Designed around you
No template itineraries. Your pace, your interests, your appetite for adventure — built from a real conversation, not a booking form.
For travelers
If it inspires us, we can pave your way there
Shih Travels focuses on bringing you to destinations that truly inspire us. They may or may not be a popular tourist destination right now — but they are unique and special in their own way, and our advisors are here to share how and why.
Why plan with us
Curated trips, knowledgeable experts
We aren’t just booking trips. We are sharing the places that move us, and meticulously carving out the path for you to experience them yourself — the way you desire.
Advisors who have been there
Our advisors recommend from experience. If a place is on our list, someone in the collective has walked it and can tell you why it matters.
Safe and well-supported
Vetted operators and premier DMC partners on the ground, with a plan for the moments when travel does what travel does.
Curation over volume
We focus on the high-value art of destination curation. Fewer trips, designed properly, with the details actually thought through.
How it works
Four steps, one conversation at a time
- The conversation. We start with where your curiosity is pointing — not with a package. Tell us the trip you keep imagining.
- The curation. Your advisor shapes a route, a rhythm and a shortlist of stays, drawing on our partners and their own time on the ground.
- The craft. We refine together until the itinerary genuinely reads like your trip, then handle every booking and confirmation.
- The care. You travel with our documents in hand and our people reachable — before you go, while you’re there, and after you’re home.
Ways to travel with us
However you like to move through the world
The places that move us
Uzbekistan, Central Asia, the Balkans, Mongolia and Iceland — the corners of the world we can’t stop talking about.
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The once-in-a-lifetimes
Egypt, Patagonia, Peru, safari in Africa, the Arctic Circle, Antarctica and the Silk Road.
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Routes we’ve already walked
From Europe’s culinary tour to the up-and-coming corners of Asia — twelve itineraries, day by day.
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Close to home
Distance isn’t required to shift your perspective. Private coastal sanctuaries, quiet vineyard estates and high-desert pavilions — designed for seamless arrivals, understated luxury and absolute calm.
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Let the route come to you
River journeys through Europe and Southeast Asia, and ocean voyages with our preferred luxury lines.
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For the genuinely curious
Active, small-group and off-track travel — including trips where you don’t find out where you’re going until you go.
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Our favorite industry partners
The people we trust on the ground
River Cruises
- Scenic
- AmaWaterways
- Victoria Mekong
- Tauck
Ocean Cruises
- Celebrity
- Crystal
- Viking
- Princess
- Silversea
Tours
- Kensington
- Tauck Tours
- Abercrombie & Kent
- Alexander & Roberts
- Goway
- Craft & Culture
Adventure
- Wilderness Travel
- Intrepid
- Backroads
- G Adventures
- Much Better Adventures
Let’s chat
Tell us about the trip you keep imagining
Share as much or as little as you like. An advisor will read it personally and come back to you with first thoughts — no obligation, no template reply.
Common questions
Before you start planning
What people usually want to know before that first conversation.
What makes you different from any other online travel agency?
We design itineraries around destinations our advisors have personally explored, we don’t restrict planners to preferred-supplier lists tied to commission tiers, and we don’t operate on sales quotas — so the priority is the right journey for you, not an upsell.
Do you offer tour packages?
We don’t offer one-size-fits-all, pre-packaged tours. We design fully customized itineraries built around you — and if a structured guided tour genuinely suits your travel style, we source and vet the best boutique option.
Do you handle all types of travel, or just customized tours?
A full spectrum. Bespoke private itineraries are the core specialty, but we also curate and book luxury cruises, guided group journeys, boutique stays and the logistics around them.
Not quite ready?
Start with the places, not the plan
Browse the destinations that inspire us most — and see which one won’t leave you alone.