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Handpicked destinations, unforgettable experiences, and thoughtfully designed journeys for travellers who want more than an ordinary holiday.
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Journeys worth remembering
From quiet coastal escapes to vibrant city adventures, discover places selected for their beauty, culture, character, and unforgettable experiences.
Every itinerary is built by someone who has walked it — which is why you will find fewer places on our trips than on most, and more time in each of them.
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- 7continents
- travellers, max
- 12travellers, max
Lago di Braies, Italy
Popular destinations
Where will you go next?
Six places our travellers return to, chosen for what they are like to be in rather than how they photograph.
Travel experiences
Choose your kind of adventure
Start with how you want the days to feel, and let the destination follow from that.
34 experiences
Island Escapes
28 experiences
Mountain Adventures
41 experiences
Cultural Journeys
19 experiences
Wildlife Expeditions
23 experiences
Luxury Retreats
26 experiences
Romantic gateways
Featured journey
Eight Days Across Beautiful Bali
Ubud & East Bali8 days / 7 nightsRated 4.9 out of 5 from 186 reviews
Ubud rice terraces, an east-coast reef and two volcano mornings, at a pace that leaves room to sit still.
- From
- $1,180
- Difficulty
- Moderate
- Group size
- 2–12
- Location
- Indonesia
Itinerary preview
- 1Arrive in Ubud
- 2Campuhan ridge at first light
- 3Rice terraces and a cooking afternoon
- 4East to the coast
Trip highlights
- Sunrise on the Campuhan ridge before the heat arrives
- A morning with a subak water cooperative that has run for a millennium
- Two days of reef diving off Amed with almost nobody else in the water
- A cooking afternoon in a family compound, not a demonstration kitchen
The Wanderly difference
Why travel with us
Four things we can point at, rather than four things we can claim.
Handpicked experiences
Every property and guide on this site has been visited by someone on our team within the last eighteen months. If we have not stayed there, it is not here.
Local travel experts
Our guides live where they work. That is why a closed trail, a delayed ferry or a temple festival becomes a change of plan rather than a lost day.
Flexible planning
Move your departure date free of charge up to 35 days before travel, and hold your deposit as credit for two years if plans change entirely.
Support throughout your journey
A named coordinator from enquiry to return, plus a 24-hour line answered by a person in the region you are travelling in — not a call centre.
Interactive trip planner
Your journey, designed around you
Five short steps, then a suggestion. Change any answer and the recommendation changes with it.
Your trip
Where from
Flight cost, visa rules and package pricing all depend on where you set off from.
When
Approximate is fine.
Recommended this autumn
Perfect places for this season
Three destinations that are at their best right now — for weather, for crowds, and for what is happening on the ground.
Late October – November
Kyoto
Japan
- Weather
- Clear, dry, cold mornings
- Temperature
- 10 – 22°C
- Suggested trip length
- 5 – 7 days
Maple colour peaks in the eastern hills in the third week of November, and the temples open at night for it.
Explore KyotoSeptember – October
Cappadocia
Türkiye
- Weather
- Warm days, cold dawns, highest flying rate
- Temperature
- 8 – 25°C
- Suggested trip length
- 3 – 5 days
The most reliable balloon weather of the year, and cool enough that the valley walks are a pleasure rather than an endurance.
Explore CappadociaSeptember – mid October
Santorini
Greece
- Weather
- Warm sea, softer light, fewer ships
- Temperature
- 20 – 27°C
- Suggested trip length
- 4 – 6 days
The sea holds August's heat while the crowds thin out and caldera hotels drop their rates.
Explore Santorini
Travel stories
Stories from the road
Field notes from our guides and specialists — what they saw, what they would do differently, and what is worth the early alarm.
Destination guide7 min read
The quiet side of Bali most travellers miss
Everyone lands in the south and drives to Ubud. Turn east instead, and the island you were promised is still there.
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City guide6 min read
A first-time guide to exploring Kyoto
Sixteen hundred temples and one very simple rule: the city belongs to whoever is awake at six.
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Itinerary8 min read
Seven unforgettable days through the Swiss Alps
A week in the Bernese Oberland, planned so the lifts do the climbing and your legs get the good part.
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Traveller reviews
What our travellers say
Collected after return, published unedited.
“What I noticed most was how little we were moved around. Three or four nights in a place, a guide who knew the family running it, and time to actually sit still. The cooking afternoon in Sidemen was the part my daughter still talks about.”
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Moments from our journeys
Photographs taken by our guides and travellers, on the trips you can book from this page.
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