Festival Trips

Celebrate traditional holidays and special events around the world

Festival trips bring you the color, energy, music, and happiness of friendly cultures around the world. Festivals and holidays preserve a sense and pride in the past often lost in the materialism flooding many societies. JOURNEYS has favorite dates and front row tickets for you at celebrations throughout Asia, Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific. Some of our favorites festival trips include Dasain, Mani Rindu and Dumche in Nepal and the temple celebrations of Bali. We offer special annual festival trips each fall in Myanmar and Bhutan. We have offered Papua New Guinea Sing Sing and Show trips since 1986. In Mexico we travel to the Day-of-the-Dead celebration in Oaxaca and Michoacan each November. We can help you visit Inti Raymi in Peru, Holi in India, and Buddhist temple festivals in Ladakh, Nepal, Bhutan, Burma, and Thailand. We can help you plan a festival trip to any of the destinations on this website. Additionally, we plan trips for each total solar eclipse.

FESTIVAL TRIPS

Bhutan Temple Festivals
Cost: $4,395 • Duration: 12 days • Sep. 25-Oct. 6, 2009

Experience the most colorful and dramatic events of Bhutanese culture at the famous Tsechus. You will join an expert Bhutanese guide for a guided visit of the villages, valleys, historic...

Mexico: Christmas In Oaxaca for Families
Cost: $2,195-$2,895 • Duration: 10 days • Dec. 20-29, 2008

JOURNEYS' Christmas holiday trip in Oaxaca offers more color and hands-on fun than anywhere else in the Americas.This trip begins in charming Oaxaca City in the heart of the high...

Mexico: Day of the Dead Celebration
Cost: $2,795 • Duration: 10 days

Join a very small group for an unusual visit to Mexico's state of Michoacan (MEECH-wa-cahn). Begin in colonial Morelia, continue to the villages of the Meseta Purepecha, and enjoy a...

Ethiopia Timkat Festival
Cost: $4,395 • Duration: 18 days • Jan. 16-Feb. 2, 2009

This fascinating cultural exploration has been timed to coincide with the Timkat Festival, Ethiopia’s Epiphany celebration. You will witness the festival in Lalibela, the site of the famous rock churches....

Festivals of Burma
Cost: $3,395 • Duration: 15 days

The most privileged visitors to Burma are those who are fortunate enough to share in the excitement and celebration of a festival. We invite you on a journey that takes...

Papua New Guinea: Goroka Show Tour & Highlands Journey
Cost: $5,625 • Duration: 14 days • Sep. 4-17, 2009

If you’re thinking about the Mt. Hagen Show tour, be sure to consider the Goroka Show, one of the best and most exciting of the highland shows. Similar to the...

Guatemala's Semana Santa (Holy Week)
Cost: $2,995 • Duration: 10 days • Apr. 3-12, 2009

Witness the magnificent pageantry of Semana Santa in charming Antigua, Guatemala, where the Holy Week celebration is larger and more elaborate than anywhere else in this hemisphere. Citizens of all...

Peru: Inti Raymi Festival and the Sacred Valley
Cost: $5,520 • Duration: 13 days • Jun. 22-Jul. 4, 2009

The Winter Solstice in the southern hemisphere and the local harvests are the driving force behind the greatest, most majestic pre-hispanic ceremony to render homage to the sun. Today, the...

India & Ladakh: Ladakh Hemis Festival
Cost: $2,495 • Duration: 9 days • Jul. 1-9, 2009

Attend one of the most spectacular celebrations of ancient Tibetan Buddhism on earth. Ladakh is one of the most scenic, welcoming places in the world. You will be the guest...

Mongolia Lakes and Legends
Cost: $3,450-$4,050 • Duration: 14 days

Mongolia is the Montana of Central Asia. Sparsely populated, vast grasslands paint the gently rolling steppes between deserts, high mountains and pristine lakes. This trip savors spectacular and varied environments,...

Papua New Guinea: Mt. Hagen Show Tour Panorama
Cost: $6,440 • Duration: 12 days • Aug. 7-18, 2009

The Panorama provides a wide perspective on Papua New Guinea, from cruising the mighty Sepik River, to shaking hands with a Huli Wigman, to experiencing the Mount Hagen Show. The...

Papua New Guinea: Mt. Hagen Show Tour Vista
Cost: $7,475 • Duration: 14 days • Aug. 13-26, 2009

The Vista is a fully escorted program that provides a stunning view of Papua New Guinea. Begin with a cruise on the Sepik River aboard the MV Sepik Spirit and...

Nepal: Mustang Tiji Festival Trek
Cost: $4,205 • Duration: 19 days • May. 4-22, 2009

I invite you to join me and a small JOURNEYS group on a trek in the fabled Kingdom of Mustang timed for the beginning of the harvest season and the ...

Timeless Ladakh
Cost: $3,695 • Duration: 15 days • Aug. 25-Sep. 8, 2009

Ladakh gives visitors the unique experience of high mountain beauty and ancient Tibetan Buddhist spiritual traditions as these customs are carried forward into Tibet’s serene and compassionate present. JOURNEYS has...

Looking for the Best Ecotravel Tour Company?

JOURNEYS International has specialized in ecotourism since 1978. We offer you the best nature tours, safaris, treks, adventure travel, family and cultural trips on earth. Whether you call it an eco vacation, adventure travel, ecotravel, ecotour, sustainable travel or responsible travel, for nearly 30 years we have been creating ecologically sensitive and culturally responsible travel to exotic destinations around the world. Specialty ecotrips include women's tours, Kilimanjaro climbs, exploration cruises, festival trips, student group trips and cross cultural and wildlife safaris. Read more about JOURNEYS International.