ILLUSTRATION: JI SL VA PHOTOGRAPH: MICHEKO PRODUCTIONS, INH. MICHELE VITUCCI/ALAMY
Specialists in adventure and wildlife, new company Wildfoot offers a host of horizon-stretching tours, such as a 15-day cruise to the Russian Far East, taking in the remote Kamchatka Peninsula (pictured), home to smoking volcanoes as well as bears, whales, sea lions and walruses.
£6,930 per person, full board; tour departs 7 September 2016; wildfoottravel.com.