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Family Holidays
Our team is full of family travellers, meaning we know what it takes to make sure everyone enjoys the experience just as much as each other.
Couples Holidays
Our couple itineraries are paced perfectly for you to enjoy the very best a country has to offer whilst making sure you enjoy the quality time together you’re after.
Group Holidays
No matter what the size or the occasion, we’re well versed in taking larger groups of people away for those special adventures.
Honeymoons
We’ve been crafting dream itineraries for newly married couples for years. Learn more about the ins and outs of our honeymoon service here.
Multi Generational Trips
From very small to very big. Families come in all shapes and sizes, and our multi-generational holidays are perfectly designed to tick the boxes for the whole family.
Anniversary Trips
Whether you’re celebrating as a couple, or across multiple generations, our anniversary trips are crafted around the milestone – and the people sharing it.
Travel With Teens
This is a list of the very best places to travel with teenagers – one that’s crammed with bragging rights (for them) and bonding moments (for you).
Grown Up Family Holidays
As your children become adults, your family trips are also due to change and grow. These are our favourite trips for you and your grown up family.
Solo Holidays
Our travel experts have experienced the thrills and challenges of solo travel, all with the aim of producing some of our most immersive and exciting itineraries.
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Safari Holidays
With a team of experts that have worked as conservationists and wildlife photographers, we have the expertise to make your safari dreams come true.
Remote Destinations
We’ve chosen these experiences, destinations and adventures to bring you closer to the great outdoors. This is your ticket to our wonderful world.
Unusual Holidays
The world may be conquered, but enough secrets remain to keep us up all night, dreaming of ways to whisk you off to the most unique corners of the globe. Where first?
Adventure Holidays
Hike across mountain ridgelines, scramble across glaciers and kayak down rivers – these trips are designed to immerse you in vast wildernesses and ancient cultures.
Beach Holidays
Porcelain shores, perfect seas and swaying palms; the allure of a beach break is hard to ignore. Which is why we handpick the best beachfront boltholes to offer you…
Food Holidays
Food and travel have long gone hand in hand, and we have put together some mouth-watering trips that capture the palate, of countries across the world. Bon appétit.
Slow Travel
As the world becomes busier, slow travel has never felt so fitting. Whether it’s meeting fishermen in Maine or learning the Dukha-way in Mongolia, take time to connect.
Eclipse Holidays
Eclipse travel celebrates our place in the wider cosmos. Let us take you to wherever in the world the eclipse is at its most arresting, and we’ll do it in style.
Proposal Service
Found the one and want to propose in style? The moment will be a memory forever and we’re here to help you make sure it’s the most perfect moment for you and your loved one.
Train Travel
“It’s not the destination, it’s the journey.” We’ve all heard this, haven’t we? And with these captivating luxury train journeys, we’ll show you the joy to be found travelling across the world by rail.
The Pursuit of Feeling
From impassioned and emotive journeys, to podcasts, you’ll find something to move you and something to soothe you. We want to fire your heart and provide food for your soul.
Set Jetting
Swapping salubrious saloons and questionable lodgings for sumptuous hotels and eye-opening experiences, each of our show-stopping journeys will take you behind scenes of some of TV’s most awe-inspiring locations.
See You in the Moment
You need only bring yourselves – your people, your histories. We’ll provide the moment itself. The anticipation, the togetherness, the memory. This is something to savour. This is something to remember.
Field Trip
Education begins in the classroom, but it’s IRL that younger generations put their lessons to the test. Field Trip is a curriculum of educational encounters around the world.
Take me on a Story
A series of family experiences celebrating the transformative power of the books we loved when we were young, and the stories our children have come to adore.
Get Lost
Designed as a once-in-a-lifetime challenge, train with elite survival experts before traversing a polar, jungle, coastal, mountain or desert region in your mission back to civilisation.
Blink
The ultimate luxury camping retreat. From the Sahara desert to the Andean Mountains, with Blink anywhere you can envisage it, we will create it.
Bring it Back
Bring It Back will embed you in an entirely different way of thinking, and of learning about a culture directly from its experts on the ground. You may be surprised by what you discover.
The Great American View
This series of breathtaking journeys culminate in some of America’s most legendary sights. They are the places you’ve always sought out, and now it’s your time to find them.
James Bond
We are proud to have been selected as the official travel partner to curate James Bond inspired trips.
Agatha Christie
We’ve been hand-picked by Agatha Christie Limited to help bring Agatha’s world-famous Grand Tour to life through a series of episodic trips across Africa, Australasia and North America, and a unique prelude in London.
Tasting Notes
Eating at a Michelin – starred restaurant is one thing. But now you can learn about the country through the lens of some of the most critically acclaimed chefs in the world, by travelling with them on the ultimately culinary experience
Take the Open Road with Auberge
With the iconic hotel brand Auberge Resorts, we’ve created a new series of tailormade, luxurious road trip itineraries. Emblems of America’s most iconic landscapes, regions, and people.
Remarkable Drives of Discovery with Auberge
Following on from the much lauded ‘Take the Open Road’ series, here’s five brand-new bespoke, multi-destination trips created with our friends at Auberge Resorts Collection. Delve deeper than ever before.
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Diqing stretches from the old streets of Dukezong and the surroundings of Shangri-La to Deqin’s mountain horizons and the valleys of Weixi. Songzanlin, Napa Lake and Meili Snow Mountain offer different ways into this highland corner of Yunnan.
Discover places to explore, from Shangri-La to Tacheng. Seek out the attractions that define the region, including Meili Snow Mountain and Songzanlin Monastery. Or follow our hidden gems towards Yubeng Village and quieter discoveries. Three ways to see Diqing & Shangri-La, brought together in a trip shaped around you.
Start with Shangri-La and Dukezong Ancient Town, then consider Deqin, Benzilan or Weixi for a longer journey. Each stop brings a different relationship between town life, valley roads and the mountains beyond.
Yubeng, Niru, Cizhong and Tongle are distinct village journeys, each needing its own planning. Choose one or two as the focus of a longer visit, and confirm local access before deciding on the final route.
Begin with the places that interest you. The journey ideas below are suggestions that can be adjusted around your dates, interests and preferred pace.
Start with Shangri-La and Dukezong Ancient Town, then consider Deqin, Benzilan or Weixi for a longer journey. Each stop brings a different relationship between town life, valley roads and the mountains beyond.
Make space for Songzanlin Monastery and Napa Lake before looking towards Meili Snow Mountain or the landscapes around Pudacuo. Rather than rushing between sights, let the route follow the places you most want to understand.
Yubeng, Niru, Cizhong and Tongle are distinct village journeys, each needing its own planning. Choose one or two as the focus of a longer visit, and confirm local access before deciding on the final route.
Explore Diqing & Shangri-La based on what draws you here and when you want to travel.
A few ideas to start your journey. Each can be shaped around you.
6 suggested journeys · Tailored to your pace
Diqing & Shangri-La · Shangri-La · Deqin · Weixi
Start with Shangri-La and Dukezong Ancient Town, then consider Deqin, Benzilan or Weixi for a longer journey. Each stop brings a different relationship between town life, valley roads and the mountains beyond.
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Diqing & Shangri-La · Meili Snow Mountain · Songzanlin Monastery · Pudacuo National Park
Make space for Songzanlin Monastery and Napa Lake before looking towards Meili Snow Mountain or the landscapes around Pudacuo. Rather than rushing between sights, let the route follow the places you most want to understand.
Plan this trip
Diqing & Shangri-La · Yubeng Village · Niru Village · Cizhong Village
Yubeng, Niru, Cizhong and Tongle are distinct village journeys, each needing its own planning. Choose one or two as the focus of a longer visit, and confirm local access before deciding on the final route.
Plan this tripDiqing & Shangri-La · Dukezong Ancient Town · Benzilan · Feilai Temple Village
Make Dukezong Ancient Town the starting point, then explore Feilai Temple Village and the places along the way. Leave time for local walks and the details that interest you; this suggested route can be adjusted with our team.
Plan this tripDiqing & Shangri-La · Napa Lake · Baima Snow Mountain · Balagezong Scenic Area
Make Napa Lake the starting point, then explore Balagezong Scenic Area and the places along the way. Leave time for local walks and the details that interest you; this suggested route can be adjusted with our team.
Plan this tripDiqing & Shangri-La · Haba Village · Mingyong Village · Tongle Lisu Village
Make Haba Village the starting point, then explore Tongle Lisu Village and the places along the way. Leave time for local walks and the details that interest you; this suggested route can be adjusted with our team.
Plan this tripA closer connection to Diqing & Shangri-La, one experience at a time.
Give Meili Snow Mountain time of its own in your Diqing & Shangri-La journey. Explore at your preferred pace, with local arrangements shaped around your interests.
Enquire NowGive Songzanlin Monastery time of its own in your Diqing & Shangri-La journey. Explore at your preferred pace, with local arrangements shaped around your interests.
Enquire NowGive Shangri-La time of its own in your Diqing & Shangri-La journey. Explore at your preferred pace, with local arrangements shaped around your interests.
Enquire NowGive Yubeng Village time of its own in your Diqing & Shangri-La journey. Explore at your preferred pace, with local arrangements shaped around your interests.
Enquire NowGive Niru Village time of its own in your Diqing & Shangri-La journey. Explore at your preferred pace, with local arrangements shaped around your interests.
Enquire NowStart with Shangri-La and Dukezong Ancient Town, then consider Deqin, Benzilan or Weixi for a longer journey. Each stop brings a different relationship between town life, valley roads and the mountains beyond.
Make space for Songzanlin Monastery and Napa Lake before looking towards Meili Snow Mountain or the landscapes around Pudacuo. Rather than rushing between sights, let the route follow the places you most want to understand.
Yubeng, Niru, Cizhong and Tongle are distinct village journeys, each needing its own planning. Choose one or two as the focus of a longer visit, and confirm local access before deciding on the final route.
Across Diqing’s Highland Towns
Start with Shangri-La and Dukezong Ancient Town, then consider Deqin, Benzilan or Weixi for a longer journey. Each stop brings a different relationship between town life, valley roads and the mountains beyond.
Monasteries, Lakes & Snow Mountains
Make space for Songzanlin Monastery and Napa Lake before looking towards Meili Snow Mountain or the landscapes around Pudacuo. Rather than rushing between sights, let the route follow the places you most want to understand.
Quieter Valleys & Village Journeys
Yubeng, Niru, Cizhong and Tongle are distinct village journeys, each needing its own planning. Choose one or two as the focus of a longer visit, and confirm local access before deciding on the final route.
A Journey Shaped Around You
Combine Shangri-La, Meili Snow Mountain and Yubeng Village in a route that leaves room for the things you enjoy. Share your dates and preferred pace with WhyYunnan.
Diqing’s highland weather and mountain access are central to planning. Share your preferred activities and dates so the route and time at each stop can be checked before travel.
A first visit can start with Shangri-La and Meili Snow Mountain. Add Songzanlin Monastery or Yubeng Village according to the time available. The three collections above help you choose a route around your interests.
Yes. Places to Explore, Attractions and Hidden Gems are complementary ways to discover Diqing & Shangri-La. Combine a town-focused stay with a landscape outing and a quieter village visit; the exact route will depend on access and your dates.
The journey cards suggest short stays of three or four days as starting points, rather than fixed itineraries. A wider route through Diqing & Shangri-La needs more time between stops. Share the places you hope to visit so we can propose a realistic pace.
Choose a journey card and select Plan this trip to open our enquiry form. Your Diqing & Shangri-La destination and chosen journey are included in the link. Share your dates and interests so the itinerary, availability and any costs can be confirmed.
Places to explore. Sights to remember. Discoveries to make your own.
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