Solar Eclipse Tours
Solar Eclipse Tours to worldwide destinations since 1980.
Each eclipse presents a new challenge, a new experience and an unforgettable journey for our travelers. A specialty of A Classic Tours Collection, our Solar Eclipse Tours amaze and delight travelers looking for an out-of-this-world experience. Our tours enjoy loyal following because of our success ratio for viewing Eclipses and careful planning and attention to detail in crafting and operating such unique tours. Each venue is hand selected keeping in mind the weather conditions/ predictions by experts (Jay Anderson), Eclipse routes/maps by (Xavier Jubier), NASA bulletins to ensure maximum success.

With A Classic Tours Collection, you enjoy a worry-free travel experience, because we look after all the research, planning and logistics. On each tour, we find the perfect balance of high-quality accommodations, great eclipse viewing venue, sampling local cuisines and comfortable transport to travel and sight-see. We select expert local guides, best in the industry, and our local representative’s open doors to venues, sights and events that in many cases would be inaccessible to independent travelers. You will be traveling with fellow travelers who share the same enthusiasm, deep passion and respect of local cultures and Mother Nature.
Watch videos of our 2013 Solar Eclipse tour to Gabon & 2015 to Svalbard
2013
2015
Eclipse over America- By NOVA
Featuring Professor Jay Pasachoff & A Classic Tours Collection’s 2017 Eclipse tour of Salem, Oregon
View the eclipse with world-renowned Astronomy expert
Prof. Jay Pasachoff
Field Memorial Professor and Director of the
Hopkins Observatory at Williams College.
Prof. Pasachoff is also Chair of the International Astronomical Union’s Working Group on Solar Eclipses. He is the co-author of “The Sun (2017),” “The Cosmos: Astronomy in the New Millennium (2014),” “Nearest Star: The Surprising Science of Our Sun (2014),” and of “The Solar Corona (2010).” His “Peterson Field Guide to the Stars and Planets” is widely used by the general public as well as the amateur astronomy community. 2019 will be his 71st eclipse observation trip.
To learn more about Prof. Pasachoff and his study of eclipses, check-
Prof. Jay Pasachoff – Awards & Recognitions
Tours are led by Mark Sood of A Classic Tours Collection
Mark Madhukar Sood has been organizing and leading tours to worldwide destinations for over 30 years. His first eclipse group tour was in 1980 and he is proud to be hosting his 17th Eclipse group tour in 2019. Mark’s meticulous planning and expert handling of every detail have resulted in the highest level of success on all of the past 16 Solar Eclipse Tours. As a testament to the success, a large number of participants are repeat customers who anxiously await the next tour and even the next after that.
Mark Sood and Prof. Jay Pasachoff
2019
TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE TOURS
CHILE & PERU
3 Tour options- 7, 10 & 14 days
OPTION A- HIGHLIGHTS OF CHILE- 7 Days- Jun. 27 to Jul. 3, 2019- 2 ROOMS AVAILABLE
Visiting: Santiago –Valparaiso – La Serena, Eclipse at Elqui Valley & Isla Damas
OPTION B- DISCOVER CHILE- 10 DAYS – Jun. 27 to Jul. 6, 2019- 2 ROOMS AVAILABLE
Visiting: Santiago –Valparaiso – La Serena, Eclipse at Elqui Valley & Isla Damas & San Pedro de Atacama.
OPTION C- BEST OF CHILE- 14 DAYS- Jun. 27 to Jul. 10, 2019– 2 ROOMS AVAILABLE
Visiting: Santiago –Valparaiso – La Serena, Eclipse at Elqui Valley & Isla Damas, San Pedro de Atacama & Easter Island.
OPTION D- TOTAL ECLIPSE & PHOTOGRAPHY TOUR with Kyle Adler- 14 DAYS- Jun. 27 to Jul. 10, 2019– SOLD OUT- waiting list open
Visiting: Santiago –Valparaiso – La Serena, Eclipse at Elqui Valley & Isla Damas, San Pedro de Atacama & Easter Island.
PRE ECLIPSE PERU EXTENSION-
8 DAYS – Jun. 20 to 27, 2019 visiting: Lima, Cusco, Sacred Valley & Machu Picchu.
Call for details
**Post tour extension available on request
2019
ANNULAR SOLAR ECLIPSE – South India
INDIA
Dec. 21 to 30, 2019
10 days visiting: INDIA- Chennai, Mahabalipuram, Kanchipuram, Coimbatore, Thrissur, Kochi, Backwaters houseboat stay.
OPTIONAL SRI LANKA EXTENSION- Negombo, Dambula, Sigiriya, Anuradhapura, Polonnaruwa, Minneriya National Park, Matale, Kandy & Colombo.
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2020
TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE TOURS
ARGENTINA
3 Tour options- 11, 15 & 16 days
OPTION 1- DISCOVER ARGENTINA- 11 Days- Dec. 5 to 15, 2020
Visiting: Buenos Aires, Iguassu falls (Brazil & Argentina), Trelew, Puerto Madryn & Las Grutas
OPTION 2- WONDERS OF ARGENTINA- 14 DAYS – Dec. 5 to 18, 2020
Visiting: Buenos Aires, Iguassu falls (Brazil & Argentina), Trelew, Puerto Madryn, Las Grutas, El Calafate, Ushuaia & Tierra del Fuego national park.
OPTION 3- ULTIMATE ARGENTINA- 18 DAYS- Dec. 5 to 22, 2020
Visiting: Buenos Aires, Iguassu falls (Brazil & Argentina), Trelew, Puerto Madryn, Las Grutas, El Calafate, Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego national park & 5 days Patagonia Cruise & Punta Arenas (Chile)
We are accepting early bookings for 2020 Total Solar Eclipse tours
COMING SOON:
2020 Annular Eclipse tour to Tibet, China
2021 TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE TO ANTARCTICA
Hi Mark, We were just reminded on the SEML that tomorrow is the 20th anniversary of our 1995 TSE in India. It was such a wonderful tour and always gives us great memories when we think about the places that we visited and the interesting hotels in which we stayed. We were fortunate to meet you then and to travel with you since then. We are very much looking forward to March 2016 in Indonesia and to traveling with you again.
Kind regards, Joyce and David
** Eclipse Montage courtesy Kyle Adler Photography
