735 green & sustainable trips found
Best of Brazil: From Salvador to Rio and the Costa Verde |
Best of Brazil: From Salvador to Rio and the Costa Verde
Rio Airport, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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9 Days • from $7,995* per person
Operator: Geographic Expeditions Offered Year-round: The best of Brazil is the best of a beautiful, bounteous, buxom country, about as best as best can be. Which we immediately sense as we alight in the Atlantic coast city of Salvador de Bahia,… more |
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Classic Costa Rica |
Classic Costa Rica
San Jose Airport, San Jose, Costa Rica
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7 Days • from $3,745* per person
Operator: Geographic Expeditions Offered December-April, July, August: It’s hard to imagine a first-time visitor to Northern California not putting San Francisco, Yosemite, and the Wine Country on their wish list. But, as you know, locals often studiously avoid the too-popular sites in those… more |
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Private Charters to the Galápagos Islands |
Private Charters to the Galápagos Islands
Airport, Ecuador near Quito, Ecuador
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11 Days • Contact provider for price
Operator: Geographic Expeditions Offered Year-round: The Galápagos need little fanfare. Darwin started the chorus of praise, amazement, and enchantment more than 170 years ago, and the music hasn’t slowed. Here’s a unique opportunity to discover the wonders of the magnificently remote… more |
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Galapagos Islands Aboard La Pinta |
Galapagos Islands Aboard La Pinta
Airport, Ecuador near Quito, Ecuador
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11 Days • from $5,660* per person
Operator: Geographic Expeditions Offered Year-round: The Galapagos Islands need little fanfare. Darwin started the chorus of praise, amazement, and enchantment in 1835, and the music hasn’t slowed.We’re very aware that all serious travelers aim to tour the Galapagos Islands, and that… more |
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Laos Unveiled |
Laos Unveiled
Vientiane, Laos
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10 Days • from $3,500* per person
Operator: Geographic Expeditions Offered Year-round: Not that the rest of Laos is all that traveled, but this unusual trip takes us into the country’s decidedly less traveled north, where, for a week or so, we’ll roam in fabulously green hills, visit… more |
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Oaxaca and the Sierra Norte - Places of the Gods |
Oaxaca and the Sierra Norte - Places of the Gods
Airport near Oaxaca, Mexico
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6 Days • from $2,495* per person
Operator: Geographic Expeditions Offered Year-round: Fans of Mexico (and to go there is to become one) know that the southern state of Oaxaca is a synthesis of all that attracts us to this dear country. Our six-day trip is short but… 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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Machu Picchu and the Urubamba |
Machu Picchu and the Urubamba
Lima Airport, Lima, Peru
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7 Days • from $3,485* per person
Operator: Geographic Expeditions Offered Year-round: For some of us, the Incas are rather hazily lumped in there with, let’s see, the Aztecs —no, they were up north—the Incas, yes . . . Conquistadors. Pizarro, wasn’t it? (Or was it Cortés?) Turns… more |
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Peru Complete |
Peru Complete
Lima Airport, Lima, Peru
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14 Days • from $6,830* per person
Operator: Geographic Expeditions Offered Year-round: Our Peru expert Clark Kotula, who lived and worked in Peru for nearly a decade, and knows and admires it like few others, has crafted this look at the country’s varietal charms with an eye toward… more |
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Bhutan: A Private Journey |
Bhutan: A Private Journey
Paro Airport, Paro, Bhutan
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9 Days • from $7,950* per person
Operator: Geographic Expeditions Offered Year-round: Thanks to its moderate elevations and salubrious latitude, Bhutan is a spectacular destination year-round. This Private Journey opens a window into the kingdom’s beauty and the spiritual generosity of its people from the comfort of Bhutan’s… more |
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Bhutan: A Hiker's Paradise |
Bhutan: A Hiker's Paradise
Paro Airport, Paro, Bhutan
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12 Days • from $6,050* per person
Operator: Geographic Expeditions Offered February, April, October, November: Paradise, Eden. We use these words (and, every once in a while, the dreadfully shopworn Shangri-La) to describe Bhutan. We try to avoid gilding already resplendent lilies, but we’re committed to accuracy; as far as we… more |
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Hidden Highlands of Bhutan: Gangkhar Puensuum |
Hidden Highlands of Bhutan: Gangkhar Puensuum
Paro Airport, Paro, Bhutan
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18 Days • from $7,550* per person
Operator: Geographic Expeditions Offered May, October: A few years ago this writer got one of his all-time mountain thrills by being a member of the first group of outsiders ever to make this superb trek to 24,734-foot Gangkhar Puensum, the highest unclimbed… more |
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Hidden Treasures of Bhutan |
Hidden Treasures of Bhutan
Paro Airport, Paro, Bhutan
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12 Days • from $4,350* per person
Operator: Geographic Expeditions Offered February, November, December: The kingdom’s old capital of Punakha is the heart and soul of Bhutanese culture. It’s a marvelous area to explore during the winter months, due to its subtropical climate and low elevations (in the four- to… more |
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Sacred Festivals of Bhutan |
Sacred Festivals of Bhutan
Paro Airport, Paro, Bhutan
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7 Days • from $3,650* per person
Operator: Geographic Expeditions Offered March, April, July, September, December: Bhutan’s festivals are joyous expressions of its Buddhist culture. Françoise Pommaret, describing their Chaucerian atmosphere, writes that “the festivals offer Bhutanese an opportunity to become immersed in the meaning of their religion [but] they are also… more |
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The Essence of Bhutan |
The Essence of Bhutan
Paro Airport, Paro, Bhutan
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14 Days • from $6,550* per person
Operator: Geographic Expeditions Offered March, April, September, October: Getting to know Bhutan has been a balm and a revelation to our many GeoEx travelers through the years. Brent Olson, a veteran of three score and more trips to the Dragon Kingdom since we started… more |
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The Living Edens Trek |
The Living Edens Trek
Paro Airport, Paro, Bhutan
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16 Days • from $5,150* per person
Operator: Geographic Expeditions Offered January, December: The Nabji Trail brilliantly unfurls the kingdom’s postharvest/winter beauties as it serpentines through central Bhutan’s Jigme Singye Wangchuk National Park. On our six-day, low-altitude trek (never rising above 5000 feet or so), we’ll camp in high… more |
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The Sacred Valleys Trek |
The Sacred Valleys Trek
Paro Airport, Paro, Bhutan
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14 Days • from $6,550* per person
Operator: Geographic Expeditions Offered March, April, September, October: Bumthang is extraordinarily beautiful, even for Bhutan. Its four high valleys are draped with forests that embrace small monasteries, chortens, traditional stone houses, and markets. Elevations on trek stay below 12,000 feet, and each day’s walk… more |
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A Sacred Buddhist Land |
A Sacred Buddhist Land
Xining Airport, China
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8 Days • from $3,590* per person
Operator: Geographic Expeditions Offered Year-round: Very much part of Tibet—though split off into a separate province by the Chinese— Qinghai is, of all the places in the world that make the claim, worthy of the title “Roof of the World.” Its… more |
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A Short Trip South of the Clouds: Yunnan Province |
A Short Trip South of the Clouds: Yunnan Province
Kunming airport, China
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8 Days • from $4,600* per person
Operator: Geographic Expeditions Offered March-November: We’re Yunnan fans (we once said it was one of those places we wanted to grab you by the lapels and rave about), so we constructed this shorter trip as an easy Private Departure addition to… more |
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Hidden Tribes: Festivals of Guizhou Province |
Hidden Tribes: Festivals of Guizhou Province
Beijing Airport, China
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12 Days • from $6,995* per person
Operator: Geographic Expeditions Offered March, November: A rare chance to experience rural life in China, Hidden Tribes spins us well beyond the tourist-trod paths for a close and extraordinarily colorful look at the ethnically diverse villages of Guizhou Province, a festival of… more |
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