Private Vietnam and Indochina trips, built one traveller at a time

Vietnam, for almost everyone. It carries the widest range of landscape and city in one country — the northern hills, a limestone bay, two very different capitals and the Mekong — so a first trip can stay in one place and still feel varied. Cambodia and Laos read better as a second country added to that route than as a first visit on their own.

Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Myanmar are the five we run ourselves, with our own guides and drivers. South Africa is arranged on request. Multi-country routes are built by hand rather than assembled from fixed packages, so tell us the countries and the dates and we will work out whether the border crossings make sense in the time you have.

Yes. Every tour on this site can be shortened, extended, run privately or rebuilt around a different pace — the published version is one way of doing it, not the only one. If nothing on the listing is close to what you want, skip it and describe the trip instead; that is the same process, started one step earlier.

Because the number would be wrong. The same route costs differently in March than in August, and shifts again with the hotels you pick, the size of your group and whether you want a private guide throughout. A quote written after we know those four things is a price you can hold us to. An instant one is a guess with a disclaimer.

They are per person, in US dollars, at the lowest season and occupancy that tour runs at — a starting point for a private quote rather than a fixed fare. Your written quote lists what is included line by line, so you can see where the difference from the headline number comes from.