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Golden Compass

Locality: Keiraville, New South Wales, Australia

Phone: +61 1800 132 385

Address: P.O. Box 163 2500 Keiraville, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.goldencompasstours.com.au/

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22.01.2022 2020 will be a very special year for Golden Compass Tours, as we celebrate our 25th anniversary. Our very own Kiwi, Louise Shave, is leading a special Silver Anniversary A Journey through New Zealand tour very soon, in February, and our own proud Welshman, Mark Goodwin, will be leading a celebratory tour to Discover Wales, his native land, later in August. We have also already guaranteed a number of tours for 2020. 2020 will also mark the third occasion that Golden Compass To...Continue reading

18.01.2022 We are delighted to announce that we have increased the rewards of our Refer a Friend Scheme in 2020. Our Travel Forums provide an ideal opportunity for you to introduce a friend to Golden Compass and we are delighted that so many of our new travellers come to us as a result of recommendations from you. As a small token of our appreciation to you, we normally offer a simple Refer a Friend Scheme reward whereby you just refer a friend or family member, who isn't already part o...f the Golden Compass family of travellers, and when he or she books one of our programs, you would receive a $200 discount off any booking you make with us. However, because next year is our Silver Anniversary, we want to show how much we appreciate your loyalty: so for 2020 only this reward will be increased to a special $250 discount per new friend or family member, who takes a tour with us in 2020. There is no limit to the number of people you can refer - refer just four friends or family members, who book a program and travel with us in 2020, and you will receive $1,000 off your program, regardless of whether or not they are travelling with you. Exceptionally in this special anniversary year, your friends will also receive $250 (rather than the usual $100) off their own booking, making a Golden Compass tour even more rewarding. Any friend or family member, who may be interested in touring with Golden Compass, is more than welcome at any of our Travel Forums and we look forward to introducing them to our programs, our team and their future travelling companions.

17.01.2022 We have some of our best-loved programs leaders about to set out on long journeys in order to host our series of informative Travel Forums throughout eastern Australia and New Zealand. Do come and join us in Melbourne (28 Nov), Canberra (29 Nov), Sydney (30 Nov), Wollongong (02 Dec), Brisbane (04 Dec) or Auckland (05 Dec). Kerry Kyriacou will be joined in Australia, and Alison Dale in New Zealand, by Mark Goodwin, Hugh Morgan and Louise Shave to give you an overview of our favourite and new 2020 tours, designed with the mature, active Australian traveller in mind.

15.01.2022 We have just completed our series of Travel Forums in Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney, Wollongong, Brisbane and Auckland. We would like to thank all those who attended. It was great to catch up with old friends and welcome new friends to the Golden Compass family. We were pleased that our speakers were received so enthusiastically and that there was so much positive interest for our series of exciting tours in 2020. We hope to be announcing a number of guaranteed departures very soon.

14.01.2022 Our intrepid Journey through New Zealand group are now at Rotorua and are learning the Poi Dance, it seems, as well as discovering the local flora and fauna and enjoying the sights.

13.01.2022 Our small and intrepid group of travellers has just returned from their tour of Sicily and Sardinia with Hugh Morgan. For those who missed the opportunity to travel to Sicily this year with Hugh, he is leading another tour to this fascinating island in April / May 2020 - so please just contact us for more details.

13.01.2022 We have had a busy year at Golden Compass Tours. Louise, Hugh and Mark have led a number of successful tours through Europe and the Caucasus, while Robyn has been eagerly showing our participants the wonderful colours and culture of Japan. Some of you have also joined our popular tours within Australia and we have met with many of you at our Travel Forums along Australia’s East Coast and in Auckland. Christmas is a time to reflect on the year gone by and to celebrate with fam...Continue reading

11.01.2022 New Guaranteed Departures During our Travel Forums, we received much interest in our Undiscovered Italy tour, Adriatic Discovery, Taste of Campania, European Alpine Discovery with Oberammergau, Hapsburg Cities with Oberammergau, Highlights of Germany, Trans-Caucasus Journey and China’s Silk Road. We need just a few more registrations in order to confirm these tours, so please send your registration forms as soon as possible. There was also significant interest in our Balk...an Discovery, Scottish Island Hopping, Singapore in Depth, Discover Wales, Santiago in Style, Treasures of India, Persia & Iran, Japan Autumn Colours and Oman and Dubai: An Arabian Adventure. We hope to have more news on these tours very soon, as we continue to receive your registration forms. As a result of the tremendous support we’ve received recently, we are very pleased to announce some of our 2020 tours are already guaranteed with only a few spaces available on each: A Journey through New Zealand (February 2020) led by Louise Shave Australia’s North West Adventure in Style (July 2020) led by David Mobbs Journey to the ‘Stans’ of Central Asia (September 2020) led by Mark Goodwin Legendary Tracks of South Australia including Birdsville (October 2020) led by David Mobbs Each tour offers the opportunity to travel with a small group of like-minded people and to experience amazing destinations with the expert guidance, care and insights of outstanding local guides and our much-loved, well-travelled and experienced program leaders. Please also note our Early Bird Booking Discount for tour departures up to and including June 2020 is 19 December. Please ensure you send your registration to us by this date to secure a saving of $300 per person / $600 per couple on your 2020 tour. We only require a few more bookings on a number of tours to be able to guarantee them, so please do send in your registration form.

07.01.2022 Our 2020 brochure is now on its way to you and we are delighted to announce a series of exciting Travel Forums in Melbourne (28 Nov), Canberra (29 Nov), Sydney (30 Nov), Wollongong (02 Dec), Brisbane (04 Dec) and Auckland (05 Dec). Kerry Kyriacou will be joined in Australia, and Alison Dale in New Zealand, by Mark Goodwin, Hugh Morgan and Louise Shave to give you an overview of our favourite and new 2020 tours, designed with the mature, active Australian traveller in mind. For full days and to reserve your place please click the link: http://goldencompasstours.com.au/9-latest-news/18-test

07.01.2022 We are very pleased to announce that our 2020 Brochure is already in the mail on its way to you now. Please do get in touch if you have not received a copy within the next few days. We celebrate our Silver Anniversary in 2020. Whether you marvel at the rugged beauty of Scotland’s landscape, explore the remote areas of Central Asia, immerse yourself in the culture and history of Europe, Golden Compass Tours provides the opportunity to discover and learn with like-minded travel...lers from Australia and New Zealand. Since our company’s inception in 1995, our tours have been carefully developed for their educational emphasis and designed to satisfy the expectations of our participants. The team at Golden Compass has planned these programs expressly with our Australian and New Zealand travellers in mind and we feel sure that you will relish reading about them, just as much as we’ve taken pleasure in crafting them for your enjoyment. Highlights of our 2020 calendar for our Silver Anniversary year include new exciting tours together with old favourites in Italy, Spain, Scotland and Wales, as well as the more exotic regions of Eastern Europe, the Adriatic, the Caucasus and Iran, not to mention ever popular Central Asia, Japan, India, Sri Lanka, Norfolk Island, Outback South Australia and Western Australia. We’re especially delighted to introduce new adventures for 2020 in Austria, Germany (including the Passion Play at Oberammergau), Switzerland, China and Tibet, Singapore, Korea (both North and South!), Morocco and closer to home, New Zealand. We trust our new brochure will give you many happy hours of fascinating reading and travel planning. To assist you with your 2020 travel planning, we are again organising a series of Travel Forums, where you will meet members of our team including program leaders to learn more about our Golden Compass tour programs.

06.01.2022 If you are looking to get away in New Year but not stray too far from home, why not take the chance to explore Norfolk Island with a small group of like-minded travellers, perhaps even meet up with some old travelling companions? This island has a unique beauty, with its renowned tall majestic pines, crystal clear waters, sheer cliff faces, coral reefs and beautiful beaches. Norfolk Island, which lies directly east of Australia and north of New Zealand, is far more than a pic...turesque island in the South Pacific, it is paradise with a past. We join local experts, as they provide a keen insight into the past, present and future of this island. After a week, you will certainly appreciate Norfolk Island’s engaging, friendly people and their unique lifestyle on their beautiful island in the South Pacific. Our tour commences Sydney 19 March 2021 and ends Sydney 27 March 2021 Program Leader - Dinty Wilson For more details, please just contact us or click the link below: https://www.goldencompasstours.com.au//433-norfolk-island-

05.01.2022 Our Journey through New Zealand group has reached the South Island and they are having a great time experiencing its outstanding scenery and fine cuisine. Louise even managed to arrange a clear day for our group to view Mount Cook!

04.01.2022 If you are looking to get away and want an adventure, why not consider joining us for a trip across the Nullarbor and to the Eyre Peninsula? Our tour commences Perth on 17 March 2021 and ends in Port Lincoln, South Australia, on 26 March 2021 Program Leader - David Mobbs... This fantastic tour travels across the famous Nullarbor Plain, viewing stunning coastal scenery including towering cliffs, caves, sinkholes, blowholes and remote beaches, the vine region of Margaret River and home to the massive Karri and Tingles trees of south west WA. Journey from forest to coast and everything in between. Marvel at the amazing collection of fauna and flora. We learn about the explorers and pioneer families that opened up remote regions and what life is like in this vast and beautiful part of Australia. For full details just clock on the link below: https://www.goldencompasstours.com.au//441-nullarbor-eyre-

03.01.2022 Well, what a year it has been for all of us, but particularly for our family and friends in hardest affected Victoria! It’s remarkable to learn that Australia is now virtually free of Covid-19 cases in the community. Long may this wonderfully good news continue. As you are also aware, there is much positive commentary of late in the media and from government about the progress with Covid-19 vaccine trials. We can but hope that some of the vaccines are approved for widespread ...use very soon and that we can once more see a complete and continuous relaxation of the internal state and territory borders in Australia. Over the last few months ago, as we have continued to keep our newsletters and Facebook posts to a minimum. Our priorities have been to be in constant contact with all our participants who were due to depart on our many international tours during this second half of 2020. Thank you again to the many of you who have contacted us during this time with your support and encouragement. This has been much appreciated and we have been heartened by your ever keen desire to get back to travelling the globe just as soon as it is possible to do so safely. Next year will be our 26th year of operation and we are looking forward to resuming our educational travel adventures once again in a safe and enjoyable manner. Since our company’s inception, our focus has been to connect people across cultures through travel and we remain committed to the principle that travel is a life-long learning experience to enrich and inspire you. As overseas travel is not possible at present, we have been asked by many of you to develop more tours within Australia, so that you can finally escape from home and learn more about our great country. We are now pleased, therefore, to offer a range of tours closer to home for you to consider. Please take a look at our website and see what new tours we are offering in Australia in 2021.

03.01.2022 Our intrepid small group has arrived safely in New Zealand and are enjoying blue skies and perfect weather, not to mention the local wine and produce, on Auckland's Waiheke Island with Golden Compass Tours very own Kiwi Program Leader, Louise Shave. They continue their Journey through New Zealand with Louise to the Bay of Islands, Rotorua, Napier, Wellington, Queenstown, Mount Cook and Christchurch. We are sure there will be more updates to follow.

02.01.2022 Amidst all the uncertainty and upheaval in the world at present, our wonderful team around the globe is thinking of you, your families and your friends and we hope that you are safe and well. We have been in regular contact with our many participants due to travel in the first half of 2020 and they are all aware of our inevitable cancellations. They fully appreciate that our main concern is their safety, along with the well-being of our Program Leaders and suppliers. These ar...e trying times and we would particularly like to say a heartfelt thank you to all our valued participants for the many emails and calls of support we have received in recent weeks. Regardless of where we live, it is clear that we are facing this challenge together. We are living through an extraordinary world event and it’s certainly not the way we expected to celebrate our Silver Anniversary year! For many of us, travel fulfills a basic need in our lives and, as Hilaire Belloc once wrote: We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. We think we do ‘travel’ pretty well at Golden Compass Tours. We’ve kept our e-newsletters to a minimum in recent weeks, as our priorities have been to be in constant contact with all our participants due to depart on our many tours during May through to August, providing updates and reassurance. We thank our loyal participants for their understanding during this tumultuous period. For those of you travelling with us on tours beyond 01 September 2020, we will, in the coming weeks and months, provide you with updates as and when we have them. Thank you all for your patience and understanding as we work through this volatile period. We are still looking forward to 2021 and many more years of providing you with exciting travel opportunities. We plan to reschedule most of the tours lost from this year’s program at about the same time next year. The Passion Play in Oberammergau has been postponed until 2022 and so we will also be looking at tours to include this extraordinary event in good time. We are also using our time to look at other fascinating possibilities which may be of interest to you. Further details will be sent to you in the coming months. Although no one has any idea when the threat of the virus will pass, it will and when it does, we will be here to welcome you on another Golden Compass Tour packed with fulfillment. Perhaps just a thought for us all in these anxious times! One positive thing to come out of the current situation we are all facing is that people seem to be making much more effort to stay in touch with each other. Perhaps take the time to contact some of your fellow travelling companions to say ‘hi’. We would be happy to put you in touch (complying with all privacy requirements, of course) if you have lost the contact details of those you have travelled with in the past. In the meantime, stay safe. With all best wishes from the Team at Golden Compass

02.01.2022 Our Journey through New Zealand has now ended in Christchurch following a walk in the Mount Cook National Park, a visit to Christchurch’s Antarctic Centre and a trip on the Tranz-Alpine train, stopping to view Arthur’s Pass. A great time was had by all and a special thanks to our Kiwi Program Leader, Louise Shave, for making it all so special.

01.01.2022 As a result of the tremendous support we’ve received recently, we're very pleased to announce some additions to our list of 2020 tours which are already guaranteed with only a few spaces still available on each: A Journey through New Zealand (February 2020) led by Louise Shave Undiscovered Italy (May 2020) led by Hugh Morgan Taste of Campania (May 2020) led by Hugh Morgan ... Adriatic Discovery (May 2020) led by Louise Shave The Hapsburg Cities with Oberammergau (June 2020) led by Mark Goodwin Highlights of Germany (June 2020) led by Mark Goodwin Australia’s North West Adventure in Style (July 2020) led by David Mobbs Journey to the ‘Stans’ of Central Asia (September 2020) led by Mark Goodwin Legendary Tracks of South Australia including Birdsville (October 2020) led by David Mobbs Each tour offers the opportunity to travel with a small group of like-minded people and to experience amazing destinations with the expert guidance, care and insights of outstanding local guides and our much-loved, well-travelled and experienced program leaders. Please also note our Early Bird Booking Discount for tour departures up to and including June 2020 is being extended until 10 January 2020. Please ensure you contact us and send us your registration soon to secure a saving of $300 per person / $600 per couple on your 2020 tour. With only a few more bookings on a number of tours, we'll be able to guarantee those tours, so please do send in your registration form.