Insights

With the world slowly showing signs of recovering, our expert guides are looking forward to planning a year of adventure in 2021. But where do they want to go first? We asked our veteran guides, some of whom have spent the last two decades travelling the world with Exodus, what's the first place they want to go back to when the world is fully open to travel again and what are the top highlights they'd recommend seeing when you're there. 

In travel, first impressions are extremely important, and the ancient city of Cusco, Peru, at first glance could hardly be more inviting. Peaceful, orderly, chock full of history and culture, brimming with services and distractions, and mostly unburdened by the hard sell of many other top-tier tourist destinations, this former capital of the Inca Empire is more than able to satisfy the needs of travelers of all bents and budgets.

The Galapagos Islands have their fair share of mammals, reptiles, and amphibians, from Sea Lions and Sea Turtles to Galapagos Tortoises and Land Iguanas.

But it also features 56 native bird species – 45 of which are endemic and 11 of which are indigenous – as well as 29 migratory species. These sea birds, shorebirds and land birds have been a highlight ever since the days of Charles Darwin’s famous Voyage of the Beagle.

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Mankind has largely managed to tame this fragile planet, which has made it an increasingly difficult challenge for nature-loving travelers to find pristine places to explore.

East Africa’s Serengeti—which encompasses Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park and Kenya’s Maasai Mara National Reserve—is one of those rare destinations that allows visitors to enter a truly wild landscape. Here you can take in sights and sounds much like those that humanity’s earliest ancestors might have experienced.