Private journeys across Asia, nine to twenty-eight days
Twenty-eight routes across twenty-one countries. Every one runs for your party alone, with a national guide in each country, a private driver throughout, and every hotel named in the quote before you pay anything.
Start where you actually are
Most people arrive at a site like this one in one of three states, and the three want different pages. Pick the one that describes you and skip the rest of this page; it will still be here afterwards.
You want the journey booked
You know roughly where and roughly when, and what you need is days, routes and a number you can compare against the other quotes on your screen. All twenty-eight journeys sit in two tables on journeys, with the day count, the countries and the from-price on every line.
You know the place, not the trip
Japan is decided and nothing else is. Twenty-four country and place pages on where to go say how many nights each one holds, which months work, what it costs on the ground, and when to skip it. They do not sell you anything; they link to the journeys that go there.
You have dates and nothing else
Two weeks in February, four adults, no idea. Thirteen pages on planning take the five questions in the order they arrive: when to go, how many days, what visa, what it costs, is it safe. Read when to go first and let the month choose the country.
What this company is
Asia Voyagers plans and runs private journeys across twenty-one countries in Asia, from nine-day country journeys to grand voyages of twenty-eight days. Private means one party at a time: your booking, your car, your guide, your departure date. Two travellers is the minimum and eight is the practical maximum, because above eight a private journey stops behaving like one and starts behaving like a coach tour with better hotels.
Every country you cross gets its own national guide — licensed, resident, and paid as a professional — with a private driver who is a separate person, because the one who knows the road is rarely the one who knows the temple. Hotels are named in the quote before a deposit is asked for. Not "four-star or similar": the actual property, so you can look it up, read what other people say about it, and tell us you hate it while changing it still costs nothing.
There is no fixed departure calendar on this site and no group to join. What there is instead is a route we know, redrawn around your dates, your pace and the two or three things you refuse to miss.
Two lengths, one standard of service
The catalogue splits in two, and the split is length, not luxury. A grand voyage crosses two or more countries, or takes one country end to end, over sixteen to twenty-eight days. A country journey stays inside one country for eight to twelve. Same guides, same hotels, same car, same rule about strangers. A nine-day Cambodia journey is not a cut-down grand voyage; it is the right length for Cambodia.
| Grand voyages | Country journeys | |
|---|---|---|
| Length | 16 to 28 days | 8 to 12 days |
| Shape | Two or more countries, or one country end to end | One country, often one region of it |
| Guiding | A national guide in each country, plus a private driver throughout | One national guide and a private driver |
| Party | Private, one party at a time, minimum 2 | Private, one party at a time, minimum 2 |
| Rate | USD 250 to 500 per person per day, land only | USD 190 to 650 per person per day, land only, by country |
| Where they are | Grand voyages, eight routes | All journeys, twenty of them |
The country band spreads wider because countries do. Japan and Bhutan run USD 480 to 650 per person per day; Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, India, Nepal and the Central Asian republics run USD 190 to 300 for an identical standard of hotel, guide and car. That gap is the room rate, the wage bill and the government fee, and no operator argues it away. The four country tiers, what a room and a guide and a gate ticket actually cost before any margin, and how a quote twenty-five per cent below ours is usually built, are all on prices.
What is true this month, and would change your plan
Three things have moved recently that rearrange real itineraries. Every number on this site was checked against a primary source on 8 September 2026, and where a rule has an expiry date we print the date rather than pretending it is permanent.
- Thailand’s visa exemption drops from 60 days to 30 on 15 September 2026 for United States, United Kingdom, European Union and Australian passports. Sixty days still applies up to and including 14 September; after that, anything longer than thirty days will need a visa applied for in advance. That is one week away as this page is written, and it catches people planning a long winter in the region. Country by country, for all four passports: visas and entry.
- The Thailand–Cambodia land border has been shut since mid-2025, after armed clashes, with no reopening timetable as at August 2026. Bangkok to Siem Reap overland does not exist at the moment; that leg is a flight, and an operator still selling the road crossing is selling a day it cannot run. Which legs join cleanly and which force a backtrack: multi-country routing.
- Bhutan’s Sustainable Development Fee is USD 100 per adult per night — half the USD 200 headline rate — and the halved rate is confirmed only through 31 August 2027. For a nine-day journey that is USD 800 a head before a single room is booked, and it is the reason Bhutan sits in the top price tier. What the fee buys and how it shapes a Himalayan route: Bhutan.
How we work, in five steps
- You send a month, a party size and a rough idea. That is genuinely enough. If you have four journeys shortlisted and cannot choose, send all four and we will tell you which one your dates actually fit.
- A first draft comes back within two working days. Named hotels, a day-by-day, drive times, and a real price — not a brochure and not a request for a phone call before you are allowed to see a number.
- Revisions are free until the itinerary is right. Most journeys take two or three rounds. Two to three weeks from first email to a booking is the normal shape, and nothing is held or committed in your name during it.
- A 30% deposit confirms the journey. Hotels and internal flights are booked once it clears; the balance falls due no later than 45 days before arrival. The cancellation position is written into the same document you sign.
- Documents, then a phone answered at night. In the country you are in and the time zone you are in, for the whole journey.
The full sequence, the payment dates, what we need from you and when, and what happens when plans change, is on how to book.
Who we are wrong for
This is the section most operators leave out, and it is the one that saves everybody a fortnight. Four kinds of traveller should book elsewhere, and we would rather say so now than have the wrong client on a trip.
- A budget under about USD 200 per person per day, land only. Our cheapest country is Cambodia and our cheapest journey starts at USD 2,150 for nine days. Below roughly USD 200 a day the private car and the private guide are what have to go, and a shared minibus with a good operator is a better use of that money than a thin private trip. We will say so rather than build one.
- Anyone who wants a fixed-date group departure. We do not run them, at all. For a solo traveller they are often the better purchase, because a group departure spreads the car and the guide across a dozen people and a private journey does not. The comparison is written straight, against our own interest, on private or group.
- Parties larger than eight. Nine or more needs a second vehicle, a second guide and a different way of moving through a temple, and the thing we are good at stops applying. Ask us anyway if the party is family and the dates are flexible, but expect an honest no more often than a yes.
- Anyone who wants a place we do not sell. Myanmar we will not sell while the do-not-travel advisories stand and while most insurance is void there. Nor will we run highland Papua, central and western Mindanao, Jammu and Kashmir, Manipur, South Ossetia and Abkhazia, or the three-kilometre Jordanian strip along the Syrian border. Where every advisory stands as at September 2026: safety and advisories.
There is a fifth, quieter one. If the point of the holiday is a resort with a beach attached, we are the wrong shape of company. We will happily put four nights on the water at the end of a journey; we will not sell you the resort as the journey.
Where to go next
If you know the country, open its page under where to go and read the nights section and the "when to skip it" section before anything else. Those two paragraphs decide more trips than the photographs do.
If you know the budget but not the country, open prices. It sets out what a day costs in each tier, so you can see which half of Asia your number reaches before you fall in with a route you cannot afford.
If you know neither, and this is a first trip to the continent, first time in Asia names three or four places that reward a first visit and two that do not. It will save you a week of reading.
Send the month and the number of travellers
That is enough to start. A first draft itinerary, with named hotels and a real price, comes back within two working days. Nothing is held and nothing is owed until you decide it is right. If you would rather know who you are writing to first, read about us, including what we are not good at.
Questions travellers ask most
Which countries do you actually run?
Twenty-one, across five regions: Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia and Laos in mainland Southeast Asia; Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore in the islands; Japan, South Korea and Taiwan in the northeast; India, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bhutan in South Asia and the Himalaya; and Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Georgia, Armenia, Jordan and Oman across Central and West Asia.
Myanmar we do not sell. China we do not run on this site. Most of what we run has a page under where to go; the rest is covered inside the journey page. Every destination page says how many nights the place holds and when not to come.
What does a private journey cost per day?
USD 190 to 650 per person per day, land only, twin share, depending almost entirely on which country you are standing in. Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, India, Nepal, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan sit at USD 190 to 300. Thailand, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Jordan, Georgia, Armenia, Malaysia and the Philippines run USD 250 to 360. South Korea, Taiwan, Oman and Singapore run USD 340 to 460. Japan and Bhutan run USD 480 to 650.
Land only means international flights, visas, insurance and tips are not in those figures, and we would rather show you a bare number you can compare than a bundled one you cannot. The breakdown underneath each band is on prices.
Is two travellers really the minimum?
Yes. A private car and a private guide cost what they cost whether one person or six is using them, and a solo traveller carrying that whole cost alone pays a figure we do not think represents value.
If you are travelling alone, say so anyway. Sometimes the answer is a shorter journey in a cheaper country; sometimes it is a good group departure run by somebody else, which we will point you towards without a commission. Private or group sets out when each one wins.
What happens after I send an enquiry?
A planner reads it, and if something important is missing — usually the number of nights you actually have on the ground, or the ages of the children — you get one email asking for it. Then a draft itinerary with named hotels, drive times and a price arrives within two working days.
No deposit is asked for at that stage and no hotel is held in your name. Revisions are free and most journeys take two or three rounds before anybody mentions money. The whole sequence is on how to book.
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Tell us about the journey you have in mind
Dates, party size and the places you care about are enough to start. You get a draft route and an indicative price, not a brochure.