Posts Tagged ‘tours’

Explore frenzy

Friday, May 18th, 2007

Lots of things happening around the office at present. We’ve launched our Short Breaks programme for 07/08 – some very interesting tours in terms of Winter breaks, Wildlife and culture! Two personal favourites:

Voodoo Villages based on our Cradle of Voodoo tour but shorter! Togo and Benin in West Africa for just under a week.

Tatras and Slovak Paradise - winter short break but the price is fantastic – wish I could go on this one this winter.

We’ve also launched a holiday promotion for Families new to Explore with 5% off 5 tours (you can see more here) – By the way, existing family customers already get 5% off any tour.

And there are also some more exciting developments coming soon, and I’m not talking about Explore Blogs Twitter account.

Absolutely fantastic

Thursday, April 19th, 2007

And while I’m looking at links on technorati

Megan talks about her absolutely fantastic trip to Jordan. She also has some great shots of the tour up on flickr – the photo sets marked Jordan (obviously).

Megan also commented that she had a fantastic local guide called Hazem, who “…added so much to the holiday”.

Local guides always seem to make a lot of difference to people on our tours whether they are the tour leader or local guides in specific places, it can make all the difference between get to know the place or just seeing it.

Can we Eclipse you?

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

In case you didn’t know our Eclipse programme is up on the Explore.co.uk website.

Eclipse chasing is apparently very popular, and given the relatively remote location of the best viewing in August 2008 (West of Mongolia, NW China and Siberia), its worth booking as soon as possible. If you’re interested in seeing the Moon blot out the Sun, that is!

Totality - the Moon Eclipses the Sun
Totality – the Moon eclipses the Sun

There are also a couple of other tours which are focused on other astronomical phenomena: a total eclipse of the Moon in Cuba in 2008 and a viewing of the Perseid Meteor shower in the Azores in August 2007.

Hopefully we can get an interview and a little more detail about these tours for April.

Gorillas, Africa and Tour leading

Saturday, February 24th, 2007

Kate Plummer, one of our wonderful tour leaders, who has also been presenting at our Evenings of Adventure, talks about leading tours in Africa, particularly to Uganda. The trips Kate has been leading have also been to see the Mountain Gorillas and she talks about what an amazing experience meeting the apes actually is, and how emotional it can be.

You can catch Kate at any of our remaining Evenings of Adventure (see our website). Well worth a look, as the presentations are really rather good.

 
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