Prices From $2088 / £1697.544 per person

Dates: March 2025

Duration: 8

Capacity: 5 per person

More on our Peru cultural family holiday.

This Peru cultural holiday will give you the chance to try new things whether they be food or experiences.

Chances to learn from others through interactions and seeing how other cultures live. Marvel at the wonders of the past and give yourselves the experience of a lifetime in Peru.

This is a private tour so it can be modified to suit your needs whether that be the duration, the accommodation or the activities and excursions included.

This way we can get the right family holiday to Peru for you and your friends, partner or family.

Duration: 3

Capacity: 5 per person

More on El Monte Sustainable Lodge

Situated within a private reserve, the El Monte lodge offers unparalleled access to the biodiverse Andean cloud forest. You’re surrounded by lush greenery, wonderful wildlife, and beautiful scenery.

The lodge owners decided, when they opened in 1998, to stay small, and keep a healthy balance between guests and the area of land to minimize the ecological impact.

Food is mostly vegetarian with lots of colour, but chicken and fish are also sometimes served (veggies are catered for too). The cooks are creative so there’s no fixed menu, just a guarantee that it will be tasty. Almost all dietary requests can be catered to.

Activities at El Monte Lodge

Arrival at El Monte is via a 20-metre ride on a tarabita—a hand-pulled cable car—over the Rio Mindo which gives a sense of seclusion from the outside world, but you are only a couple of miles from the small town of  Mindo.

From El Monte venture out to enjoy a range of activities. There are options catering to all visitors: go bird watching, join a nature walk, swim in a waterfall, visit a butterfly farm, visit an orchid garden, take a chocolate or coffee tour, feed hummingbirds, or simply relax in a hammock!

For the adventurous and for families, there’s zip-lining, horseback riding a cable car over the canopy, and tubing.

Prices From $3210 / £2609.73 per person

Dates: From January 2026 to April 2027

Duration: 4

Capacity: 5 per person

More on Hotel Las Torres, Paine, Chile

Start your journey in Punta Arenas or El Calafate from where you will be picked up and transferred to the hotel in the Torres del Paine.

All your meals, open bar and daily excursions, walking, horse-riding, wildlife watching, boat trips, are included.

There is also a special ‘Puma spotting tour’ or you can choose to relax in the hotel’s lovely surroundings. Read more about Hotel las Torres’ environmental work, too.

More about Paine

Paine features 180,000 hectares of diverse scenery and wild landscape on the edge of the southern ice fields of Patagonia.

Declared a Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO in 1978, Paine is one of the largest sources of temperate-zone glaciers in the world and lies 120kms / 75 miles north of Puerto Natales, the gateway town for the park.

The name ‘Paine’ (pronounced ‘pie-nee’) comes from a Tehuelche Indian word meaning blue.

The ‘Torres’ – or Towers – are named after three spectacular granite peaks, the highest reaching 2,900m/9,514ft, that form the centrepiece of Torres del Paine.

These dramatic peaks are part of the Cordillera del Paine, the youngest mountain range on earth.

Other notable peaks include Paine Grande at 3,050m and Los Cuernos (the Horns) that range from 2,200-2,600m / 7,218-8,530ft.

Forests, steppe lands, lakes and valleys surround them.

Duration: 4

Capacity: 5 per person

More on Machalilla National Park

You fly in to historic Manta and then explore – see what the local fisherman have caught at sea, head to South America’s only dry tropical forest and investigate the pre-Spanish cultures.

Then travel south to the coastal area of Machalilla, a dry tropical forest with bizarre shaped kapok trees.

Puerto López is a small, charming and somewhat ramshackle fishing town of around 10,000 people which quickly grows on you.

Or try Agua Blanca further inland and hike through the dry forest you reach the humid tropical forest of San Sebastián, great for seeing orchids, birds and monkeys.

More on whale watching

The port of Salango has lazy beach walks, and let’s not forget the humpback whale, a regular visitor to the Ecuadorian coast.

The waters off the province of Manabí, now protected by the national Park of Machalilla, are breeding grounds for this magnificent whale with frequent sightings from June to September.