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Smithsonian Journeys is a commercial project from the number 1 United States museum, and like a lot of 'historical tours' you get the luxury treatment and guidance from experts in the field (in this case the three lecturers include a former US Ambassador and the Director and Curator of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - who is someone I'd rather like to meet, but I digress...). This sort of thing costs money, of course.
$44,950, to be exact. Or an extra $5,095 if you have the temerity to be travelling on your own. And that doesn't even include the fare to the start of the trip in Copenhagen! Where does all that get you, then?
Finland, Armenia, Mongolia, China, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Cambodia, Bhutan, Ethiopia, Mali, and in are bundled meetings with peoples as romantic (and, yes, vanishing) as the Sami, Dogon, Tuareg, Khmer, and assorted first nations. You travel with your own chef (so if you don't fancy the fermented mare's milk they can whip you up a burger, I assume) and doctor exclusive to the 88 of you, um ... for 20 days in a private custom-designed Boeing 757.
Somebody said Americans don't understand Irony?
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