Central America To Centre Stage In Los Angeles

Everything on this Journey moves at the speed of desire: remote coasts and romantic resorts, chic cities and cultured UNESCO sites. We start where dreamers and builders dug a short-cut from sea to shining sea by damming a river to create Gutan Lake and grading the Continental Divide to make a 13-kilometre channel, the Galliard Cut. Next, we dive into one of the most biologically intense places on the planet, Costa Rica. An enchanting wonderland with more than 4% of the world's biodiversity.

We visit Quepos where butterflies are blue, sloths move slowly, and monkeys hang in trees in...read more Manuel Antonio National Park (considered amongst the 12 most beautiful in the world). Otherworldly wonders include treks to the cloud forest of Monteverde to see birds, orchids and trees not found anywhere else on earth! In Puerto Quetzal, ruins of former glories dazzle us at La Democracia, where pre-Mayan statues known as "fat gods” dot the landscape.

We also find Antigua, a UNESCO-protected Spanish-colonial village that has survived volcanos, earthquakes and political upheaval. With a sky and sea that are mostly flawlessly blue, the Mexican Rivera calls us to Puerto Vallarta. Hugging the cerulean Banderas Bay, the resort city is a sweet nook set against dramatic mountains, buzzing with boardwalks and unmatched sunsets.

At the southernmost tip of the Baja Peninsula, a massive outcropping of rocks — known as The Arch — welcome us to Cabo San Lucas with its world-class golf, epic marlin fishing, and diving sites with so much biodiversity that Jacques Cousteau called this "the aquarium of the world”. With its infinite beauty, we call on sunny San Diego, then venture to Los Angeles where culture meets the coast.

The second largest city in the United States and arguably its most glamorous with epic shopping in Beverly Hills, celebrity-spotting in Malibu Beach, or walking to the Griffith Observatory for a bird's eye view of this City of Angels.Equally extraordinary are optional jaunts to Las Vegas or immersive discoveries into the natural wonders of the Grand Canyon.