2114 active and adventure trips found
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
Operator: Ker & Downey Offered Year-round: 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.… 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
Operator: Mountain Travel Sobek Offered July, September: 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… 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
Operator: Mountain Travel Sobek Offered June-October: 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… 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
Operator: Mountain Travel Sobek Offered June-September: 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!)… more |
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Crusader Paths |
Crusader Paths
Kos Airport, Kos, Greece
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12 Days • from €4,200* per person
Operator: Cycle Greece Offered August: 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… 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
Operator: Backroads Offered December: 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… 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
Operator: Geographic Expeditions Offered June, October: 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.… 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
Operator: Geographic Expeditions Offered January, February, September-November: 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… 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
Operator: Geographic Expeditions Offered Year-round: 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… more |
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Panama |
Panama
Airport near Panama City, Panama
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9 Days • from $4,275* per person
Operator: Geographic Expeditions Offered Year-round: 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… more |
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The Epic of Central Asia |
The Epic of Central Asia
Ashgabat, Ahal, Turkmenistan
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21 Days • from $7,475* per person
Operator: Geographic Expeditions Offered April, September: 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… more |
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Libya |
Libya
Tripoli International Airport, Tarabulus, Libya
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17 Days • Contact provider for price
Operator: Geographic Expeditions Offered Year-round: 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… more |
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Guatemala |
Guatemala
Guatemala airport, Guatemala City
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9 Days • from $3,995* per person
Operator: Geographic Expeditions Offered Year-round: 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… more |
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Kyoto: The Soul of Japan |
Kyoto: The Soul of Japan
Kyoto Airport, Japan
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7 Days • from $6,850* per person
Operator: Geographic Expeditions Offered Year-round: 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… more |
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Kyushu Island |
Kyushu Island
Beppu Airport Japan
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7 Days • from $6,875* per person
Operator: Geographic Expeditions Offered Year-round: 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… more |
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Nara to Hiroshima |
Nara to Hiroshima
Nara Airport, Japan
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7 Days • from $4,975* per person
Operator: Geographic Expeditions Offered Year-round: 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… more |
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Egypt: The Nile |
Egypt: The Nile
Cairo International Airport, Egypt
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11 Days • from $7,525* per person
Operator: Geographic Expeditions Offered Year-round: 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… more |
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Yemen: Arabia Felix |
Yemen: Arabia Felix
Airport Road, Sana'a, Amanat Al Asimah, Yemen
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19 Days • from £5,455* per room
Operator: Geographic Expeditions Offered Year-round: 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,… more |
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Rwanda: Gorillas of the Virunga Volcanoes |
Rwanda: Gorillas of the Virunga Volcanoes
Kigali Airport, Kigali, Rwanda
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7 Days • from $6,000* per person
Operator: Geographic Expeditions Offered Year-round: 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… more |
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Hiking in the Mountains of Lebanon |
Hiking in the Mountains of Lebanon
Beirut Airport, Lebanon
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8 Days • from $4,125* per person
Operator: Geographic Expeditions Offered April-November: 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… more |
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