Top Culture Trips for Feeling Like Robinson Crusoe

Spending a few days in the Galápagos, exploring the islands with no worries of a shipwreck? Robinson Crusoe could only dream of this five-day expedition off the coast of Ecuador. Excitement, exploration and relaxation are all rolled into one, with snorkelling, sailing and sitting around – with giant tortoises – starring on the schedule. Your safari-style tented camp and hotel aren’t exactly roughing it either, leaving you to enjoy the spoils of adventure without Crusoe’s concerns for comfort.

People escape to Bali to find themselves and return having discovered an island of incense-swirled temples, viridian tea terraces and cool coastal communes, coveted by the surf and yoga crowd. Struggling for survival will seem like a distant notion on this 12-day tour – where you’ll summit Mount Batur at sunrise, join a cooking class in the cultural capital of Ubud and zip over by speedboat to the island of Gili Trawangan, off the coast of Lombok. Marooned here, there’ll be little else to do but swim with sea turtles and write messages in a bottle to each and every person you know.