- Who are Far Horizons?
- Established in South Australia in 1976 by Martin and Auriel Wright,
Far Horizons is celebrating its 31st year of operating
specialised, escorted, small group tours "off the beaten track".
- Tours for Travellers or Tourists
- It is said that the difference between a traveller and a tourist is that a traveller doesn't know where he is going, and a tourist doesn't
know where he has been. In which case Far Horizons tours are for neither
travellers nor tourists. Rather, they are for discriminating, adventurous
people who value the opportunity to witness some of the world's most
fascinating regions in the maximum degree of comfort and style which is
available. The success of this approach can be judged by the fact that an
average of at least 70% of the passengers on any tour will have travelled
with us before, and some of our strongest supporters have taken over twenty tours with us.
- Off the Beaten Track
- Throughout our many years in travel we have always shunned the
commonplace, the hackneyed, and have sought out new and wider horizons.
Our travels have taken us to all continents, and our many friends and
contacts all over the world have given us an "open sesame" to regions that
only the most intrepid traveller would venture into alone.
- Best Accommodation
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- Far Horizons provides the best accommodation in the world's most
exotic and stimulating regions. Wherever possible hotels are chosen for
their character and ambience in addition to their high standards of
comfort and cuisine. In some of the "off the beaten track" places we
visit, the "best available" is the "only available". Nevertheless
standards in even the remotest regions are usually perfectly acceptable.
On the few occasions we are obliged to lower our standards, a special
warning is made on the General Information page.
- Fully Inclusive
- All tours are as fully inclusive as possible, i.e. all transportation,
accommodation, sightseeing, meals, cultural events and gratuities. You
need budget only for personal spending money.
- Carefully Planned
- The itineraries are planned to provide the 'right' mix of travel,
leisure and sightseeing. Wherever possible we select flights that depart
and arrive at "civilised" hours, and overnight flights are kept to an
absolute minimum. Overland journeys are planned to include plenty of stops
en route, and long, fatiguing journeys are avoided. In addition to
traditional, well-appointed air-conditioned motor coaches, we occasionally
use unconventional forms of travel to reach unusual places - river boat,
lake steamer, cruise ship, ferry and four-wheel drive. We hurry across oceans, but we linger through the
countryside. We see how people live, we assimilate their culture, we
admire their scenery, we watch them at work and we see them at play.
- Personally Escorted
- Every Far horizons tour is escorted by an
experienced, qualified tour escort, whose principal role is to ensure the smooth
running of the tour and to take care of all the irksome formalities. This
includes the porterage of suitcases, checking-in at hotels and airports,
handling of boarder formalities, tipping, reconfirmation of flights and any
other inevitable complications which can so frustrate the independent traveller.
- Experts on Tap
- In addition to the services of your tour escort, fully experienced
local guides will join us at each stage of the journey. They are a mine of
information and will delight in showing you the special attractions of
their homeland.
- Limited Capacity
- In order to foster that special feeling of camaraderie which we
consider essential to the complete success of a tour, we strictly limit
the number of places on each tour to sixteen. The average size of a tour
is twelve.
- Sit back and Relax
- Your holiday is a time for relaxation and the shedding of cares. Save
your energy for sightseeing and let somebody else do all the donkey work.
That someone else is your tour escort. The checking in and claiming of
baggage at airports, the paying of airport taxes and gratuities,
registration at hotels, reconfirmation of flights, arranging of meals and
transportation, obtaining tickets for cultural events, all the irksome
formalities and hassles that confront the independent traveller - these
are all largely taken care of, while you just sit back and relax.
- Welcome to our Friendly World
- Far Horizons is now more like a select club than a tour company. It is
not at all unusual for a tour to be a grand reunion of old friends -
although newcomers are always made to feel warmly welcome. Far Horizons
seems to attract like-minded people........people who shun the
commonplace, who are more interested in the people, culture and scenery of
a strange land than in the tinsel and glitter of big cities and
sophisticated resorts.
- A Dash of Philosophy
- Our passengers tend to be people of understanding and tolerance, who
appreciate that not all of God's children follow the same ideology or
maintain the same set of values as we do, who will accept that even the
best-planned itineraries are susceptible to political influences, airline
delays and other surprises which will keep your tour escort on his toes.
- If you are this sort of person, then welcome to the World of Far
Horizons.
For descriptive, illustrated brochures for any of our forthcoming tours,
together with a copy of our latest quarterly newsletter
...email Far Horizons
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