Adventure Travel

To celebrate the 60th anniversary of Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay’s ascent of Mount Everest on 29th May 1953, we have reduced the price of all our Nepal trekking holidays by up to £100.

Recent TV documentaries, an exhibition at The British Museum and a Hollywood blockbuster due for release in 2014 have once again brought Pompeii to the forefront of public interest.

As the kids head back to school after the Easter break, it's time to look forward to the summer holidays. Choosing an adventure to suit a family full of adventurers can be difficult, so we've tried to make those decisions easier for you by reducing the price of summer holiday departures of some of our favourite adventures.

Explore's Product and Operations Director John Telfer is just back from a trip to Iraq where he checked out the places our new tour visits. He shares his experiences in the country, quashesd a few misconceptions and tells of a few surprises!

It's not too late to book an adventure for this spring. The unseasonably cold and snowy weather we've had in the UK has meant we've seen a surge of last minute bookings from people wanting to get away from it all and have an adventure this spring.

Earlier this year we ran a ‘Share Our Passion’ competition. We asked you to tell us your favourite destinations across the world and why you’re passionate about them. We received a wide range of interesting answers which you’ll start to see popping up across the website soon.

Sharing tales from your holidays is half the fun of travel. You get to relive all the great experiences you had and prolong the feelings the holiday gave you.  But what if it could also help you win money towards your next adventure?

To Hannah Methven, our Product Manager for Asia, one week in Tokyo sounded fantastic.  'I had a picture of what I expected from the city and I wasn’t disappointed.  It was everything I had imagined and then some.  Here are a few of the highlights from my trip'.

We've all been glued to our screens watching David Attenborough's latest documentary. Daniela Pontis, Product Manager for Africa and our very own Africa expert talks about it in more detail:

We've all been glued to our screens watching David Attenborough's latest documentary. Daniela Pontis, Product Manager for Africa and our very own Africa expert talks about it in more detail: