Geographic Expeditions offers 117 trips/accommodations
Nara to Hiroshima
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Nara to Hiroshima
Nara Airport, Japan
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7 Days • from $4,975* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions 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 Japan’s Tokugawa-era castles, and then spend a couple of days visiting Kurashiki, which has been referred to by many as “Japan’s Venice”. Kurashiki offers many museums, galleries and shops to peruse and become familiar with before we make our way to Hiroshima stopping en… more |
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Shikoku: Japan’s Sacred Island
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Shikoku: Japan’s Sacred Island
Matsuyama Airport Japan
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7 Days • from $5,530* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions 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 • Day 5: drive into the remote beauty of the Iya Valley, stay at Chiiori • Day 6: Iya Valley’s vine bridges, soba-making workshop and another night in the 300-year-old farmhouse• Day 7: drive to Takamatsu via Kotohira and Zentsu-ji Temple • Day 8:… more |
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Kurdistan and Eastern Turkey with Carolyn McIntyre
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Kurdistan and Eastern Turkey with Carolyn McIntyre
Airport Rd, Erbil, Iraq
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21 Days • from $9,565* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions First things first: Iraqi Kurdistan, where we begin this unique trip, is a stable, sane, and very inviting destination. And if we have any reason to think that might change, we won’t go, pure and simple. On this three week journey we’ll set out from Kurdistan’s booming capital, Erbil, on a comprehensive look at the burgeoning, surprisingly up-to-the-minute nation-in-all-but-name, often following the Hamilton Road, named for British engineer Archibald Hamilton, whose still-available and informative 1937 book, Road Through Kurdistan, a… more |
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Festivals of Mongolia: Golden Eagle Festival
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Festivals of Mongolia: Golden Eagle Festival
Ulaanbaatar Airport, Mongolia
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11 Days • from $4,450* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions Living in the shadow of the majestic Altai Mountains, the nomadic Kazakhs of western Mongolia live and prosper much as they have for centuries. They move seasonally in search of good pasture for their animals, maintaining one of the last enduring horse-based nomadic cultures in the world.Sandwiched between China and Russia, the far west of Mongolia is also an area of stunning natural beauty. With forested valleys, clear alpine lakes, expansive meadows carpeted with wildflowers, and spectacular snowcapped peaks (includingKhuiten… more |
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Festivals of Mongolia: Khovsgol Ice Festival and Gobi Camel Festival
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Festivals of Mongolia: Khovsgol Ice Festival and Gobi Camel Festival
Ulaanbaatar Airport, Mongolia
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12 Days • from $4,250* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions A vast and lonely treasure, Mongolia occupies a space more than three times the size of France, yet its population is only a little over a third that of New York City! So it is no surprise that Mongolia is one of the least densely populated nations in the world.We have been under its spell for a long time, dating to the days when it appeared in musty atlases as “Outer Mongolia.” So, it’s with great joy that we introduce… more |
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Festivals of Mongolia: National Naadam Festival
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Festivals of Mongolia: National Naadam Festival
Ulaanbaatar Airport, Mongolia
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11 Days • from $4,550* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions We've been under Mongolia's spell for a long time, dating to the days when it appeared in musty atlases as “Outer Mongolia.” So, it’s with great joy that we introduce people to this magnificent land and its festivals.On this journey centered around the biggest of Mongolia’s festivals – Naadam – we explore the cosmopolitan capital, Ulaanbaatar, venture into the heart of the Gobi Desert, and enjoy the boisterous Naadam celebration in Karakorum, one-time capital of the vast Mongol Empire. Beyond… more |
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The Forgotten Corner of South America
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The Forgotten Corner of South America
Georgetown Airport, Guyana
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19 Days • from $10,245* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions More foreigners visit China every day and a half than visit Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana in a year. Combined. But we assure you: these three countries are a huge, unexpected, and extremely rare treat for inquisitive, beauty-loving, culture-enjoying travelers.In Guyana, South America’s only English-speaking country, we visit the mammoth Kaieteur Falls (inspiringly featured in Werner Herzog’s lovely film The White Diamond); we explore the country’s vast rainforest and its wildlife (caimans, manatees, and a host of colorful avians) from… more |
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Mongolia and Siberia
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Mongolia and Siberia
Ulaanbaatar Airport, Mongolia
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14 Days • from $6,550* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions Since the preceding pages are full of paeans to Mongolia, into which we drive on Day 7, let’s concentrate here on the Siberian segment of this lovely journey, which centers around glorious Lake Baikal. “A primordial deep lake of diamantine clarity,” as Peter Matthiessen wrote in Baikal: Sacred Lake of Siberia, it is, among other things, the world’s oldest lake, the deepest (5750 feet at its lowest, with an additional four miles of sediment above the bedrock; the great Baikal… more |
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Mongolian Odyssey
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Mongolian Odyssey
Ulaanbaatar Airport, Mongolia
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18 Days • from $6,250* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions This overland journey displays Mongolia’s unexpectedly wide variety of landscapes, from vast sand dunes to snowy peaks, from forested enclaves to the oceanic steppe. We begin with some sightseeing in Ulaanbaatar, then head a little way west to Khustain Nuruu National Park to see the world’s only truly wild horses, the stocky and handsome takhi, or Przewalski horses. Then to the old capital of the Mongol Empire, Karakorum, once the most important place on the planet, and the nearby Buddhist… more |
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Five Kings of the Altai: Trekking in Mongolia's Highest Mountains
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Five Kings of the Altai: Trekking in Mongolia's Highest Mountains
Ulaanbaatar Airport, Mongolia
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18 Days • from $7,950* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions Mongolia’s far west, where China, Russia, and Mongolia meet,is a region of giant beauty, virtually untouched by the outside world until quite recently. Forested valleys and clear alpine lakes are punctuated by expansive meadows carpeted with wildflowers and, as a backdrop, the eloquent glaciated peaks of the Altai Mountains.We fly from Ulaanbaatar to Olgii, where the country begins narrowing to a point, and drive into Tavan Bogd National Park for the first days of trekking through mountain-girded valleys and an… more |
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Mongolia Explorer
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Mongolia Explorer
Ulaanbaatar Airport, Mongolia
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13 Days • from $5,650* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions As you read about Mongolia on our web pages, you’ll notice our deep fondness for it. This active tour, lovingly crafted by our ranking Mongolia enthusiast Michael Steigerwald, gives us an unassumingly cushy experience of the country, with stays in some of the country’s best hotels and ger camps, taking in three of its highest lights: the Gobi Desert, magnificent Lake Khovsgol, and the Naadam festival.We begin in the surprisingly cosmopolitan capital, Ulaanbaatar, visiting its resurgent Buddhist temples and proud… more |
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A Nepal Medley: Rivers, Mountains, & Jungles
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A Nepal Medley: Rivers, Mountains, & Jungles
Kathmandu airport, Nepal
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8 Days • from $1,750* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions Nepal is where many of us got serious about our love affair with mountains, with travel, and with the varietal inhabitants of the welcoming world. In A Nepalese Medley, our Michael Steigerwald, Nicole Peelle, and Becca Glatz proudly display this much-loved land in its grand variety, offering everything from Himalayan lodge-tolodge hikes to river rafting to visits to the country’s jungly lowlands, where tigers are still to be seen. These four trip modules are craftily designed to be taken as… more |
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Himalayan Leadership Trek to Mt. Everest with Ed Bernbaum & Mike Useem
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Himalayan Leadership Trek to Mt. Everest with Ed Bernbaum & Mike Useem
Kathmandu airport, Nepal
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14 Days • from $4,450* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions Leadership is a capacity that draws on all aspects of yourself and your organization. Developing a vision, articulating it, and inspiring others to achieve it require careful analysis and technical knowledge, as well as a sense for what is important for the organization and for the people in and around it. Mastering these abilities is a lifelong endeavor. The Leadership Trek to Mount Everest provides an opportunity to continue your leadership development, exercise your body, and cross-train your mind. It’s… more |
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Sherpa Villages and Mt. Everest with Sona Hishi Sherpa
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Sherpa Villages and Mt. Everest with Sona Hishi Sherpa
Kathmandu airport, Nepal
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18 Days • from $3,950* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions Many of us trekked to the Khumbu district’s Sherpa homeland with our eyes on Everest, but we returned with fondest memories of the Sherpas, legendary mountain guides and climbers, and valiant friends. Which is a remarkable compliment to these fine folks, as Everest and its neighbors are everything they’re cracked up to be: enormous, eloquent, endlessly engaging.We trek to the world’s apex in the company of one of the eminent Sherpas of his generation, Sona Hishi, a great climber, researcher,… more |
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Kingdom of Mustang including the Tiji Festival
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Kingdom of Mustang including the Tiji Festival
Kathmandu airport, Nepal
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15 Days • from $3,950* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions It wasn’t long ago that the old border kingdom of Mustang was first opened to the outside world. (We remember a famous mountain man exclaiming joyously, “I’m going to Mustang!”) Politically part of Nepal, but geographically and culturally very Tibetan, Mustang’s landscapes, presided over by the icy ramparts of the Himalaya, are vast and open. And its capital, Lo Manthang, and its ultraremote villages, inhabited by gracious, happily traditional folk, are entrancingly evocative of the early days of Central Asian… more |
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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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Kangshung Face of Everest Trek
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Kangshung Face of Everest Trek
Beijing Airport, China
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22 Days • from $7,450* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions Of Everest’s three faces, the east—or Kangshung—is unquestionably the most beautiful and least visited (this catalog’s lucky writer led seven treks to the Kangshung and only once saw another trekking party, far in the distance). Most experts consider the hike up to the Kangshung one of the two or three finest treks on earth.We begin with a visit to Lhasa, then make the phenomenal drive along the Lhasa–Kathmandu road to Gyantse, Shigatse, and Shekar, where we meet our Nepalese Sherpas.… more |
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Mountains and Fiords of South Island
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Mountains and Fiords of South Island
Christchurch Airport, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
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11 Days • from $15,840* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions New Zealand is a gem of a country, and it shines brightly and beguilingly on this elegantly-paced 11-day Private Departure to its South Island. (And while you’re at the computer, take a look at Natural North New Zealand, just a smidgen of cyberspace away; we suspect you’ll be tempted to combine these trips into a gorgeous and rollickingly fun, just-over-three-week, North and South Island look at this wonderful country.)We begin Mountains and Fiords (they’re generally fiords in New Zealand, not… more |
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Natural North New Zealand
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Natural North New Zealand
Auckland Airport, Auckland, New Zealand
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11 Days • from $15,850* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions New Zealand’s reputation among eager travelers is about as sterling as reputations get. On this less-than-two-week Private Departure, with frequent October to April editions, we delve into the North Island’s wealth of wonders, scenic, culinary, and cultural.We begin with a short flight across the Hauraki Gulf from Auckland to Great Barrier Island, population about 600. Peaceful, laid-back, comfortable, Great Barrier is above all beautiful. Based from lovely Earthsong Lodge, we’ll wander the island with native son Steve, visiting unpeopled beaches,… 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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Cappadocia
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Cappadocia
Cappadocia, Turkey
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4 Days • from $2,475* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions There are unique landscapes and then there is Cappadocia. Because we think this famed wonderland is so worth a visit, we’ve constructed this short Private Departure as an addition to our Istanbul and the Aegean Coast or any of our Custom Journeys in Turkey.Cappadocia’s fairy landscapes are the result of seas of volcanic ash solidified into soft stone, or tufa, which in turn eroded magically into deep valleys, needle-like towers, and irregular cones. Early Christians, on the run from the… more |
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The Trans-Siberian Express Aboard the Golden Eagle
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The Trans-Siberian Express Aboard the Golden Eagle
Airport near Russian Federation, Moscow
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15 Days • from $8,995* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions Train buffs (and there are many of us out there) think of the Trans-Siberian as a kind of Mount Everest of rail journeys. (The guy who is writing this, for instance, once honeymooned on the Trans-Siberian. In February. And loved it.)Back in the day, both in Soviet times and until relatively recently, accommodations along the Trans-Siberian ranged from barely sustainable to passably comfortable, though rather basic. But our train, the Golden Eagle, is in another, grander, more salubrious class entirely.… 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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