Travel in the company of a full-time local guide.
We evaluate Classic Journeys guides for their experience, training and knowledge. But we only choose the ones we’d want as traveling companions.
You have a well-connected friend.
Your guide will be the kind of person who knows the man whose wife’s brother owns the olive press…the opening day of truffle season (and the truffle-hunter who’ll let you tag along)…and which local specialties don’t appear on the menu. You’ll be on a first name basis because your guide stays and travels with you throughout your Classic Journey. If you need help with anything from haggling for a rug to buying a tube of toothpaste, you’re never on your own—unless you want to be.
And if there’s a special festival…
Classic Journeys’ local guides can change plans in a moment to take advantage of a local event, a harvest, or an unexpected invitation into a home. And your guide will also be glad to offer you any ideas or opportunities that appeal to your special interests. Some trips have two full-time guides, and on any itinerary you choose you may also be joined by specialists in anything from birding to wine-tasting to archaeology.
