Journeys planned with a local's patience.
Wander & Wayfare designs small-group and private tours across Europe, Oceania, Southeast Asia and India, handled door to door by people who've walked the routes themselves.
We plan the route, you keep the memory.
Every itinerary starts with a place, not a template. Our trip designers spend weeks on the ground before a route ever reaches a brochure, so the pace, the stays and the food are all things we'd choose for our own trip.
- Small groups, capped at 12 travellers per departure
- Local guides hired from the region you're visiting
- Flexible dates and private tour options on every route
- 24-hour on-trip support in five languages
Eight countries our routes run through
Every listing below links to a full itinerary with stays, activities and the best season to travel.
Royal parks, honey-stone villages and a castle-top view of the Scottish capital.
Milford Sound cruises, glacier valleys and a night under the Aoraki dark sky.
Temple ceremonies, jungle swings and a liveaboard stretch off Nusa Penida.
Fairy-tale castles, river-town markets and a walk through reunified Berlin.
Harbour sails, reef snorkelling and a sunrise walk around Uluru.
Medieval squares, riverside Warsaw and a mountain-village detour south.
River-château stops, lavender roads and long Parisian evenings on foot.
Ancient ruins, hillside vineyards and cliffside towns along the coast road.
Across India, city to coastline
Our most-booked India routes, from Goa's beaches to the desert forts of Rajasthan.
Beach-shack evenings, Portuguese-era lanes and a sunset cruise on the Mandovi.
Colonial architecture, a harbour crossing to the caves and street-food trails.
Elephant-gate forts, mirrored palace halls and block-print workshop visits.
A houseboat night on the backwaters, then tea-hill mornings above the clouds.
Spice-market walks, Mughal-era monuments and a sunrise visit to the Taj Mahal.
Lakefront palaces, a boat ride at dusk and rooftop views across the old city.
Pick a pace, not just a place
Every itinerary includes stays, listed activities and an on-ground trip lead. Ask your trip designer for the full day-by-day plan.
Alpine Trailways
✓ Guided hikes across three valleys
✓ Mountain lodge stays, half board
✓ Cable car and rail passes included
Bali & the Eastern Isles
✓ Rice terrace trek and temple visits
✓ Two nights liveaboard snorkelling
✓ Private villa stay in Ubud
Golden Triangle & Jaipur
✓ Delhi, Agra and Jaipur in one loop
✓ Sunrise entry at the Taj Mahal
✓ Heritage haveli stays throughout
The details we don't put on a brochure
Every guide has completed the itinerary at least six times before leading a group on it.
Your trip designer plans, books and stays reachable for the whole journey, not just the sale.
Shift your dates up to 30 days out with no back-and-forth, subject to availability.
We fund regional reforestation projects equal to the footprint of your booked flights.
From a rough idea to a boarding pass
Country, season and roughly how many days — the enquiry form below takes two minutes.
A trip designer sends a day-by-day plan built around your pace, not a fixed template.
Swap a city, add a private day, change the group size — as many rounds as it takes.
Your trip lead is assigned two weeks out, with a full briefing before departure.
Best time to visit, region by region
UK, France, Germany and Italy are mildest before the summer crowds arrive.
Dry, warm days for Krakow's old town and Bali's rice-terrace treks alike.
Cooler, drier weather across Delhi, Jaipur, Mumbai and Udaipur.
Post-monsoon skies make this the calmest stretch for beaches and backwaters.
Southern-hemisphere summer for fjord cruises and long alpine daylight.
Spring temperatures before the Red Centre heat sets in over summer.
Notes from the last few departures
Why we build in two unplanned afternoons on every UK route.
Reading the weather window before a fjord-cruise morning.
Our trip leads' six stops for a first evening in the city.
What to ask at a family vineyard stop outside Siena.
Scenes our travellers sent back
What the last group said
The Golden Triangle trip lead reordered our Agra morning around the fog forecast, so we still caught a clear sunrise at the Taj.
Meera Anand
Golden Triangle & Jaipur, 2025
Booked the New Zealand route five weeks out and they still found us a small-group slot with a private fjord add-on.
Daniel Ruiz
South Island Fjords, 2025
The Bali villa wasn't in any of the photos we were sent beforehand — it was better. Small touches like that made the trip.
Priya Sharma
Bali & the Eastern Isles, 2025
Tell us where, we'll work out how.
Share a few details and a trip designer will get back to you within one working day with a draft itinerary.
