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Private Expeditions
Our private expeditions are built for travellers looking for tailor made travel experiences that are personal, flexible and intentional. Whether you’re chasing lost civilizations, prehistoric cave paintings, petroglyphs, rock art sites, or shark snorkelling experiences, we design each journey around your interests, not a fixed itinerary.
Each destination offers a range of sample itineraries to inspire your trip planning, from off-grid adventure travel to archaeological exploration and deep cultural discovery. Work with our expert team to create a fully customised itinerary, timeline and travel focus no two trips are ever the same.
Country by Country
Algeria
Search for the ancient petroglyphs and rock art of Tassili n'Ajjer National Park, where stone carvings dating back over 10,000 years tell the story of a prehistoric Sahara. Wander through surreal lunar-like landscapes, camp under desert stars, and uncover traces of forgotten civilizations in one of North Africa’s most hauntingly beautiful regions.
Bulgaria
Step into monasteries carved into cliffs and hike across the misty Rhodope Mountains. Bulgaria is steeped in Thracian heritage, medieval fortresses, and ancient rock sanctuaries like Belogradchik and Perperikon, alongside mineral-rich hot springs, offering a rugged, affordable slice of Europe where East and West have met for centuries.
Georgia
Tucked between mountains and mythology, Georgia is a land of stone towers, ancient cave cities, and untamed landscapes. Explore the cave monastery of Vardzia, hike the remote trails of Svaneti, and wander the hilltop fortress towns that have guarded these valleys for centuries. Shaped by resilience and isolation, it’s a culture rooted in deep history and dramatic terrain.
Italy
​From quiet hilltop villages to cities echoing with Renaissance genius Italy is a living landscape of ancient Roman ruins medieval streets and submerged archaeology. Explore the sunken city of Baia near Naples the hidden St George and the Dragon painting and buried Pompeii before wandering Naples where history and daily life collide raw vivid and timeless.
Morocco
​Lose yourself in labyrinthine souks ride camels into Saharan twilight and explore desert landscapes where fossil beds and prehistoric rock art reveal ancient life beneath the sands. Morocco is a country of contrast where Berber fortresses meet French echoes and every alleyway smells of spice leather and centuries old stories carved into stone and memory.
Spain
​Snorkel with sharks off the coast of Bermeo and explore rugged Atlantic waters where marine life thrives beyond the tourist routes. Spain reveals wild contrasts from brown bears in the Pyrenees to the elusive Iberian lynx in Andujar and remote landscapes where nature still dominates far from its crowded cities.
Azerbaijan
​Where fire meets stone, Azerbaijan blends Silk Road history with surreal landscapes and futuristic skylines. Explore Baku’s ancient walled Old City and modern glass towers, then head into the Absheron Peninsula where eternal flames rise from burning gas vents at Yanar Dag. Beyond the capital, discover the mud volcano fields of Gobustan and prehistoric rock carvings dating back thousands of years, carved into stone along the Caspian coast.
Croatia
Beyond the polished walls of Dubrovnik lies a wilder Croatia, remote islands, sun-bleached fishing villages and inland forests where brown bears still roam. Explore Roman ruins in Split, abandoned military bunkers along the Adriatic coast and prehistoric cave sites hidden in the Velebit Mountains. Croatia is where ancient landscapes, wildlife and layered human history meet a raw, untamed coastline.
Greece
Greece reveals a hidden world beneath the waves and across its rugged peninsulas. Explore Pavlopetri, one of the world’s oldest submerged cities off the Peloponnese coast, and the underwater ruins and harbour remains near Methoni where stone structures disappear into the sea. On land, the Peloponnese blends ancient ruins, olive-covered hills, and rare wildlife like chameleons, where archaeology and living landscapes overlap.
Kazakhstan
Roam vast steppe and futuristic skylines in one of the worlds most underrated giants. From the golden domes of Nur Sultan to the Soviet era legacy of Almaty and the surreal rock formations of Charyn Canyon and the Mangystau desert Kazakhstan is a land of scale silence and ancient nomadic traces set against bold modern transformation.
Oman
​Wander between wadis and windswept forts where incense once fueled ancient trade empires. Oman reveals fossil rich deserts dramatic rock canyons and ancient petroglyphs etched into stone. From the cliffs of Jebel Akhdar to the Daymaniyat Islands where shark snorkeling and coral reefs thrive it remains a deeply traditional land shaped by time wind and sea.
Sri Lanka
Circle sacred stupas explore jungle ruins swallowed by vines and cross landscapes where elephants still move along ancient routes. Sri Lanka reveals hidden archaeology from Sigiriya rock fortress to forest temples and coastal ruins shaped by centuries of trade. Offshore you can snorkel with blue whales while leopards roam the hill forests making it an island where ancient history and rare wildlife meet in one place.
Bosnia
In the heart of the Balkans, Bosnia is a collision of cultures, history, and layered landscapes. Walk the Ottoman bridges and bazaars of Mostar and Sarajevo, then venture into the hills near Visoko, where the controversial Bosnian “Pyramids” rise above the forested valley. Ancient stone tunnels, medieval fortresses, and mountain monasteries add to a landscape where history, myth, and resilience are tightly intertwined.
Egypt
From the silent majesty of the pyramids to Nile-side temples carved for forgotten gods, Egypt is myth, archaeology, and ancient civilisation made real. Explore the Giza Plateau and Sphinx, wander the tombs of Luxor and the Valley of the Kings, and follow the Nile past Karnak and Abydos, where hieroglyphs still speak in stone and deserts stretch into deep time where every grain of sand holds a story.
Iraq
Explore the birthplace of civilisation where history lives in every brick and minaret. From the ruins of Babylon and ancient Ur to the desert city of Hatra, Iraq is a journey through Mesopotamian empires, sacred texts, and lost knowledge. In Baghdad, book markets and river life echo its scholarly past raw, powerful, and rarely explored today.
Mauritania
Board the iron ore train across a sea of sand then step into the Eye of the Sahara in the Richat Structure and the ghost libraries of Chinguetti where ancient manuscripts gather dust in desert silence. Mauritania is stark spiritual and surreal a land shaped by wind time and trans Saharan trade routes and rare desert crocodiles surviving in hidden desert gueltas.
Peru
Trek through cloud forests to ancient Incan citadels and paddle remote Amazon tributaries where giant sloths once roamed and still echo in fossil rich landscapes. Peru is raw and radiant from the Nazca Lines etched into desert plains to ancient petroglyphs hidden in canyon rock and highland sites where jungle and mountains keep secrets older than memory and still very much alive.
Turkey
Stand where East meets West in Istanbul then go deeper into the cave churches of Cappadocia the Roman theaters of the Mediterranean coast and the remote Kurdish highlands few travellers reach. From Mount Nemrut with its giant stone heads and ancient Commagene sanctuary to hidden Hittite ruins and rock cut sanctuaries Turkey is layered with empires still written into stone and landscape.
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