2128 active and adventure experiences found
The Epic of Central Asia
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The Epic of Central Asia
Ashgabat, Ahal, Turkmenistan
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21 Days • from $7,475* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions Before the Bolsheviks dragooned them into the Soviet Union in the 1920s, the khanates of Central Asia were some of the most despotic, hidden, and utterly fascinating parts of the planet. People were driven half mad with desire to see places like Samarkand and Bukhara, which still reverberate to the harsh but compelling music of their history, and visiting their gorgeous mosques, madrasas, and tombs (not to mention their folk) should rank high on any traveler’s life list. The Epic… more |
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Village to Village in Sikkim
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Village to Village in Sikkim
Kolkata Airport Station, Kolkata, West Bengal
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13 Days • from $5,750* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions Nestled into the heart of the eastern Himalaya and bordered by Tibet, Nepal and Bhutan, Sikkim offers some of the most breathtaking views in India. Beyond the allure of its scenery and fabled mountain, Kangchenjunga, this erstwhile Buddhist Kingdom entices the traveler with its arresting cultural beauty, warm people, and tranquil atmosphere. It is a wonderfully diverse region where ethnic Nepalis, Bhutias (descendants of Tibetans), and Lepchas, Sikkim’s aboriginal inhabitants, live in harmony. And as a former Buddhist kingdom, Sikkim… more |
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Libya
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Libya
Tripoli International Airport, Tarabulus, Libya
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17 Days • Contact provider for price
Provider: Geographic Expeditions While travel to Libya isn't in the cards for the immediate future, we continue to monitor events and remain hopeful that we will be able to return to this worthy country again very soon.Libya is a heart- and eye-ful of a country. Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Ottomans, Arabs and nature itself all did their bit for posterity, gracing this happily reopened land with five UNESCO World Heritage Sites, all of which we visit on our 17-day trip. Beginning in the… more |
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Guatemala
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Guatemala
Guatemala airport, Guatemala City
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9 Days • from $3,995* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions Guatemala is an often overlooked country, rich with tremendous scenery, Mayan glories, colonial grandeur, and cheery, heart-involving folks. As our Brady Binstadt says, “These are some of my favorite places in all of the Americas for a full-on cultural experience.”We begin in Antigua, as lovely a town as any of us will likely ever see, then head, via the colorful local Mayan market at Chichicastenango, to volcano-encircled Lake Atitlán, where we boat about in good fettle. Then we explore the… more |
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Kyoto: The Soul of Japan
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Kyoto: The Soul of Japan
Kyoto Airport, Japan
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7 Days • from $6,850* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions Kyoto, Jan Morris has written, “remains to the Japanese something special . . . the supreme repository of their ancient traditions, their religion, and their high-flown patriotism, their golden heritage and their resilient pride.”In this expertly choreographed, highly phenomenal trip, we’ll delve deeply and thoughtfully into the grand city and its environs (including a foray to I.M. Pei’s masterpiece Miho Museum). From its famed temples and gardens (“more than hymns to tranquility,” Kanto Shigemori has written, “they contain a world… more |
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Kyushu Island
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Kyushu Island
Beppu Airport Japan
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7 Days • from $6,875* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions Japan is a beautifully and intricately designed puzzle, boxes within boxes, a country that has refined just about every taste into an art form. We take delight in solving the amazing Japanese enigma with Private Departures handcrafted to every interest, every time frame, and every taste. We pride ourselves on our ability and willingness to arrange private trips, especially to places like Japan, where an insider’s knowledge and attention to detail pay off beautifully. Some ideas: the UNESCO World Heritage… more |
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Nara to Hiroshima
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Nara to Hiroshima
Nara Airport, Japan
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7 Days • from $4,975* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions We’ll explore Japan by first visiting its former capital Nara, birthplace of Japanese culture. After a good look at Nara including its beautiful countryside we’ll head for the spiraling Himeji Castle, perhaps the most beautiful of Japan’s Tokugawa-era castles, and then spend a couple of days visiting Kurashiki, which has been referred to by many as “Japan’s Venice”. Kurashiki offers many museums, galleries and shops to peruse and become familiar with before we make our way to Hiroshima stopping en… more |
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Shikoku: Japan’s Sacred Island
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Shikoku: Japan’s Sacred Island
Matsuyama Airport Japan
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7 Days • from $5,530* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions Day 1: arrive in Matsuyama • Day 2: Drive to Cape Ashizuri via Uwajima and Uchiko • Day 3: Cape Ashizuri • Day 4: scenic drive along the coast with culinary delights en route to Kochi • Day 5: drive into the remote beauty of the Iya Valley, stay at Chiiori • Day 6: Iya Valley’s vine bridges, soba-making workshop and another night in the 300-year-old farmhouse• Day 7: drive to Takamatsu via Kotohira and Zentsu-ji Temple • Day 8:… more |
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Mongolia Explorer
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Mongolia Explorer
Ulaanbaatar Airport, Mongolia
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13 Days • from $5,650* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions As you read about Mongolia on our web pages, you’ll notice our deep fondness for it. This active tour, lovingly crafted by our ranking Mongolia enthusiast Michael Steigerwald, gives us an unassumingly cushy experience of the country, with stays in some of the country’s best hotels and ger camps, taking in three of its highest lights: the Gobi Desert, magnificent Lake Khovsgol, and the Naadam festival.We begin in the surprisingly cosmopolitan capital, Ulaanbaatar, visiting its resurgent Buddhist temples and proud… more |
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Israel and the Palestinian Territories
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Israel and the Palestinian Territories
Jerusalem Airport, Israel
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11 Days • from $5,945* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions “Israel,” the Bible tells us (1 Kings 9:7), “shall be a proverb and a byword among all people.” And indeed it seems that Israel has been a fulcrum of Western history almost as long as there has been such a thing as Western history. And as we know, its history has long, long been complex, glorious, troubled, and fascinating.We carefully designed this well-rounded, expertly guided visit to Israel to include its classic and hallowed sites, with three active days in… more |
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Egypt: The Nile
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Egypt: The Nile
Cairo International Airport, Egypt
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11 Days • from $7,525* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions Egypt and the Nile: the two are inextricably linked. 2,500 years ago, Herodotus, looking back on twenty-five centuries of recorded history, wrote, “Egypt is an acquired country, the gift of the river.” The ancient Egyptians took advantage of the great gift by building a civilization almost alien in its grandeur, ennobling the Nile’s banks with stunning monuments to their overweening sense of destiny.We spend four days on a gem of a Nile cruiser— your choice of boats includes the new,… more |
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Yemen: Arabia Felix
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Yemen: Arabia Felix
Airport Road, Sana'a, Amanat Al Asimah, Yemen
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19 Days • from £5,455* per room
Provider: Geographic Expeditions To the ancients it was Arabia Felix, Fortunate Arabia. But that was old news. The even more ancient Arab root word for Yemen is ymn, or prosperity. By turns peacefully green, lushly mountainous, rugged, vastly sandy, staggeringly beautiful at every turn, exotic in the deepest sense (there are few five-star comforts here), it is one of those almost secret places we want to grab you by the lapels and lead you to.Our expertly honed itinerary gives us good looks at… more |
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Rwanda: Gorillas of the Virunga Volcanoes
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Rwanda: Gorillas of the Virunga Volcanoes
Kigali Airport, Kigali, Rwanda
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7 Days • from $6,000* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions Just a few inches from here, in Mountain Gorillas of Uganda, we quote one of our rapturous travelers on the almost shocking joy that many people feel when they make contact with Gorilla beringei beringei, our very sweet, very large relatives.In this week-long trip (a stellar extension to any of our Kenya or Tanzania journeys), we gently track the world’s largest primate in Rwanda’s Parc National des Volcans, the volcans in this instance being the personable Virunga Volcanoes, a chain… more |
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Hiking in the Mountains of Lebanon
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Hiking in the Mountains of Lebanon
Beirut Airport, Lebanon
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8 Days • from $4,125* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions As befits a country named for its resident mountains, Lebanon welcomes hikers with a series of unexpected and deeply lovely trails. We begin in Beirut—captivating, edgy, and on the rocky road to reclaiming its historic glamour—then set off for a look at Beiteddine (House of Faith) and the Phoenician city of Sidon, followed by a couple of World Heritage Sites: Baalbek, one of the most impressive Roman ruins anywhere, and the Umayyad ruins of Anjar. Now into some of Lebanon’s… more |
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Turkey: Private Charters for Family & Friends
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Turkey: Private Charters for Family & Friends
Istanbul Airport, Turkey
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10 Days • from $6,410* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions As you’ve probably noticed, travel is a great bonder of friends and families. How many times have we seen a gathering’s joy level kick up a few notches with the words “Remember the time we went to . . .”?This private sail aboard one of our sweet gulets is the kind of unforgettable experience that makes travel such a canny investment. We think our Turkish sails—grandly restful, beautiful, comfortable and fun—are eminently worthy of your attention and personal investment. Our… more |
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An Explorer's Antarctica (2011/2012)
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An Explorer's Antarctica (2011/2012)
Ushuaia Airport, Argentina
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12 Days • from $4,890* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions We board our expeditionary vessel in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. Our ice-hardened ships are surprisingly comfortable; they have bar/lounges and libraries and feature private baths for most cabins (they also have a clinic and physician on board, and satellite telephone and fax capacities for incoming calls and faxes). On-board naturalists lecture, hobnob, and help identify the lavish wildlife.Leaving Ushuaia, we head south into the Drake Passage toward notorious Cape Horn, encountering pack ice and epic bergs—a floating, and thus… more |
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Costa Rica : Cloud Forests, Rainforests, Volcanoes and Beaches of Costa Rica
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Costa Rica : Cloud Forests, Rainforests, Volcanoes and Beaches of Costa Rica
San Jose Airport, San Jose, Costa Rica
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9 Days • from $3,299* per person
Provider: Terra Incognita Ecotours (3 testimonials) Resplendent Quetzals, Howler monkeys, Toucans, and the unmistakable call of the Bellbird, the sights and sounds of this trip will not soon be forgotten. Included is a white-water rafting adventure on the Sarapiqui, during two days in the lowland rainforest. Enjoy a dip in the thermal pools near the fiery-topped Arenal Volcano and enjoy cocktails as we watch fiery lava tumble down the slopes of the volcano. Travel on horseback from the Arenal area, through the rainforest and up to… more |
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Botswana Deluxe Safari
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Botswana Deluxe Safari
Maun Airport, Botswana
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8 Days • from $5,772* per room
Provider: Adventures In Africa Join us for a luxury tented camp safari in the heart of Botswana’s premier wildlife areas. The Okavango Delta is the largest inland delta system in the world and offers spectacular game viewing including elephant, lion, zebra, leopard & giraffe. Activities are diverse and allow guests time on the water, on land and on foot. more |
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Botswana Explorer
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Botswana Explorer
Maun Airport, Botswana
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10 Days • from $4,405* per room
Provider: Adventures In Africa The Botswana Explorer is a fantastic limited participation camping safari. Visitors travel to some of Africa's most magnificent destinations like the Okavango Delta, Moremi Game Reserve, Chobe National Park and Victoria Falls. Guest stay in spacious ensuite expedition safari tents (4mx4m) with comfortable beds, bedside tables, lamps, and private bathroom with flush toilets, hand basins and hot bucket showers. more |
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Romantic Kenya Safari
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Romantic Kenya Safari
Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi, Kenya
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11 Days • from $7,073* per person
Provider: Adventures In Africa There’s no better way to celebrate each other than with a romantic Kenya photo safari and beach trip. On this luxury holiday, you’ll visit three exclusive camps/resorts in three wonderful destinations: Meru National Park (home of Born Free’s Elsa the lioness); the world-famous Masai Mara; and Kiwayu Lodge, a secluded Indian Ocean retreat. This safari is perfect for a honeymoon safari in Kenya or a romantic getaway! more |
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