Small Luxury Group Tours
Group travel sometimes gets a bad rap. But when done right, it can be so rewarding.
Join a luxury-hosted small group journey with Explorations Company, and we promise you won’t find yourself saying, ‘if it’s Tuesday, it must be the Taj Mahal.’ Our growing portfolio of small group journeys allows you to explore places that require sophisticated logistics, and which might be prohibitively expensive if visited by yourself. Staying in wonderful properties, and with chartered flights or yachts included where sensible to ensure that your experience is seamless, you’ll travel in the company of a small number of like-minded fellow travellers, with an expert host to guide you and a range of inspiring people to chat to and learn from along the way.
Join one of our existing pre-set tours, or form your own group and have us create an entirely personalised and dazzlingly original private journey or celebration just for you.
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Our top expertly-curated top small group journeys
View our selection of the most sought-after small group journeys
Numerous destinations lay claim to being the Garden of Eden. With around 90% of the country cloaked in rainforest, the Central African nation of Gabon arguably comes closest. Our pioneering small-group journey through this little-explored country is timed to coincide with one of Africa’s most extraordinary wildlife spectacles – the mating ritual of up to 800 endangered mandrills in Lopé National Park – as well as offering superb opportunities to observe western lowland gorillas, beachcombing elephants and a host of other wildlife.
Numerous destinations lay claim to being the Garden of Eden. With around 90% of the country cloaked in rainforest, the Central African nation of Gabon arguably comes closest. Our pioneering small-group journey through this little-explored country is timed to coincide with one of Africa’s most extraordinary wildlife spectacles – the mating ritual of up to 800 endangered mandrills in Lopé National Park – as well as offering superb opportunities to observe western lowland gorillas, beachcombing elephants and a host of other wildlife.
Travel the Andes from Peru to Patagonia in grand style on an epic 12-day air expedition limited to just 12 passengers. Seek out ancient civilisations and towering waterfalls in the cloud forests of Peru, experience the wonders of South America’s coastal and high-altitude Andean deserts, and feel humbled by the majesty of Torres del Paine National Park as you explore some of South America’s most rugged and untouched regions in Dr. Jones’ glamorous 1940s-era Basler BT-67 aeroplane.
Dr Jones air safari by vintage aircraft
An epic air safari along the spine of South America
Travel the Andes from Peru to Patagonia in grand style on an epic 12-day air expedition limited to just 12 passengers. Seek out ancient civilisations and towering waterfalls in the cloud forests of Peru, experience the wonders of South America’s coastal and high-altitude Andean deserts, and feel humbled by the majesty of Torres del Paine National Park as you explore some of South America’s most rugged and untouched regions in Dr. Jones’ glamorous 1940s-era Basler BT-67 aeroplane.
Led by expert Indian wildlife photographer Riyad Gandhy, this 12-day small-group photography adventure through Central India takes you from the city streets of Bhopal to the remote tribal villages and tiger reserves of Madhya Pradesh.
Professional photographers and aspiring amateurs alike will have no shortage of photographic opportunities. Capture the drama of India, taking frame after frame of magnificent wildlife, traditional tribal artists and urban street scenes. As well as offering technical advice, Gandhy will mentor you in how to develop your visual storytelling and how to engage with your surroundings. Every traveller will come away with a thoughtful and intimate body of work documenting their travels, and a sharper creative eye.
This exclusive small-group journey departs 08 – 19 March 2027.
Led by expert Indian wildlife photographer Riyad Gandhy, this 12-day small-group photography adventure through Central India takes you from the city streets of Bhopal to the remote tribal villages and tiger reserves of Madhya Pradesh.
Professional photographers and aspiring amateurs alike will have no shortage of photographic opportunities. Capture the drama of India, taking frame after frame of magnificent wildlife, traditional tribal artists and urban street scenes. As well as offering technical advice, Gandhy will mentor you in how to develop your visual storytelling and how to engage with your surroundings. Every traveller will come away with a thoughtful and intimate body of work documenting their travels, and a sharper creative eye.
This exclusive small-group journey departs 08 – 19 March 2027.
"Our on-the-ground contacts, logistical know-how and can-do approach, together with an obsession over the smallest detail, allow us to design events that are uniquely personal to you."
Should you wish to form your own group and celebrate a special milestone event, we love the challenge of turning your dreams into reality. We can create anything from a silver-service dinner for 10 on an Andean mountaintop to a custom-designed 50th birthday party for 100 in the middle of the African bush, complete with luxury tents, gourmet catering and a DJ and bar. No beach is too remote, no island too far-flung.
With Explorations Company, the possibilities are limitless. Our on-the-ground contacts, logistical know-how and can-do approach, together with an obsession over the smallest detail, allow us to design events that are uniquely personal to you. However large or intimate your celebration, rest assured we will take care of everything to make your event worry-free, flawlessly delivered and never to be forgotten.
Ready to take the road less travelled?
Luxury Small Group Tours and Holidays
Expertly curated by our specialists, each small group journey features unique experiences, with private expert guides, privileged behind-the-scenes access and authentic insights, seamlessly pulled together with luxury accommodation and travel.
Numerous destinations lay claim to being the Garden of Eden. With around 90% of the country cloaked in rainforest, the Central African nation of Gabon arguably comes closest. Our pioneering small-group journey through this little-explored country is timed to coincide with one of Africa’s most extraordinary wildlife spectacles – the mating ritual of up to 800 endangered mandrills in Lopé National Park – as well as offering superb opportunities to observe western lowland gorillas, beachcombing elephants and a host of other wildlife.
Numerous destinations lay claim to being the Garden of Eden. With around 90% of the country cloaked in rainforest, the Central African nation of Gabon arguably comes closest. Our pioneering small-group journey through this little-explored country is timed to coincide with one of Africa’s most extraordinary wildlife spectacles – the mating ritual of up to 800 endangered mandrills in Lopé National Park – as well as offering superb opportunities to observe western lowland gorillas, beachcombing elephants and a host of other wildlife.
Led by expert Indian wildlife photographer Riyad Gandhy, this 12-day small-group photography adventure through Central India takes you from the city streets of Bhopal to the remote tribal villages and tiger reserves of Madhya Pradesh.
Professional photographers and aspiring amateurs alike will have no shortage of photographic opportunities. Capture the drama of India, taking frame after frame of magnificent wildlife, traditional tribal artists and urban street scenes. As well as offering technical advice, Gandhy will mentor you in how to develop your visual storytelling and how to engage with your surroundings. Every traveller will come away with a thoughtful and intimate body of work documenting their travels, and a sharper creative eye.
This exclusive small-group journey departs 08 – 19 March 2027.
Led by expert Indian wildlife photographer Riyad Gandhy, this 12-day small-group photography adventure through Central India takes you from the city streets of Bhopal to the remote tribal villages and tiger reserves of Madhya Pradesh.
Professional photographers and aspiring amateurs alike will have no shortage of photographic opportunities. Capture the drama of India, taking frame after frame of magnificent wildlife, traditional tribal artists and urban street scenes. As well as offering technical advice, Gandhy will mentor you in how to develop your visual storytelling and how to engage with your surroundings. Every traveller will come away with a thoughtful and intimate body of work documenting their travels, and a sharper creative eye.
This exclusive small-group journey departs 08 – 19 March 2027.
Travel the Andes from Peru to Patagonia in grand style on an epic 12-day air expedition limited to just 12 passengers. Seek out ancient civilisations and towering waterfalls in the cloud forests of Peru, experience the wonders of South America’s coastal and high-altitude Andean deserts, and feel humbled by the majesty of Torres del Paine National Park as you explore some of South America’s most rugged and untouched regions in Dr. Jones’ glamorous 1940s-era Basler BT-67 aeroplane.
Dr Jones air safari by vintage aircraft
An epic air safari along the spine of South America
Travel the Andes from Peru to Patagonia in grand style on an epic 12-day air expedition limited to just 12 passengers. Seek out ancient civilisations and towering waterfalls in the cloud forests of Peru, experience the wonders of South America’s coastal and high-altitude Andean deserts, and feel humbled by the majesty of Torres del Paine National Park as you explore some of South America’s most rugged and untouched regions in Dr. Jones’ glamorous 1940s-era Basler BT-67 aeroplane.
Ready to take the road less travelled?