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What we offer is different - grass roots travel with under-stated sophistication and passionate expert hosts who are excellent communicators and great company.

 

Our wildlife holidays are hosted by world-class wildlife film-makers and naturalists and cutting edge conservation biologists including Simon King OBE, Chris Packham, Virginia McKenna OBE, Stephen Mills and Prof. Claudio Silllero. Read more…

 

Our painting holidays are hosted by leading Royal Academicians and leading artists including Ken Howard OBE RA, Tom Coates, Lucy Willis, Hazel Soan and David Bellamy. Read more….

 

We also organise exclusive wedding, anniversary and birthday celebrations at the Seven Wonders of the World and corporate events at premier cultural, sporting and music festivals.

 

Please call us for a chat about any existing holiday or prospective plans you have.

 

Prestigious organisations have been working in partnership with us and endorsing what we do for more than 25 years - BBC Wildlife, Born Free Foundation, Wildlife Whisperer, The Artists Publishing Company, Sir John Soanes Museum, Channel 4, The Daily Telegraph, The FT. 

 

We research, contract, operate and manage every element and detail ourselves ensuring the highest standards of care, personal attention and service. There is always someone from the Company on hand, taking care of your general welfare and overseeing all the arrangements whilst you are travelling with us.  

With us, you can follow the lives of some of the characters filmed on Big Cat Diary in the Masai Mara with the series presenter and cameraman Simon King OBE, or search for tigers in India with Stephen Mills who has been studying and filming them in Bandhavgarh and Kanha National Parks for the BBC for decades.

Stephen Mills wrote the BBC film Tiger Crisis which helped to bring to international attention the rise in poaching for trade in tiger parts. As a writer, producer and cameraman, Stephen has made 35 films for TV including Land of the Tiger, Man-Eater; To Be or Not to Be, and is author of the BBC book Tiger, which documents some of the tigers of Kanha and Bandhavgarh National Parks. 

We also work with leading conservation biologist Prof Claudio Sillero and you can join him in the Bale Mountains where he monitors and works to save the Ethiopian Wolf or travel with him to see jaguars in the Pantanal and learn about his work in mitigating conflict between jaguars and cattle ranchers. 

Prof Claudio Sillero founded the Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Programme and was awarded the Whitley Award for Animal Conservation from the Royal Geographical Society in 1998 for his work in Ethiopia. He is chair of the IUCN Canid Specialist Group since 2004, Head of Conservation at Born Free Foundation and Deputy Director of the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU) Department of Zoology, Oxford University. 

We are working on new and ground-breaking safaris including searching for tigers in Tadoba and Bandhavgarh National Parks with Simon King, and observing African painted dogs in Zimbabwe with Dr Greg Rasmussen, Director of Painted Dog Conservation.  We have organised special Born Free Foundation safaris to Kenya with Virginia McKenna OBE in the footsteps of Joy and George Adamson, and trips to South Africa, Uganda, Cuba, Peru and Sri Lanka with award-winning wildlife photographers including Chris Packham and Jonathan & Angie Scott.

With us, experienced and aspiring artists can work alongside leading professional artists including Ken Howard OBE RA, Tom Coates and Lucy Willis. On our dedicated painting holidays everything is carefully researched and taken care of for you so you can paint in new and inspiring locations including Africa, India, Cuba, China, Istanbul, Morocco and Sri Lanka, with a freedom that would be impossible if you were on your own.

For intermediate and new students we team up with the UK’s best teachers including Hazel Soan, David Bellamy and Glyn Macey who provide individual tuition and a supportive group environment in classical locations with fabulous light and subject matter such as Venice, Provence, Greek Islands, Tuscany, Iceland and the Italian Lakes.