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Prestige adds Ireland and Scotland to Closer to Home programme
Prestige has added Scotish and Irish city breaks, and Scotish wildlife holidays, to its Closer to Home programme for 2020. Cities featured include
Edinburgh, Stirling and Inverness in Scotland and Galway, Cork, Dublin, Kilkenny, Waterford, Donegal and Killarney in the Republic of Ireland. Tree nights at Te Chester
Residence in Edinburgh costs from £601, including flights from Gatwick. Galway, the European Capital of Culture in 2020, is featured in a three-night stay at Te Ardilaun Hotel from £452, with flights from Gatwick to Shannon. Wildlife holidays visit Fort
William, the Isle of Mull, the Cairngorms, the Orkney Islands and the Shetland Islands. Meanwhile, the operator has
doubled the number of Australian trips in its Australia and New Zealand programme. Prices start from £1,599.
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Explore expands with tours of Silk Road, Lebanon and beyond
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Explore’s new Discovery & Wildlife programme for 2020 has four new itineraries, featuring the Silk Road, Iceland, Lebanon and El Salvador. A 22-day Five Stans of the Silk
Road tour features Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. It visits the Unesco-listed city
of Khiva and the Door to Hell – a natural gas cavern that has been burning since 1971. Prices start at £4,645. A Highlights of El Salvador
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holiday offers the chance to meet a local biologist to monitor hawksbill turtles and visit the ancient site of
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Joya de Cerén, known as Central America’s Pompeii. Te 20-day tour costs from £1,990. Explore’s Highlights of Lebanon
trip starts with a walking tour of Beirut and includes an overnight stay in the grounds of a working monastery in the Qadisha Valley, plus trips to the Roman ruins at Baalbek and a 12th-century castle at Byblos. Te eight-day holiday costs from £1,599. An Iceland Yurt Adventure
features accommodation in a private collection of yurts and includes visits to three waterfalls. Te four-day holiday costs from £945. Explore managing director Joe
Ponte said: “Today’s travellers are looking for authentic experiences over fly-and-flop holidays and they’re more adventurous in the destinations they’re going to. “We’re seeing huge interest in
experiential travel, and our new Discovery and Wildlife programme has been tailored to fit the needs of these travellers and their growing thirst for adventure.” Te prices all include flights,
accommodation, some meals and an Explore leader.
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Cox & Kings introduces four private tours and solo Kerala trip
Indian specialist Cox & Kings has a new solo traveller group tour of Kerala, plus four new private tours in its 2020 India & Beyond programme. Te eight-day Splendours of
Kerala tour features a tuk-tuk trip, a cooking lesson and the chance
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to spot wildlife in Periyar National Park. It costs from £2,595. New private tours include a
Grand Tour of Northern India, which visits Varanasi, the Taj Mahal, Jodhpur and Udaipur. It costs from £2,795. A new 14-night Taj & Tigers Family Adventure includes
Ranthambore National Park, Delhi and Jaipur, from £3,365. Rajasthan in Style costs from £6,895 for 17 nights, while Bhutan in Style takes clients through the remote kingdom and costs from £8,595 for eight nights.
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Periyar National Park, Kerala
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