Irreplaceable sources of life and inspiration
We are all members of a global community that is increasingly interdependent. The future of our world depends on our cultivating a spirit of hospitality, respect, understanding, and compassion for one another.
The exploration, excitement, and adventure of world travel are transforming lives every day. But the success of a group travel experience is defined by the difference between novice and expert planning and touring. We bring people to experience important places around the world where significant change in human history inspires significant transformation in the individuals and groups that we guide.
We arrange for special permission for participants to gain access to restricted sites not accessible and available to the general public.
- Learn from an art expert about the Vatican Museums’ collection - after hours when no-one else is visiting the museum.
- Excavations under St. Peter’s Basilica
- Overnight stay with a Bedouin community to learn about desert life
- Beijing’s hutongs (back roads and alleys) to glimpse the traditional communal lifestyle,ages old and fast disappearing
We have the latest information and access to new museum (re)openings and special events, and combine visits to them
- Roman villa excavations in Ephesus
- secret archives in the Naples Archaelogical Museum
- new Miho Museum designed by IM Pei housing the Shumei Family Collection of traditional Japanese art
We are able to make arrangements for religious celebrations that nurture the human spirit
- Audience with the Pope in Rome
- Baptismal renewals in the Jordan River
- Prayer services at Sishu Bhawan Orphanage and Nirmal Hriday Home for the Dying Destitute, established by Mother Teresa in Calcutta
- Ecumenical services at Basilica of St. John in Ephesus
…. for performances that make your heart sing:
- Church and university choir performances at historically significant venues
- Opera in the candle-lit 20,000 seat Verona amphitheatre
- Private Chopin piano recital in Warsaw
- Programs to all major music and opera festivals in Europe
We arrange for scholars, religious leaders and inspirational speakers to conduct workshops, panel presentations and discussions:
- Women’s perspectives in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
- The Jewish Character of early Christianity
- Alternative medicine centers in Bangkok
- Social justice and subsistence in Kenya
- Townships of South Africa: housing projects of energy and spirit
- Tribal and rural medicine in traditional villages
… and for organized opportunities to meet and dialogue with local people about their own culture:
- Palestinian and Israeli Christian Youth in Jerusalem
- Rural Chinese: 3 religions co-existing with and in the New Economy
- Hindu-Jewish relations in Cochin, India
- Understanding workplace culture: Markets and missions on the Equator in Nanyuki, Kenya
- A member of Czechoslovakia’s former royal family at a reception featuring wine from their own vineyards, followed by a tour of their private art collections “Six Centuries of European Art Patronage”.
Demonstrations of traditional arts:
- traditional cotton weaving and dyeing techniques, and silk processing and silk thread production near Pamukkale. Enjoy the thermal baths after long days of learning
- Visit the Piper Heidsieck champagne cellars by gondola and a lively introduction to the art of champagne production; afterwards, enjoy a tasting.
- Learn about the age-old methods of producing Prosciutto di parma, parmiggiano reggiano cheese, and balsamic vinegar
- Visit Florentine ateliers where hand made crafts of 16th c. are still made
We arrange memorable meals:
- With a cookbook author in a penthouse atop the Palazzo Doria Pamphilij
- Hungarian gypsy dinner complete with dancing
- Overlooking the Bosphorus in the Sultan’s palace
- Shabbat with an Indian Jewish family in Bombay
- With the Big 5 (lions, tigers, elephants, buffalo and black & white rhino) at Kruger National Park
- On a dairy farm in Ireland
And stays in some interesting lodges:
- Monasteries and religious guesthouses
- French chateaux and medieval castles
- Japanese ryokan
- Watering hole-front lodges and Masa Mara tented camps in Africa