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Innovative Tours
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 Tours to places that are hard to discover, or get to, by yourself
 Itineraries that go into the back regions, beyond the tourist circuits
 Light adventures, cultural immersion, interactive holidays
 Experience, sensitivity and passion
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Where We Go
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 Nature reserves, national parks, wild landscapes, ethnic villages and pastoral settings are our favoured locales
 The intersections of culture and nature, especially in coastal or mountainous regions
 Pockets of authentic culture in cities and noisy places
 Customised tours within the parameters of our stomping ground and conscience
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Artists’ Forays
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Learn practical photography in exotic photo-tours led by a pro travel photographer
Gather wild or cultivated foods, and have fun cooking authentic Asian dishes
Paint inspiring milieus in water-colours - or on canvas - with an art teacher
 Craft Asian accessories or implements from bamboo, rattan, and other natural materials
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PANDA TREKKING
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The Min Mountains are the stronghold of giant pandas (about 70 percent of all wild pandas) and in our journey we visit the remote forests where pandas live blissfully, and also soak up the region’s ethnic cultures: Buddhist temples, small colourful minority villages. On one occasion we even trek up to a Buddhist holy mountain.
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TIBETAN TRIBES
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A variety of tribes and clans, each displaying different characteristics in architecture and customs and dialect, are scattered in the mountains at the eastern fringes of the Tibetan plateau. Join us on a classical roadtrip that takes us to many traditional Tibetan villages set in the high dramatic mountains.
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ALTAY DISCOVERY
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In the mountains that straddle four countries – China, Russia, Kazakhstan and Mongolia – central Asia reveals itself in taiga forests, pristine lakes, tumbling rivers, Mongolian herders in yurt encampments, and the legendary Tuwa who live in log shacks in one of the world’s largest national parks. We also visit ochre mountains, Islamic cemeteries, a massive lake in a desert basin, and much else in our unforgettable central Asian trip
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SICHUAN LOOP
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Experience Sichuan’s impressive diversity in our popular loop tour. Our passage takes us to one of the highest mountains in the world, to the vastness of the Tibetan plateau, to fog-shrouded peasant villages in subtropics, and even to an old industrial town. It’s a journey to the very heart of old China.
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MARINER TRIBES
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Join the fishermen tribes of the dazzling Calamian Islands in their villages of bamboo huts and their outrigger canoes as they go fishing in some of the richest coral reefs in the world. Our seafarers’ adventure takes us to the heart of tropical Asia, a place of magic where we sleep in deserted beaches under skies laden by stars.
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THE TAKIN TRAIL
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Follow the mystical takins in their annual migration to windswept grasslands at high mountain ridges, where the takins join the monal pheasants in their mountain-top home. It’s a place where nature is pure, and then we retreat down in the valleys where we get the chance to stay in a peasants’ farmhouse in rich forests.
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DUGONG MOMENTS
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Pristine beaches, impressive coral gardens, azure seas, seafaring tribes, rainforest lagoons and seafood galore are some of the things that await you on an island-hopping trip that plays out in the north of Palawan, a place that is arguably the best destination for travel to islands and beaches and richness of marine life in Asia.
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VULTURES & YAKS
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Travel among dramatic landscapes and cultures that make western China a hotspot for cultural and natural evolution. The contrasts are endless, and the human geography is reflected in the terrain: here sits one of the largest peat wetlands in the world and here sits one of the world’s most eminent Buddhist monasteries.
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