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Shebna GarconShebna Garcon is a fully licensed travel advisor with LuxRally Travel — trained, insured, and accredited to plan and book travel anywhere in the world. Shebna has personally traveled to all 7 continents & is happy to help her clients see the world!
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Inspiration
Four Types of Solo Trips to Take When You're Done Waiting on Someone Else
After over a decade of waiting on others, I decided to see the world for myself, alone. Here are four types of solo trips, personally tested by a luxury travel advisor — from group expeditions to fully private tours.
Guides
Getting to Machu Picchu Without Hiking: Deeper Immersion and Far Fewer Blisters
What happens when you skip the Inca Trail and spend those days exploring the ruins around the gates to Machu Picchu instead? A deeper, richer arrival at one of the world's great wonders.
Guides
Nine Days, Four Islands, One Unsolved Disappearance: Exploring the Galápagos by Land Tour
The Galápagos Islands are most often sold as a cruise expedition — but a land-based tour is an equally extraordinary way to experience them, and far less talked about.
Features
I Went on a Bucket-List Antarctica Expedition Cruise, Alone. This is What It Looked Like.
I set foot on my seventh and final continent in 2023 — and Antarctica delivered beyond every expectation. From navigating the Drake Passage at a rocky level 5 to strolling amongst the penguins on heavily protected and untouched land, here's everything I learned after an 11-day Antarctic expedition cruise.
Inspiration
Bucket List Completed: My Journey to Visiting All Seven Continents
From a college trip to Bolivia to a solo expedition to Antarctica, here's how I spent 16 years turning a bucket list dream into reality — and why the final continent led me to finally become a travel advisor.