Field Notes & FAQ

Viajes Globales designs long-form, expert-guided journeys that cross continents slowly — typically four to thirteen weeks — beginning in Latin America or Spain and reaching the most extraordinary places on Earth. Every journey is escorted, fully organised, and built around the finest hotels, restaurants and experiences at each stop. We also tailor shorter trips to any single destination in our guides.

For a grand journey, we recommend starting the conversation nine to twelve months ahead. The finest hotels, the Antarctic voyages, the Inca Trail permits and the top restaurants all book out far in advance, and a longer runway gives us room to secure the very best of each. Shorter destination trips can often be arranged within three to six months.

Yes. Every grand journey is built in modules, so you can travel a single segment, combine segments across different journeys, or extend any part. Private departures can begin on almost any date. Tell us your dates, pace and interests and we build the itinerary around them.

All three. Roughly half of our travellers join as couples, a third travel solo, and the rest are families and small groups of friends. Small-group departures have no forced-pairing single supplement, and family journeys are re-paced with children in mind.

Grand-journey pricing is comprehensive: all accommodation, internal flights and transfers, expedition vessels where relevant, professional guides, most meals, all permits and park fees, and full border and visa support. International flights to the start point and home from the finish are quoted separately so you can use airline miles or fly the cabin you prefer.

Most of our journeys are graded easy to moderate. They involve walking — sometimes at altitude, sometimes for several hours — but there is no technical climbing and no need for prior expedition experience. Each journey page lists its intensity honestly, and we will tell you plainly if a particular trip is not the right fit.

Yes. Comprehensive travel insurance, including medical evacuation cover, is mandatory on every Viajes Globales journey, and for polar and high-altitude trips the evacuation cover must meet a stated minimum. We can recommend specialist providers.

Our journeys are built with built-in buffer days and alternative plans, and a 24-hour operations desk supports every trip. If a flight, a sea crossing or a site closure forces a change, your guide and our team re-route in real time — and you are never left to solve it alone.

We travel slowly by design, which already lowers the footprint of a trip. We offset the carbon of all flights within our journeys, favour locally owned hotels and guides, cap group sizes to limit pressure on fragile sites, and follow the IAATO guidelines in Antarctica. Travelling well and travelling responsibly are, for us, the same thing.

We want this site to genuinely help you plan, so every destination guide is built on verifiable facts and links to its sources — UNESCO, national tourism boards and reference works. The photography is drawn from Wikimedia Commons under open licences and credited to its photographers, so you can trust both the words and the images.