One of the best ways to experience a destination is on foot. A guided cultural walking tour gets you up close and personal – whether you’re exploring the backstreets of Venice, the monasteries of Armenia or the mountain trails of Bhutan. The trick is finding a tour operator that combines imaginative itineraries with expert guides and organises small groups of like-minded travellers. 
Recommended tour operator: Kudu Travel
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Why was Gregory the Illuminator imprisoned in the shadow of Mt Ararat? Why are there walnut trees everywhere, and what does a Persian bee-eater look like? Walk through history on Kudu’s Armenia trip and our erudite and charming tour leader – a lecturer at Yerevan University – will reveal the answers, imparting enthusiasm and insight in equal proportions.
In India’s Western Ghats, where we go in search of leopard and elephant, our guide is one of the country’s foremost naturalists and is assisted by trackers from indigenous tribes. In true Kudu style, he is also an expert on St Thomas’s missions in Kerala, and personal friends with the owners of spice plantations where we stay.
In the Jebel Akhdar mountains of Oman, you couldn’t be in more competent and informative company than that of a former member of His Majesty the Sultan’s Special Forces; and in Namibia it’s a clear advantage to be climbing the great dunes with someone born and bred to the desert.
Who can illuminate opera and architecture in Prague better than a Conservatoire graduate, from a family of restoration architects? And in Italy, our guide (with an academic background in Art History) is a translator for Slow Food and has an infallible nose for restaurants serving memorable meals.
Special guides make for special journeys. We invite you to try one of our innovative, unusual itineraries.
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