735 green & sustainable trips found
Patagonia: Chile and Argentina |
Patagonia: Chile and Argentina
Buenos Aires, Argentina
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14 Days • from $4,650* per person
Operator: The Dragon's Path Offered Year-round: 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… more |
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Bhutan: Inside the Dragon Kingdom |
Bhutan: Inside the Dragon Kingdom
Paro Airport, Paro, Bhutan
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11 Days • from $6,595* per person
Operator: Asia Transpacific Journeys Offered April, October: 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… 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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Costa Rica: River and Rainforest |
Costa Rica: River and Rainforest
San Jose Airport, San Jose, Costa Rica
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9 Days • from $1,638* per person
Operator: Geographic Expeditions Offered Year-round: 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… more |
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Discovering Guyana: Lost Tribes and Newfound Species |
Discovering Guyana: Lost Tribes and Newfound Species
Georgetown Airport, Guyana
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10 Days • from $6,740* per person
Operator: Geographic Expeditions Offered Year-round: 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… 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-?own patriotism, their golden heritage and their resilient pride.”In this expertly… 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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Shikoku: Japan’s Sacred Island |
Shikoku: Japan’s Sacred Island
Matsuyama Airport Japan
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7 Days • from $5,530* per person
Operator: Geographic Expeditions Offered Year-round: 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… 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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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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Turkey: Private Charters for Family & Friends |
Turkey: Private Charters for Family & Friends
Istanbul Airport, Turkey
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10 Days • from $6,410* per person
Operator: Geographic Expeditions Offered April-October: 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… more |
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Northern Vietnam: Tribes and Treks |
Northern Vietnam: Tribes and Treks
Hanoi Airport, Vietnam
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7 Days • from $2,800* per person
Operator: Geographic Expeditions Offered Year-round: We’ll travel by jeep and on foot in Vietnam’s lush northern hills, the little-known “Tonkinese Alps,” walking in 4000-foot hills, past emerald rice paddies and riots of bamboo, pine, and orchids, through small farms and villages,… more |
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China's Silk Road: History's Great Thoroughfare |
China's Silk Road: History's Great Thoroughfare
Beijing Airport, China
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17 Days • from $7,395* per person
Operator: Asia Transpacific Journeys Offered May, September: A vast network of interconnected caravan routes that stretched for over 5,000 miles, the Silk Road enabled the exchange of products and ideas between China and Europe, Persia, Egypt, India and Mesopotamia, engendering civilization as we… more |
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Italy: A Taste of Tuscany and Umbria |
Italy: A Taste of Tuscany and Umbria
Florence airport, Italy
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8 Days • from $4,495* per person
Operator: Boundless Journeys Offered May, September, October: The landscape of neighboring Tuscany and Umbria is soul-stirring, with its sweeping vistas of vineyard-cloaked hills and stately cypress trees ringing storied hill towns. The scenery is rich in natural beauty, and reminiscent of early civilizations.… more |
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