and Samarkand.

Each tour here is built around one shared interest, whether that's gardens, archaeology or wildlife, and you travel with specialists who love sharing it.