1. Egypt & the Eternal Nile by Private, Classic River-Yacht
Our most popular slideshow by an O.A.T. traveler—created by Carol Boutilier, 11-time traveler from Spring Lake, NJ:
- 16-day O.A.T. Small Group Adventure with 5 nights aboard the privately chartered, 16-passenger Asiya, Aida, Amunet, or Aton river-yacht
- Desert landscapes: Behold the Great Pyramids and the Sphinx, enigmatic guardian of the Giza Plateau.
2. Morocco Sahara Odyssey
Our most popular slideshow by an O.A.T. traveler—created by Arne Kalma, 6-time traveler from Gilroy, CA:
- 16-day O.A.T. Small Group Adventure
- Desert landscapes: Experience the remote environment of the Sahara for two nights in a private tented campsite and "saddle up" to explore the desert dunes the traditional way—on the back of a camel (weather permitting).
3. A South Pacific Odyssey: Australia, the Outback & New Zealand
Our most popular slideshow by an O.A.T. traveler—created by Michael S, 24-time traveler from New Jersey.
- 30-day O.A.T. Small Group Adventure
- Desert landscapes: Go deep into the true Australian Outback, far removed from the tourists and big cities, and spend a night sleeping under the stars in an authentic Australian swag—a portable bedroll for outdoor sleeping.
4. New! South Africa & Namibia: Cape Town’s Winelands to the Skeleton Coast
Our most popular trip video:
- 18-day O.A.T. Small Group Adventure
- Desert landscapes: Experience the Namib—the world’s oldest desert—from stargazing in one of the darkest skies measured on Earth to walking amongst the ghostly remains of hundreds of sun-blackened camel-thorn trees.
5. Tunisia: From the Mediterranean to the Sahara
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Our most popular slideshow by an O.A.T. traveler—created by Petra Graves, 29-time traveler from Saint Simons Island, GA:
- 16-day O.A.T. Small Group Adventure
- Desert landscapes: Stay in a private, O.A.T. tented camp—positioned in a remote stretch of the golden-hued Grand Erg—before saddling up for a camel ride amidst the Sahara’s desert dunes.
6. New! Argentina & Chile’s Rugged North: From the Andes to the Atacama Desert
Our most popular trip video:
- 16-day O.A.T. Small Group Adventure
- Desert landscapes: Marvel at the crimson rock formations and towering sand dunes of Valle de la Muerte (Valley of Death) in Chile's Atacama Desert, the driest place on Earth. Then venture into the Valley of the Moon—an otherworldly landscape of sculpted rock formations, mysterious caves, and deep gorges shaped over millennia by relentless winds and rare but powerful floods.
7. Antarctica's White Wilderness
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Our most popular slideshow by an O.A.T. traveler—created by Janet Senglaub, 12-time traveler from Sheboygan, WI:
- 14-day O.A.T. Small Ship Adventure with 9 nights aboard the shared charter, 172-passenger M/S World Explorer
- Desert landscapes: Immerse yourself in Antarctica's vast frozen desert—Earth's most magnificent contradiction—where crystalline ice fields stretch to the horizon beneath strikingly clear skies, and howling winds sculpt snow into rippled formations that mirror traditional sand dunes, proving that not all deserts need scorching heat to take your breath away (though in this case, it might be the subzero temperatures doing that!).
8. Mongolia & the Gobi Desert
Our most popular slideshow by an O.A.T. traveler—created by Frank Goudy, 22-time traveler from Cuba, IL:
- 19-day O.A.T. Small Group Adventure
- Desert landscapes: Visit the Gobi Desert—the world's coldest and northernmost desert—which caravan routes have been crossing since ancient times. Here, one can find a great repository of dinosaur remains, and witness a semi-arid desert terrain that is dazzling in its variety—from rocky outcrops to barren stretches of seemingly endless, rolling gravel plains.
9. The Silk Road: Central Asia’s Ancient Trade Route
Our most popular slideshow by an O.A.T. traveler—created by William C. Thornton, 24-time traveler from Georgetown, TX:
- 16-day O.A.T. Small Group Adventure
- Desert landscapes: Spend a day traveling across the Kyzylkum Desert, following the same route that camel caravans once traversed on the Silk Road.
10. New! Peru’s Nazca Lines & Amazon Rain Forest
Our most popular trip video:
- 12-day O.A.T. Small Group Adventure
- Desert landscapes: Board a small aircraft for an overflight tour of a UNESCO World Heritage Site: the Lines and Geoglyphs of Nazca and Palpa. Spend about an hour and a half in the air enjoying a bird’s eye view of both of these mysterious ancient desert etchings, which were drawn into the desert ground sometime between 200 B.C. and 600 A.D.
