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WALKING ON THE GREEK ISLANDS

Would have scored higher but for a few issues that were probably specific to this particular trip (eg: a ferry strike, very small group and unseasonably bad weather).If you're looking for easy walking, great food, scenery and culture with a passionate leader, this tour is for you. 

Most Inspirational Moment

Seeing the Acropolis and a great education on all things Greek and Island from the tour leader.

Thoughts on Group Leader

Thanos was great. Clearly loves everything about the area so every question on everything (from asparagus to Zeus) wasn't just answered but expanded upon (eg: what's that flower, answer: it's camomile, used in XYZ and prepared by ABC, for ... etc).Also, extraordinarily, instead of cutting our tour schedule due to the poor weather and strike he actually managed to expand it by adding in another island and throwing in his own tour of Athens - which I thought was incredible. I've been on a few tours and have always been impressed by the leaders, but he was outstanding.

Advice for Potential Travellers

Maybe April was too early to go and I think it would have been more fun with a bigger group (only 4 of us).

WALKING IN MADEIRA

Had a fantastic trip. Very well organised. Excellent company (8 in our group). Transferred with the luggage to Funchal – Andre arranged it all with no problems.Visited Monte garden and Botanic garden by cable car.  

Most Inspirational Moment

Walk 1 Ponta de Sao Lourenco - fantastic views, hot sunny and breezy, lizards great entertainment back in time for swim in the pool.Walk 2 lovely, exciting edge of cliff walk, different flora/fauna to Porta da Cruz. Lovely hotel. Walk 3 Levada do Caldeiro Verde - really pretty but busy. Walk 4 not so nice - fog and cold and staircase to Endumeada, a long hard day - glad I did it. Tunnels amazing. Walk 5 I opted out of the last walk as it was foggy and wet and I thought I would hold everyone else up.

Thoughts on Group Leader

Excellent local guide - Andre Pontes who had a great sense of humour and "eyes in the back of his head". I felt very safe with him and valued his experience of the walks and knowledge of the plant life. Hotels very good, food wonderful.  Heated pool lovely.

THE LOST CITY OF PETRA - FAMILY HOLIDAY

A complete holiday for one incredible week.

Most Inspirational Moment

There are many parts of this trip which were unforgettable, but climbing the dunes of Wadi Rum and dancing with the Bedouins at the camp are the most memorable.

Thoughts on Group Leader

Our leader, Samer, was freelance and contracted to us for the week. While very warm and helpful if asked, he did not take as much initiative in explaining to us the itinerary for the day or helping us understand what we might need in terms of the various bits and bobs required to make a trip more comfortable. For example, the group would often wonder how long a journey may be, where we would have lunch next, or how far we'd have to go before we reached a toilet. With children (there were ten children) it is more essential to be told when we would need to slather suncream on them so we could do it before we got to a destination rather than waste time at it. 

Advice for Potential Travellers

The Wadi Rum accommodation is actually quite good - they provide very thick blankets (in April at the time of writing this) - so you may not really need sleeping bags. Aqaba has a laundry service round the corner from the hotel (Mina Hotel) and you can wash there if you need to. Carry strong sunscreen for the Dead Sea and Red Sea and Bethany.  

UZBEKISTAN UNCOVERED

The trip ensured we saw all the main sights with a knowledgeable guide and also had plenty of time to take photos.  I felt comfortable and safe throughout the trip and our guide was very helpful.

Most Inspirational Moment

I enjoyed Khiva most, being a very well preserved walled city the visual impact of the history associated with the country is hard to miss.  I also enjoyed the Kazak singer at the camp fire in the Yurt camp, apart from experiencing this specific type of music the setting made us all relax and feel how special the simplicity of the night was.

Thoughts on Group Leader

Our group leader was very good.  He was very relaxed, fun and nothing was ever a problem.  He was very knowledgeable about the sites we were visiting and gave general information and advice to help us enjoy our stay in Uzbekistan. 

Advice for Potential Travellers

This is a safe country where female and single travellors should feel safe.  I would recommend taking a sleeping bag liner to the Yurt.  Only a couple of times were we required to wear modest clothing to visit some holy places, clothes covering womens elbows and knees was needed.

LAND OF THE TIGER

Awesome.  Saw loads of animals, 8 tigers, 2 close up.  Taj Mahal was awesome and so was Dehli, not what I expected.  Brilliant tour guide who knew his stuff and was excellent at spotting the animals.

Most Inspirational Moment

All of it, can't say I could pick one thing out.

Thoughts on Group Leader

Excellent.  He was very knowledgeable and if he wasn't there we wouldn't have seen as many animals.

Advice for Potential Travellers

Just enjoy it.  Long days but make the most of it.  Book the optional trips as it is a trip of a lifetime.

A WEEK IN JORDAN

A brilliant but hectic week travelling around a truly fascinating country. Although principally a "sightseeing" tour, you’ll need to have your walking legs on for Petra and your camping head on for the Wadi Rum! I had an awesome time and made some lovely new friends but you never know what kind of group you’re going to get so it definitely pays to have a laid back approach to life! The weather was starting to get very hot when we were there in April so I wouldn’t recommend visiting Jordan (or anywhere in the Middle East) much later on in the year as the weather would be unbearable.    

Most Inspirational Moment

My two stand out moments were fairly predictable but no less enjoyable because of that: - walking down the Siq at Petra and catching my first glimpse of the breathtakingly beautiful Treasury; and- sleeping under the stars in Wadi Rum and watching the moon make its way across the night sky.  

Thoughts on Group Leader

Our group leader was great - smart, extremely well informed, kind, helpful and endlessly patient. If anything, he gave us a bit too much information and could have perhaps shortened and/or simplified some of the explanations that he gave us. I think he may have assumed a bit too much prior knowledge on the part of the group!  

Advice for Potential Travellers

A week is long enough to see the key sights of Jordan but it's still a pretty hectic itinerary. So don't be expecting long lie-ins or anything! Highlights for me were Petra (of course) and the majestic Wadi Rum. You'll get most out of Petra if you have a reasonable level of fitness as it's a vast site to cover and many of the best trails and viewpoints requires some (fairly tough) climbing. It can also get blisteringly hot, even when we were there in April, so be sure to wear heaps of sunscreen and a hat. And drink plenty of water.   As long as you're prepared for fairly basic conditions in the desert, you'll have a great time at Wadi Rum. And the food we had there was absolutely delicious! It would have been nice to have a bit longer in Aqaba (Red Sea) after the rigours of the desert but there wasn't time in the itinerary for that. I can highly recommend the boat trip in Aqaba. We had the entire boat to ourselves (there were only about 10 of us) and both the snorkelling and the lunch they fed us were brilliant. Judging by what those who didn't come on the boat told us, it was definitely the best thing to do in Aqaba.  Amman was a bit of a disappointment ie, a mostly modern city with very few sights of historical interest, but that's fine as it was mostly just a starting and finishing point for the trip.  

ATLAS PANORAMA

The trip is good as you get to see a little bit of the city and a little bit of the Atlas Mountains so you can do your shopping and get to see the great outdoors. The mountains were stunning and weather was superb.  The food was freshly prepared everyday and delicious every time.

Most Inspirational Moment

The most memorable moment was day 2 – standing on top a mountain and seeing the Atlas panoramic – it was breathtaking to look at the beauty nature can create.

Thoughts on Group Leader

The local guides were very knowledgeable and helpful.

Advice for Potential Travellers

You have to take a camera that can take panaramic shots - better still a video so you can attempt to capture the beauty of the panaramic when you see it.

DISCOVER NAMIBIA

A fabulous way to see the main highlights of Namibia, from the beautiful desert (even in the rain!) to the incredible seal colony (can’t forget that smell), the animals of Etosha (especially that lion up close) and some amazing scenery (including the scramble up the Waterberg plateau).

Most Inspirational Moment

Many moments:- seeing a lion drinking from a large puddle in Etosha - we were so close we could hear him lapping up the water, absolute breathtaking.- watching the thousands of seals at the Skeleton Coast - everywhere you looked there were seals in different poses, barking to one another and baby seals feeding.  The smell is indescribable - and worth it. - the scenery across Namiba - from the sand dunes and desert in the south, the incredible hills in the Namib-Nauklaft park, the huge boulders in Damaraland and the Waterberg plateau.  - sleeping under canvas for the first time - the night sky in Namibia is second to none, seeing the Milky Way, Mars, Venus and Jupiter.  All the night-time noises, the lions roaring, the jackals scratching at my tent, the crickets chirping.....

Thoughts on Group Leader

Sam was brilliant - a great guide and a great driver. He was so knowledgeable about his country, the people and the animals. Jonas was a superb cook - I've never eaten so well!  Tuafeni was a lovely camp assistant, and the three of them got on really well.  

Advice for Potential Travellers

Take a waterproof!! It rained more than 85mm of water on the day we walked up Dune 45 - it was at the end of the rainy season but this was apparently more than they'd had the entire rainy season, and roads got washed away.  You can buy a proper pillow at the supermarket/shop stop before the first night camping, well worth doing, and the guys collect any unwanted items for distribution to locals afterwards.   You also get a fair amount of free time; many of the campsites have pools so take a swimsuit and plenty to read.  You need to get a special adaptor for Namibian plug sockets - if you don't get one before you go, you can buy one in the same shop as the pillows (sorry, cant remember the name of it).  The campsites all have sockets for recharging electrical items.  You can buy a guide pamphlet (A4) on the animals/birds of Etosha in many places, so you dont need to worry about getting a book beforehand.

VIETNAM ADVENTURE

Any thoughts that we might have had against signing up for another Exodus Group trip,( Our first to India was a wonderful experience) were extinguished by the end of day one.

Most Inspirational Moment

Experiencing the wonderful Vietnamese people and how they have come through such a war torn history.Halong Bay of course . The site of the Thet Offensive and clear evidence of the battle. The War Museum and the erie silence of the visitors.

Thoughts on Group Leader

 Thuay.Absolutely excellent. The standard against which all your guides could be judged

Advice for Potential Travellers

Do not have any doubts about experiencing this visit and do it soon.

DISCOVER SRI LANKA

Fantasic food and lots to see. A very full itinery, but just enough time to relax by the pool when it’s most needed.

Most Inspirational Moment

My favourites included:- Cycling around the local villages and meeting local people (take some pencils for the children)- Climbing Lion's rock - great views and a sense of achievement- Paddling down the river on a raft watching people playing and washing up!- Watching the women pick the tea on the plantations

Thoughts on Group Leader

Roshan is excellent. Always accommodating and very knowledgeable. 

Advice for Potential Travellers

Take lots of wet-wipes - it's humid on the coast and dusty on the game drive.You need to like rice and curry - some are mild so no problems there. The food is delicious.Most hotels have a pool, so don't forget your swimming gear.