EPIC TOURS

Best of Australia and New Zealand:

Scenic’s 27-day epic from Melbourne to Auckland also includes Alice Springs and Uluru; Cairns and the Great Barrier Reef with relaxation time in Port Douglas; Brisbane plus Australia Zoo; Sydney; adventure capital Queenstown with a cruise around Fiordand National Park; the Franz Josef Glacier; punting in Christchuch; and geothermal Rotorua. From £8,445pp.

A Trans-America Rail Tour:

This 19-day trip from Great Rail Journeys travels from San Francisco to Yosemite National Park, onto Las Vegas plus the Grand Canyon and Hoover Dam, through Death Valley, on the Durango and Silverton Railroad through the Rockies and Colorado wine region to Denver, onwards to Chicago and finally ends in

New York via Niagara Falls. It also includes rides on the Grand Canyon Railway and several Amtrak routes, like the San Joaquin route through California’s Central Valley. From £4,695pp.

The Ultimate Journey to Latin America:

This trip marks specialist operator Journey Latin America’s 40th birthday.

The 40-day trip is from £21,200pp and begins in Rio de Janeiro before travellings to the Pantanal, Iguazú Falls, Buenos Aires, El Calafate, Torres del Paine, Santiago, the Atacama Desert, Uyuni salt flats, Lake Titicaca, Cusco, Machu Picchu, Lima, Mexico City, Oaxaca and finally finishes with some down time on the beach in Huatulco on Mexico’s Pacific coast - phew! It departs September 28.