Our team are destination specialists with many years experience in creating holidays and can tailor make to suit you.
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Our team are destination specialists with many years experience in creating holidays and can tailor make to suit you.
| Mon-Fri | 8am-6pm |
| Saturday | 9am-5pm |
| Sunday | Closed |
Life above and below water is in crisis. Nowhere more so than in the destinations we hold particularly close to our hearts. We believe the answer to delivering meaningful change will come through educating ourselves, our children and our grandchildren on conserving and protecting our planet’s rich cultural and bio diversity.
Responsible travel goes deeper than reducing a trip’s carbon footprint. There’s a lot to do. This is one journey we are fully committed to going on.
Our purpose: To enrich both the people who travel with us and the places we visit so that generations to come can enjoy the world in all its radiance.
In 1988, we founded our sister company, Discover the World Education. Our school trips are designed to inspire respect for the communities we visit and educate students on the need for sustainable growth, sparking a desire to conserve and protect the World’s wildlife and habitats.
We believe that all students should benefit from educational travel, whatever their background. That’s why a percentage of revenue from your holiday, goes into our Education Bursary Fund. Run in partnership with the Geographical Association, it means that at least 30 students who wouldn’t otherwise have the opportunity can join one of our school trips abroad. If you wish to donate more towards this cause, speak with your travel specialist.
Closer to home, we are working with schools to plant new woodlands and re-wild school land, funded by donations from ourselves and the schools we work with. The Greener Growth scheme sources young trees from prisoners growing heritage native trees in prison nurseries. If you wish to donate more towards this cause, speak with your travel specialist.
Education starts at home. And we believe in practising what we preach. We are fully committed to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. We have mapped a set of transparent, actionable stepping stones, gaining standards from Feefo’s industry accreditation body Ethy. As we take each step and after achieving rigorous criteria we are awarded clear ecolabels to demonstrate our commitment to a more sustainable world.
We share Feefo’s values, aiming for a stable climate, abundant biodiversity, healthy ecosystems, a clean planet, healthy and thriving communities and circular business models that responsibly use our precious resources.
Our experts have developed a selection of rail holidays designed to reduce your carbon footprint and its impact on climate change – not to mention a more rewarding, less stressful alternative to flying. All our trips can be tailored to you, from innovative travel choices to selecting the most eco-friendly suppliers. And on every trip, you can use the World Land Trust Carbon Calculator to reduce your footprint even more.
This well-paced rail holiday through Switzerland offers the perfect blend of elegant cities and stunning alpine resorts
From £2995 Excluding Flights
From London to the tip of Italy, this captivating rail journey to Sicily is all about slow travel, immersing yourself in ever-changing scenery as you travel south through Europe.
From £2933 Excluding Flights
This incredible three-week odyssey takes you beyond the Arctic Circle – and because it’s available March to October, you can choose summer for the midnight sun or winter for the northern lights.
From £5327 Excluding Flights
This two-week itinerary is one of the best rail holidays in the world linking four iconic train journeys with plenty of time exploring Switzerland's medieval towns and cities.
From £3898 Excluding Flights
This is the ultimate Italian city break, but instead of snatching a whirlwind weekend away in Rome or Venice, you have two whole weeks of slow travel by train.
From £3550 Excluding Flights
This compact year-round rail adventure takes you on a journey through Switzerland's breathtaking landscapes.
From £1824 Excluding Flights
Enjoy slow travel through Scandinavia on a rail journey through a calming landscape of pristine lakes and forests, peppered with villages en route to visiting Copenhagen, Oslo and Stockholm – the three Scandinavian capitals.
From £2584 Excluding Flights
This special 12-night itinerary takes you on a series of scenic rail journeys from London to the heart of Norway’s magnificent fjord-riven coastline.
From £3058 Excluding Flights
Having operated the very first whale-watching trips in Iceland back in 1993, our founder Clive couldn’t take the issue of whaling lightly. In our campaign to end whaling in Iceland we support the Iceland Nature Conservation Association (INCA).
Established in 1997, INCA is a conservation NGO with the primary objective of conserving and protecting the wilderness of Iceland. In 2007, Árni Finnsson, chair of INCA’s board, was awarded the Animal Action Award, for his role in whale conservation.
I am no scientist, but I have had an interest in sustainability for most of my adult life. I care deeply about what can be done to protect and preserve our planet for future generations
Clive Stacey, Managing Director and Co-founder
Blogs
From soaking up amazing views to enjoying more time to relax, read on for six reasons why you should seriously consider catching the train for your next holiday...
Head into the blue with the experts as Discover the World marks more than 25 years since it pioneered whale watching in Iceland.
Stricter regulations that aim to protect the fragile Arctic environment of Svalbard come into force on 1 January 2025. What are they? How will they change expedition cruising? And what are your options for visiting the Arctic this summer – and beyond?
With 5% of the world's biodiversity found in Costa Rica, it is a wildlife lovers dream destination. Travel writer, photographer and zoologist, William Gray picks five of his top wildlife destinations in Costa Rica…
Meet the amazing guides from three of our favourite wilderness lodges in British Columbia’s Great Bear Rainforest.
The world's oceans have long been a source of fascination and wonder and the 8th June marks World Oceans Day. We've selected just a few experiences that celebrate the wonder of our oceans.
The chance to experience Antarctica on an adventure cruise is both a privilege and an inspiration, and now also an opportunity to give back by getting involved in scientific research during your voyage.
