Geographic Expeditions offers 117 trips/accommodations
Egypt: The Nile
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Egypt: The Nile
Cairo International Airport, Egypt
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11 Days • from $7,525* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions 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 advantage of the great gift by building a civilization almost alien in its grandeur, ennobling the Nile’s banks with stunning monuments to their overweening sense of destiny.We spend four days on a gem of a Nile cruiser— your choice of boats includes the new,… more |
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Sailing the Eternal Nile
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Sailing the Eternal Nile
Cairo International Airport, Egypt
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12 Days • from $8,225* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions Egypt and the Nile: the two are inextricably linked. Almost 2,500 years ago, Herodotus, looking back even then on 25 centuries of recorded history, wrote, “Egypt is an acquired country, the gift of the river.” The ancient Egyptians took advantage of their bountiful gift by building a civilization almost alien in its grandeur, ennobling the Nile’s banks with stunning monuments to their overweening sense of destiny. Even before the days of Herodotus, Egypt and its lifegiving river were lodestones of… more |
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The Sinai Peninsula
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The Sinai Peninsula
Cairo International Airport, Egypt
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5 Days • from $3,175* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions A stirring visit to the Sinai, following in the tracks of countless pilgrims, tribes, and armies (Burton Bernstein wrote in Sinai: The Great and Terrible Wilderness that this strategic, holy, mysterious piece of "gritty real estate...has been occupied by some alien force-50 at last count-since the early Bronze Age, about 5,000 years ago"). We climb Mount Sinai, inspect the Monastery of St. Catherine's treasury of fourth-century icons and illuminated manuscripts (the largest collection outside of the Vatican), and have tea… 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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Treasures of Persia
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Treasures of Persia
Tehran Airport, Iran
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21 Days • from $8,075* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions The governments of Iran and the United States are . . . well, you know the story. But since we began our groundbreaking trips to Iran in 1993, our many travel¬ers have been deeply gratified by the openhearted, open-minded welcome of the Iranian people. Geopoliticians we’re not, and our warm people-to-people encounters in Iran remind us that we made the right career choice. As our Carey Johnston says, “It’s a joy to hear from our returning trav¬elers who are always… 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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Australia: Ranches, Rain Forests, and Reefs
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Australia: Ranches, Rain Forests, and Reefs
Adelaide Airport, South Australia, Australia
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12 Days • from $17,120* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions We begin our far-ranging Ozian jaunt with an afternoon tour of Adelaide, topped off with a city tour of this vibrant city —good fun, but just the barest hint of what Mark Twain called Australia’s “surprises and adventures, and incongruities and incredibilities.” A morning flight takes us to famous Kangaroo Island, southwest from Adelaide at the entrance to the Gulf Saint Vincent. Our day and a half on Kangaroo is an eye-pleaser; the island is rich in wildlife (including, naturally,… more |
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Secrets of the Archipelago Aboard the Silolona: A Private Charter
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Secrets of the Archipelago Aboard the Silolona: A Private Charter
Bali Airport, Indonesia
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10 Days • from $250,000* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions Our dear friend Patti Seery has spent the past couple of decades building friendships with local villagers, craftspeople, and kings throughout the Indonesian archipelago. Sailing in tremendous comfort and style aboard Patti’s custom-made yacht, the winsome Silolona, we take advantage of her unsurpassed knowledge and her infectious passion, getting a rare look at some of the most beautiful and remote of the archipelago’s thousands of islands and a chance to meet their cheery and welcoming people.We begin in wondrous and… 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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Rwanda: Gorillas of the Virunga Volcanoes
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Rwanda: Gorillas of the Virunga Volcanoes
Kigali Airport, Kigali, Rwanda
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7 Days • from $6,000* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions 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 very sweet, very large relatives.In this week-long trip (a stellar extension to any of our Kenya or Tanzania journeys), we gently track the world’s largest primate in Rwanda’s Parc National des Volcans, the volcans in this instance being the personable Virunga Volcanoes, a chain… more |
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Antarctica Aboard the National Geographic Explorer
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Antarctica Aboard the National Geographic Explorer
Santiago Airport, Santiago, Chile
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23 Days • from $11,740* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions Glide around enormous tabular icebergs by Zodiac, walk along beaches covered with thousands of penguins, and kayak amid abundant wildlife. Learn about the Lindblad legacy, dating from 1966, as you travel with Ice Masters and Expedition Leaders who have hundreds of journeys under their parkas. On every expedition, two penguin researchers, supported by our joint fund with National Geographic, are on board, and they invite you to participate in penguin studies. An Undersea Specialist captures rarely seen footage of life… more |
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A Tribute to Turkey
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A Tribute to Turkey
Istanbul Airport, Turkey
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14 Days • from $7,450* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions “I have fallen a hopeless victim to the Turk,” Gertrude Bell once wrote in a letter to her family. “He is the most charming of mortals.”We deliver this information (it’s hardly news) about the Turks because in all the world we can think of very few places whose people are so wonderful to meet and whose roster of places to avidly look at is so long and rich. We’ll have many charming Turks to meet, and many places upon which… more |
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Hiking in the Mountains of Lebanon
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Hiking in the Mountains of Lebanon
Beirut Airport, Lebanon
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8 Days • from $4,125* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions 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 set off for a look at Beiteddine (House of Faith) and the Phoenician city of Sidon, followed by a couple of World Heritage Sites: Baalbek, one of the most impressive Roman ruins anywhere, and the Umayyad ruins of Anjar. Now into some of Lebanon’s… more |
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Trans Siberia Baikal Express
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Trans Siberia Baikal Express
Airport near Russian Federation, Moscow
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9 Days • from $9,995* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions This is a shorter version of the rolling epic aboard the Golden Eagle Express; the Trans-Siberian. It travels all the way from Moscow to Lake Baikal (or in reverse). we pass through the mesmerizing, seemingly infinite Siberian forest, the taiga, paying leisurely visits to Kazan, whose Kremlin is a UNESCO World Heritage site, to Yekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk during Soviet times), founded in 1723 by Peter the Great as a gateway for his expansion into the wilds of Siberia (we’ll visit the… 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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Turkey: Private Charters for Family & Friends
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Turkey: Private Charters for Family & Friends
Istanbul Airport, Turkey
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10 Days • from $6,410* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions 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 to . . .”?This private sail aboard one of our sweet gulets is the kind of unforgettable experience that makes travel such a canny investment. We think our Turkish sails—grandly restful, beautiful, comfortable and fun—are eminently worthy of your attention and personal investment. Our… 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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Northern Vietnam: Tribes and Treks
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Northern Vietnam: Tribes and Treks
Hanoi Airport, Vietnam
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7 Days • from $2,800* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions 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, staying in delightful small hotels and guesthouses. Postcardy Sapa is our base for day hikes and village visits, and then we’re off to equally engaging Tam Duong for another couple of wandering days before we board an overnight train for Hanoi. 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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Secrets of the Deccan and MalabarNational Geographic Tour of a Lifetime 2010/2011 
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Secrets of the Deccan and Malabar
Bangalore, India
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15 Days • from $7,950* per person
Provider: Geographic Expeditions Another crossing of India’s cultural heartland, this time beginning in the mid-south at Karnataka’s Bangalore, whence we fly north to Hubli and the nearby World Heritage Site of Hampi, capital of the Vijayanagar kings, who dominated southern India from 1336 to 1565, when they went the way of all empires. Next to Chikmagalur, once a major hill station of the Raj, now a beautiful coffee-growing area. We’ll make an excursion over to the fine, fresco-decorated temples at Belur and Halebid,… 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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