SET tour vs. CUSTOM tour

SET tours depart and return on a SET date, from a SET city of origin, with a SET itinerary, SET meals, SET transports, SET groups, SET everything. There is very little flexibility.

CUSTOM tours are not as expensive as you may think and most often, private guiding, group guiding, and independant exploration can be combined for an affordable and satisfying journey.

GUIDE your GUIDE

Tired this AM? Call your guide on his mobile and ask him to come back after your third cup of coffee, then ride the elephant. Want to dine with your sweatheart at the restaurant you just saw a block back with the duck hanging from a hook? Ask your guide to turn around, take you back and meet up again in 2 hours. Then, proceed to the Silk district.

Overload on the 34^th temple in 3 days. Ask your guide to take you for a swim in the nearest lake or to your guide's favorite hang out for "people watching." Want to purchase that request from aunt Sarah, age 90, who likes clay pipes? Ask your guide where to find them without hunting or digging.

Is your guide a little too eager to show you the history of their entire civilization in one week? Ask for some private time, a quiet place to sketch, or a place of live music.

Just driven 3 hours over hand crushed gravel in a Russain jeep, over the mountains of China to see the hill tribes people? Ask them not only for open air relief but a brief stretch before continuing onward up the mountain where billy goats tread carefully.

Can't take another day of guiding at all? Call your guide, and go to the beach for the day.

Guide your guide and you both will be fulfilled.