758 green & sustainable experiences found
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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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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Jordan Explorer
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Jordan Explorer
Airport near Amman, Jordan
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9 Days • from $4,410* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions On this journey, we travel from Amman to the evocative Desert Castles of Qasr Kharana, Azraq, and the World Heritage Site Qasr Amra, getting a refreshing look at the transcontinental avian crossroads of the Azraq Wetlands along the way. Then to the unexpectedly lush Ajlun Forest Reserve for some serene walking in its oak, pine, carob, wild pistachio, and wild strawberry trees. And on to Mount Nebo, and Petra, the astounding city carved from living rock, surely one of the… more |
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Into the Heart of South India
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Into the Heart of South India
Chennai International Airport, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
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15 Days • from $7,950* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions There isn’t a real India any more than there is a real U.S. of A. But if there were, it would be in the south. Relatively unruffled by the waves of invasion that swept through and transformed the north, the south is the repository of the Dravidian culture that underlies the Indian reality.We begin in Tamil Nadu’s Chennai (formerly known as Madras) and drive to Mamallapuram, the City of Seven Pagodas, “a largesse of spirit and stone,” Louis MacNiece called… more |
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France: Provence
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France: Provence
Avignon, France
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7 Days • Contact provider for price
Provider: The Dragon's Path (1 testimonial) There is something magical about the light in Provence - a region of contrasts and colorful luminescence. Van Gogh, Cézanne and Gauguin found inspiration here for works which were to alter the course of art forever. Our route takes us along cypress-lined country roads with medieval villages rising in the distance. The sights and scents of lavender, rosemary, sunflower and olive orchards become lasting memories for visitors to this beautiful region. more |
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Italy: The Dolomites
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Italy: The Dolomites
Venice, Italy
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8 Days • from $4,200* per person
Provider: The Dragon's Path (1 testimonial) Tinted in weathered shades of rose, yellow and grey, the fairy-tale spires and dramatic rock walls of the Dolomites rise in elegantly chiseled shapes of fantastic form, looking every inch like a landscape devised by the gods. And if this isn’t exactly heaven, well, it’s about as close as you can get. The Dolomites were named after Deodat de Dolomieu, a French geologist who was the one to discover in 1789, an unusual carbonate rock that had foreign properties. “Dolomite”… more |
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Patagonia: Chile and Argentina
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Patagonia: Chile and Argentina
Buenos Aires, Argentina
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14 Days • from $4,650* per person
Provider: The Dragon's Path (1 testimonial) Reception and transfer to Hotel. After a rest, meet with historian guide and a cultural city walk is organized for visiting the most interesting corners of the one called Paris of South America. (4 hours). Overnight accommodation in Buenos Aires, at the Mansion Dandi Royal Hotel. DThe hotel is located in one of the principal streets of the traditional San Telmo, at the historic centre of Buenos Aires city. You are just minutes away from the colorful La Boca and… more |
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Bhutan: Inside the Dragon Kingdom
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Bhutan: Inside the Dragon Kingdom
Paro Airport, Paro, Bhutan
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11 Days • from $6,595* per person
Provider: Asia Transpacific Journeys (1 testimonial) Largely isolated from the outside world for centuries, closed off to visitors until three decades ago, Bhutan is one of the world's most captivating destinations. On this definitive Bhutan tour, explore its main fortresses, make the pilgrimage to iconic Taktshang Monastery, walk through remote villages and delve into the philosophical underpinnings of Mahayana Buddhism.BHUTAN GROUP TRIP HIGHLIGHTS Travel to remote central Bhutan, the destination for only 20% of Bhutan's annual 17,000 visitors Tour leadership by an expert on Bhutanese culture … more |
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Ethiopia: The Island of Africa
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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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Mali: From Dogon to Timbuktu
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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
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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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Costa Rica: River and Rainforest
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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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Discovering Guyana: Lost Tribes and Newfound Species
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Discovering Guyana: Lost Tribes and Newfound Species
Georgetown Airport, Guyana
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10 Days • from $6,740* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions Guyana isn’t the kind of place likely to pop up in one of the glossier travel mags. Which, along with its booming beauty and warm culture, is a fine reason to go there, if you don’t mind people asking “Now, where exactly is that?” when you get home.Larger than Idaho, but with fewer people than San Francisco, Guyana has long been a favorite for a certain kind of venturesome traveler (Anthony Trollope, for instance, said long ago that “When I… more |
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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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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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