The historian, writer and broadcaster Saul David - whose latest book Victoria’s War: The Rise of Empire - was published in May, is to lead a 13-day tour for Pettitts to mark the 150th anniversary of the Indian Mutiny. (read more..)

   

THREE-MONTH WINDOW ON LEGENDARY HIMALAYAN ROAD JOURNEY

Travellers contemplating a journey along the world’s second highest road have just three months this summer in which to experience a trip beyond the Great Himalayan range to the edge of the Tibetan plateau.

   

A GOLDEN LAND QUITE LIKE NO OTHER

When, in 1889, Rudyard Kipling wrote that Burma is “quite unlike any land that one knows about” he couldn’t have imagined that a century or more later that observation would ring truer than ever.

   

ORISSA - INDIA'S SECRET JEWEL FOR THE ADVENTUROUS

It may be one of India’s poorest states but Orissa is fabulously wealthy when it comes to colour, diversity, a richly differing landscape and a beautiful and witty people. It is these citizens that make Orissa distinctive from the rest of this vast country and, for the more adventurous traveller, its most vibrant and captivating destination.

   

MOUNTAIN KINGDOM BHUTAN BECKONS THE NOVICE TREKKER

Pettitts is offering the novice trekker the chance to uncover the myths and legends of Bhutan.

   

HIDEAWAY IN VIETNAM

A decade ago visitors to Vietnam would be hard pushed to track down the sort of high quality accommodation typical of the rest of South East Asia.