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Meridian Trails runs five journeys a year. Twelve travellers, two guides, no coaches and no six-country weeks. You get there in time to watch it get dark.
Four nights under canvas, two rest days built in rather than bolted on, and a final morning at the Sun Gate an hour before the first train from Aguas Calientes arrives.
Per person, twin share. Flights not included — we book your rail legs.
No deposit taken until you have spoken to a guide.
The Badaling coaches turn back at four. We keep going east, sleep in a courtyard house in Gubeikou, and walk the broken sections where the brickwork still has Ming-dynasty kiln stamps on it.
Per person. Single rooms available at £280.
We are through the Colosseum gate at 7.10am with an archaeologist who has worked the site for eleven years. By the time the queue reaches the Arch of Constantine we are eating breakfast in Monti.
The rest of the week is deliberately unhurried: three neighbourhoods, one day trip to Ostia by train, and a long Thursday with nothing planned at all.
Eleven days on the Delhi–Jhansi line with two nights in a place most itineraries skip entirely. You will see the Taj at sunrise, and then you will spend four days somewhere with no ticket queue at all.
“I have done the big-bus version of this trip and it was the same six photographs as everyone else. This one had an afternoon where our guide simply took us to her aunt’s house in Orchha for tea. That is the bit I still talk about.”
Colca in November: the tour buses have gone, the Cruz del Condor viewpoint has maybe nine people on it, and the descent to Sangalle is quiet enough to hear the river the whole way down.
The 9 November departure has two beds. After that the next one is April 2027 and the list opens in March.
We only email when a date opens. Roughly four times a year.
“It is the only company I have travelled with where the guide knew my name on day one and the group was still eating together on day eleven. Nothing about it felt processed.”
Not a call centre and not a form. The person who will actually be walking with you calls to ask how much altitude you have done, what your knees are like, and whether you would rather share a room or not.
If any of that slips, we credit £100 against the trip. It has happened twice.
There is a route and there are two fixed points a day: where we sleep and when we eat. Everything between those is decided by the group over breakfast, which is how you end up in an aunt’s kitchen in Orchha.
Split between the Sacred Valley porters’ welfare fund and a rail-restoration trust in Jhansi. We publish the figure every January and it is audited.
One of the guides shoots the whole trip on film. Six to ten weeks later a link arrives with two hundred frames, no watermarks, and no request to tag anyone.
No freelancers booked a fortnight out. Everyone who walks with you is employed by Meridian, paid through the off-season, and has done the route at least four times.
Sacred Valley · 11 years
Grew up in Ollantaytambo. Walks the Inca Trail about nine times a year and still points at the same three things.
Berlin · 7 years
Ex-freight-rail engineer. Plans every one of our European legs and will tell you why the 07:42 is the good one.
Lisbon · 9 years
Shoots the film scans. Also the reason four of our lodges are family-run rather than chains.
If yours is not here, Elena answers the inbox herself on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
For Peru and China: comfortable walking six hours with a day pack, on consecutive days. Rome and Agra are gentler — three to four hours, mostly flat, with a long lunch in the middle. Your guide asks about this on the call, and nobody has ever been talked into the wrong trip.
Roughly four in ten of our travellers book alone, so you will not be. There is no single supplement on the Inca Trail or Jinshanling because you are in a tent either way; on the lodge-based journeys it is £280–£340 if you want your own room, and nothing if you are happy to share.
No, and deliberately. We book every rail leg, transfer and internal flight once you are there, but long-haul is left to you so you can use points, fly from a different city, or add a fortnight either side. We will tell you which arrival slot works.
One free swap up to 60 days out, to any departure in the following twelve months. Inside 60 days it is 15% of the trip cost, because the lodges and porters are already committed and they get paid regardless.
Four per cent of every booking, before costs, split between the Sacred Valley porters’ welfare fund and a rail-restoration trust in Jhansi. It is audited and we publish the number and the recipients each January — 2025 was £61,400.
The list that arrives in the post is one side of A4. Anything specialised — sleeping bags for Peru, crampons for the Jinshanling ridge in February — we lend you.
Tell us at the twenty-minute call and it will be waiting at the first hotel.
Everybody publishes a cancellation policy nobody reads. Ours is four lines long and the second line is the one that costs us money.
There is no single supplement on the camping journeys because you are in a tent either way. On the lodge trips it is £280–£340, or nothing at all if you are happy to share.
Tell us roughly when you are free and how far you like walking. A guide replies within two working days, and there is nothing to pay until you have spoken to one.
Straight answers about what this one does, where it fits in a real build, and what it costs you to ship.
Read the documentation for this one, or write to us — a human answers inside a business day.
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