Reviews

Discover Costa Rica

Costa Rica is a beautiful island and this trip shows it at its best throughout. It is bursting with wildlife, plants and fantastic National Parks. This is a well organised and varied trip and the ecolodges and hotels were just amazing. Beautiful scenery, well tended gardens and comfortable accomodation with great food at every place. The people are friendly, well mannered and polite. The Costa Ricans are proud of their country and the land is superbly managed and protected.

An Educational Adventure

The best part about this trip was our wonderful guide Bobby. He is from the region and lives and breathes all things history. His enthusiasm and wealth of knowledge made this hiking adventure feel authentic, exciting, and more than ‘just a walk’.

The group of people we hiked with were fantastic, and the porters were second to none.

I have never eaten so well at camp – although it helped that we didn’t have to cook the food.

I would do this trip again in a heartbeat, especially with Bobby as our guide.

The Inca Trail & Machu Picchu

A fantastic trip with excellent organisation. This was my first trip with Exodus following some recommendations from friends. I was very pleased with how smoothly it ran and with the experienced staff. I intend to book further adventures through Exodus.

Walking the Amalfi Coast

Great walks, wonderful scenery, good company.
The hotel Due Torri was spotlessly clean, the hotel staff were all, without exception, friendly and helpful. Its a family run hotel and they go out of there way to make sure you are looked after. The food at the hotel was excellent.
Some of the walks were tougher than we anticipated, so we all had aching legs for the first couple of days, but it was worth it for the views.

A marvel, get it while you can

Most first time trekkers go for Everest or Annapurna but Manaslu Circuit is a trek for the more discerning customer. It is a busy route, but not so much with tourists. It may take a little longer and is a little more challenging but the pay-off is huge. Sure, you trek around the 8th highest peak on the planet but if your interests extend beyond the magnificence of the mountains into the cultural heritage of the region then an education in remote living awaits. The route passes through many ancient Tibetan settlements where little has changed in hundreds of years. In contrast, the tea houses are nearly all recently built on this circuit so, apart from a couple of high altitude stops, they are more spacious and cleaner than those I’ve seen in the past. I wondered if a couple of the shorter days could be done in one but the longer approach provides excellent acclimatisation time which is much needed as Larke La is a significant challenge, especially in the unusually deep snow we had; it would certainly be easier in the Autumn season. This well planned trip has everything really, small monasteries to visit as well as is plenty for wild-life enthusiasts. Against all odds a road is being built to the Tibetan border which, as always, will bring many benefits but at a cost. Best to go in the next couple of years as I fear this route is changing forever.

Interesting!

Good trip with long mileage so it would be better if there was a driver with the guide, it would release the guide to be able to talk more about interesting things a long the way. There were also a number of options which would be better to be included in the tour.

Wildlife Sri Lanka

Thoroughly enjoyed our trip to Sri Lanka, the hotels are all unique, really enjoyed the container accommodation in the rainforest. The people all seemed very friendly. The Whale watching was a little disappointing as we only saw the one Blue Whale and it felt a little as if we were chasing after it when it breached, on the plus side we had the boat to ourselves.
The driving is pretty interesting but we had total confidence in our coach driver.
The food was very good, but you probably need to like curries!
The game parks are good, initially i thought they were going to be really busy with all the jeeps queuing to get their permits, but it was surprising where they all disappeared to within the parks. Downside was when we found a leopard all the drivers communicate this to each other and everybody descends on the spot.

Evia Mar2018

Great guide, very engaging, helpful and knowledgeable.
3 of the 5 walks were not level 2 as suggested. That could have gone wrong for some people. A walk that is merely a 5 or 6 hour descent is tedious.
Hotel poor
Group good fun
Eating out was good enough

Atlas Descent

Forget about enjoying the scenery, there just isn’t time. The mountains were stunning, but I couldn’t observe a lot until the rest stops. The downhill biking was run at an incredible pace and probably surprised most of us at what we tackled and achieved. The Exodus guys were prepared to go at a pace with which we could all cope and that was amazingly fast. l think I’m still high on adrenaline.
There was quite a range of biking confidence and styles but I’m pretty sure everyone had a great time.
Radu and John couldn’t have done a better job of looking after us, our welfare, our safety and the bikes.
My only issue, and that of my fellow travellers, Exodus don’t appear to do any more trips quite as good as this.
Take you life in your hands, get on the bike and go for it, you won’t regret it.

First Time Traveler with Exodus

This was the first Exodus trip i’d been on and it was my first solo trip. I had a brilliant time and felt well supported throughout the trip. Everything was organised for us, so all I had to do was to enjoy myself!
The hotel is wonderful, with excellent food and a wonderful pool. I treated myself to a massage on the rest day which was excellent.
The walks were absolutely phenomenal, every single day was different, some days we were climbing peaks, the next we were skirting ridges and the next exploring WW2 trenches!
I literally savored every minute.