Five or six nights each, taken alone or in order
Thirteen pieces, and you can reserve a single trip segment in Washington DC
Every segment in the catalogue, grouped under the line it belongs to. Each is five or six nights, each has its own figure, and each can be bought on its own. The mark beside a name says how long the move into it takes.
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Taking one piece and leaving the rest
Nothing in this catalogue is sold only as a set. If one segment of a line is the part you actually want, that is what the office will arrange, and the figure for it is the figure printed against it. There is no penalty in the price for taking one instead of three, because the figures are built from what the operating companies charge for each piece and this office adds the same nothing either way.
What the mark beside each name means
A square inside a fixed field, drawn back from the edges by an amount that grows with the length of the move into that segment. Flush with the edges means under two hours. Fully drawn back means a night spent travelling. The scale exists because the journey between two places is the part people plan worst, and because a segment that is easy to reach and one that costs you a whole day are different purchases even at the same figure.
Sea of Japan coast
Kanazawa to the Shonai plain, 16 nights end to end, $5,580 per person for all 3.
Kanazawa and the Kaga springs
under two hours6 nightsfrom $1,980a castle town of preserved teahouse districts and the hot spring villages inland from it
The Noto peninsula
half a day5 nightsfrom $1,740a rural peninsula of salt pans, lacquer workshops and terraced rice above the sea
Dewa Sanzan and the Shonai plain
a night in transit5 nightsfrom $1,860three pilgrimage mountains, a cedar stairway of two thousand steps and the rice plain below
Pontic valleys to Kars
Rize to the Ani plateau, 11 nights end to end, $3,110 per person for all 2.
The Pontic valleys above Rize
half a day5 nightsfrom $1,420tea terraces, wooden mountain hamlets and cloud that sits in the valleys until noon
Kars and the Ani plateau
a night in transit6 nightsfrom $1,690a treeless high plateau, a Russian-planned town and a ruined medieval capital on a gorge edge
Middle Atlas descent
The cedar plateau to the Ziz gorges, 10 nights end to end, $2,520 per person for all 2.
The cedar plateau above Ifrane
under two hours5 nightsfrom $1,180old growth Atlas cedar, upland lakes and a plateau that holds snow into April
The Ziz gorges down to Midelt
a full day5 nightsfrom $1,340a river cutting south through red rock, with a string of walled villages along it
Deccan stone route
Hampi to Pattadakal, 10 nights end to end, $2,350 per person for all 2.
Hampi and the Tungabhadra
a full day5 nightsfrom $1,260a granite boulder landscape holding the remains of a very large medieval city
Badami, Aihole and Pattadakal
under two hours5 nightsfrom $1,090cave temples cut into a red sandstone gorge and the villages where the form was worked out
Southern Ecuadorean sierra
Cuenca to Podocarpus, 11 nights end to end, $3,330 per person for all 2.
Cuenca and the Cajas paramo
half a day6 nightsfrom $1,620a colonial grid at two and a half thousand metres and a lake filled moorland above it
The Loja highlands and Podocarpus
a full day5 nightsfrom $1,710cloud forest on the eastern slope where the Andes drop toward the Amazon basin
Carpathian ridge
The Tatra foothills to the Slovak Karst, 10 nights end to end, $2,310 per person for all 2.
The Tatra foothills
under two hours5 nightsfrom $980timber villages, sheep pasture and a granite range that rises straight off the plain
The Slovak Karst and Spis
a night in transit5 nightsfrom $1,330a limestone plateau of caves and gorges under one of the largest castles in Europe
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