Geographic Expeditions offers 117 trips/accommodations
Across Southern Africa by Private Air
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Across Southern Africa by Private Air
Johannesburg International Airport, South Africa
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13 Days • from $17,250* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions After arriving in Johannesburg, we’re whisked away on our private plane to Mashatu, in the remote eastern corner of Botswana, at the confluence of the Limpopo and Shashe Rivers. This extraordinarily beauteous place is ripe for exploration in four-wheel-drive vehicles, on bikes, on horseback, or on foot, guided by canny trackers. Then we head north to Victoria Falls. After eventful game viewing in the Lower Zambezi from our Chiawa Camp, one of Condé Nast’s Top Ten Safari Camps, we fly… more |
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Wilds of Botswana
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Wilds of Botswana
Johannesburg International Airport, South Africa
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13 Days • from $9,995* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions In Africa’s Last Eden, the great photographer Frans Lanting pays tribute to the world’s largest inland delta, the Okavango, “whose very existence in the middle of the Kalahari Desert is nothing short of miraculous. . . . The very notion that a place as wild and untouched as the Okavango even exists may seem like a dream.”On this in-depth Okavango exploration we have ample time to savor the Delta’s subtle and spectacular sceneries, from shady, pacific lagoons and meandering waterways… 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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Kenya - Essence of a Continent
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Kenya - Essence of a Continent
Jomo Kenyatta AIrport, Nairobi, Kenya
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12 Days • from $8,400* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions Our meticulously crafted Essence of a Continent offers a romantic introduction to Kenya, taking you off the beaten path to some of the most vast wildlife reserves and intimate safari camps in the country. Not only does it reveal incredible animals, it showcases the fantastic variety of culture and landscape that exists within Kenya’s 224,000 square miles. We begin our adventure in the country’s southwest corner at Campi ya Kanzi (Kiswahili for “camp of the hidden treasure”), a Maasai ranch… more |
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Morocco: From Casablanca to Marrakech
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Morocco: From Casablanca to Marrakech
Casablanca Airport, Grand Casablanca, Morocco
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16 Days • from $8,985* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions Our rendezvous begins in storied Casablanca, where we catch our breath before heading to Rabat’s glistening white buildings and palm-lined boulevards. Driving along the Atlantic coast, then inland, we discover Fès, full of culture and romance. We stop in Meknes, the “Versailles of Morocco,” then wander through the Roman city of Volubilis, whose mosaics still sparkle in the North African sun. We cross up and over the High Atlas, then down through the Ziz Gorge to the Erfoud oasis. Our… more |
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The Silk Road Aboard The Golden Eagle & Shangri-La Express
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The Silk Road Aboard The Golden Eagle & Shangri-La Express
Airport near Russian Federation, Moscow
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21 Days • from $14,395* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions We're fond of quoting William Hazlitt's line (because we so agree with the thought), that "in traveling, we visit names as well as places." And if you've in the least travel-minded, the names we visit on this epic will get your pulse racing: the vast imperial grandeur of Moscow...the daunting Karakum, one of the world's fiercest deserts...the sublime monuments of the Silk Road cities of Bukhara (where the light was said to ascend to heaven, gracing it), lovely Khiva, and… more |
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The Many Worlds of South Africa
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The Many Worlds of South Africa
Johannesburg International Airport, South Africa
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14 Days • from $13,250* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions There may be no other country on the planet that contains such a rich collection of worlds as South Africa, from the wild game lands of Kruger to the urbanity of Cape Town, with a taste of just about everything in between, including the fine vintages of the Winelands. South Africa certainly made a lasting impression on the young Winston Churchill, who, in the midst of the Boer War, took time out to admire its “wonderful air and climate .… more |
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The Nature of Tanzania
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The Nature of Tanzania
Kilimanjaro Airport, Arusha, Tanzania
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12 Days • from $12,515* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions Tanzania’s wildlife is as rich and bountiful as any place’s on earth, but there are a couple of other things that command our attention: the country’s gentle people and its great soaring landscapes—exceptional, even for a continent as vast and soaring as Africa.Flying into the northern town of Arusha, we have a night to recover from jet lag, then we’re off to Tarangire National Park and Swala Tarangire, a welcoming and uniquely beautiful spot where our chalets are surrounded by… more |
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The Real Kilimanjaro
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The Real Kilimanjaro
Jomo Kenyatta AIrport, Nairobi, Kenya
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15 Days • from $7,825* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions The mountains,” said the great explorer Francis Younghusband,“ reserve their greatest secrets for those who attain their summits.” There is something exalting and supremely rare about climbing a great peak, a gift that can never be taken away. This is especially true of a legendary mountain like Kilimanjaro, one of the seven continental highpoints. “A distant snow peak scours the mind,” Peter Matthiessen wrote in The Tree Where Man Was Born, “but a snow peak in the tropics draws the… more |
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Visiting the Primates of Tanzania and Rwanda by Private Air
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Visiting the Primates of Tanzania and Rwanda by Private Air
Dar es Salaam Airport, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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13 Days • from $23,375* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions A gloriously rare chance to hobnob with two of our closest primate relatives in their homelands, visiting Tanzania and Rwanda’s primates is possible — especially in a just-over-two-week time frame — because of our use of private aircraft, which zips us about in ease, comfort, and great safari-from- the-air beauty, with much control over our schedule (the only thing we don’t control is where we’ll spend the night; but leaving early for our next destination or extending our stay until… more |
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Oman and Zanzibar
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Oman and Zanzibar
Muscat Airport, Oman
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8 Days • from $4,925* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions Oman is a bastion of peace and desert beauty, unexpectedly soaring moun¬tains, and spotless beaches. We begin in Muscat, by common assent the most charm¬ing city in the Persian Gulf region. We’ll visit the old, mountain-girded port and its traditional souk. Then south, along the Ara¬bian Sea, to the dhow building town of Sur, and inland to Nizwa, a city considered too dangerous for outsiders to visit as little as 50 years ago, now home to a lively but pacific… more |
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Mountain Gorillas of Uganda
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Mountain Gorillas of Uganda
Kampala Airport, Uganda
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10 Days • from $10,000* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions When travelers palaver, one experience that gets everyone’s rapt attention is an account of visiting mountain gorillas. One visitor has written, “There is something deeply touching about seeing these wonderful animals—one almost hesitates to call them that—in their home. Something sweet and informative and piercing. Their wisdom, and that’s exactly what it is, sparkles shyly. And here’s the interesting part. After seeing the gorillas, you see your fellow humans a little differently.”After a day in Kampala, we drive to two… more |
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Burma’s Tribal Tapestry
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Burma’s Tribal Tapestry
Yangon International Airport, Burma
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14 Days • from $6,250* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions After an overnight in Yangon, we fly to the country’s northernmost province, Kachin, and the village of Putao, a marvelous little town in the shadow of the Himalaya (Burma’s highpoint, Hkakabo Razi, rises to more than 19,000 amazing feet 70 or so miles away). From our lodge we’ll enjoy a wealth of activities while relishing unexpected, exalting views of snow peaks rising from lush forests.We continue with a flight to Mandalay and on to Kengtung in the staunchly independent, culturally… more |
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Treasures of Zambia
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Treasures of Zambia
Lusaka Airport, Lusaka, Zambia
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15 Days • from $11,965* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions This rare, handcrafted walking and canoeing safari explores the spectacular scenery of the game-rich savannah and floodplains of Zambia’s South Luangwa Valley, the Lower Zambezi, and Kafue National Park, all based from some of the continent’s most fetching and reposeful camps and small lodges.We begin at the Mfuwe Lodge in the South Luangwa Valley, at the dramatic tail end of the Great Rift Valley. One of southern Africa’s wildest wildernesses, the Luangwa River and Valley host huge concentrations of game,… 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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Argentina's Far North
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Argentina's Far North
Buenos Aires Airport, Argentine
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11 Days • from $5,250* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions Argentina’s sere and volcano-dotted far north, on the other side of the Andes from the Atacama Desert, is little-known and less traveled. Which strikes us as one good reason to explore it. Other reasons: the landscapes up here are massive, the villages are remote and inviting, and the high volcanoes rising from the arid puna are breathtaking.We begin by flying north from Buenos Aires to Salta, just on the edge of the high country. Then off we go to the… more |
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Into Patagonia
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Into Patagonia
Buenos Aires Airport, Argentine
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14 Days • from $6,995* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions Torres del Paine, Estancia Cristina, and Fitz RoyOf earth’s 37 billion or so acres, very few are as stunningly lovely as those we savor on this trip. And of Melville’s “attending marvels of a thousand Patagonian sights and sounds,” we’ve chosen the most marvelous— with some pride, to tell the truth. Admirers of Patagonia are many, but, as Jan Morris said, “If you love something hotly enough, consciously, with care, it becomes yours by symbiosis, irrevocably,” and Patagonia has indeed… more |
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Best of Brazil: From Salvador to Rio and the Costa Verde
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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
Provider: Geographic Expeditions 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, a natural and human sensation. Often called the most African city in the Western Hemisphere, Salvador is a vibrant mélange of cultures, endlessly waft¬ing street music, wildly toothsome Bahian cuisine (which we’ll sample at funky little cafés), and dance performances, both scheduled and impromptu.… more |
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Heart of Indochina
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Heart of Indochina
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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16 Days • from $9,450* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions This charming, carefully choreographed journey takes us to Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia: three fascinating countries that, because of their early Hindu and Chinese cultural and artistic influence, became collectively known as Indochina. In very high, comfortable, and traditional GeoEx style, we’ll explore the green mountains, blue seas, and enduring legacies of this vibrant region with docent-led visits to museums and galleries, lectures from local experts, some extraordinary culinary experiences, and much scenery gazing.We range from the bustling metropolis of Ho… more |
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Trans Siberia Winter Wonderland
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Trans Siberia Winter Wonderland
Airport near Russian Federation, Moscow
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15 Days • from $13,795* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions This is the same rolling epic aboard the Golden Eagle Express as the Trans-Siberian. It too crosses eight time zones and traverses 6,600 miles as it traverses Russia from Moscow to Vladivostok. However, on this very special trip, you will travel (in luxurious comfort of course), through the magical wonderland that is Russia in winter. Also, instead of visiting Kazan, the Golden Eagle calls on Vladimir and Suzdal. The ancient town of Vladimir boasts several of the most beautiful buildings… more |
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Classic Costa Rica
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Classic Costa Rica
San Jose Airport, San Jose, Costa Rica
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7 Days • from $3,745* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions 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 iconic places suggested by guidebooks. For example, we love San Francisco, but it’s been quite a while since we’ve ventured down to Fisherman’s Wharf, and we urge visiting friends to ferry over to Angel Island for its fantastic views of the city and the… 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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Ultimate Costa Rica Adventure
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Ultimate Costa Rica Adventure
San Jose Airport, San Jose, Costa Rica
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7 Days • from $3,685* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions We visit many of the highlights in Classic Costa Rica, but for those of us with a taste for outings a little more strenuous, we have created this hiking and multisport trip, which not only gives us a different take on the country’s natural glories but also offers an insider’s perspective on unique campesino culture, deep in the interior of the countryside. Our days are spent hiking some of Costa Rica’s most spectacular backcountry trails and mingling in the homes… more |
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Machu Picchu and the Galapagos Islands
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Machu Picchu and the Galapagos Islands
Lima Airport, Lima, Peru
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15 Days • from $9,640* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions Boasting four World Heritage Sites, there is no other adventure in our roster of South American ramblings that packs in such a variance of epic highlights. Combining a trip to the Incan heartland of Peru with a week long voyage in the Galapagos Islands offers the richest combination of cultural and natural history imaginable.After flying to Lima, we’re off to the old Incan capital of Cusco, “a little city of such supreme interest and historical symbolism, of such variety and… more |
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Private Charters to the Galápagos Islands
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Private Charters to the Galápagos Islands
Airport, Ecuador near Quito, Ecuador
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11 Days • Contact provider for price
Provider: Geographic Expeditions 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 archipelago in the company of your closest friends and family: a private charter aboard the luxury sailing vessel, the Queen of the Galapagos.A stylish, 16-passenger, state-of-the-art yacht, Queen of the Galapagos features a salon and entertainment area, dining room airy sun deck, full bar,… more |
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Galapagos Islands Aboard La Pinta
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Galapagos Islands Aboard La Pinta
Airport, Ecuador near Quito, Ecuador
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11 Days • from $5,660* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions 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 there is a lot of competition to take them there. With the launch of the new, 48-passenger, environmentally state-of-the-art yacht La Pinta, we offer travelers the opportunity to explore the fabled islands in good conscience – and comfort. We are confident that no other… 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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Laos Unveiled
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Laos Unveiled
Vientiane, Laos
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10 Days • from $3,500* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions 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 remote, traditional villages, and visit intelligently conceived sustainable tourism projects. We head north from Vientiane toward the Chinese border, into the Golden Triangle, an ethnographer’s dream (and a scenic and cultural thrill for people like us). After visiting and hiking in and around Luang… more |
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Oaxaca and the Sierra Norte - Places of the Gods
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Oaxaca and the Sierra Norte - Places of the Gods
Airport near Oaxaca, Mexico
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6 Days • from $2,495* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions 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 superb. It takes us first to the brilliant old UNESCO World Heritage Site city of Oaxaca. Founded by the Aztecs, Oaxaca was freshly designed in 1529 by the Spanish Empire’s premier architect, Alonso García Bravo. His genius is everywhere to be found, especially in… more |
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