epic travel destinations

This spiritual adventure will take you to the breathtaking Himalayas, where you will stay in monasteries tucked away in the mountains. Experience an ancient culture firsthand and become spiritually immersed in a rare insight into Buddhism as you take part in cultural activities like a 3 day pilgrimage to Dharamsala.

The Sahara covers over 3,500,000 square miles and is one of the worlds most inhospitable environments. Despite this, Tuareg salt traders have continued to carry their goods from Taoudenni to Timbuktu for centuries. The 22 day trek is an experience of a lifetime but also a true test of determination.

The Kali Gandaki River is so isolated that only a handful of people will ever have the chance to undertake this amazing adventure. This wild river offers rafting found nowehere else in the world and at night, you can camp under star lit skies on white river beaches, deep in the Nepalese interior. The sense of achievement from conquering this river is one that will stay with you for the rest of your life.

The magnificent and misty mountains of Rwanda and Uganda are one of the last places on Earth that gorillas still thrive. In the dense vegetation, you can find four of the five spectacular Great Apes

The Pacuare Valley and Ossa Peninsular are one of the few routes from the dense highlands of Costa Rica to its stunning coast. Over two weeks, youll take part in an expedition which attempts to navigate this path by foot and kayak. On the way, youll have the opputunity to meet and spend time living with and learning from the deeply private Cabecar Indians.

The Wakhan Corridor is a small strip of land roughly 140 miles long and at some ponts, only 10 miles wide. Flanked by the mountains of Pakistan and Tadjikistan on either side, it acts as a land route between Afghanistan and China. The area is so remote that the indigenous Kyrgyz people, who herd yaks and goats, have been left to their own devices for decades, and, in their own words, left behind by the world. This part of the world has seen less visitors than Mount Everest, those lucky enough to visit the area include Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great and Marco Polo.

These uniquely tall and thin mountains are so alien that they were used in James Camerons Avatar. Formed underwater 380 million years ago, the flow destroyed surrounding sandstone, leaving only resilient stone pillars. Some of these columns stand at over 4,000 feet above sea level and climbers who have been lucky enough to scale the magnificent giants often refuse to climb any other mountain.