Small Group Expeditions
Discover our current small group departures, each carefully designed for travelers who value expert leadership, meaningful access, thoughtful pacing, and exceptional journeys shared with a limited number of like-minded companions.
Explore Our Current Departures
Each card below gives you the essentials at a glance: destination, region, trip length, departure format, focus, and journey highlights.
Mexico Escape
Designed for curious travelers seeking a thoughtful cultural journey through Mexico City and Puebla, combining archaeology, art, architecture, regional food, living traditions, and meaningful encounters with knowledgeable specialists.
Highlights: Mexico City, Teotihuacan, Xochimilco, Coyoacán, Cholula, Puebla, art, architecture, regional cuisine.
Ultimate Inca Experience
Designed for curious travelers seeking an in-depth journey through Peru’s Inca heartland, combining two guided visits to Machu Picchu, archaeology, Andean culture, living traditions, exceptional hotels, distinctive rail journeys, and a thoughtfully paced approach to altitude and acclimatization.
Highlights: Machu Picchu, Sacred Valley, Cusco, Pisac, Moray, Maras, Ollantaytambo, Andean culture, Peruvian Paso horses, Inca Rail, Belmond Hiram Bingham.
Machu Picchu & Cusco
Designed for travelers seeking a refined and immersive journey through the Sacred Valley, Machu Picchu, and Cusco, combining meaningful cultural encounters, expert guided exploration, scenic rail journeys, and thoughtfully paced experiences across the heart of the Peruvian Andes.
Highlights: Sacred Valley, Machu Picchu, Cusco, Inca heritage, scenic rail journeys.
Costa Rica
Designed for travelers seeking a deeper understanding of Costa Rica’s biodiversity through Tortuguero, Arenal, and Monteverde, combining rainforest canals, volcanic landscapes, cloud forests, expert naturalist guidance, and meaningful cultural experiences across the country’s most important ecosystems.
Luxury Egypt Expedition
Designed for travelers seeking deeper historical and cultural immersion through Cairo, Luxor, Aswan, Abu Simbel, and the Grand Egyptian Museum, combining iconic archaeology, a private seven-night dahabiya Nile cruise, and meaningful cultural experiences across the timeless landscapes of Egypt.
Greece Beyond
Designed for travelers seeking deeper historical and cultural immersion through ancient Macedonia, Meteora, Delphi, Olympia, Nafplio, and Athens, combining world-class archaeology, Greek mythology, regional cuisine, and authentic cultural experiences across the timeless landscapes of Greece.
Guatemala
Designed to reveal Guatemala’s most compelling cultural and archaeological landscapes—from colonial Antigua and Lake Atitlán’s Maya highlands to the rainforests of Petén and the temples of Tikal—combining archaeologist-led exploration, living traditions, and refined boutique accommodations in the heart of the ancient Maya world.
Papua New Guinea
Designed to reveal Papua New Guinea’s most remote and culturally rich regions—from the Sepik River and Karawari to the Highlands and the Mount Hagen Sing Sing—combining rare wildlife, tribal encounters, and deep anthropological insight across one of the world’s last great frontiers.
Silk Road
Experience the Silk Road in depth and with ease—moving through legendary cities, mountain valleys, and nomadic landscapes at a balanced pace across Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan.
What Is a New Paths Small Group Expedition?
A New Paths Expeditions small group expedition is a scheduled departure offered on fixed dates for a limited group of travelers. Each journey is designed for experienced and curious travelers who want more than standard sightseeing: expert leadership, strong local guiding, thoughtful pacing, meaningful context, and a richer understanding of the destination.
Scheduled Departures on Fixed Dates
Small group expeditions are offered on specific departure dates, allowing travelers to join a carefully planned journey with a defined itinerary, leadership team, and operating structure.
Expert Leadership and Local Guiding
New Paths Expeditions journeys are shaped around knowledgeable expedition leadership and local guides who help travelers understand the places, people, wildlife, history, and traditions encountered along the way.
Curated, Not Generic
Each expedition is designed around what makes a destination special, with attention to pacing, access, context, comfort, and the kind of traveler who chooses New Paths Expeditions.
Why Travel Small With New Paths Expeditions?
Small group travel allows an expedition to feel more personal, flexible, and connected. For New Paths Expeditions, the small group format supports better access, more personal guiding, smoother logistics, and a stronger sense of shared discovery among like-minded travelers.
Better Access
A smaller group can move more naturally through archaeological sites, museums, villages, reserves, markets, lodges, and remote landscapes where larger groups often feel less flexible.
More Personal Guiding
Limited group size makes it easier to hear, ask questions, interact with guides, and follow the story of a place through expert interpretation and local knowledge.
Smoother Logistics
Smaller groups can make complex routes feel more comfortable, with more efficient movement, better timing, and a travel rhythm that supports a higher-quality experience.
Like-Minded Travelers
Small groups work best when travelers share curiosity, respect, and a desire for deeper travel. The result is a more relaxed and rewarding expedition atmosphere.
How Our Small Group Departures Work
Because space is limited and each departure is carefully managed, the process is personal. Travelers can review current journeys, confirm availability with New Paths Expeditions, and prepare with clear pre-departure information.
Choose Your Journey
Browse current departures by destination, region, focus, and travel style. Each expedition page provides the essential details before you request availability.
Confirm Availability
Contact New Paths Expeditions to confirm current space, departure status, pricing details, and whether the journey is the right fit for your interests, timing, and travel style.
Prepare With Confidence
Once confirmed, New Paths Expeditions assists with practical details and pre-departure information so travelers can prepare for the journey with confidence.
Small Group Expeditions FAQ
These answers cover the most common questions travelers ask before choosing a scheduled small group departure with New Paths Expeditions.
A New Paths Expeditions small group expedition is a scheduled departure offered on fixed dates and designed for a limited group of travelers. These journeys are built around expert leadership, strong local guiding, destination depth, thoughtful pacing, and meaningful travel experiences.
Group size varies by expedition, destination, accommodations, transport, and operational requirements. New Paths Expeditions scheduled departures are designed to remain limited, personal, and manageable.
New Paths Expeditions small group journeys are shaped around experienced expedition leadership and knowledgeable local guides who help travelers understand the places, people, wildlife, history, and traditions encountered along the way.
Yes. Many travelers join small group expeditions on their own because the format offers companionship, structure, expert support, and the opportunity to travel with people who share similar interests.
International airfare is typically not included. Internal flights may be included, quoted separately, or arranged by New Paths Expeditions depending on the expedition. The details are explained on each journey page.
Departure status depends on the specific journey, current enrollment, and operational conditions. Travelers should contact New Paths Expeditions to confirm the latest status before making air arrangements.
In many cases, pre- and post-trip hotel nights, extensions, and private arrangements may be possible depending on the destination and availability.
Need Help Choosing the Right Small Group Expedition?
Contact New Paths Expeditions to compare current departures, confirm availability, and find the journey that best matches your interests, timing, and travel style.
