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A great trip to a country opening up to Tourism.
Seeing the Tigers Nest and also the Thimpu Festival.
Great leader, very informative. Also wonderful driver on terrible roads.
Be prepared for a lot of driving on rough roads.
A week in Jordan gives you time to see the main places in a truly amazing country. Guide was really good and knowledgably and the itinerary superb
Floating in the Dead Sea..... First sight of the Treasury at Petra..... Walks around Petra (we were quite active and did around 40km over two days in Petra - its huge - walks not that tough if you are relatively fit).... The sunset in Wadi Rum...
Ala - our group leader was brilliant. kept us moving, never too pushy to get moving, good advice on where to eat.
People in Jordan are very friendly, and in particular the people trying to sell you stuff are not in any way pushy (something I was worried about after having been to Egypt). You may see some comments on tips and this was no issue. The Trip Notes suggest forming a kitty (as does the guide) and GBP10 for the week did it. I would defo advise to go on the boat trip in Aquba - really relaxing and nice way to spend a day and three hectic ones in Petra and Wadi Rum
Great week of level 5 trekking with amazing views. The option of swapping to level 3 if desired was available to us at each evening’s debrief which was perfect.
Each trek available each day was described and we could chose each evening which group we went out with.
Hotel and food was simply wonderful, fabulous hosts!
Would go back again in a heartbeat.
All of it, the views, the walking and the Refugio's we stopped at for lunches made for a perfect walking holiday.
Both Eric and Albert were great. Both friendly and helpful.
Be prepared for hard (but very rewarding) walking at level 5 with simply amazing scenery. I did the last day at level 3 which was very easy and i'm very glad I had stuck with the level 5 walks all week. The hotel has a sauna to relieve any aches - do make use of it - and after a good nights sleep you were ready for another good days walking. Do take rain coats just in case - weather as in all mountains can be unpredictable.
A very busy tour with some long drives. Some of the hotel bathrooms were extremely small and inconvenient and I feel that single travellers were put into inferior rooms to couples, which is annoying when you pay a supplement to have a single room. However, overall this is a wonderful trip visiting some of the top sites in western Turkey. There is not enough time in Istanbul though.
There were many. Rustem Pasha Mosque in Istanbul; Ephesus; Kas (a really lovely town); Phaselis ancient city; Mevlana Calaleddin Rumi (Whirling Dervish Museum); rock church frescoes in Cappadocia.
Fatih Develi was excellent. He is knowledgeable, flexible with the itinerary, moving visits if we were running short of time, gave us many options and always made sure we were happy with his suggestions. He was always helpful and patient with all our questions. He also has a sense of fun. He made this a great and memorable holiday.
Be prepared for some very long drives. If you have Unal as your driver you will have a very comfortable bus and he is an excellent driver. Traffic can be heavy getting into and out of cities. Roads are generally very good but there are a few drives over hairpin bends.
I went to a lovely holiday in Tuscany this September. The farmhouse/ BB was lovely and the food was great. The weather on one of the walks was fierce one day: really strong storm ( Föhn)/ hail/ rain.. We had to return to base and explored the area closer to home.The superb knowledge of the local area of our guide Sara allowed us to have great walks on the right side of the mountains for the rest of the week! It is a beautiful place
Our Italian taxi driver family spoke English with the broadest Glasgow accent!
I went to Lucca on the day off and it is really amazing- the local city tour guide was really good!
I will certainly come back to Garfagnana – and will try to learn a bit Italian first!
I really enjoyed the rock arch of Monte Forato - the walk up through the beech trees and back through meadows on a beautiful day was really relaxing and allowed me to quietly dream about the world go by before the fog came in from the sea.. The other walk I really enjoyed was the one to Monte Tambura ending in the shepherds village of Campocatino a small shepherd's village which is being beautifully restored in local style. It will be super once they are finished. All the walks led us through beautiful areas on well marked routes.
Sara had superb knowledge of the area and found beautiful walks every day -that was especially useful when the Föhn weather required change of plan for some days. She also tried her best to help group members who were really worried about some aspects of the walks ( height especially). To have Marmite for breakfast for the english group members was the icing on the cake!
Please read the walk descriptions carefully .Remember to bring a long-arm layer and gloves! Sara will safely bring you back down safely no matter what the weather so no worries ,
This trip exceeded our expectations. The itinerary provided a much more varied experience than many ‘safari’ trips – from sand dunes in Sossusvlei to safari in Etosha via dolphins and seals in Swakopmund, there was something for everyone!
We enjoyed the whole experience but here are some of our 'highlights': bonding with the group around the camp fire hiking up Dune 45 and watching the sunrise getting really close to Cheetahs at the conservation project at Solitaire getting really close to seals (sharing a boat!) and dolphins on the boat trip from Swakopmund seeing rhinos and elephants around the waterhole in Etosha
Ronney was great! He was very ably assisted by Shane and Jonas and nothing was too much trouble for any of them. They worked extremely hard. They answered our questions with a smile no matter how stupid the questions were nor if it was the third time they had been asked! The food was truly exceptional - Jonas even cooked bread and cake over the camp fire!
We would recommend the camping trip as it means you bond more with the group - sitting around a camp fire in the dark with the stars spread above is truly magical. It gets really dark very quickly so take a head torch! Scrabbling about in a tent in the dark holding an ordinary torch is not easy! All the facilities at the camp sites were very clean and functional. There were always flushing toilets and hot showers so even though it is not glamping it is hardly roughing it either.
We had a great trip, our guide Jose was very helpful and patient. The timing was well planned between am and pm walks for the most part. We found that an hour lunch was too long as my joints would become a little stiff, 30 minutes was more appropriate for me.
Our walking group was not well matched, we could have reached our destination much earlier in the day and would have had time to explore the local area but most days we arrived between 4 and 5 and it did not provide enough time to have a look around.
It was reaching Santiago for sure. Seeing all the other pilgrims celebrating their achievement as well as our group was awesome. It was humbling to see people with disabilities struggle through the walk. It was a little disappointing walking through a built up area to reach the cathedral. I missed the pilgrim blessing as I didn't know that we could just show our passports and gain entrance to the cathedral. We were behind a large line up and just gave up our spot.
Jose was very helpful and very patient. He made sure that he spent time with all of the people in our group. He encouraged us to walk together as a group. He had a good sense of humor.
Please have your group leader arrange for your pilgrim's passports to be handed in as a group to avoid 16 people waiting in line for their certificate. I was at the pilgrim's office for 7.30 am in the morning for the 8 opening and it still took me an hour for my certificate, later we found that our guide could have had us sign a document and hand in our passports as a group and then one person could have simply picked them up without waiting. The process described is very seamless and time efficient.
I’ve done many group trips as well as a lot of independent travel but this was simply one of my best travel experiences. A fantastic group and wonderful leader team obviously helped but even without those this is an amazing country with spectacular vistas, ever surprising and wonderful wildlife and all under the bluest of blue skies. There is some amazing variety from the dry salt pans to the mountainous shifting dunes, huge landscapes that reach past the horizon, the strange charm of the coast and Swakopmund, the ever smiling people, the ease of travel, the facilities at the campsites and the wildlife…seeing the waterhole in the Etosha camp for the first time was a hairs on the back of the neck moment.
There are many...running down Dune 45, the cliche of watching the sun setting, seeing a Leopard for the first time, watching Elephants and Rhinos at the waterhole, being face to face with a Cheetah with no fence in between, even sitting next to a wild Seal that jumps aboard the boat in Swakopmund.
Ronney was fantastic, he couldn't do enough for us and was superbly organised as well as laid back and flexible, you could almost believe he was seeing these places for the first time like us. The whole team of Ronny, Shane and Jonas were superb and we were all blown away by the quality of the food...how he prepared all that variety on a camp fire is a mystery to me!
Just go! I wondered if I over packed by including a rain coat and fleece but they were needed on the coast especially on the Seal/Dolphin cruise (which although not the most adrenalin fuelled activity is superb and well worth doing). You get a chance to do laundry in Swakopmund and it's relatively cheap. All the camp sites (as well as the truck) have charging points, I bought a three pin (round) adapter at Heathrow for about £10. I took my Keffiyeh scarf and it was ideal for walks in the desert sand as it was extremely hot and when the wind picks up the sand really does blow!
This is a rather hectic tour, often using public transport. You see a great deal of China, though there is very little free time. Exodus are quite wrong in describing the trip as leisurely – in particular, when using trains you will have to carry your luggage a long way, up and down stairs, and through extremely crowded areas.
The Great Wall and the Panda breeding centre.
Alan was very considerate and helpful. Among the best tour guides I have encountered.
Be prepared for crowds. If you not already proficient with chopsticks then get some practice in. Get a phrasebook, very little English is spoken. If you want to avoid the strict internet censorship, download a VPN before you go (I used Vypr - £6.00 for a month - no problems.) Most electrical sockets took plugs of various sizes, though flat two pin was most common. Bank of China ATMs are reasonably common and reliable. Take a cup and some tea/coffee for the trains - hot water is available.
First holiday with Exodus, and they were excellent in every respect. Would definitely use them again. I would have preferred slightly longer walks, but I can see that in very hot weather, the walks we did would be enough. Each day was varied and just as walking became routine, sea kayaking delivered a great day out. The hotel pool was most welcome and having thought the rest day would be a waste, in fact it was lovely to have a day doing not much. As is delightful and everyone we met was friendly and helpful.
The visit to Aycanda(?) and subsequent walk from the mountain plateau down to the plains. Beautiful. Though the beach at Patara was invigorating. There wasn't a day I didn't enjoy and gain from.
Hatice was our group leader and in my view was outstanding. She's funny, knowledgeable, friendly, endlessly polite and patient and almost certainly the only group leader to lead her kayaking group in singing "Row, row, row your boat' a cappella, in rounds, while waiting for the last of the kayaks to catch up. Some Americans thought this odd, but we enjoyed it. If Exodus is looking for a better group leader, they'll have to try hard.
There's plenty to do if you want to be busy after walks- Turkish baths, pleasant town and shops , good restaurants. Plus plant of activity type stuff if you find a day by the pool tedious!