3 Extraordinary New Adventures In Egypt, Japan And The Alps For 2027

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Kevin MacLeod · incompetech.com · CC BY 4.0

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A travel writer rounds up three 2027 small-group trips: Backroads' first Egypt itinerary, an eight-day multi-sport tour from Cairo to Aswan priced at $13,399 per person, complete with a Nile cruise on a vessel that debuted last year and hotel stays at properties like the Old Cataract in Aswan.

Also on offer: a 14-day Japan trip curated, but not attended, by author Pico Iyer, priced from $11,995 for a March 2027 cherry-blossom departure through Kyoto, Nara, Hiroshima and Kanazawa. Rounding things out is a women-only snowshoeing and cross-country skiing trip through the French, Swiss and Italian Alps, based in Chamonix and the village of Cogne, priced from $7,495 for nine days.

All three are pitched at travelers for whom five figures is a reasonable opening bid on a vacation, and the piece reads less like journalism than a very well-dressed catalog.

The full dispatch is available from the source below.

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Somebody worked hard curating an itinerary he won't even show up for, and somebody else will pay five figures to walk where he once walked. That is the whole trick of the luxury travel racket: sell the résumé, not the guy. A person could see the pyramids for a lot less if he wasn't buying the label along with the boat ride.

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