From epic rail journeys to extra free time, these new and improved journeys show you how to take it straightforward and linger longer whenever you journey.
Increase your hand in the event you’ve ever come house feeling such as you want a vacation after your vacation. It’s straightforward to do an excessive amount of on a visit, which is why Intrepid has been working away at discovering alternatives to sloooow issues down. Generally meaning opting to take the practice or including a bit of additional free time to an itinerary. Recent for 2025, these journeys right here have all been designed and modified in methods that may show you how to decelerate and see extra in your subsequent vacation.
1. Go on safari in India
Persistence is a key ingredient for an excellent safari, and the brand-new India Safari offers you loads of time for it. Trip the rails out of Delhi in the direction of varied nationwide parks the place you’ll seek for tigers, leopards and bears. This journey consists of a number of two-night stops so you may take your time, and it options two new experiences not on some other Intrepid journeys. In Satpura Nationwide Park you may seek for nocturnal jungle cats and flying squirrels and foxes with an area information. In Keoladeo Nationwide Park, you’ll safari from the again of a rickshaw in a chook sanctuary frequented by 260 chook species in addition to deer, nilgai (antelope) and wild boar.
2. Take a gradual journey from Paris to Rome
Travelling by practice actually is the right technique to gradual your travels down a notch, placing the journey centre stage. As a part of a brand new rail vary of journeys Intrepid launched in 2024, Paris to Rome by Rail takes your Euro travels straightforward (and you’ll stretch it out much more with an non-compulsory add-on rail connection from London). You’ll weave by France, Switzerland and Italy, wrapping up with lunch at Cooperativa Corragio, a sustainable farm that’s regenerating unused land exterior of Rome – peak feel-good, taste-great gradual journey.
3. Spend just a little time in Shanghai and Xi’an
Intrepid’s 12-day Discover China journey has swapped a brief flight with a bullet practice trip from Xi’an to Beijing, permitting you to absorb the surroundings alongside the way in which. There are additionally some contemporary pockets of free time in Shanghai and Xi’an so you may discover these cities your individual approach. Possibly pop into Shanghai’s Jade Buddha temple or take a leisurely bike trip round Xi’an.
4. Sluggish it down in southern Turkey
Travellers on Premium Turkey in Depth get a bit extra free time in Kas and Antalya in 2025. Within the coastal city of Kas, fill a free afternoon with a pomegranate cocktail overlooking the Mediterranean. In Antalya, you’ll have loads of time to walk the cobblestone streets of the historic metropolis centre, Kaleici – ideally with ice cream in hand.
5. Add time for journey in Alaska
Should you love taking your time however not sitting nonetheless, you may admire the additional day added to Alaska Hike, Bike & Kayak. Now seven days lengthy, the extra day makes house for a brand new glacier trek on Matanuska Glacier – the state’s largest road-accessible glacier. You’ll slap on ice cleats and a helmet and discover the glacier with an area information.
6. Linger just a little longer in Sumatra
Sumatra Journey has been prolonged by a day to incorporate extra trekking in Gunung Leuser Nationwide Park. On this present day, travellers hit up one other route recognized for orangutan spottings. The up to date itinerary now caps off these two days of jungle trekking and tenting with a calming and cozy evening at a guesthouse in Bukit Lawang.
7. Return in time throughout Europe
Stay out your wildest Ticket to Trip desires on one other nice rail journey that takes you from Paris to Istanbul by Germany, Austria, Hungary, Serbia and Bulgaria. Categorical to the Orient: Paris to Istanbul is a traditional practice route as soon as travelled by the Orient Categorical – this one’s finest loved second by second.
8. Meander by Malaysia
Intrepid traveller favorite, Malaysia Highlights, has had an replace for 2025 with two further days on the itinerary. This transformation offers the journey a slower tempo with fewer one-night stops, now with two nights apiece in Cameron Highlands and Kuala Lumpur. Travellers get some further time to maybe go to Cameron Floral Park or have a spot of tea on the elegant Jim Thompson Tea Room. In Kuala Lumpur, you’ll have extra time to discover the capital metropolis.
9. Sink deeper into the ‘Stans
A day has been added to Tashkent to Ashgabat and travellers will now get to spend the evening within the village of Nokhur in Turkmenistan the place residents of the village will exhibit how they weave keteni (a homespun silk cloth) and share a home-cooked meal with the group. The up to date itinerary additionally consists of further free time in Khiva, Uzbekistan. You’ll get an introduction to among the metropolis’s 60 cultural websites on an orientation stroll the day prior, so remember to preserve a tally of the spots you wish to return to.
10. Seize a little bit of Cape City
Generally a departure level will get handled like little greater than a launch pad, however that’s not the case on Namibia Discovery, with an added day in Cape City to kick off the journey. You possibly can select your individual journey right here, with a hike up Desk Mountain, a visit out to Robben Island, a cultural tour of District Six, cooking courses, vineyard excursions and heaps extra choices to select from.
11. Trip the Trans-Mongolian Railway
Hop aboard sections of the enduring Trans-Mongolian Railway on this new journey. From Beijing, you’ll trip a bullet practice in the direction of the Internal Mongolian grasslands. After arriving in Ulaanbaatar, nip out to Khustai Nationwide Park the place you’ll spend two nights off grid in a ger (yurt) camp and hike to identify wild horses, golden eagles and extra.
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