Richseen Private Journeys · Global

Around the World by Private Jet

Tokyo · Bali · Rajasthan · Serengeti · Paris · Iceland · Global Grand Journey
22–26 Days · Multi-Continent
From USD 120,000+ per person
"Tokyo to Kyoto to Bali to Rajasthan to Dubai to the Serengeti to Paris to Iceland — the world in a single arc, composed entirely around you."
The Journey

The World,
One Arc, No Compromises

The world contains perhaps forty destinations whose combination of natural, cultural, and experiential quality justifies the effort required to reach them — and the commercial aviation network connects them in a sequence of compromises whose accumulated effect is to make the global journey feel less like a single coherent experience than a series of individually managed trips. The layover in Dubai between Tokyo and Rajasthan; the connection through Nairobi between the Maldives and the Serengeti; the overnight in London between Iceland and Paris — these are not inconveniences but structural features of a routing system designed for mass passenger throughput rather than the specific requirements of the curated global itinerary. The private jet around the world eliminates this structure entirely, replacing it with a departure schedule determined by the programme's own logic rather than the airline's network economics.

The Around the World by Private Jet is Richseen's most comprehensive single journey — the 22-to-26-day circuit that connects eight destinations across six continents in the routing whose efficiency makes the combination possible without the fatigue that commercial aviation imposes on itineraries of comparable geographic ambition. The sample framework moves east from Japan: the cultural precision of Tokyo and the seasonal garden of Aman Kyoto; the tropical immersion of Bali's Ubud or Lombok's Nihi Sumba; the palace heritage of Rajasthan's Udaipur or Jaipur; the modern luxury of Dubai's DIFC; the wildlife grandeur of the Serengeti's Singita or the Maasai Mara's andBeyond; the art and gastronomy of Paris; and the volcanic and auroral landscapes of Iceland — before the return crossing of the Atlantic completes the circuit.

Every component of this journey has been covered in Richseen's individual destination programmes — the Asia Cultural Journey, the Africa Safari expedition, the Cultural Icons Paris programme, the Arctic Silence Iceland journey — and the Around the World itinerary assembles them into a single arc whose sequence, pacing, and hotel programme are constructed as a coherent whole rather than a concatenation of separate bookings. The journey whose ambition is the planet itself, executed at the pace and quality that the private jet makes the only appropriate vehicle for.

Signature Moments

Six Encounters
with the World

The Arashiyama bamboo at dawn, the Serengeti lion at first light, and the Paris that a private jet reaches from Nairobi in the time that the commercial connection spends in transit.

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Japan — The Precision That Makes Every Other Country Legible by Contrast
The Japan segment as the journey's opening movement — the precision, the aesthetic discipline, and the specific quality of Japanese hospitality that establishes the register against which every subsequent destination is measured. Aman Tokyo's 33rd-floor view of the city grid at night; the Arashiyama bamboo grove at dawn with a private guide before the tourist circuit begins; the Kyoto kaiseki whose seasonal menu represents the most precisely articulated expression of the relationship between cooking and landscape available anywhere in the world. The cultural logic that the Japan segment establishes — the idea that the highest quality of an experience is produced by the most specific possible attention to the conditions of its delivery — is the same logic the entire Around the World journey applies.
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Rajasthan — The Palace Hotels Whose Architecture Is the Experience
Rajasthan as the journey's most architecturally immediate segment — the Taj Lake Palace floating on Lake Pichola in Udaipur (the 18th-century white marble palace whose island position makes it the most photographically immediate single hotel arrival in the world, reached by boat from the Taj City Palace ghats); the Umaid Bhawan in Jodhpur (the 347-room Art Deco palace still partially occupied by the Maharaja of Jodhpur); or the RAAS Devigarh in the Aravalli hills (the 18th-century fort converted to a 39-suite all-white interior whose architectural restraint makes it the most considered single luxury address in Rajasthan). The Ranthambore tiger safari; the Amber Fort at dawn; and the blue city of Jodhpur from the Mehrangarh battlements.
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Serengeti — The Great Migration and the Lion at First Light
The Serengeti segment as the journey's wildlife apex — the Great Migration (the 1.5 million wildebeest, 200,000 zebra, and 500,000 gazelle moving in a circular route across the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem in the most concentrated single terrestrial wildlife movement on Earth); the lion pride on the kopje at first light observed from the Singita Grumeti or andBeyond Serengeti Under Canvas mobile camp whose position tracks the Migration's progress; and the Maasai Mara river crossing (the wildebeest's Mara River crossing between July and October, where the Nile crocodile aggregation and the mass crossing event produce the most immediately dramatic single wildlife spectacle accessible to safari guests anywhere in Africa).
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Paris — The City Whose Density of Quality Makes Every Arrival a Reset
Paris as the journey's European movement — the city whose concentration of the world's most considered restaurants, galleries, fashion houses, and architectural monuments within a 10-kilometre radius makes it the most efficiently rewarding single urban destination on the global circuit. The private jet from Nairobi to Le Bourget (8 hours, arriving with the programme intact rather than via the Heathrow connection whose 3-hour transit costs the equivalent of a full Paris afternoon); the Cheval Blanc Paris on the Quai du Louvre or the Ritz on the Place Vendôme; the Musée d'Orsay's Impressionist collection; and the Palais Royal dinner whose specific quality — the garden, the colonnades, and the Michelin-starred restaurants that surround it — makes the Paris evening most itself.
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Iceland — The Journey's Final Natural Argument
Iceland as the journey's closing natural chapter — the volcanic geology that makes the island most immediately unlike every preceding destination: the Þingvellir rift valley where the tectonic plates are separating; the Geysir field; the Jökulsárlón glacier lagoon; and the aurora borealis at Eleven Deplar Farm whose zero-light-pollution fjord produces the viewing conditions that make the northern lights most immediately rewarding after the 22 days of urban and natural experiences that preceded it. The geothermal hot tub whose 40°C water against the Icelandic winter air is the most specifically Icelandic single luxury experience — and the most restorative conclusion to a global journey available anywhere in the northern hemisphere.
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The Private Jet as the Journey's Only Possible Vehicle
The private jet routing across the Around the World circuit — Tokyo to Bali (6 hours); Bali to Jaipur (5 hours); Jaipur to Dubai (2 hours); Dubai to Kilimanjaro or Nairobi (5 hours); Nairobi to Paris Le Bourget (8 hours); Paris to Reykjavik (3 hours); and the transatlantic return. The aircraft whose schedule reflects the programme's logic — the Kyoto temple circuit concludes before the Bali departure; the Serengeti game drive finishes before the Paris flight; the Iceland aurora session ends before the return crossing. The journey that the commercial aviation network cannot assemble without the overnight connections, the hub transits, and the arrival fatigue whose cumulative effect reduces the quality of every destination to a fraction of what the private jet makes available in full.
Key Highlights

What Makes This Journey

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Private Jet — The World Without the Transit Penalty
The private jet circuit across eight destinations and six continents — Tokyo to Bali, Bali to Rajasthan, Rajasthan to Dubai, Dubai to the Serengeti, the Serengeti to Paris, Paris to Iceland, and the transatlantic return. The aircraft whose departure times are determined by the programme's logic rather than the airline network's hub economics; whose arrival at each destination preserves the first day intact rather than consumed by the connection; and whose routing between Africa and Europe eliminates the overnight transit that the commercial network cannot avoid. The journey that the world's geography makes most ambitious and the private jet makes most executable.
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Eight Destinations — Six Continents, One Coherent Arc
The global itinerary's arc — Japan (cultural precision), Southeast Asia (tropical immersion), India (palace heritage), Middle East (modern luxury and desert), Africa (wildlife grandeur), Europe (art and gastronomy), and Iceland (volcanic and auroral landscapes). Eight destinations whose individual quality is documented in Richseen's single-destination programmes and whose combination in a single 22-to-26-day journey produces the most complete single experience of the world's geographic and cultural range available to private travellers.
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Global Luxury Portfolio — Aman, Four Seasons, Singita, Rosewood
The hotel programme across eight destinations — Aman Tokyo and Aman Kyoto for Japan; Nihi Sumba or Capella Ubud for Southeast Asia; Taj Lake Palace or RAAS Devigarh for Rajasthan; Bulgari Dubai or Four Seasons DIFC for Dubai; Singita Grumeti or andBeyond for Africa; Cheval Blanc Paris or Ritz for France; Eleven Deplar Farm for Iceland. Richseen's established relationships with each property ensure confirmation in the weeks when the global journey's hotel requirements are most constrained by the programme calendar.
Sample Framework

Key Segments & Movements

The Around the World journey is fully modular — the destination sequence, duration at each stop, and hotel selection are constructed around the client's preferences, the seasonal calendar, and the specific access opportunities at the time of planning. The sample framework below represents the eastbound October circuit. Total private jet flight time approximately 42 hours across the circuit.

Every Richseen Around the World journey is individually constructed. The planning process begins 12 months or more in advance to secure hotel availability across eight destinations simultaneously. The private jet is confirmed alongside the hotel programme; Richseen's concierge team manages all ground logistics, experience bookings, and access credentials across all destinations as a single coordinated programme.

Days 1–3 — Japan
Tokyo · Kyoto — Aman Tokyo · Aman Kyoto · Dawn Temples
Arrive at Haneda International Airport with private transfer to Aman Tokyo — the 33rd-floor hotel above the Imperial Palace whose city grid view and the onsen at altitude establish the journey's opening register. Day 1: Tsukiji outer market at 7am; the Nezu Museum; the Shibuya crossing. Day 2: shinkansen to Kyoto; Aman Kyoto in the Kitayama forest; the Arashiyama circuit with a private guide at dawn — Tenryu-ji, the bamboo grove, Jojakko-ji's hidden moss garden. Day 3: Tofuku-ji for the maple valley (October peak); the private tea ceremony; kaiseki dinner. Private jet departure from Osaka Kansai to Bali Ngurah Rai (6 hours) in the evening after the programme concludes.
Aman Tokyo / Aman Kyoto
Days 4–6 — Southeast Asia
Bali or Lombok — Cultural Immersion · Rice Terraces · Temple
Private jet to Bali Ngurah Rai; private car to Capella Ubud in the Keliki Valley (90 minutes) or Nihi Sumba on Sumba Island (domestic flight connection, 1.5 hours). Bali programme: the Ubud market at 6am; the Tegallalang rice terraces; the Pura Besakih volcano temple approach; and the private cooking class. Sumba alternative: Nihi Sumba's Nihioka spa — the cliff-face treatment rooms above the surf break; the Sumba ikat weaving village; the wild horse programme. Both properties provide the tropical immersion and cultural depth that makes Southeast Asia the most restorative mid-journey pause before the Indian subcontinent. Private jet departure to Jaipur or Udaipur (5 hours).
Capella Ubud / Nihi Sumba
Days 7–9 — India
Rajasthan — Taj Lake Palace · Amber Fort · Desert Camp
Private jet to Udaipur Maharana Pratap Airport (5 hours from Bali). Boat transfer to the Taj Lake Palace on Lake Pichola — the 18th-century white marble island palace whose arrival is the most photographically immediate single hotel check-in in the world. Day 7: the City Palace galleries; the sunset dhow on Lake Pichola with the Aravalli hills above. Day 8: private car to Jodhpur (3.5 hours); the Mehrangarh Fort's battlements above the blue city; check-in to the Umaid Bhawan. Day 9: the Ranthambore National Park tiger safari (3 hours from Jaipur by private car); or the Thar Desert camp at the Sam Sand Dunes for the camel safari and the desert sunset whose silence is the most immediately contrasting experience to the urban intensity of the Rajasthan city circuit. Private jet to Dubai (2 hours).
Taj Lake Palace / Umaid Bhawan
Days 10–12 — Middle East
Dubai — Bulgari Hotel · Desert · DIFC · Louvre Abu Dhabi
Private jet to Dubai International (2 hours from Rajasthan). Check-in to Bulgari Dubai on the Jumeira Bay Island or Four Seasons DIFC. Day 10: the Louvre Abu Dhabi (60 minutes from Dubai) — Jean Nouvel's dome whose geometric perforations produce the light pattern that makes the building most immediately legible as a meditation on the relationship between the permanent collection and the desert sky; the museum's ancient civilisations programme. Day 11: the Bab Al Shams desert resort for the Al Hadheerah outdoor dinner under the stars; the falconry demonstration. Day 12: the Al Serkal Avenue contemporary art district; the Gold Souk; and the private jet preparation for the Africa crossing. Private jet to Kilimanjaro International Airport or Nairobi Wilson (5 hours).
Bulgari Dubai / Four Seasons DIFC
Days 13–16 — Africa
Serengeti or Maasai Mara — Singita · Big Five · Migration
Private jet to Kilimanjaro International or Nairobi Wilson (5 hours); bush aircraft to the Serengeti airstrip (1 hour). Four nights at Singita Grumeti (western Serengeti, Migration corridor, October) or andBeyond Serengeti Under Canvas (mobile camp tracking the Migration's position). The twice-daily game drives whose October programme covers the Maasai Mara crossing window; the walking safari with the Maasai guide; the balloon safari at dawn over the Serengeti plain whose specific quality — the sound of the wildlife below and the scale of the ecosystem visible from the balloon at 300 metres — makes it the most complete single aerial perspective on the African wildlife landscape. Private jet to Paris Le Bourget (8 hours from Nairobi) after the final morning game drive.
Singita Grumeti / andBeyond
Days 17–19 — Europe
Paris — Cheval Blanc · Louvre · Palais Royal · Michelin Dinner
Private jet arrives at Le Bourget in the late afternoon (8 hours from Nairobi); private car to Cheval Blanc Paris on the Quai du Louvre or the Ritz on the Place Vendôme. Day 17: the first Paris evening — the Palais Royal, the Galerie Vivienne, and the dinner at the restaurant Richseen has confirmed in advance against the Paris calendar's competing demands. Day 18: the Musée d'Orsay Impressionist collection at 9am; the Marais district for the contemporary galleries; the Sainte-Chapelle; and the evening fashion or cultural event if the calendar provides. Day 19: the Versailles gardens; the final Paris dinner at the chef's table. Private jet to Reykjavik Keflavik (3 hours) for the Iceland conclusion.
Cheval Blanc Paris / Ritz Paris
Days 20–22 — Iceland
Reykjavik · Deplar Farm — Aurora · Geothermal · Golden Circle
Private jet to Keflavik (3 hours from Paris). Night 20: The Reykjavik EDITION for the aurora sky assessment — the rooftop bar, the KP index forecast, and the first Northern Lights observation if conditions permit. Day 21: the Golden Circle — Þingvellir rift valley, Geysir, Gullfoss; helicopter to Eleven Deplar Farm on the Troll Peninsula for the two nights of maximum aurora viewing probability in zero light pollution. Night 21 and 22: the geothermal deck at Deplar Farm; the wake-up service when the KP rises; the most complete aurora experience available from any luxury lodge in Iceland. Departure from Akureyri by helicopter to Reykjavik Keflavik; transatlantic private jet to New York, London, or the home departure city.
EDITION Reykjavik / Eleven Deplar Farm
Luxury Stays

Where You Rest Matters

Aman · Global Portfolio
Asia Segment — Selected Aman Properties
Aman (selected properties)
Tokyo · Kyoto · Bali · and global destinations
The Aman portfolio across the Around the World circuit's Asia segment — Aman Tokyo in the Otemachi Tower (33rd-floor city grid view, Imperial Palace below); Aman Kyoto in the Kitayama forest (stone-and-moss garden, private path to the Kinkaku-ji); and the Aman properties in other Asian cities where the brand's design philosophy provides the most consistent single framework for the cultural journey. The Aman service culture whose specific combination of the low staff-to-guest ratio, the absence of formal check-in desks, and the property's physical integration with the landscape it occupies makes the transition between very different destination types most comfortable across the arc of a global journey.
Four Seasons · Europe & Middle East
Europe & Middle East Segments — Four Seasons Portfolio
Four Seasons (selected properties)
Paris · Dubai · and global cities
Four Seasons properties for the Europe and Middle East segments — the George V in Paris (the 1928 Art Deco palace on the Avenue George V whose position between the major cultural institutions and the Champs-Élysées makes it the most operationally convenient single Paris address); the Four Seasons DIFC in Dubai (the financial district property whose design and dining programme represent the most considered contemporary luxury address in the UAE). The Four Seasons brand's operational consistency across multiple very different cities makes it the most reliably appropriate multi-city choice for the segments of the global circuit whose primary value is cultural access rather than remote seclusion.

Ritz-Carlton & equivalent · Africa & Conclusion
Africa & Conclusion Segments
Ritz-Carlton / Singita / andBeyond (selected properties)
Serengeti · Maasai Mara · Iceland · and conclusion destinations
The Africa and conclusion segment properties — Singita Grumeti in the western Serengeti (the Grumeti Fund's conservation programme and the Migration corridor position whose combination makes it the most conservation-aligned single safari address in East Africa); andBeyond Serengeti Under Canvas for guests who prioritise the Migration tracking programme over fixed lodge infrastructure; and the Ritz-Carlton or equivalent luxury properties for the journey's final destinations. Richseen selects the specific property at each destination based on the seasonal conditions, the programme's specific requirements, and the availability that the advance planning process confirms.
Exclusive Experiences

Moments Designed for You

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Africa
Serengeti at Dawn — The Migration, the Lion, the Balloon
The Africa segment as the journey's wildlife apex — the Serengeti game drive at first light when the predators are most active and the Migration herds are most concentrated; the hot air balloon safari whose 300-metre altitude above the Serengeti plain produces the most complete single aerial perspective on the African wildlife landscape; and the Mara River crossing (July to October) where the wildebeest crossing and the Nile crocodile aggregation produce the most immediately dramatic single wildlife spectacle in Africa. From Singita Grumeti or andBeyond Serengeti Under Canvas — the two properties whose position and guide quality make the Migration programme most accessible.
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India
Taj Lake Palace — The Island Hotel Whose Arrival Is Its Experience
The Taj Lake Palace on Lake Pichola in Udaipur — the 18th-century white marble palace on an island accessible only by boat from the City Palace ghats, whose approach across the lake at dusk (the palace reflected in the Pichola water, the Aravalli hills above, and the City Palace on the eastern shore) constitutes the most photographically immediate single hotel arrival in the world. The Rajasthan palace circuit whose combination — Udaipur's lake palaces, Jodhpur's Mehrangarh above the blue city, and Jaipur's Amber Fort — provides the most concentrated single architectural experience of the Mughal and Rajput heritage available in South Asia.
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Iceland
Aurora at Deplar Farm — The Journey's Final Natural Chapter
The Iceland aurora programme as the global journey's closing natural experience — the private jet from Paris to Keflavik (3 hours); the Golden Circle geological circuit; and the helicopter to Eleven Deplar Farm on the Troll Peninsula for the zero-light-pollution fjord whose aurora viewing probability and the geothermal hot tub infrastructure make it the most specifically designed single aurora experience available in Iceland. The 2am wake-up service; the green light across the fjord sky; and the specific quality of returning to the geothermal deck after 22 days across the world's most varied landscapes — the journey whose conclusion the aurora makes most complete.
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Private Jet
42 Hours Across Eight Destinations — The Circuit Only One Aircraft Makes
The private jet routing whose total flight time of approximately 42 hours connects eight destinations across six continents — Tokyo to Bali (6h), Bali to Jaipur (5h), Jaipur to Dubai (2h), Dubai to Nairobi (5h), Nairobi to Paris Le Bourget (8h), Paris to Reykjavik (3h), and the transatlantic return (7–8h). The aircraft whose schedule reflects the programme rather than the network; whose arrival at each destination preserves the programme intact; and whose routing eliminates the commercial aviation structure of hub transits, connection delays, and departure-city constraints that makes the global grand journey — in its full scope — impossible to execute without compromise in any other configuration.
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