Middle East Eco Tours

Pacing of the tour is just right. Hotels were curated well. However, sites visited and activities need much improvement. Maybe the Vienna tour would be nice to have visited places like Hallstatt or Salzburg instead of Bratislava. Local food offered during dinners would have been great if there was more variety. The three countries being under Austro Hungarian Empire for more than 600 years, the food were the same or similar. Furhtermore, our tour was pleasant and so enjoyable as we had a great Tour Director, Anne-Elyse. She's so attentive, caring, thoughtful, sensitive to our needs, kind, and considerate. We, with my family, would be very glad to have her again in our future tours with Insight vacations. Cheers!

An excellent tour seeing key locations in Morocco. The long drives allowed us to experience the beauty of the countryside - sensational in several locations. The tour leader Hamid was an experienced tour leader who was full of fun, kindness and local knowledge. The highlight for me was riding a camel in the Sahara Desert at sunrise. Actually they are quite nice clean animals.

Loved that it hit all the highlighted tourist area, but lots of walking. This was our second Insight tour and again it did not disappoint on our first trip to Italy! Travel director was knowledgeable and lots of fun. Highly recommend Margaret Stefanski!

Sleeper train was an experience! It was basic but fun but working lights and a cupboard door that shut would have been nice! No reflection on Explore, it is what it is.

Our guide Lyss Torres was extremely helpful and knowledgeable. She made the trip so wonderful. She went out of her way to help when things went wrong, lost luggage on arrival at Lima. We couldn’t have managed without her help as LATAM airlines were very unhelpful. There were long journeys but we were prepared and they were broken down into acceptable sections. The overnight bus was perfectly okay and I slept most of it. Overall an amazing experience and I would recommend it, just read the itinerary in detail.

As a first-time visitor, the trip was well paced, with memorable highlights. The hotels that we stayed at were luxurious and had amazing, wonderful meals with buffet, traditional show stopping sit down dinners and street food crawl. We were exposed to cultural events like meeting and watching a performance by a geisha in training, hearing a special performance by an expert master champion play a traditional guitar like instrument, sushi making and a tea ceremony. Riding the bullet trains was a definite unforgettable highlight. The Japanese people are so courteous, friendly and disciplined. Every place was so clean with no graffiti or trash abandoned all over the place. The sights of Mount Fuji, shrines, temples castles and sky towers were awesome. We loved the visit to the Sake factory, enjoyed the tasting and their generosity in giving us a bottle of sake and sake cup blew us away. We did have time for souvenir shopping but wished for more. The best part of the trip was meeting and being in the company of Ms Natsuko Ide our guide. She was the most hardworking, conscientious, patient, knowledgeable and understanding lady. We loved her daily handwritten itineraries with plans and descriptions of the day ahead. We were impressed with her beautiful communication skills and excellent English. She taught us a few words of Japanese daily that I hope to remember always. She led us through several short cuts and back doors in the stations and parks. She made sure to check the buses so nothing was accidently left behind. She was there to make sure that the earliest guest leaving at 3am was put safely into their transport to the airport and continued till the last one left, many hours later.