731 green & sustainable experiences found
Sri Lanka Explorer
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Sri Lanka Explorer
Colombo Airport, Sri Lanka
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12 Days • from $4,950* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions Our visit to Sri Lanka, one of the most entrancing places on the planet, weighs in at a week and a half, making it a fine Private Departure addition to any of our Southeast Asia trips. We hit the serendipitous isle’s highpoints of Dambulla and Sigiriya and take in those magnificent jungle revelations, Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa, which Jan Morris apotheosized as “wonders on a par with the pyramids or Machu Picchu.” more |
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Eight Days in Tibet
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Eight Days in Tibet
Beijing Airport, China
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10 Days • from $2,450* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions This concise introduction to Tibet and its stalwart culture concentrates on the country’s heartland: an introductory night in Tsedang and the Yarlung Valley, three nights in Lhasa, and then through gargantuan Himalayan scenery to the great temples and monasteries of Gyantse and Shigatse via a picnic brunch at famously blue Yamdrok Lake. Heinrich Harrer—his classic book is more than ever a great read—spent seven years in Tibet, but in this modern era it’s possible to visit many of Tibet’s great… more |
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Festivals of Tibet: Ganden Serthang Festival
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Festivals of Tibet: Ganden Serthang Festival
Beijing Airport, China
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13 Days • from $3,950* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions We created Festivals of Tibet as a bow to our beginnings 28 years ago in a crowded North Face tent up at 16,500 feet in the shadow of Everest. We started out as InnerAsia, grew steadily, branched out to just about every corner of the seven continents, changed our name to Geographic Expeditions, grew lots more, and never wavered in our dedication to introducing people to this heart-expanding, beleaguered, stalwart place.We offer two versions of Festivals of Tibet. Both editions… more |
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Festivals of Tibet: The Gyantse Pelchoe Festival
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Festivals of Tibet: The Gyantse Pelchoe Festival
Beijing Airport, China
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13 Days • from $3,950* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions We created Festivals of Tibet as a bow to our beginnings 28 years ago in a crowded North Face tent up at 16,500 feet in the shadow of Everest. We started out as InnerAsia, grew steadily, branched out to just about every corner of the seven continents, changed our name to Geographic Expeditions, grew lots more, and never wavered in our dedication to introducing people to this heart-expanding, beleaguered, stalwart place.We offer two versions of Festivals of Tibet. Both editions… more |
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Central Tibet Explorer
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Central Tibet Explorer
Lhasa Airport, China
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10 Days • from $2,850* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions A splendid and unusual look at the monasteries and nunneries of central Tibet, this short trip includes a good look at Lhasa before heading out to Ganden Monastery (one of old Tibet’s most important; here, the Dalai Lama received his geshe degree, a kind of doctorate; see Festivals of Tibet, page 74). We alight in the beautiful Drigung Valley, near Drigung Til Monastery, the main seat of the Kagyu school, for a couple of nights at a stunning campsite from… more |
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Imperial Russia - Moscow, the Golden Ring, and St. Petersburg
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Imperial Russia - Moscow, the Golden Ring, and St. Petersburg
Airport near Russian Federation, Moscow
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11 Days • from $7,695* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions One hundred seventeen years and two dynasties have passed, but Lord Curzon’s praise still rings true: “the Oriental irregularity and bizarre beauty of Moscow, an Eastern exotic transplanted to the West, an inland Constantinople, a Christian Cairo.” The heartbreakingly charming onion-dome churches of Suzdal and Vladimir, jewels of the Golden Ring, places that encapsulate Russia’s hold on the imagination. St. Petersburg, “silent, lonely beauty,” Lillian Hellman called it. And Tsarskoe Selo, the almost unbelievably extravagant home of the Tsars, “the… more |
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Nomads of Persia
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Nomads of Persia
Tehran Airport, Iran
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15 Days • from $5,985* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions Getting to know Iran intimately and well (and, if we may say, far better than any other American company) has allowed us to branch off from the classic destinations of Tehran, Esfahan, and Shiraz into fascinating corners of this overwhelmingly interesting country. Just south of Shiraz is the homeland of the Qashqai nomads, a Turkish-speaking tribe of pastoral nomads who migrate between winter pastures near the Persian Gulf and the summer pastures where we’ll encounter them. We’ll spend a couple… more |
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Choquequirao: Trek to a Lost World
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Choquequirao: Trek to a Lost World
Lima Airport, Lima, Peru
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15 Days • from $5,530* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions Entrancingly off the increasingly trod track, Choquequirao (“Cradle of Gold” in Quechua—“The Other Machu Picchu,” a recent article in the New York Times called it) is an amazingly preserved Inca outpost, four times the size of Machu Picchu, dramatically perched on a promontory nearly 6000 feet above the roaring Apurimac River Gorge. Though its existence has been known for some time, Choquequirao has only recently been accessible to nonacademics, and has quickly joined the ranks of the world’s great Lost… 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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Alexandria and the Siwa Oasis
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Alexandria and the Siwa Oasis
Cairo International Airport, Egypt
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7 Days • from $3,995* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions We begin in fabled Alexandria, a city conjured up by Alexander the Great, indulgently inhabited by Cleopatra, and much later so evocatively limned by Lawrence Durrell in his majestic Alexandria Quartet. We spend a couple of days in this classic Mediterranean port before setting out along the coast, making a sharp southerly turn just before the Libyan border and heading into the Great Sand Sea to the Siwa Oasis, a set-piece complete with limpid pools and lush palms, everything but… more |
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Iran North to South
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Iran North to South
Tehran Airport, Iran
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11 Days • from $4,975* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions Concise but comprehensive, Essential Iran provides a good, unhurried look at Iran’s most galvanizing cities, from the capital to Yazd and on to Shiraz, Persepolis, and Esfahan. We honor these places in Treasures of Persia, but let’s make room for a couple of quotes about Esfahan that might well be said about any of Iran’s great monument-cities. H. M. Stanley (of “Dr. Livingstone, I presume” fame) wrote in the late 1880s—and it’s still true today—that Esfahan’s “gorgeous temples of pleasure,… more |
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Cultural Touring in Jordan
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Cultural Touring in Jordan
Airport near Amman, Jordan
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7 Days • from $4,095* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions We compress many centuries of history into a short but comprehensive look at this pacific country, visiting Amman, Mount Nebo, and Petra, the astounding city carved from living rock, surely one of the top entries in any traveler's life list. And after Petra, Wadi Rum, the epitome of geologic pomp and circumstance (we may remember Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia, firing up the troops with the heartfelt cry: "To Wadi Rum!"). You may then choose to further your explorations… more |
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Discovering Syria
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Discovering Syria
Damascus International Airport, near Damascus, Syria
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14 Days • from $6,890* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions It’s downright presumptuous to use a word like “discover” about a country that has been around under various guises since humans got in the civilizational mood. But in the past few years Syria, long on the touristic back burner, has rather suddenly been revealed as a top-drawer destination. GeoEx has been traveling to Syria for a decade, and we’re eager to return—in the sure knowledge that our good friends there want us to. While the country is in turmoil. We’re… 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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Land of the Incas
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Land of the Incas
Lima, Peru
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12 Days • from $4,580* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions Those many of us star-struck by Peru and its Inca heritage will perk up at news of this inspired trip. Land of the Incas jumps us off the usual, inevitably rather rutted travelers' routes in the Sacred Valley of the Urubamba, Machu Picchu, and Cusco, taking us on a series of rare and beauteous day hikes, allowing us to walk around and up and down to these intriguing ruins, putting them in geographic, historic, and aesthetic context. Clark Kotula, who… more |
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Istanbul and the Aegean Coast
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Istanbul and the Aegean Coast
Istanbul Airport, Turkey
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14 Days • from $7,150* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions “Alone and tremendous,” Sacherville Sitwell called Istanbul, “No water city can compare . . . it must be the most wonderful site for a great capital there has ever been.” Our days in Turkey’s most important and spellbinding city (though Ankara has been the country’s capital since 1923) will be busy (we’ll have ample time to relax as we cruise the Aegean in a few days). Our Turkey crew is dedicated to “delving deeply into this fabulous city, exploring it… more |
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Thailand, Cambodia & Vietnam by Road and River
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Thailand, Cambodia & Vietnam by Road and River
Bangkok Airport Bangkok Thailand
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15 Days • from $6,650* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions Taking a gander at the map, we see that this zesty trip takes us neatly from Bangkok into Cambodia and farther into Vietnam, ending in Saigon. What the map will not divulge is the rarity of crossing these borders (putting this trip high on the gee-whiz scale for border-crossing buffs).We begin in Bangkok, then drive to the Thai-Cambodian border at Poipet and on to a restful day in Battambang. A lovely riverboat takes us to a couple of days at… more |
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A Mekong Adventure: From Thailand to Laos
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A Mekong Adventure: From Thailand to Laos
Bangkok Airport Bangkok Thailand
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12 Days • from $5,325* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions One of the world’s most consequential rivers, the Mekong begins its 2,600-mile course at over 17,000 feet on the Tibetan Plateau and, weaving its way through a great crunch of gorges near Gyelthang, drops into Southeast Asia, where it nurtures a passel of peoples on its way to its delta on the South China Sea. Civilizations have risen and fallen on its banks, and their remains and the ever-bustling commerce and pure Asian liveliness of their successors make it an… more |
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Southern Laos: Indochina's Last Wilderness
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Southern Laos: Indochina's Last Wilderness
Vientiane Airport, Vientiane, Laos
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11 Days • from $3,600* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions Bursting with ethnic diversity and color, southern Laos’ hills are rich with unique tribes and customs, not to mention remarkable landscapes: lush green rice fields, coffee and tea plantations, surging waterfalls. We visit the cool and faraway Bolaven Plateau, explore a pre-Angkoran temple, venture into the remote provinces of Attapeau and Sekong, and boat on the Mekong through the Siphandon Islands. more |
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Kipling's Burma
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Kipling's Burma
Yangon International Airport, Burma
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10 Days • from $4,675* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions "This is Burma, and it will be quite unlike any land you know about,” wrote Kipling. Compelling highpoints of this slumbering, courageous, kindly land: Yangon (whose Shwedagon Temple the Raj’s laureate called “a golden mystery . . . a beautiful winking wonder that blazed in the sun”); the Plain of Temples at Bagan; a deluxe cruise along the ever-shifting extravaganza of the Irrawaddy River; exquisite Mandalay; and a flight up to the Shan Hills’ gorgeous Inle Lake. (And, for those… more |
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