Mawari Travel

Mawari Travel Luxury gay travel, thoughtfully done. Small-group journeys for our community of travelers, with luxury stays, seamless logistics, and room to linger.

Capped at sixteen guests. Guaranteed departures. By Detours Travel.

The room has a view. The view has 3,000 years of history behind it.Every property on a Mawari journey is selected for wh...
06/10/2026

The room has a view. The view has 3,000 years of history behind it.

Every property on a Mawari journey is selected for what it adds to the experience, not just what it offers as a hotel. Where you stay is part of where you are. The pool at the Athens Capital Hotel happens to look directly at the Acropolis. That is not a coincidence. It is the standard.

Luxury stays across every journey.

If you've travelled with Detours - Gay Group Travel, you already know the people behind Mawari.The same team. The same w...
06/01/2026

If you've travelled with Detours - Gay Group Travel, you already know the people behind Mawari.

The same team. The same warmth. A new kind of trip, designed for when you're ready to travel a little differently. Welcome.

Mawari is a luxury gay travel brand. That's not a footnote, it's the foundation.Built by a team that is part of this com...
05/29/2026

Mawari is a luxury gay travel brand. That's not a footnote, it's the foundation.

Built by a team that is part of this community, for travelers who are part of this community. The destinations are extraordinary. The hotels are five-star. And the people you share it with understand, without explanation, what it means to travel somewhere and feel completely at ease.

Allies are welcome. The experience is for everyone who values considered travel. But we know who we built this for.

Before you ask, they've already thought of it.Mawari trip leaders are selected from the Detours team: Brandon, Clay, Dan...
05/21/2026

Before you ask, they've already thought of it.

Mawari trip leaders are selected from the Detours team: Brandon, Clay, Dan, Darren, and Jared. They carry the details quietly, so the journey feels effortless. The booking requeset that appears. The afternoon that opened up. The moment you didn't plan for that turned out to be the best one.

And sometimes they'll push you toward something you almost didn't do. The climb that felt too steep. The detour that added an hour. The thing that became the story you told when you got home.

Chosen for how they host, not what they recite.

Four Tours. Four very different corners of the world.Each one designed to feel effortless from the moment you land. Logi...
05/18/2026

Four Tours. Four very different corners of the world.

Each one designed to feel effortless from the moment you land. Logistics handled, trip leaders who know the place, and stays that are part of the experience rather than just a place to sleep. A luxury overnight cruise through Halong Bay. A remote safari camp on an island in the Okavango Delta. A private island off the Cambodian coast. A purpose-built expedition ship in Antarctica.

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Antarctica is the one that stays with you.The voyage begins in Ushuaia, at the tip of South America, and crosses the Dra...
05/18/2026

Antarctica is the one that stays with you.

The voyage begins in Ushuaia, at the tip of South America, and crosses the Drake Passage south. From there, the Antarctic Peninsula opens up. Glaciers, ice-filled fjords, Zodiac landings among penguin colonies, whales surfacing in the distance. No roads. No fixed itinerary. The expedition team reads the ice and the weather each morning and decides where to go.

Your ship is the Magellan Discoverer, a purpose-built polar expedition vessel with private balconies, a panoramic observation lounge, and a sauna with open views of the ice. Small enough to go where larger ships cannot.

Antarctica Expedition departs March 2028, exploring one of the last truly untouched places on earth.

Mawari is built by the team behind Detours Travel, the same brand you've trusted since we launched nearly 14 years ago.S...
05/18/2026

Mawari is built by the team behind Detours Travel, the same brand you've trusted since we launched nearly 14 years ago.

Same trip leaders. Same care. The same belief that travel is most meaningful when it's designed with your community in mind.

Same team. Elevated expression.

Travel Through Southeast Asia.The trip moves through three countries and thirteen days. Hanoi's colonial streets and an ...
05/18/2026

Travel Through Southeast Asia.

The trip moves through three countries and thirteen days. Hanoi's colonial streets and an overnight luxury cruise through the limestone karsts of Halong Bay. The temples and morning alms-giving ceremony of Luang Prabang in Laos. Sunrise at Angkor Wat in Cambodia.

It ends on a private island off the Cambodian coast. Four days at Six Senses Krabey Island, in your own villa, your own pool, and the kind of stillness that makes the White Lotus setting feel like a reasonable comparison. Without the drama.

Southeast Asia: Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia depart February and November 2027.

Every property on a Mawari tour is luxury. That part is straightforward.What takes longer is finding the ones chosen for...
05/18/2026

Every property on a Mawari tour is luxury. That part is straightforward.

What takes longer is finding the ones chosen for character rather than category. Where the room has a view that changes with the light, where the staff know your name, where the place itself feels like part of the experience.

We don't announce the standard. We just hold it.

The game drive leaves before the sun is fully up.But this trip begins in Cape Town, moves through Victoria Falls, and en...
05/18/2026

The game drive leaves before the sun is fully up.

But this trip begins in Cape Town, moves through Victoria Falls, and ends in some of the most remote wilderness on earth. Chobe National Park. The Okavango Delta, accessible only by light aircraft where you will enjoy your time in a luxury lodge.

Ten days. Africa: Cape Town to Botswana Safari departs May 2027.

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Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
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