From the train to the mountain– 10 days |
From the train to the mountain– 10 days
Airport, Ecuador near Quito, Ecuador
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10 Days Contact provider for price
Provider: Equatortrekking (3 testimonials) This program is designed for people who love nature and adventure. It is for those who wish to travel around the Ecuadorian Andes while discovering downtown Quito and the Middle of the World. You can explore the Yellow Lake in the middle of one of the most beautiful glaciers of Ecuador: Altar, while you enjoy one of the most thrilling railroads known as "The Devil's nose". And hike to North Iliniza and Rumiñahui Mountains to have the most amazing view… more |
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Roof Of The World Journey From Lhasa To Kathmandu |
Roof Of The World Journey From Lhasa To Kathmandu
Lhasa, Tibet, China
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12 Days Contact provider for price
Provider: PureQuest Adventures: China Take the journey of a lifetime as you travel from Lhasa to Kathmandu, through Himalayan history and breathtaking beauty. Nothing encapsulates Tibet like religious pilgrimages. Journeying out from the holy regional capital of Lhasa we come face-to-face with ancient monasteries and monks that are preserving an ancient way of life. Before leaving Tibet enjoy the hospitality of a local family for a chance to learn more about the daily lives of average Tibetans. In Kathmandu and its ancient sister cities,… more |
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Best Of Dubai And Kenya |
Best Of Dubai And Kenya
Dubai Airport - Dubai - United Arab Emirates
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9 Days from $1,985* per person
Provider: Springboard Vacations (3 testimonials) This vacation package includes: Accommodation for 8 nights in Dubai (3), Amboseli (2), Lake Nakuru (1), and Maasai Mara (2). All meals as indicated in the itinerary including 8 breakfasts, 5 lunches, 5 dinners In Kenya, transport in a chauffeur driven Minivan with pop-up roof for easy game viewing & photography. In Kenya, services of an English speaking safari driver-guide. Private game viewing drives and parks entrance fees in Kenya. Private airport transfers in Dubai. Entrance to Observation Deck at… more |
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10 Days Wildlife And Film Sites |
10 Days Wildlife And Film Sites
Tanzania
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10 Days from $3,765* per person
Provider: Top of Tanzania Get out of your safari vehicle and walk among the wildlife. Check out the filming sites for some iconic movies. See Africa's largest giraffe population, the largest baboon troops in the world and the huge herds of elephants. more |
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Kenya ; Land of the Maasai |
Kenya ; Land of the Maasai
Jomo Kenyatta AIrport, Nairobi, Kenya
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10 Days from £7,100* per room
Provider: Ker & Downey (1 testimonial) Kenya is the homeland of the Maasai, a semi-nomadic African tribe. The tall and slender Maasai wear bright cloth dyed in vivid shades of red and blue, letting them stand out nobly against the stark landscape. This itinerary will help you to explore the Maasai culture while experiencing amazing game viewing on foot or by vehicle.Stay for two nights on the edge of the Amboseli National Park in the shadow of Mt. Kilimanjaro at Tortilis Camp. Discover large matriarchal elephant… more |
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Costa Rica - Rainforest Adventure |
Costa Rica - Rainforest Adventure
San Jose Airport, Alajuela, Costa Rica
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13 Days from £4,195* per room
Provider: ElderTreks (3 testimonials) Costa Rica is an oasis of natural wonders — volcanoes, rainforests, white sand beaches, coral reefs and wildlife — all within a world-renowned system of national parks that protects more species of mammals and birds than the continental U.S.A. and Canada combined.Our trip features Costa Rica’s natural wonders, experienced through an active program of hikes, river safaris and optional horseback rides. See the famous Monteverde Cloud Forest, where you might spot a resplendent quetzal as you hike along jungle trails… more |
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The Great Walk of Africa - A Trekking and Wildlife Safari in Tsavo National Park Kenya |
The Great Walk of Africa - A Trekking and Wildlife Safari in Tsavo National Park Kenya
Jomo Kenyatta AIrport, Nairobi, Kenya
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12 Days from $6,295* per person
Provider: Mountain Travel Sobek Revisit the Africa of the explorers! Take an epic walk with our own legendary Iain Allan in an area strictly off-limits to other visitors. Trek 110 miles of game trails across the wilderness of Tsavo National Park, where two infamous lions halted the British Empire in 1895. In a land where elephants have learned to keep to themselves, your guide’s uncanny ability to read the wind will bring you amazingly close to massive herds. Be mesmerized by these incredible social… more |
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Zambia: Walking in Zambia Private Adventure |
Zambia: Walking in Zambia Private Adventure
Lusaka
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10 Days Contact provider for price
Provider: Mountain Travel Sobek Africa's best-kept secret is Zambia's Luangwa Valley, an Eden-like paradise with huge concentrations of wildlife (it's sometimes called the "crowded valley"). This is where African walking safaris were born, and this private adventure zeroes in on South Luangwa National Park, one of the greatest-yet least visited-wildlife sanctuaries in the world, with the lowest people-to-animal ratio in Africa! South Luangwa hosts large herds of elephant, buffalo, kudu, zebra, wildebeest, and giraffe, and is renowned for excellent leopard sightings. Game viewing by… more |
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Hidden Madagascar Safari |
Hidden Madagascar Safari
Antananarivo International Airport, Madagascar
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16 Days from $5,095* per person
Provider: Mountain Travel Sobek Isolated by millions of years and miles of Indian Ocean, Madagascar's exotic wildlife, cultures, and landscapes transport the intrepid traveler into a strange and wonderful world. All of the island's mammals, most of its birds, and over eighty percent of its plants are found nowhere else on Earth, creating a nature-lover's dream. Be captivated by lemurs literally dancing across trails, gigantic baobab trees framing tropical sunsets, and brilliantly colored birds and butterflies flying among a thousand species of orchids.Just as… more |
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Nepal: Trekking & Tigers Private Adventure |
Nepal: Trekking & Tigers Private Adventure
Kathmandu
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10 Days from $4,995* per person
Provider: Mountain Travel Sobek A world of serendipitous adventure awaits you on this wonderful introduction to Nepal that's ideal for first-time trekkers, adventurous families (kids five and up are welcome), or for those with limited time to spare from their busy schedule. In just 10 days, we really pack in a world of adventure, from the hustle and bustle of Kathmandu's temple-strewn maze of streets to the majestic splendor of the high Himalaya to the jungles of Chitwan National Park. You just might call… more |
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The Alps: Hiking the Mont Blanc Express |
The Alps: Hiking the Mont Blanc Express
Geneva, Switzerland
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8 Days from $3,495* per person
Provider: Mountain Travel Sobek Limited in vacation time? Try our "express" version of our classic Tour du Mont Blanc! It's four fewer days of hiking, but the breathtaking scenery, cultural attractions, and outstanding cuisine (especially our popular gourmet picnic lunches!) remain unmatched. Accompanied by a symphony of cowbells, you'll follow alpine trails through forest and field, near glacier and ice. Experienced mountain guides bring a wonderful dimension of history, geology, and local color to every aspect of the trip. Their flawless guiding skills and… more |
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Crusader Paths |
Crusader Paths
Kos Airport, Kos, Greece
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12 Days from €4,200* per person
Provider: Cycle Greece In the 14th century the Knights of St. John arrived to the Dodecanese islands from Jerusalem. Many harbor towns still bear the regal façade of that era with castles, forts, moats, and palaces. Kos and Rhodes are our anchor islands -- ferry rides extend the biking to day trips to Kalymno, Nyseros and Symi islands. Get your passports out for day boats to Bodrum and Marmari in Turkey. more |
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New Zealand Walking & Hiking |
New Zealand Walking & Hiking
Christchurch, New Zealand
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10 Days from $3,998* per person
Provider: Backroads After New Zealand, the bar will be forever raised. Other coastlines will seem less striking. Even mountains will pale in comparison. Glaciers... who sees glaciers at home? Start at the South Pacific, journey up to the Southern Alps, down to the Tasman Sea, then back up again. It's impossible to choose the most spectacular view. The most incredible moment. The blowholes at Punakaiki? Franz Josef Glacier, surrounded by rain forest? The view from the top of Rocky Mountain? Your ten… more |
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Ethiopia: The Island of Africa |
Ethiopia: The Island of Africa
Addis Ababa Airport, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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16 Days from $6,800* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions In Travels in Ethiopia, David Buxton wrote that the country “rises up from the wastes of equatorial Africa like an island from the sea.” A particularly beautiful and unexpected island, in time as well as geography. Ethiopia’s history is immense and unique, spanning religions as diverse as Islam, Christianity, and a host of philosophies we used to blithely call paganism (not to mention Marxism, a grim secular faith Ethiopia wrestled with for years and finally discarded). This trip takes us… more |
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Burma’s Tribal Tapestry |
Burma’s Tribal Tapestry
Yangon International Airport, Burma
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14 Days from $6,250* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions After an overnight in Yangon, we fly to the country’s northernmost province, Kachin, and the village of Putao, a marvelous little town in the shadow of the Himalaya (Burma’s highpoint, Hkakabo Razi, rises to more than 19,000 amazing feet 70 or so miles away). From our lodge we’ll enjoy a wealth of activities while relishing unexpected, exalting views of snow peaks rising from lush forests.We continue with a flight to Mandalay and on to Kengtung in the staunchly independent, culturally… more |
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Mali: From Dogon to Timbuktu |
Mali: From Dogon to Timbuktu
Bamako International Airport, Bamako, Mali
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9 Days from $5,250* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions Timbuktu, long the very synonym of farfetchedness, may be the highpoint of this short but jauntily exotic journey (“That impracticable place Timbuctoo,” Lord Byron called it in Don Juan, “where Geography finds no one to oblige her / with such a chart as may be safely stuck to”). There’s much more to relish, though, than the faded glories of this fabled city, once a dazzling center of scholarship and trade perched on the edge of the Sahara (and now mining… more |
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Mayan Kingdoms |
Mayan Kingdoms
San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico
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9 Days from $3,255* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions As Charles C. Mann points out in his game-changing 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, in 1000 ce the Mayans of what is now southern Mexico and Guatemala were civilizationally right on a par with the Incas, with the Moors of Spain, with just about every human society (outside of China, it must be said).Since most of us are New Worlders with Old World–centric attitudes about history, this fact often comes as a surprise. But after our well-guided… more |
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Argentina's Far North |
Argentina's Far North
Buenos Aires Airport, Argentine
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11 Days from $5,250* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions Argentina’s sere and volcano-dotted far north, on the other side of the Andes from the Atacama Desert, is little-known and less traveled. Which strikes us as one good reason to explore it. Other reasons: the landscapes up here are massive, the villages are remote and inviting, and the high volcanoes rising from the arid puna are breathtaking.We begin by flying north from Buenos Aires to Salta, just on the edge of the high country. Then off we go to the… more |
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Costa Rica: River and Rainforest |
Costa Rica: River and Rainforest
San Jose Airport, San Jose, Costa Rica
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9 Days from $1,638* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions A land bursting with biology and hospitality, Costa Rica is a treasure-house of flora, fauna, and geologic wonders happily shoehorned into a refreshingly pacific and prosperous little country. Few places enjoy such a good reputation, challenging us to come up with trips that not only do Costa Rica justice but do it in fresh and uncrowded ways.We’re happy to have top-notch Costa Rican partners (they’ve been awarded the Travel & Leisure Critic’s Choice Eco Travel Award for pioneering successful and… more |
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Panama |
Panama
Airport near Panama City, Panama
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9 Days from $4,275* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions Panama is one of those places we tend to think we have a handle on and so overlook when it comes time to make the next travel plan. Oh, there’s the Canal, and some nice Central American jazziness, and maybe we have a mental image of a nice jungle here and there, but somehow we think we’ve been there without ever having gone there. A common error, but, in Panama’s case, an unfortunate one.First, if not foremost, there’s the Canal.… more |
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