For over 25 years, REI has offered unique multisport tours, adventure tours, and cycling tours — from camel trekking in Mongolia, to climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro, to snowshoeing in Iceland! REI offers a variety of cycling tours in Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, the US, and South America.
Explore the wine regions of Argentina and Chile; in Vietnam ride into the rural Mekong Delta, explore Halong Bay and Cambodia’s famous Angkor Wat. In Europe, pedal through Croatia’s famous national park, Plitvice Lakes, explore the coastal scenery of Ireland, or tour the finest hill towns in Tuscany.
REI’s multisport tours combine cycling with kayaking, hiking, zip-lining and other activities! Bikes are provided, as well as full vehicle support while cycling — ride as much or as little as you’d like. Additional mileage options are available most days, for those bike riders seeking more time in the saddle.
For over 25 years, REI has offered unique outdoor adventure tours with a mission of getting people outdoors, offering more than 150 different trips on every continent — from camel trekking in Mongolia, to climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro, to kayaking through Laos and Cambodia, to snowshoeing in Iceland! They also offer a large variety of classic African Safaris in Kenya, Namibia, Maasai Mara, Botswana and South Africa.
Tours are categorized by activity, including backpacking, kayaking, climbing, rafting, cycling, mountain biking, multi-sport, hiking, and winter sports.
REI cruises offer a blend of relaxed comfort and accessibility to stunning natural areas and amazing wildlife. Cruising in Alaska or the Galapagos Islands aboard smaller boats provides a more intimate natural experience. Large, powerful icebreakers and ice-strengthened vessels allow for remote Arctic and Antarctic expeditions.
While comfort is a priority, they provide lodging that’s out of the ordinary — an eco lodge high in the Andes, a genuine sheep shearers’ quarters, or a tent perched on the flanks of a stunning mountain.
In addition, REI has teamed with the non-profit Conservation Volunteers International Program to offer exciting new volunteer vacations.
For luxury safaris, Tauck’s Africa tours bring you the best of Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Botswana, Zambia and South Africa. Stay in luxury tented camps and five-star luxury hotels, enjoy sundowners under a blazing African sunset, dine at private homes, in elegant hotels and under the stars in the bushveld.
Just a sampling of African tour highlights include Rhino Walking Safaris, Victoria Falls, the awe-inspiring national parks of Zambia and Botswana, home to some of the largest concentrations of big game on the planet, an exclusive nighttime game drive where FLIR® thermal imaging reveals the nocturnal activities of wildlife, a hot air balloon ride over the Masai Mara at dawn, a Zambezi River cruise at sunset.
Other highlights include observing rescued chimpanzees and protected black rhinos at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy, as well as huge herds roaming the Serengeti, the “lost world” of Ngorongoro Crater, free-ranging elephants in Amboseli National Park, wine tastings, and special presentations and lectures with local experts!
Tauck specializes in a wide variety of all inclusive group tours – promising one up-front price with virtually everything included – no hidden costs, no surprises and no options sold on tour. A family-owned company started in 1925 by American Arthur Tauck, Tauck is one of the oldest and most innovative group tour operators.
Tauck offers everything from river cruises to rail excursions, African safaris and Antarctica expeditions, family travel, trips to the great North American National Parks, Food & Wine tours, Fall Foliage tours and Nature tours, as well as trips created with award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns.
They also offer Earth Journeys, created by Tauck and BBC Earth, and an exciting array of “classic” journeys and “best sellers.” Tauck also offers Small Group journeys with an average of 24 guests, for a more intimate travel experience.
Their Culturious journeys (small group trips with only 20 guests) include hikes, bike rides, horseback rides, rafting trips, snowshoeing treks, as well as art lectures, artisan workshops, insider talks, and historic walks and more.
Globus offers numerous classic African Safaris, taking travelers to the most famous game reserves and national parks, such as Serengeti National Park, Amboseli National Park, Ngorongoro Crater, and Kruger National Park—not to mention breathtaking Victoria Falls!
Globus Small-Group Discovery tours are the perfect choice to experience the best of East and Southern Africa. With no more than 20 passengers on these tours, you still have ample opportunity to meet new friends, but the small-group ratio means more personalized service from beginning to end.
Globus Tour Directors and local guides, regularly rated the best in the industry, bring destinations to life with firsthand, in-depth knowledge of their villages and customs.
Travelers can also personalize their own tours with MyGlobus before arrival. Visit a local Maasai village to get an insight into the local African culture, take an indigenous medicine walk through the forest with a Maasai healer, and visit a rhino sanctuary. No cookie-cutter itineraries here!
With a more than 32 offices around the world, Globus is one of the oldest and largest tour companies.
Maupintour offers numerous luxury African safaris and escorted tours including several classic African safaris in Botswana and Zimbabwe. Started in 1951 by Tom Maupin as a small travel company in Lawrence, Kansas, Maupintour has become one of the best known and respected names in the travel industry.
Various tours allow you to explore the beauty of cities like Cape Town, and also discover South Africa’s wild side at Chobe Game Reserve and the Okavango Delta. Various tour highlights include wine tasting and a tour of Cape Winelands, taking a cable car gondola to the top of Table Mountain, viewing the penguins at Boulders Beach, and big 5 game drives while staying at Imbali Safari Lodge in Kruger National Park, bush walks. Explore by water in a dug out canoe, stay at Victoria Falls Safari Lodge, enjoy a sundowner cruise on the Zambezi River, and observe wildlife in Chobe National Park, home to elephants, hippos, lions and more!
Unique and comfortable accommodations include classic safari lodges, 5-star hotels, and even luxury treehouse lodges, depending on your tour.
They currently offer around 8 different Africa tours, including a reasonably priced 14-day Botswana Camping Safari. Safari highlights include the Khama Rhino Sanctuary, a 4300-hectare reserve on the Kalahari sandveld with several waterholes, providing a prime habitat for white rhinos, zebras, and wildebeest; exploring the Okavango Delta on dugout canoes; game drives on the Moremi Game Reserve, home to wild dogs, elephants, hippos, buffalo, lions, and other game; Chobe National Park, which attracts some of the largest herds of elephants in Africa; camping on the banks of the Zambezi River and much more!
Kutrubes also offer off-the-beaten-track tours to Morocco, Marrakech, Ethiopia (3 different tours), Tunisia, and Madagascar.
For over a century, this family-owned business has specialized in off-the-beaten-track individual and small-group tours to satisfy the most curious and discriminating traveler, creating adventure travel vacations to the less-traveled parts of the world. Aside from African safaris, Kutrubes also offers unique tours to Greece, Croatia, the Balkans and Eastern Europe, India, the Caribbean, and the Middle East.
As part of Education First, Go Ahead provides enlightening cultural experiences all over the world, including numerous African Wildlife Safaris. A leader in group travel since 1990, Go Ahead also offers unique, customizable group tours and wildlife tours in Asia, Australia, the Americas and Antarctica.
They currently offer several classic African safari tours including their Kenya Wildlife Safari with 7 game drives and 5 “connect and conserve” highlights. Explore the Masai Mara, Amboseli National Park, which sits against the breathtaking backdrop of Mount Kilimanjaro, and Lake Nakuru, where two million flamingos make their home. Tour the Karen Blixen Estate, a former coffee plantation, as described in her novel “Out of Africa,” and the Giraffe Center, a preserve dedicated to raising rare giraffes.
Their Tanzania Wildlife Safari explores the untamed Tarangire, glimmering Lake Manyara, the legendary Serengeti, and the “Garden of Eden” at Ngorongoro Crater. This tour includes 8 game drives, 6 “connect & conserve” highlights.
Their Botswana & Zimbabwe Wildlife Safari includes visiting Victoria Falls, scanning the horizon for cheetah in Hwange National Park, tracking the elephant herds in Chobe and gliding through the lush lagoons of the Okavango Delta. This tour includes 6 game drives and 5 “connect and conserve” highlights.
South Africa: A Journey of Discovery highlights include captivating Cape Town, the surprising variety of South African vintages, the stunning scenery along the Garden Route, a visit with locals in Port Elizabeth, the markets of Manzini, and full day of game drives in Kruger National Park, where you’ll have a chance to see the Big Five game animals: Buffalo, elephants, leopards, lions and rhinos.
All groups are capped at 35 travelers or less, and tours to remote natural landscapes, have even smaller groups, allowing access to hard-to-reach locations and more authentic lodging.
Oceanic Society offers an exciting variety of ocean conservation tours and marine related eco-tours, including snorkeling expeditions in exotic locations like Belize, Bali, Palau, Australia and Raja Ampat, numerous whale watching expeditions in Baja, and even snorkeling with humpback whales in Tonga. Established in 1969, Oceanic Society is one of the first non-profit organizations dedicated to ocean conservation.
Their “Ridge to Reef Expeditions” include: Kenya – From Hyenas to Humpbacks; Guyana – Giant River Otters and Wilderness; the Galápagos Islands Cruise, and more. They also offer several trips where guests can choose either scuba diving or snorkeling.
North American eco-tours include: Florida Manatees & Endangered Habitats; Alaska Coastal Wilderness Cruise; Kayaking the San Juan Islands; and Big Island “Black Water” & Manta Ray Sunset Dives — featuring a surreal night scuba dive experience in the open water off of Kona, Hawaii.
Their Volunteer Vacations include helping St. George’s Caye Sea Turtles & Manatees in Belize, Dolphin Research in Belize, the Whales of Guerrero Research Project, and several Coral Reef Research projects.
