Reviews

Jane Stirling

I have just returned from a week’s cycling in Sicily that covered 45-65 k a day. The 15-person group – Icelandics, Canadians and Brits – were immensely kind and supportive.

Fantastic Trip

Beautiful landscape, mostly very good weather, spectacular hikes.
We met very interesting and awesome individuals at this trip. People got along very well and were very supportive of each other.

From the Atlantic to the Sahara

Most people had heard of Casablanca but we wanted something else. Our trip took us to teeming cities, oases and high mountains. The hotels were a good standard but sometimes the water supply failed. But this was not home and things like this you take in your stride. Morocco has many beautiful sites and smells and we sampled many of them.

Camino April 2016

We took the trip that started from Leon and finished at the Cathedral in Santiago de Compostela. Though I walked with my brother-in-law, each evening we met up in the hotel with two delightful UK couples on the same trip. The walking was not demanding to experienced walkers, though the weather in early April was varied. The Camino route is not through top quality scenery all the way; it’s a pilgrim route ! Most of the hotels were either excellent or very good.

Vietnam Cycling trip

This trip was amazing as we spent time dodging scooters in large cities like Ho Chi Min City and Hanoi as well as being in extremely beautiful rural environments too. The hotels were of a fantastic standard and the country has so much interesting history and culture and we learned so much in between the more serious cycling. Following the coast road was wonderful as the sea breeze cooled us down and the views were magnificent. The 10km climb was fun and all of the group except two who were a little poorly made it to the top. A 35km downhill was absolutely exhilarating.
Overall I would highly recommend this trip it was so interesting, colourful, wonderfully guided and I have not yet mentioned the cuisine -I am a piscatorian and the food was exquisite…the train ride was great fun and words fail me to describe the immense mystical beauty of Halong Bay,

Gaynor

Sierra Nevada and Granada

Lovely varied walks in unspoiled countryside and a visit to the beautiful Alhambra Palace of Granada.

Amalfi Coast Walk

I arranged for a party of five friends to participate on this trip. We all came back full of praise for the quality of the organisation, the food, the accommodation, the variety and fulsome nature of every day, the friendliness of the group, the excellence of the guide. We were particularly impressed, and relieved, by the efficiency and care with which our guide and Exodus leapt into action to get us home when we learnt there was going to be an airport strike. It all went as smoothly as anyone could have hoped for. This was my fifth trip with Exodus and its a company I feel I can fully trust.

Freaking Wonderful.

My daughter was studying abroad in Hungary and asked me to travel with her over spring break. I googled Amalfi and Adventure vacation. That’s how I found Exodus. I read the itinerary for two days and on the third day I held a lovely conversation with an Exodus Rep and voila(!), we had a plan to Walk Amalfi Coast. Casual beginnings; turned out to be inspiring and fantastically fun and great food (+exercise to heal the delicious guilt of eating dessert and drinking wine each evening).

On top of the world

A fantastic trip which left our group under India’s spell and eager to return for more. This was despite disappointing weather. We experienced mega thunder storms, gales, a hail storm and far more than our fair share of mist and fog. The toilet tent blew down one night in a gale. It could have been a disaster, yet all of our group managed to leave with entirely positive impressions. This was down to a) One day of clear bright sunshine when all the mountains appeared as if by magic; b) a fantastic sense of camaraderie between group members, the guides, cooks and pony men, c) delicious food, d) friendly local people and a great introduction to the culture; e) lovely characterful hotels that felt palatial after sleeping in a cold, damp tent for a week.

A lot of people seem to think a trip to India is as good as a crash diet – but not if you go on this trip! Anyone would have thought that the delicious, varied, piping hot and beautifully presented meals had been prepared in a plush kitchen rather than a windswept tent in the middle of nowhere! They even managed a perfectly iced birthday cake baked over a camping stove at 3500m.

Exodus seems to have chosen the accommodation particularly well on this trip. The Himalayan Hotel in Kalimpong was a firm favourite, but the Netuk House in Gangtok was also gorgeous and the Sherpa Lodge in Rimbik at the end of the trek (described as basic in the trip notes) is a delightful place in flower filled gardens with comfy rooms with pretty quilts on the beds, en-suite bathrooms and real toilets. The Hilton could not have felt finer.

The walking is not too difficult and the paths are good with plenty of interesting flowers and bird life even if you can’t see the mountains. The altitude is not too bad. It’s a good combination of feeling that you’ve done something without feeling too stretched and exhausted.

Cycling in Vietnam

Great country, great leader, lovely hotels, fantastic organisation by Danh, superb group, endless fun and good cycling.