Welcome to Worlds Apart Travel

Worlds Apart Travel is an independent specialist travel agency.

Since 1989 we have built up a huge portfolio of the best names in small group & adventure tour operators along with overseas travel specialists, which enables us to offer a wide range of travel options to every corner of the globe.

Our staff have a passion for travel & you will almost always deal with someone with first hand knowledge of your destination, having between them visited all 7 continents.

Worlds Apart are members of ABTA (Association of British Travel Agents) and our ABTA Bond helps protect our clients against financial failure.

Our website is designed to whet your appetite with ideas & destinations, it is certainly not all that we offer so please contact us for more detailed advice.

Mark's diary extract from Peru.......Totally captivated I gazed at the vision before me. I’d held this classic image of Machu Piccu in my head for a long time and now here I was, seeing it in the flesh, pinching myself. We all stood there awe taking in the spectacle below us, each of us lost in our own thoughts.

To set the scene, from our vantage point we had a clear view of the ruined city, it’s buildings following the contours of the mountain, spilling down the terraced slopes. The dominating backdrop of Wayna Piccu (Young Peak) looms above in the background. All around, the site is surrounded by heavily forested mountains within which Machu Piccu snugly sits. Added to this stunning setting, above us drifting whisps of cloud contributed their own air of mystery to the atmosphere.

Tearing my gaze away I followed the others as we set off to explore the city below us. Machu Piccu is a collection of plazas, Temples and other sacred sites as well as residential and Industrial areas. Walking around the city I tried to imagine what it was like here during it’s hey day over 600 years ago, a thriving centre of religion and of commerce and industry. Stepping into what were former residential homes I thought of the long departed families who’d once lived and thrived here.

After some time exploring the city, we left and walked up to the Sun Gate which is approximately one hour’s walk away. It’s from here that those who walk the Inca Trail get their first sight of the Lost City. As we sat and looked down once again at the spectacular view of the lost city from the Sun Gate, I pondered the mystery as to what had happened to the inhabitants and why the city was abandoned. I marvelled at how such an incredible site could have been lost to the outside world for so long.

The ‘Lost City’ may one day reveal it’s secrets but the mystery which surrounds it serves only to add to the allure and aura of Machu Piccu. For certain it’s the crowning testament to the ingenuity of the Inca Civilization and I count myself as privileged to have seen it