Special Interest

This trip offers a fantastic combination of the hustle & bustle of Cairo and total tranquillity of the desert. You will be guided around Pharonic, Coptic and Islamic Cairo and see all the 'must see' places. The second part of the tour takes you into the Black and White Desert with the most incredible variety of colours, shapes and even some Pharonic tombs. Experience the desert in its true form sitting around a camp fire with your Bedouin guides. A visit to the Bahariya Oasis is also on the programme.

Escape the mainstream commercialised resorts in the Red Sea, offering bog-standard 5-day dive packages, with this wonderful camel dive safari. You will explore a stretch of coastline virtually untouched, rarely dived and reached by camel, but also dive the more well-known sites close to Dahab. You will also have plenty of time to absorb the blissful experience of the Sinai desert, with two nights camping under the stars.

This jeep safari focuses on the culture and history of the Sinai Desert, visiting St. Catherine's Monastery with the legendary burning bush, Mount Sinai where Moses received the Ten Commandments, Wadi Feiran where he struck a rock with his staff, bringing forth a spring so his people could drink, and the famous turquoise mines at Serabit - just to name a few. This trip bursts with historical and cultural interest to give you a true insight into this 'great and terrible wilderness'.

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There are only a few places in the world where a first-time visitor is confronted with a mountainous desert landscape as spectacular as that of the Sinai. On this camel safari you will trek into the heart of the desert and spend time with a Bedouin tribe learning amongst others about their techniques of survival. Visit the ancient biblical sites, such as St. Catherine's Monastery, and explore the Mount Sinai area. Sleeping under the stars in the desert is a most breathtaking and soul recharging experience.

For further reading check our Sinai Desert blog article.

St. Catherine's Monastery, set beneath Mount Sinai, is where Moses is said to have received the Ten Commandments and the site of the biblical Burning Bush. This area is the roof of the Sinai, where rocky peaks reach over 2500m and even snow falls in winter. In the middle of the desert, St Catherine's Protectorate offers a surprising ecosystem with many freshwater pools and even some streams! Instead of watching sun rise on top of Mt Sinai, which requires the popular midnight climb shared with 100s of tourist, we offer you sunset from the summit.

In Jordan, we offer a range of inspiring, one-week cultural tours combining the renowned archaeological sites of Petra and Jerash with the Dead Sea and the Jordanian desert. All these itineraries start & finish in the capital city of Jordan - Amman. All tours exclude international flights, so you have flexibility to extend your trip with a second week relaxing in the Dead Sea coast or travelling to nearby countries such as Egypt. The below itinerary can be organised all year round with a set departure guaranteed every Saturday throughout the year (min 2 persons).

This tour visits Jordan's most valuable treasure, the Rose City of Petra, and the unique landscape of the Dead Sea coast. But the main focus of this trip is to go off the beaten track, to visit and explore Jordan's the wild places such as Dana and Ajlun Nature Reserves and Wadi Rum. There are several opportunities during this tour for guided walks of varying duration through the rocky canyons and gorges of wild Jordan providing the opportunity to glance wildlife such as ostrich and Oryx.

This self drive tour takes you to some of the quietest places in Africa. Luxurious lodges offering stunning sundowner views and safe bushwalks amongst the sand dunes and bizarre eroded rock landscapes of Damarland. Experience the cultural sights of Africa's unique San rock art at Twyfelfontein as well as the awe inspiring Sossusvlei dunes. It also takes you on to Damaraland where you will be guided through the dry river beds to encounter the uniquely adapted desert elephants. Smaller than their cousins in the north they also have large feet to spread their weight across the shifting sands. Although not classed as a desert, you will also visit the Atlantic coast of Namibia where the cold ocean currents cool the desert landscape. Here you will find a relic of colonial influence in the town of Swakopmund with its Germanic architecture and German speaking people. From here you can view the largest colony of Cape Fur Seal in Africa where literally tens of thousands of animals thrive in the cold waters. Either drive to see them at Cape Cross or take one of the many boat tours that depart daily. Complimentary wine and oysters are served once you return to port.

This trip takes you from the Kalahari right down to Cape Town, covering some of the most amazing scenery in Southern Africa. This part of South Africa is still relatively unknown to international tourists yet offers some stunning arid landscapes and less well known wildlife such as the Oryx and Jackal. The cultural heritage of the Eastern Cape is also rich as these open landscapes are the traditional hunting grounds of the San people. This tour contrasts both the modern international city life of Cape Town with the traditional lifestyles of the San whose culture is thousands of years old.