Stellar Experiences

For an out of this world experience, take a look at some of our celestial treats. Solar eclipses, Sun Festivals and incredible Meteor Showers.

Solar eclipses are an amazing natural phenomenon and a beautiful sight to behold. What better way to add an extra special element to your vacation than planning it to coincide with an eclipse. We are not running any more eclipse tours in 2010 but please watch this space for up and coming tours in 2011 and 2012! on the go has many years of successfully organising sightseeing and eclipse viewing vacations around the world. In the last few years we have covered many different eclipse destinations including Egypt, Russia, China and India.

The Perseids meteor shower is a spectacular celestial light show, that has mystified and amazed sky watchers for nearly 2000 years. In August every year, the night sky is lit up by often over 60 meteors per hour, streaking across the darkness. As with all celestial events, the Perseids is best observed in a completely clear night sky and where better than Jordan’s Wadi Rum desert, which is renowned for its beautiful blanket of stars.

Over in neighboroughing Egypt, we offer the opportunity to witness the incredible Abu Simbel Sun Festival. In a fit of precision and architectural egotism, Ramses II had his entire temple carefully angled and oriented in order that the sun’s rays would align twice a year on his date of his ascension to the throne (21 February) and on his birthday (21 October) and illuminate the temples inner sanctum. You can witness this phenomenon on one of our Sun Festival tours.

Here is our current range of stellar tours to tempt you!