The journeys
Thirteen journeys, all of them designed, none of them yet priced on this page. Each one is a complete plan — the nights, the drives, the food, the prayer, the lifts, the hospitals — waiting on the supplier quotes that turn a plan into a price.
Every journey on this page is in the same state
Designed, not yet dated, not yet priced. You can read any of them in full. Georgia is the one furthest along, and it is the one we will open first.
Georgia has its full page today. The other twelve open as we finish them, in the order below.
The first time you send them
Shorter flights, softer ground, and the gentlest introduction to travelling without you.
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Designed
Ma Wara' al-Nahr: Samarkand and Bukhara, the Scholars' Road
8 nights
Eight unhurried nights from the Mushaf of Uthman in Tashkent to the resting places of Imam al-Bukhari and Bahauddin Naqshband, by Afrosiyob high-speed train, with a nurse beside you.
Full page coming
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Designed
Land of Fire, Gently: Baku, Shamakhi, Gabala and Sheki
8 nights
Eight unhurried nights between the Caspian and the Caucasus: Friday prayer at Baku's Heydar Mosque, the 8th-century Juma Mosque of Shamakhi, Gabala's lakes and cable car and the Khan's Palace of Sheki, with a nurse beside you.
Full page coming
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Designed
Malaysia: Mosques, Highlands and the Straits
8 nights
Eight gentle nights in Kuala Lumpur, Penang and the cool Genting Highlands, with Friday prayer under the rose-pink dome of Masjid Putra, George Town by trishaw, and a registered nurse beside your parents the whole way.
Full page coming
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Designed
Serendib at an Easy Pace
8 nights
Kandy's royal gardens, the cool tea hills of Nuwara Eliya and the coast where Arab traders first landed, and never more than about three hours on the coach in a day.
Full page coming
The journey they will talk about
The middle of the range, and where most families start. Georgia is our own, run by us rather than contracted out.
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Designed
Birr Georgia: Borjomi and Tskaltubo Springs
8 nights
Eight unhurried nights in Georgia's spring towns, with a Rafeeqa host and a registered nurse beside your parents, Friday prayer at Tbilisi's historic Juma Mosque, and halal tables every day.
Read the whole journey
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Birr Turkey: Istanbul and Bursa, the tulip-and-thermal journey
8 nights
Jumu'ah under the domes of Camlica, the Bosphorus from your own boat, Eyup Sultan and the Grand Mosque of Bursa, then Ottoman thermal waters with a women-only spa, at a gentle pace with a nurse close by.
Full page coming
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Birr Bosnia: Sarajevo and Mostar, the Ottoman river journey
8 nights
Jumu'ah at the Gazi Husrev-beg Mosque, a horse-carriage ride to the springs of the Bosna, the Neretva canyon to Mostar's Old Bridge, the dervish house at Blagaj and the Kravice falls, at a gentle pace with a nurse close by.
Full page coming
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Designed
River and Sea: A Royal Winter in Bangkok and Hua Hin
8 nights
Eight calm winter nights between Bangkok's Chao Phraya riverside and Hua Hin's royal seaside, with Friday prayer at historic mosques and Bumrungrad's Arabic desk behind every day.
Full page coming
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Designed
Bali: Terraces and Quiet Shores
8 nights
Eight gentle nights between Nusa Dua's calm beach and Ubud's green hills, with halal-certified hotel kitchens, Friday prayer at Nusa Dua's Ibnu Batutah mosque and a visit to Bali's oldest mosque at Gelgel.
Full page coming
Once
Longer, further, and built for a particular anniversary or a particular promise.
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Almaty: Mountains, Lakes and Falcons
8 nights
Eight unhurried nights in one five-star Almaty base: cable cars over the Tien Shan, an alpine lake, Kazakh nomad heritage and a falcon show, with Friday prayer at the Central Mosque and a nurse beside every step.
Full page coming
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Morocco's Two Capitals: Fes, Rabat and the Cedars of Ifrane
8 nights
Pray Dhuhr in the Qarawiyyin and Jumu'ah in Rabat. Enter Fes from the flat, lower end of its medina, and lunch among the cedars of Ifrane. A nurse travels with you, and no day has more than about three hours on the coach.
Full page coming
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Designed
Nour Al-Andalus: Seville, Granada and Cordoba
8 nights
Nine gentle spring days through the palaces and the great mosque of Al-Andalus, with a nurse at their side and prayer at the heart of every day.
Full page coming
A journey of its own
Japan is not the top of a ladder. It costs four times our shortest journey and more than twice the one below it, because it is a different journey for a different reason — an anniversary, or the one trip someone has talked about for thirty years. We sell it on its own terms.
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Designed
Japan in Blossom: Tokyo, Fuji and Kyoto
9 nights
Nine gentle nights under the cherry blossom: Friday prayer in Tokyo's grand mosque, a lakeside morning facing Mount Fuji, the Green Car bullet train to Kyoto's golden pavilion and halal-certified kitchens, with a registered nurse beside your parents the whole way.
Full page coming