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Ancient Pompei in the afternoon

Explore Pompeii's remarkably preserved ruins during the late afternoon when visitor numbers drop and golden light transforms the ancient streets. This two-hour guided tour skips the midday crush, letting you wander the excavations with fewer people and better photography conditions. Your guide interprets the haunting remains of this Roman city frozen by Vesuvius's eruption nearly 2,000 years ago, revealing how ordinary residents lived before catastrophe struck.

Private Homemade Meal with a Private Chef in Rome

Cook a two-and-a-half-hour meal with a Rome-based chef whose traditional Italian recipes have earned global recognition. Work through several dishes side by side in a home kitchen, learning techniques rooted in family tradition and regional history. You'll prep, cook, and sit down to eat what you've made, with the option to take away the recipes or purchase the chef's published collection of family narratives and dishes.

3-Hour Tokyo Private E-Bike Tour Starting from Your Hotel

A three-hour private e-bike tour through Tokyo that collects you from your hotel and returns you there at day's end. You'll cover 15–20 kilometres on motorised bikes, moving from dense urban corridors to quieter residential lanes with planned stops for commentary and breathing room. The e-motor handles the legwork on inclines, leaving you free to soak in the city's rhythm at your own pace. Routes adjust to your interests—request specific neighbourhoods when booking.

Kayak to Goat Island in Sydney Harbour with Local

Paddle across Sydney Harbour on a 3-hour guided kayak journey that takes you up close to the Harbour Bridge, around working waterfront landscapes, and onto Goat Island—a protected site normally closed to visitors. Your guide is a born-and-bred Sydney local with professional photography skills, so expect proper shots of you framed by the iconic bridge. You'll land on Goat Island, explore its shoreline, then paddle back through Darling Harbour before heading to the nearby Fish Markets for a well-earned meal.

Hanoi Cooking Class Learning 5 Dishes including Banh Xeo

Learn to cook five signature Hanoi dishes in 3.5 hours at a cooking school in the Old Quarter. Start with a market tour through the city's largest market to source ingredients, then return to the kitchen to prepare authentic Vietnamese meals from scratch. You'll master techniques for crafting everything from bánh xèo to traditional accompaniments, taste what you've made, and leave with a recipe booklet and certificate. Suited to complete beginners and experienced cooks alike.

Explore Secret Ibiza: Guided Hiking Tours with Local Experts

Two to three-hour guided hikes across Ibiza's lesser-known terrain, led by locals who know the island's quieter corners. Scramble down to isolated coves, scale windswept headlands, and trek at sunrise, sunset, or under full moon. Routes double as informal lessons in island ecology—flora, fauna, geology—with optional focus on landscape and night-sky photography. Snorkelling gear included. Designed for walkers comfortable with steep sections and genuine coastal exposure.

2 hours – 3 hoursfrom AUD $230

Private Walking Tour of the Squares and Fountains in Rome

★ 5.0 (130)

🛕 Culture & History

Italy

Private Walking Tour of the Squares and Fountains in Rome

A guided walk through Rome's grand piazzas and baroque fountains, tracing the city's arterial streets from Piazza del Popolo to the Pantheon. Over three to four hours, you'll navigate the triangular hub where twin churches frame the ancient Flaminio Obelisk, then drift towards the Spanish Steps' hustle before reaching the sculptural drama of Trevi Fountain. The route weaves through Piazza Navona and lesser-known squares, revealing how Romans engineered their city's monumental core. Your guide does the talking; you do the walking.

3 hours – 4 hoursfrom AUD $317

★ 5.0 (127)

🛕 Culture & History

Japan

Kyoto: Zen Garden, Zen Mind (Private)

Walk through three temple gardens within Nanzen-ji Monastery with a landscape designer who spent 15 years studying Japanese garden philosophy. Rather than treating these spaces as backdrop, you'll learn to read the deliberate choices—stone placement, water flow, borrowed scenery—that transform gardens into three-dimensional poems. By the end of this 3.5-hour tour, you'll understand the logic beneath what first appears as peaceful chaos, giving you a framework to appreciate every garden you encounter in Kyoto.

Fantastic Evenings of Laurent Beretta

Laurent Beretta stages a two-hour magic show in a Parisian palace lounge, recreating the illusions of 19th-century French master Robert-Houdin. You'll watch hand-crafted automaton figures perform impossible feats, then meet Beretta for a photograph afterwards. It's theatre steeped in Belle Époque aesthetics, where period costumes and period props transport you to an era when magic felt genuinely otherworldly. Best suited to those who appreciate sleight of hand and historical stagecraft over loud contemporary spectacle.

Paris Private Food Tour – Taste 8+ French Classics in Le Marais

A 3.5-hour walking tour through Le Marais sampling over eight French staples, from flaky pastries and crusty breads to falafel, cheese, and wine. You'll navigate medieval streets and Place des Vosges whilst stopping at neighbourhood spots—including the legendary café where Jim Morrison lingered—to taste croque-monsieurs, a surprise dish, artisan chocolates, and macarons. History and hunger drive the route as much as the food itself.

Half-Day Guided Street Food Walking Tour at Hue

Spend three hours eating your way through Hue's back streets with a local guide who knows where residents actually eat. You'll visit family-run kitchens and hole-in-the-wall spots, tasting regional specialties whilst learning how dishes come together and what keeps these businesses ticking. Water, green tea, and a local beer included. Skip the tourist zones and eat where locals do.

Milan: Pasta Tiramisu Cooking Class in a Chef’s Home(Small Group)

Learn to make fresh tagliatelle and tiramisu in a Milan chef's home kitchen over three and a half hours. This is cooking as it happens in Italian homes—no stations, no theatre, just you and a professionally trained chef working through technique and ingredients together. You'll taste estate oils and aged vinegars with artisan bread, then cook two pasta sauces from scratch and assemble proper tiramisu. Wine pairs throughout, with non-alcoholic options available.

Ravioli & Tagliatelle Cooking Class at a Local's Home in Positano

Step into a Positano home to learn pasta-making from a local cook steeped in family tradition. Over three hours, you'll pick vegetables from the garden, roll out ravioli and tagliatelle by hand, and discover the regional techniques that make each shape matter. Cook two pasta dishes from scratch, then sit down to eat what you've made alongside wine and homemade liqueurs, picking up recipes and stories you'll actually use at home.

Pasta and Tiramisu Making Class with Fine Italian Wine in Rome

Learn to hand-roll ravioli and layer tiramisu from Roman chefs in a three-hour class near the Colosseum. You'll shape pasta dough, stuff it with care, and craft the classic dessert from scratch, then sit down to eat what you've made alongside carefully matched Italian wines. Groups stay small—just ten of you—so there's real attention from your instructors.

Pizza and Gelato Making Experience with Fine Italian Wine in Rome

Learn to shape Neapolitan pizza, churn gelato, and fry Roman supplì across three hours in Rome, guided by practised cooks. You'll work with your hands through each stage—mixing dough, building toppings, mastering the gelato balance—before tasting everything alongside poured Italian wines. It's a proper apprenticeship in three iconic Roman and Southern Italian dishes, not a passive watch.

Exclusive Private Boat Tour on a Luxury Day Cruiser - Nice/Monaco

Cruise the Côte d'Azur aboard a sleek day cruiser from Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, exploring the peninsula's Belle Époque villas and hidden coves over 2.5 hours. Your skipper shares the history of these storied estates whilst you anchor off Eze-sur-Mer for French aperitifs and snacks, then venture to La Mala beach's sea cave to snorkel or ride the onboard seascooter through crystalline waters.

Best of Pompeii - 2 hour Private Tour with Alex

Explore Pompeii's frozen Roman streets with Alex, a local licensed guide fluent in English. This two-hour private tour cuts straight past queues and into the daily routines of residents whose homes, workshops and forums were preserved when Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD. Walk through bakeries, amphitheatres and family dwellings to understand how ordinary Romans actually lived—architecture and artefacts tell stories that textbooks can't.

Become a Samurai Movie Star in Kyoto by Filming with a Real Actor

Learn sword techniques from a working samurai actor at Myokaku-ji Temple in Kyoto, then film your own action sequence. This 70-minute session has you dressed in period costume, drilling genuine kata alongside your instructor, then performing choreographed moves while a professional cameras roll. The temple grounds—where warlord Oda Nobunaga once walked—provide an atmospheric backdrop. You'll leave with digital footage of yourself as the lead in your own samurai film.

Flying Fox Experience, Thousands of Australia's Largest Bat

Watch thousands of flying foxes in their daytime roosts across Sydney. These megabats, with wingspans stretching to a metre, are most active during daylight hours—a rare viewing window. You'll observe them squabbling, stretching, and taking flight from close range, equipped with binoculars and zoom cameras to capture their movements. A guide explains their ecology and conservation status whilst you travel between key roost sites in a climate-controlled coach.

Private Cruise on Lake Como with Luxury Motorboat from 1H to 4H

Speed across Lake Como's glittering waters aboard a restored 2024 Colombo motorboat piloted by experienced captains who know every cove and villa. Your skipper shares local stories and celebrity lore gathered over years on the water. Choose your own pace—swim in secluded bays, sip prosecco mid-lake, or simply take in the Alpine backdrop and Belle Époque architecture. One to four hours available.

Kamakura Walking Tour - The City of Shogun

This 3.5-hour guided walk traces Kamakura's medieval power through its most significant temples and shrines. You'll stand before the Great Buddha, explore the atmospheric grounds of Tsurugaoka Hachimangu and Hasedera Temple, and piece together how this former shogun capital shaped Japan's spiritual landscape. Small groups mean your guide can linger on details that catch your interest, whether that's the craftsmanship in a temple's woodwork or the view across Sagami Bay. Local food stops punctuate the route—authentic rather than tourist-focused.

Rome: Private Colosseum Photoshoot with Local Photographer

Work with a Rome-based photographer at the Colosseum for a personalised 90-minute portrait session. Pick your route—the amphitheatre alone, or branch into Capitoline Hill or Roman Forum vistas—and the photographer adjusts pacing and posing to suit you. Whether you're solo, coupled up, or celebrating an engagement, you'll walk away with 20–50 polished images delivered within two days, plus a year's access to your private gallery.

Ramen & Dumpling Cooking in Tokyo with Chef/Vegan possible

Learn to hand-roll dumplings and build ramen broth from scratch in Tokyo with a chef trained across Japan's most celebrated ramen regions. This two-hour class covers authentic Utsunomiya-style gyoza folding—the craft behind Japan's dumpling heartland—plus the layered technique of constructing a proper bowl of ramen. You'll cook, taste what you've made, and hear stories from someone who's worked kitchens across continents. Vegan adaptations available.

The Cooking Lab - Authentic Food Experience

Spend three hours in an Italian kitchen learning to cook traditional dishes alongside someone who's cooked this way since childhood. You'll prep, cook, and eat together, working through the fundamentals of genuine Italian food. The session includes all equipment, a welcome drink, a full meal you've made yourself, and local wines to match.

Granada: Alhambra and Sierra Nevada Sunset Views by E-Bike

Pedal through the forested slopes above Granada on an e-bike, climbing past olive groves and historic springs that once fed the Alhambra palace. Your local guide shares stories of the 13th-century engineering behind this Moorish landmark whilst you ride towards the Sierra Nevada peaks. The tour crescendos at a quiet hilltop vantage point overlooking the Alhambra, Albaicín, and Sacromonte bathed in golden hour light—a perspective most visitors never see. On the descent, detour through Silla del Moro and explore Realejo, Granada's once-vibrant Jewish quarter, often bypassed by the guidebook crowd.

1 hour Egg Coffee Cooking Class with Snack and Local Instructor

Learn to brew and top Vietnam's signature egg coffee in a relaxed one-hour session with a local instructor. You'll whisk the frothy egg mixture, pour your own brew, and adjust sweetness to taste, finishing with a spring roll and fresh cup. Small group sizes mean genuine interaction and hands-on guidance rather than passive observation. The instructor shares which beans are worth taking home and explains why this drink matters to Vietnamese coffee culture.

Margaret River Coastal and Wildlife Eco Trip from Busselton or Dunsborough

Explore the northern Margaret River coastline and its thriving ecosystems on this half-day adventure from Busselton or Dunsborough. Your local guide navigates to prime spots for spotting native wildlife and taking in dramatic seascapes, then settles you down with a curated spread of regional produce paired with local wine, beer, or coffee. Three and a half hours that pack in coastal drama, animal encounters, and a taste of what the region grows.

Volcanic Discovery PREMIUM eBike Tour: 35 km

Explore Fuerteventura's northern volcanic landscape on a Bosch-powered e-MTB, covering 35 km over three hours with a small group. Your guide handles the route and pacing while sharing the island's geological and cultural heritage. After a brief e-bike familiarisation, you'll navigate remote tracks and hidden corners at your own tempo, with safety support throughout.

3 hoursfrom AUD $92

Parisian Life Style Private Photo Shoot at Eiffel Tower

★ 5.0 (109)

🚌 Day Trips & Sightseeing

France

Parisian Life Style Private Photo Shoot at Eiffel Tower

Spend an hour with a local professional photographer exploring Paris's most photogenic corners around the Eiffel Tower, capturing authentic moments instead of typical tourist snapshots. You'll receive 40 edited high-resolution images the same day, plus all unedited shots, making this ideal for couples, families, or groups marking a special occasion. The photographer speaks English, Spanish, French and Italian, and knows how to put nervous subjects at ease.

1 hourfrom AUD $251

★ 5.0 (109)

🚌 Day Trips & Sightseeing

Italy

Games & Treasures Hunts Tour in Rome

A 2-hour romp through Rome's centre that turns sightseeing into a competitive game. You'll solve riddles and answer questions about landmarks as you navigate the city, earning points and competing for prizes. The Pantheon entry is included, making this ideal for families wanting something beyond standard guided walks. Kids aged 6+ and adults alike stay engaged rather than passive.

Tokyo: Make Your Own Chopsticks Shibuya

Craft a pair of wooden chopsticks from scratch in a Shibuya workshop, a short walk from the Scramble Crossing. Over one hour, you'll select timber, shape and sand your sticks under expert guidance, then finish them to take home. No prior skill needed. Choose from standard or premium woods, and add engraving for a personalised touch—ideal for keeping or gifting.

1 hourfrom AUD $32

Rome 3-Hour Evening Vespa Sidecar Tour with Gourmet Pizza Tasting

★ 5.0 (108)

🚌 Day Trips & Sightseeing

Italy

Rome 3-Hour Evening Vespa Sidecar Tour with Gourmet Pizza Tasting

Ride through Rome's evening streets in a vintage Vespa sidecar, stopping at landmark plazas and hidden corners whilst a licensed guide shares the city's layered history through wireless headsets. This 3-hour tour wraps up with gourmet pizza tasting at Vico Pizza&Wine. You'll sit passenger throughout—no driving required—making it an effortless way to cover ground and absorb Rome's character without the usual tourist shuffle.

Samurai Experience - Learn Bushido through Kendo, in Tokyo

This two-hour Tokyo session teaches you kendo—the martial art that preserved samurai values through centuries. Rather than sport mechanics, you'll explore Bushido philosophy by holding a bamboo sword, understanding discipline through stance and breath. A guide walks you through proper form and the mental focus that made kendo essential to samurai culture. You'll leave with rental gear worn, a souvenir carried, and a felt sense of why this practice still matters in modern Japan.

Sorrento Food & Wine Tour - 'Taste of Sorrento'

A three-hour culinary ramble through residential Sorrento that bypasses the tourist circuit. Your guide shepherds you between neighbourhood establishments where you'll taste several regional dishes—think aubergine parmigiana alongside local wines—each with stories about the traditions that built them. Everything comes from seasonal, local stock. Homemade puddings and limoncello round things out. Walking distances between venues are short; food is the real focus here.

Montmartre Walking Guided Tour

A two-hour walking tour through Montmartre led by a local guide, exploring the hilltop neighbourhood where Impressionist and early Modern artists made their mark. Wander narrow streets lined with studios and cafés, visit the artists' square and the soaring Sacré-Cœur Basilica, and finish with sweeping city views stretching across Paris to landmarks like the Eiffel Tower and Invalides.

2 hoursfrom AUD $47

Rome: Early Morning Trevi Fountain Photoshoot & Iconic Landmarks

★ 5.0 (107)

🚌 Day Trips & Sightseeing

Italy

Rome: Early Morning Trevi Fountain Photoshoot & Iconic Landmarks

Catch Rome's golden hour at Trevi Fountain and beyond with a professional photographer who knows the city's angles and light. This early morning shoot—available as a single-location session or a multi-landmark tour—pairs expert posing guidance with fast turnaround. You'll walk away with 20–70 edited images delivered within 48 hours, stored securely online for a year.

The Ultimate Old Town Tour in Barcelona

A 2.5-hour walking tour through Barcelona's medieval core with a knowledgeable local guide. You'll navigate the Gothic Quarter's labyrinth of narrow streets, visit the Cathedral and Santa Maria del Mar, explore the bustling Boqueria Market, and stroll Las Ramblas whilst discovering tucked-away plazas and backstreet cafés that regulars frequent. Leave with an annotated map and curated list of neighbourhood restaurants and bars worth returning to.

Barcelona Unique Private Luxury Sailing Tour (max 12 people)

Sail aboard the Anna Katharina, a Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 54 off Barcelona's coast for 1–4 hours with up to 12 people. Your skipper handles the helm whilst you settle into the cockpit with drinks, snacks and views of the city skyline. The boat's spacious layout and calm waters make it ideal for groups seeking a straightforward afternoon on the Mediterranean, with chances to swim and watch for marine life.

1 hour – 4 hoursfrom AUD $585

TRY SCUBA DIVING with a Dedicated Instructor

★ 5.0 (106)

🐠 Water Activities

Spain

TRY SCUBA DIVING with a Dedicated Instructor

Get your first taste of underwater exploration with a qualified instructor guiding you through a three-hour scuba introduction in Spain. You'll work one-on-one or in a tiny group, receiving personalised attention as you learn to breathe underwater and navigate the basics. All gear is supplied, and you'll surface with photos to prove you did it—plus a hot drink to celebrate.

3 hoursfrom AUD $201

Chill Out in Tokyo: Personalized Private Tours with Local Friends

★ 5.0 (106)

🚌 Day Trips & Sightseeing

Japan

Chill Out in Tokyo: Personalized Private Tours with Local Friends

Explore Tokyo on foot with a local guide who knows the city inside out. This 2–4 hour private walking tour adapts to your interests, whether you're after hidden neighbourhoods, specific districts, or spots that don't make the guidebooks. Your guide meets you at a location of your choice and uses public transport where it makes sense, revealing Tokyo as locals actually experience it rather than as a packaged attraction.

2 hours – 4 hoursfrom AUD $143

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