Uncover Intrepid’s new Premium adventures, filled with singular experiences and stand-out stays.
Like your adventures to have a sure… je ne sais quoi? A touch of class right here, an Unique Expertise there, to not point out first-class journey and noteworthy accommodations alongside the way in which? Intrepid’s keenly curated Premium vary caters to discerning travellers who’ve carried out their justifiable share of roughing it and now need the identical adventures with a facet serving of favor. From hush-hush mountain climbing trails via the ‘again door’ of Petra to connecting with craftsmen in Japan, this cohort of 10 new adventures and experiences presents an elevated solution to discover in 2026.
1. Get pleasure from farm-to-cup espresso in Ecuador
If exploring the Andes and Cotopaxi Nationwide Park, and staying within the history-steeped Hacienda La Cienega (constructed from volcanic stone) aren’t sufficient, the brand new nine-day Premium Ecuador journey additionally guarantees to serve up a brew to recollect. After an evening within the Amazon rainforest, you’ll head to a close-by espresso plantation, studying about how its grown and made, earlier than settling down with a recent cuppa to gas you up for the day.
2. Combine Star Wars with candy treats in Tunisia
The brand new nine-day Premium Tunisia journey takes you to all the perfect bits of the North African nation – with a number of key upgrades. You’ll keep within the sensible Dar HI design resort and eco-lodge within the oasis city of Nefta, full with a spa, hammam and geothermal baths. Then there are experiences like a master-run calligraphy class in Tunis, date harvesting in Tozeur and lunch with a neighborhood household in a troglodyte house in Matmata the place Star Wars was filmed. And in Kairouan, you’ll watch makroudh candy treats being made at a house bakery.
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3. Go grand within the Grand Canyon
A brand new addition on Intrepid’s assortment of Premium Strolling & Trekking journeys is the three-day Premium Mountaineering within the Grand Canyon journey. Based mostly on the iconic El Tovar Resort, you’ll keep on the sting of the South Rim with vertiginous views of the canyon in a lodge beloved by starry company, similar to Theodore Roosevelt, Paul McCartney and Oprah Winfrey. You’ll tackle the nationwide park’s greatest walks by day, together with spotlight hikes such because the South Kaibab Path, Vivid Angel Path and the Grandview Path – with the prospect to decide on your personal mountain climbing distance every day.
4. Be taught struggle historical past first-hand in Vietnam
A part of the attract of Intrepid’s Premium vary is the chance to have interaction in one-off experiences. On the 15-day Premium Vietnam in Depth journey, you’ll have the prospect to mirror on the nation’s advanced previous throughout a half-day Cu Chi Tunnels journey with a veteran who’ll inform you about life in the course of the struggle as you navigate the underground community. There’ll even be loads of time to see how Vietnam has developed, with a candlelit dinner on the deck of an atmospheric junk boat in Ha Lengthy Bay and a Vietnamese cooking class in Hue.
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5. Strive your hand at conventional dyeing in Japan
The very best souvenirs are all the time handmade. A brand new expertise on the nine-day Premium Highlights of Japan invitations you to precise your true colors with a standard Kyo-yuzen textile-dyeing workshop run by skilled craftsmen in a Kyoto townhouse, the place you’ll hold your masterpiece as a memento. You’ll additionally take trip in Japanese onsen baths, be part of a cooking class in Kanazawa and go to an genuine samurai expertise at a 400-year-old dojo run by ninjas in Tokyo.
6. Marvel at monasteries in Albania
Take your expertise of the Balkans to the following stage with the brand new ten-day Premium Albania and Montenegro journey. Together with a wine tasting and farm-to-table lunch in Fishte and a Characteristic Keep on the Albanian Riviera, you’ll get to go to the monasteries of the Drino Valley – constructed within the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, however deserted throughout political unrest within the Sixties and just lately added to the 2025 World Monuments Watch checklist of at-risk websites. Throughout your go to, you’ll be taught in regards to the necessary position rural communities play within the monasteries’ conservation – and how one can assist them.
7. Discover your tartan tone in Scotland
Let the bagpipes sing out: Intrepid’s eight-day Premium Scotland journey has a number of new highlights that up the ante even additional. First, after a morning spent touring Stirling Fortress, you’ll cease for lunch and a tartan-weaving workshop in Aberdeenshire run by some radical weavers. Later, there’ll be a full day spent exploring the Isle of Skye, passing by the dramatic Storr mountain, the surreal rock formations of the Quiraing and the cone-shaped hills of fabled Fairy Glen.
8. Expertise a Premium spin on Serbia
For those who’re in search of one other solution to discover a less-visited facet of Europe, new experiences shine a brand new gentle on the eight-day Premium Balkans journey. There are boat excursions (full with plates of native meals) in Drina Canyon, in addition to a visit on the Golden Gondola – the longest gondola trip on the earth at 9000 metres – with accompanying views to match. Cultural encounters await too, with the prospect to satisfy native artisans within the open-air ‘outdated village’ of Sirogojno – one in every of Serbia’s most stunning.
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9. Tackle a high-end hike in Jordan
Regardless of being one of the photographed websites on the earth, likelihood is, you haven’t fairly seen Jordan like you’ll on Intrepid’s new seven-day Premium Strolling and Mountaineering Jordan journey. That’s as a result of it’s a part of a brand new vary: Premium Strolling & Trekking mixes lively and elevated adventures for a unique expertise. In Jordan, this implies mountain climbing a ‘again door’ path into Petra from Little Petra and strolling the As-Salt Metropolis Concord Path, then resting up on the deluxe Saraya Rum Camp and at Dana Guesthouse within the mountainous Dana Biosphere.
10. Discover the Amazon after darkish in Peru
Not a morning individual? No trouble. Intrepid’s nine-day Premium Peru journey has a brand new expertise which means evening owls gained’t need to miss out on having a particular Amazon expertise. Because the solar begins to set, you’ll be part of your group round a bonfire as a neighborhood information shares tales and legends about your jungle environment. Then, you’ll see these tales come to life as you head out on an evening stroll to find the jungle’s nocturnal creatures.
Discover out what else is new for 2026 with The Items – a group of recent journeys and experiences to encourage a 12 months of journey.
