As we further open and expand our tours in Latin America this is a tour we’re particularly very excited to lead you on. Join us on our extensive Ecuadorian and Galapagos Islands tour as we adventure deep into the Amazon by boat where you’ll experience close encounters with the incredibly unique wildlife that call this […]

Our Dark Romania is our comprehensive road trip through the often mysterious lands of Romania tour. We’ll take you to the most important places in the story of Nicolae Ceaușescu, the former Communist dictator of Romania whose trial and execution were shown on TV around the world during the Christmas of 1989. From the place […]

During the Cold War, Bulgaria and Romania were some of the few countries that belonged to neither the Soviet Union or Socialist Yugoslavia. As a result, the two countries were able to form their own unique brands of communism. Today, the countries are moving into a new era but their communist past, as well as […]

During the world’s worst nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986, Belarus – 16km from Chernobyl was hit brutally hard by the catastrophic fallout. 66% of the territory of Belarus was contaminated with cesium-137. In response, the Belarussian government set up an exclusion zone around their contaminated territory for decades. Only very […]

We are combining our tours of Vietnam, China, North Korea, and Russia to include the mausoleums of all the former socialist leaders – Ho Chi Minh, Mao Zedong, Kim Il Sung & Kim Jong Il, and Vladimir Ilyich Lenin! In three weeks of action-packed communist history, local rural adventure, train rides and stunning scenery, this […]

Kosovo and Albania are independent nations linked with a strong ethnic identity. Despite having a wealth of natural beauty, hospitable locals and an abundance of history from ancient to modern, these two countries are less travelled and very underrated. The modern history of the countries has been far from pleasant. Albania was locked in the […]

For a long time, such an exciting trip was logistically impossible. Now, with the new e-visa scheme of Saudi Arabia, doing a thorough tour of the Arabian world becomes possible! This combo allows you to visit most of the Arabic countries in one go, study their contrasts and explore their variations in culture. The tour […]

Join our Socotra Yemen Island Tour as we will be taking the Yemenia Airways flight from Cairo, to Hadibu, Socotra via Aden in mainland Yemen. Suffering civil war, coups, revolutions and bombings in recent years, the Republic of Yemen is generally off the radar for tourists. Unless, that is, you know about the island of […]

We’ve worked on this tour for a while, but now we bring you back to the heart of Soviet Europe. This tour coincides with the Transnistrian and South Ossetian National Day celebrations, two of the last surviving Soviet-style military parades left in Europe! The tour will begin with a journey into the secretive state of […]

As an extension or a standalone tour, this is a tour through some of the modern Russia’s most significant cities: Chechnya and Stalingrad! Our first stop will be the Capital of the Chechen Republic, Grozny, once labelled as the most destroyed city on the planet after the vicious civil war which engulfed the republic for […]