Abercrombie & Kent has released its new Hosted Small Group Journeys brochure featuring 22 creatively designed, expert-led journeys to emerging destinations and hard-to-get-to places.Guests travelling on these journeys will be taken off-the-beaten-track to remote, little explored destinations where conditions can be challenging but where A&K’s insider knowledge and expertise ensures security and comfort. Each tailored journey also gives meaningful cultural, culinary and educational encounters. They are well-paced to give time to breathe and include active elements to get travellers moving. Explicitly designed for the more intrepid Australian luxury traveller there are no more than 18 guests on any one tour.The new collection has been designed to include a balance of signature A&K experiences. ‘Breathe’ is all about taking a step back, relaxing and having time to explore a destination in-depth. ‘Savour’ allows the traveller to experience different cuisines and culinary highlights. ‘Move’ gets travellers moving with a variety of activities which means seeing a destination at ground level instead of from a vehicle. ‘Encounter’ is the opportunity to go behind the scenes, meeting the artisans, experience a different culture or joining in a festival – it’s up-close human engagement.Exciting new experiences in the portfolio include a voodoo ceremony in West Africa, reindeer sleigh rides in northern Norway, hiking to ancient monasteries in Georgia, visiting a micro-financed knitting enterprise in Southern India, Day of the Dead festivities in Mexico and a shaman ritual in Guatemala.Other destinations featured are Iceland, Italy, Armenia, Mongolia, China, Japan, Southeast and Central Asia, Iran, Madagascar, Ethiopia and South America.
Guests travelling on these journeys will be taken off-the-beaten-track to remote, little explored destinations where conditions can be challenging but where A&K’s insider knowledge and expertise ensures security and comfort. Each tailored journey also gives meaningful cultural, culinary and educational encounters. They are well-paced to give time to breathe and include active elements to get travellers moving. Explicitly designed for the more intrepid Australian luxury traveller there are no more than 18 guests on any one tour.The new collection has been designed to include a balance of signature A&K experiences. ‘Breathe’ is all about taking a step back, relaxing and having time to explore a destination in-depth. ‘Savour’ allows the traveller to experience different cuisines and culinary highlights. ‘Move’ gets travellers moving with a variety of activities which means seeing a destination at ground level instead of from a vehicle. ‘Encounter’ is the opportunity to go behind the scenes, meeting the artisans, experience a different culture or joining in a festival – it’s up-close human engagement.
Exciting new experiences in the portfolio include a voodoo ceremony in West Africa, reindeer sleigh rides in northern Norway, hiking to ancient monasteries in Georgia, visiting a micro-financed knitting enterprise in Southern India, Day of the Dead festivities in Mexico and a shaman ritual in Guatemala.Other destinations featured are Iceland, Italy, Armenia, Mongolia, China, Japan, Southeast and Central Asia, Iran, Madagascar, Ethiopia and South America.
