Wendy Wu will put wanderers on right path to happiness

EVERYBODY has one... a free-spirited uncle who spends his middle age on the open road trying to live out a youth he never saw first time around. It might even be me.

In this case, though, it’s Uncle Ted or Doctor Didge, a retired firefighter who has spent the last few years down with the kids in Nepal, Thailand and Peru, dressed in a range of native attire and blowing pipes of peace.

Dr Didge, an uncle through marriage, came to mind when Wendy Wu Tours came to town on their annual visit brandishing their first dedicated collection of escorted group tours and tailormade holidays in South America as well as their stunning Asian programme.

I confess to adding a ‘please look after this Teddy’ on Facebook as Ted trekked Machu Picchu. Wendy Wu will ensure you go in more com- fort. They have an 18-day Panoramic Peru holiday from €4,345pp.

Wendy Wu’s 16-day ‘Chile: Top to Toe’ holiday from €4,574 will bring you from Atacam and altiplano’s barren beauty in the north to the glaciers of Patagonia in the south.

And if you’re greedy, why not do ‘Essence of Argentina and Brazil’ from €4,576pp. You’ll get to see the world’s largest waterfalls Iguaca Falls, take one of the great railway trips of the world through the Andes on the Train to the Clouds and take a cable car ride to the heights of the Sugarloaf Mountain.

Wendy Wu, whom your diarist had the pleasure of interviewing last year, is all about Asia.

And in the true spirit of that she is kicking off this year with an Amazing Asia Sale and savings of up to €500 per couple across tours to China, Japan, Southeast Asia and India when booked before January 31 of next year.

Visit www.wendywutours.com or call (0800) 902 0888.