Ethiopia and Sudan: new destinations for World Journeys at its Australian launch

New Zealand’s leading wholesaler to exotic destinations, World Journeys, celebrated its arrival on Australian shores with an equally exotic lunch at Luke Nguyen’s signature restaurant, Red Lantern, in Sydney’s Darlinghurst. Organised with precision by Five Star PR, LATTE was among the 60 media guests invited to learn about World Journeys’ personal brand of bespoke travel, launching a 2016 brochure with highlights in Ethiopia and Sudan as well as increasingly popular Cuba.

“We’re a people company. We believe in spending as much time as it takes to ensure our clients receive the information they need to truly know and understand the destination. World Journeys only sells destinations that we know intimately. Our staff specialise in areas where they have travelled to, frequently updated knowledge over a large number of years so we can pass this on to clientele in order to have an experience tailored to their wants and likes,” said Chris Lyon, Director.

He added, “We already have a customer base in Australia through word of mouth recommendations and now we are here on the ground to personally deliver service to all states and territories.”

July also sees the launch of the Journeys 2016 small-group hosted travel brochure with Ethiopia and Sudan added as new destinations for the company. While World Journeys will tailor travel to specific needs, the company also offers small group departures.

New for 2016 is a 19-day hosted journey from 6 – 24 October 2016 which will include visiting the nomads of Ethiopia’s Bayuda Desert, the pyramids of Meroe, tea with a Nubian family in Old Dongola, sipping traditional honey wine while enjoying Ethiopian music and taking part in an Ethiopian coffee ceremony. There is also Simien National Park with its spectacular landscapes and rare animals, the rock-hewn churches of Lalibela and the imperial city of Fasilidas, Gondar, the Camelot of Africa. Sudan offers the Blue and White Nile, colourful Omdurman souks and Whirling Dervish ceremonies of locals adorned in patchwork chanting in the dust. There is a temple dedicated to the Pharaohs of the New Reign and their patron Amon, Wadi Muqaddam with its acacia trees and Coptic Christian temples.

Ethiopia and Sudan is priced from $10,895 per person and includes all domestic travel, accommodation in four-star (or best available) authentic hotels, transfers, sightseeing and entrance fees, most meals and gratuities.

World Journeys’ 2016 brochure also offers adventures to Castro’s Cuba, South America, Northern Europe, the Mediterranean, Persia and the Silk Road, Japan, Cambodia and Vietnam, and a variety of African sojourns.

www.worldjourneys.com.au