World's luxurious wilderness adventures

If a week-long canoe trip deep into the wilderness along Canada's Yukon River sounds like a great vacation, just remember that it usually involves packing a week's worth of essentials — even a roll of toilet paper and a shovel.

For many, that's a little too rough of an outdoors experience. Great River Journey, however, is a new tour company created by Whitehorse, Yukon, resident George Asquith to give travelers a more luxurious option. During an eight-day, 370-mile (595-km) tour of the Yukon, guests ride in heated riverboats and stay in premium accommodations, like a newly built lodge that recalls a turn of the century homestead or tented cabins with claw-foot bathtubs.

Best of all, no shovel is required.