Boutique small group tours with a unique
program, immersive cultural adventures, and personal
signature guiding.
Our Invitation
Through Elegance and Beauty, we want to allow your emotions and creativity to develop. The tours aim at inspiring you for a deeper understanding of the visited places, cultures, and art, and offer good quality and meaningful content that will enrich your experience on the tour, as well as, maybe also your life at home.
We prepare, organize, and lead our own signature tours, and don't sell other agencies' programs.
No early mornings exhausting programs, but an easy pace travel, good quality content, inspiration, creativity and beauty.
RELIABLE ORGANISING
comes from more than 17 years
of experience in organizing and
leading trips for different groups,
and in different countries
of the world.
BIG LOVE
we prepare, organize, and lead
our tours with much love for the
guests we lead, the experiences
we prepare, the places we visit,
and the people with whom
we work.
OUR OFFER IS LAND ONLY
and does not include a flight
arrangements. We believe you have different needs when
traveling with planes, so we don't
arrange the flights, but we can
advise on arrival and departure
airports and help with ideas about
the most suitable flights.
TOUR DIRECTOR
Alja is a professional tour guide and the owner of ECT. In certain countries, she is joined by local guides.
In order to fully understand the essence of our travel, please
keep reading and visit our Blog.
On our tours, you stay in vibrant, elegant, and culturally inspiring (capital) cities . . . and to get away from it all, on the longer tours, for a day or so, you retreat to a remote, quiet place where you can relax, take time to walk in the park, or simply enjoy resting.
We also organize and lead WORKSHOP TOURS that are entirely dedicated to your passions such as Dance or Art Photography.
It is possible to variate the programs, so you will also find tips on EXTENSIONS OR VARIATIONS in the description of each tour.
ELEGANT GRAND TOUR
- Accomodations in Riads and Luxury hotels
- Yves Saint Laurent experience and Majorelle garden
- A professional photo shooting in magical Sahara dunes
(with Moroccan costumes and camels) - A Moroccan afternoon »Ladies time together«
and »Gentlemen's time out« and still more...
VINTAGE GRAND TOUR
- Elegant authentic accommodations in colonial style private houses
or beautiful 4- or 5- star hotels - An elegant ride in old American convertible cars
- A magnificent gala in Gran Teatro de la Habana
- Immersive expert talks on Cuban music, life, and Cuban art and culture
- A dinner in a small museum and still more...
CHARMING GRAND TOUR
- Design and luxury hotels with the feel of the past
- An optional Grand evening Gala in The Vienna Philharmonic (or the Opera)
or La Fenice Opera in Venice - An elegant private Viennese waltz lesson with a live concert
- An inspiring talk on Controversial Vienna at the turn of the century
- Many charming secrets of the noble families, living in palaces
on the Grand Canal in Venice, and still more...
The topics that you can enjoy in our tours:
ART AND HISTORY
(pictorial) arts, magnificent
architecture, royal histories,
photography via a photoshooting,
or attending a workshop on
photography
MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES
prime art collections, interesting
(creative and engaging)
museums, and beautiful galleries
MUSIC AND DANCE
classical music and concerts,
dance: classical dance (ballet),
tango, Vienesse waltz, salsa,
and others
CREATIVE PEOPLE and ARTISTS
talking and socializing with local
interesting and creative people
THEATRES
the best of opera, magical theatre
buildings (we are in love with old
theatre stages, the smell of the
house), and enchanting plays
SOULFUL BUILDINGS
old and new libraries, town halls,
elegant palaces, proud castles
TRADITIONS
of different religions and cultures
BOOKS
classical literature (poetry)
and its creative word play
EXPLANATORY GEOGRAPHY
as an expalanation on why the
surroundings, country, city,
environment is as it is; looking
at the spaces and understanding
how they function, learning about
the social and cultural forces that
shape the life of a person
(or a nation)
TASTES
apart from the excellent cuisine
and wines, we also find a lot of
pleasure in exploring new (and
old) teas, and adding cakes,
cookies, or other deserts.
IMPORTANT INTERDISCIPLINARY INSPIRATIONS
museum pedagogy and
cultural tourism.
TOPICS YOU WILL NOT HEAR ABOUT
sports, popular politics,* or popular culture. Academism as only dry lectures and the extensive accumulation of information. Instead,
we prefer useful knowledge, interesting insights, and lovingly brought presentations.
*We include politics as much as needed to understand the environment and the visited culture and no more.
Any Questions? Don't hesitate to contact us.
If you find our philosophy resonates within, we invite you to contact us.
We will be happy to hear from you.
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