Safety is always paramount on these sorts of trips and we simply would not recommend them if we thought that travellers would be putting themselves at risk.
Travelling through the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq, for example, or exploring in Algeria’s Sahara Desert. These are areas of the world that many people wouldn’t be tempted to visit, while others would be eagerly rubbing their hands together at the prospect of all those ancient treasures. Safety is always paramount on these sorts of trips and we simply would not recommend them if we thought that travellers would be putting themselves at risk. We trust our holiday suppliers and their local guides implicitly, and certainly much more so than sensationalist newspaper headlines.