Join this Ultimate Expedition and follow in the footsteps of Alexander the Great and Marco Polo on this ground-breaking and challenging expedition along ancient trading routes. Discover some of the oldest cities in the world steeped in history and legend, vast and varied landscapes, and unique cultures on an unforgettable journey following the Silk Road.
  • Discover dwellings carved from the eerily eroded landscape in Cappadoccia
  • Visit the bubbling and sometimes explosive mud volcanoes found in Azerbaijan
  • Take a journey across the Caspian Sea
  • Experience the desert proper on a 4X4 safari in Turkmenistan
  • Feel the intense heat coming from the Darwaza Gas Crater
  • Take in the incredible landscapes with forever changing colours as the sun moves through Tajikistan
  • Explore the ancient medressas, mausoleums and mosques of Bukhara and Samarkand
  • Enjoy the stunning mountain scenery and alpine lakes throughout Kyrgyzstan
  • Overnight stay in a Traditional yurt at Lake Song Kol
  • Our first taste of the Great Wall of China near Jiayuguan
  • Explore Lhasa with a guide - one of the highest cities in the world
  • Visit the highest Tibetan Buddhist Monastery in the world Rongbuk
Accommodation is split throughout this trip between simple hotels and hostels and camping. The variety of accommodation provided is great and often a totally unique experience, including bush camps with no facilities, yurts and simple village pensions. Some are well managed and some very basic. Oasis uses roomy three-person tents but only for two people. They are specially made for us to meet the tougher conditions of an expedition trip and have mosquito netting sewn into the door and windows. It would also be a good idea to bring your own freestanding mosquito net so as to give you the freedom of sleeping under the stars at night. At bush camps you will be living off the truck, so there will be no showers or en-suite facilities, so digging your own toilet pit with the shovels supplied is essential!