Two small figures walking out across the white clay of Deadvlei among dead camel thorns in blue shadow, the dune wall lit orange behind them

The world,
by private arrangement.

North v South and everything else in between.

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Deadvlei, Sossusvlei

NVS is a travel house. We shape private journeys to remarkable places: the Antarctic ice, the Namib at first light, and everything else in between.

A camel thorn tree in silhouette against the first glow of sunrise, dunes low on the horizon
A camel thorn at sunrise, Sossusvlei, Namibia

Destinations

Antarctica

An iceberg off Cuverville Island, and humpbacks surfacing beside it.

The Antarctic journey Sail south

Filmed off Cuverville Island, Antarctic Peninsula

A dune crest dividing a sunlit slope from one in deep shadow, a few small figures climbing the ridge

Sossusvlei

One face of the dune in sun, the other in shadow, and walkers small on the crest.

The Sossusvlei journey Spend the day

A dune crest, Sossusvlei, Namibia

An iceberg and a red mountainside doubled in glass-still water in Scoresby Sund, small pieces of ice drifting between them

Greenland

Water so still it keeps the mountains, and the ice drifting through both.

The Greenland journey Sail the fjord

Scoresby Sund, East Greenland

Three guanacos on a ridge of dark scrub, one standing watch and two grazing, with the snow-covered horns of Paine rising into cloud behind them
A small two-masted yacht lying in loose ice below the blue face of a glacier, dark mountains and a second glacier behind her

Svalbard

A small ship under the ice front, in a day four months long.

The Svalbard journey Turn the year

A yacht below a glacier front, Svalbard

From the bow of a mokoro: the dark prow pointing down a channel of blue water between reeds, lily pads on either side

Okavango

Lily pads parting ahead of the bow, and no engine anywhere.

The Okavango journey Push off

From the bow of a mokoro, among water lilies

The Treasury at Petra: columns and pediments cut into rose sandstone, the cliff rising beside it

Petra

Rose stone, cut by hand, at the end of the Siq.

The Petra journey Walk the Siq

The Treasury, Petra

A white monastery with gold roofs high on a dark cliff, half hidden in drifting cloud, pine forest falling away beneath it

Bhutan

A monastery in the cloud, and a morning on foot to reach it.

The Bhutan journey Begin the climb

Paro Taktsang in cloud

A sea lion asleep on black lava at the edge of the sea, a red crab walking past its nose

Galápagos

Asleep on the lava, and not about to move for you.

The Galápagos journey Come closer

A sea lion asleep, a crab passing

Somewhere already in mind? Plan your journey

Where you sleep is half the journey.

A timber lounge with hanging wicker chairs and tall windows looking out over the steppe to a lake and hills
Hanging chairs, a wall of glass, and the steppe outside.Lago Sarmiento, Torres del Paine, Chile
Two figures in silhouette on the sand at sunset in the Namib, each with a drink in hand, talking
Sundown, and nowhere to be.The Namib, Namibia
Looking out through the open varnished door of a small vessel's deckhouse: a narrow side deck, a wooden rail on slim posts, and open sea in evening light
The best seat is whichever window you are nearest.From a deckhouse door, the open sea
From a shaded timber deck under a canvas awning: red sand and pale grass running out to desert mountains, a bench and a clay pot in the foreground
A shaded deck, and the desert running out to the mountains.A lodge deck, Namibia

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Six ways to travel.

How a journey comes together.

Four steps. The first two are yours today.

  1. Your questionsAbout two minutes: where, when, who is coming, and what matters most.
  2. Your briefYour answers come back as a short letter in your own words, yours to keep, correct and send.
  3. A conversationThe planner who knows the place reads it, then talks it through with you.
  4. A drawn planDays, places to stay and the reason for each, set out for you to change.
Plan your journey

The people behind your journey.

  • A hand holding a plotter flat on a paper chart, ruling a line across it
    Plotting the route

    Your planner

    From your first letter until you are home

    One person reads your brief, talks it through with you, and turns a letter into days. They plan the famous places, and everything in between.

  • A walker in a yellow jacket, seen from behind, looking up at the dark towers of the Paine massif under storm cloud
    On foot below the Paine massif, Torres del Paine, Chile

    Your guide on land

    On foot, at your pace

    They know which valley is out of the wind today, and how early to leave to have a place to yourself. The pace is one you could keep all day.

  • A figure in heavy winter clothing, seen from behind, testing the sea ice with a long pole at dusk, blocks of ice on the horizon
    Reading the sea ice, Ilulissat Icefjord, Greenland

    Your guide in polar water

    Among the ice

    They read the ice and the weather, and go ashore before you do. Ask which weeks the light is longest, and which they would choose themselves.

  • A poler in silhouette standing in a mokoro among reeds, pole in hand, the sun low on the horizon
    A poler at sunset, Okavango Delta, Botswana

    The people of the place

    Polers, trackers and crew

    They grew up where you are going, and see it long before you do. The first hour of light is theirs to show you. The rest of the day is for the shade.

Whoever plans your journey stays with it: one name, from the first conversation until you are home. Booking with confidence

The tail of a humpback whale lifting from still grey water as it dives, snow-covered peaks behind
A humpback dives in Fournier Bay, off Anvers Island

On the eighth morning nobody speaks. The yacht lies to her anchor, the bay is flat as poured glass, and somewhere behind you a whale breathes out. It is a sound you keep.

The Antarctic journey

Why North v South?

Because it is the argument every traveller has with themselves. The ice or the desert. The long cold light, or the first warm hour.

The name keeps both sides. The house began in 2026 with the two ends of that argument, the Antarctic Peninsula and the Namib. Everything else in between is where it goes next.

Booking with confidence

Two pale icebergs on a dark sea under a near-black sky, a thin line of floe ice in front

Where shall we begin?

Nine short questions, about two minutes. Your answers come back to you as a letter in your own words.

Plan your journey

Icebergs on a dark sea, Antarctica