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Honeymoons
We’ve been crafting dream itineraries for newly married couples for years. Learn more about the ins and outs of our honeymoon service here.
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Our travel experts have experienced the thrills and challenges of solo travel, all with the aim of producing some of our most immersive and exciting itineraries.
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Group Holidays
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Unusual Holidays
The world may be conquered, but enough secrets remain to keep us up all night, dreaming of ways to whisk you off to the most unique corners of the globe. Where first?
Adventure Holidays
Hike across mountain ridgelines, scramble across glaciers and kayak down rivers – these trips are designed to immerse you in vast wildernesses and ancient cultures.
Beach Holidays
Porcelain shores, perfect seas and swaying palms; the allure of a beach break is hard to ignore. Which is why we handpick the best beachfront boltholes to offer you…
Food Holidays
Food and travel have long gone hand in hand, and we have put together some mouth-watering trips that capture the palate, of countries across the world. Bon appétit.
Slow Travel
As the world becomes busier, slow travel has never felt so fitting. Whether it’s meeting fishermen in Maine or learning the Dukha-way in Mongolia, take time to connect.
Eclipse Holidays
Eclipse travel celebrates our place in the wider cosmos. Let us take you to wherever in the world the eclipse is at its most arresting, and we’ll do it in style.
Proposal Service
Found the one and want to propose in style? The moment will be a memory forever and we’re here to help you make sure it’s the most perfect moment for you and your loved one.
Train Travel
“It’s not the destination, it’s the journey.” We’ve all heard this, haven’t we? And with these captivating luxury train journeys, we’ll show you the joy to be found travelling across the world by rail.
The Pursuit of Feeling
From impassioned and emotive journeys, to podcasts and our Feelings Engine, you’ll find something to move you and something to soothe you. We want to fire your heart and provide food for your soul.
Set Jetting
Swapping salubrious saloons and questionable lodgings for sumptuous hotels and eye-opening experiences, each of our show-stopping journeys will take you behind scenes of some of TV’s most awe-inspiring locations.
See You in the Moment
You need only bring yourselves – your people, your histories. We’ll provide the moment itself. The anticipation, the togetherness, the memory. This is something to savour. This is something to remember.
Field Trip
Education begins in the classroom, but it’s IRL that younger generations put their lessons to the test. Field Trip is a curriculum of educational encounters around the world.
Take me on a Story
A series of family experiences celebrating the transformative power of the books we loved when we were young, and the stories our children have come to adore.
Get Lost
Designed as a once-in-a-lifetime challenge, train with elite survival experts before traversing a polar, jungle, coastal, mountain or desert region in your mission back to civilisation.
Blink
The ultimate luxury camping retreat. From the Sahara desert to the Andean Mountains, with Blink anywhere you can envisage it, we will create it.
Bring it Back
Bring It Back will embed you in an entirely different way of thinking, and of learning about a culture directly from its experts on the ground. You may be surprised by what you discover.
The Great American View
This series of breathtaking journeys culminate in some of America’s most legendary sights. They are the places you’ve always sought out, and now it’s your time to find them.
James Bond
We are proud to have been selected as the official travel partner to curate James Bond inspired trips.
Agatha Christie
We’ve been hand-picked by Agatha Christie Limited to help bring Agatha’s world-famous Grand Tour to life through a series of episodic trips across Africa, Australasia and North America, and a unique prelude in London.
Tasting Notes
Eating at a Michelin – starred restaurant is one thing. But now you can learn about the country through the lens of some of the most critically acclaimed chefs in the world, by travelling with them on the ultimately culinary experience
Eater Journeys
We’re often asked who we’d invite to our ideal dinner party. Ernest Shackleton? Amelia Earheart? The entire editorial team of Eater? Easily. So we invited our friends at Eater over to dinner and quizzed them about their favourite foodie trips and then created them for you to experience too.
Surf Air
We’re proud to launch a brand-new series of exclusive US trips with ground-breaking private air company Surf Air. Bringing our combined knowledge of ground and sky together, we’re helping you to see the world in style.
Take the Open Road with Auberge
With the iconic hotel brand Auberge Resorts, we’ve created a new series of tailormade, luxurious road trip itineraries. Emblems of America’s most iconic landscapes, regions, and people.
Remarkable Drives of Discovery with Auberge
Following on from the much lauded ‘Take the Open Road’ series, here’s five brand-new bespoke, multi-destination trips created with our friends at Auberge Resorts Collection. Delve deeper than ever before.
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Long-time resident of the NWT and incredibly passionate about the natural wonderland in which she lives, Rosanna Strong leads customised tours in Yellowknife. Upon hearing about her infectious enthusiasm for the great outdoors and her famous home-baked cranberry cake, we knew we’d found the perfect candidate to answer a few questions about this incredible destination.
I never tire of this landscape because on any given day there is a change to be noticed, but only if you take the time to read the “stories” being “written”. These changes can be as noticeable as the change in the seasons from winter to spring or as minute as when the fragile calypso orchid has bloomed, a snowshoe hare has nibbled on that willow shrub or watching a downy feather of a grey jay blowing across the snow. And, just when I think I have seen it all, I discover something new or experience another awe inspiring place in the North. The richness of the boreal forest comes from spending time looking, listening, tasting, smelling and getting your hands dirty while getting up close and personal with this place.
Tough question, like asking to choose your favourite child! I guess I would have to say the “Stories in the Snow” Tour, which is a winter tour on snowshoes. For many of my guests this is a series of firsts. Their first time in a winter environment and their first time on snowshoes. My child-like wonder is renewed watching them discover all of this frosty beauty on a traditional mode of transportation. The other thing about this tour is the reminder that there is more animal activity in the forest than you think. In the summer, you know that they are there, but this forest is so vast it is sometimes difficult to see any wildlife and there is very little evidence. In the winter, however, the snow provides a clean slate for the myriad of footprints or wing tips to leave an impression and tell you who has been in the neighbourhood. What’s more, the snow is just beautiful; it’s sugary, ranging in colour from when the sunrise stains it pink and gold to sunset mauves and blues.
Where to start? Here are some of the highlights…We’re home to the largest land mammals in North America (wood bison). We’re on 3 major migratory routes for birds and many stage right here in Yellowknife before heading North in the spring, (my favourites to return include all four species of loons, yellow-rumped warblers, tundra swans, and the pair of eagles that have returned to nest on my lake for the past 15 odd years). Then there’s the gorgeous flowers that bring colour to the forest, ranging from delicate orchids to the wild roses that are heavy with perfume to the urn shaped flowers of cranberries. Learning the traditional uses of plants and animals from aboriginal elders will never get old, and I’ll forever be amazed by lichens in every shape and colour with great names like bear’s hair (that really looks like bear hair), pixie cups, frog pelt, rock tripe, animals with built-in snowshoes, like the snowshoe hair and ptarmigan. I could go on all day.
The change between the seasons is subtle and has a lot to do with the waning of our daylight in the fall to the heaps of it we get in the spring that jump starts your tired winter body. In the fall, the birch and tamarack take on a golden mantle while the poplars take on shades of flame orange, all against that wall of green of spruce and pine. The under-tones of fireweed, roses, and dwarf birch add to the fall palette with ruby and rusty reds. We tend to get more grey days in the fall, which just make those colours pop even more. But, on those sunny days, if you are up in a little float-plane it is the most beautiful quilt of gold, deep emerald green, sapphire blues of water, grey of the ancient rocks, and velvety browns of the peat bogs. Fall continues on and proceeds to more black and white tones, as we wait for the snow to stay and ice to form on all the lakes around here. Once the snow arrives, we leave the monochromatic of late fall as the snow changes its tones with the winter light. And, Northerners get busy with enjoying all that the season has to offer. In the spring, it feels like nature is holding her breath, giving out little “puffs of air” to tease you with some of the more subtle signs of spring, like the change in colour of willow bark from winter brown to scarlet, orange, neon green, and yellows. Then, one day, you blink and all the trees are waving their new leaves in the spring breeze; a green that can only be described as “freshly minted”. From there it is a frenzy of activity as we all (animals, plants and people) race to take advantage of every drop of those long summer days.
Oh my! That is another difficult one to answer, there are so many! Most centre around my wonderful guests who are so open to new experiences and are willing to get down on their hands and knees to take in the beauty of a small flower or individual snowflake. One experience that stands out for me from this year was a trip to the ice cave that forms every season close to the city. The ice looks like melted wax as the water is tinted with tannins from the peat moss above it and has this look of continual motion. One of my guests, a local Yellowknifer, was along for this trip. I mentioned how I had used my ski pole to tap out some notes on the icy forms on my last trip, and so she began to play the ice like a drum while singing a lovely B’ahai song. If the ice cave wasn’t magical enough, she transformed it further with her performance.
Very closely! To receive a copy of the recipe, one must take the Cranberry Cake oath, swear on a stack of field guides to keep the recipe a secret and promise to keep the goodness going by making the cake to share with others on their return home. But, if that seems too complicated… join me on a tour and I will have some to sample with a piping hot cup of tea or hot chocolate.
