18-Day trip to Everest Base Camp
Luxury Everest Base Camp Trek
This tour includes 5 days in Kathmandu (Yak and Yeti Hotel) and 13 days trekking in the Khumbu Valley, including Everest Base Camp and Kala Patthar. On the trek, there are 9 nights in the very nice Everest Summit Lodges and 3 nights in the best local lodges.
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Prices start at $2045/person
9-day Luxury trek in Khumbu Valley
In this 9 day trek, you overnight in the Everest Summit Lodges (the very best in the Khumbu Valley), but Thyangboche is the highest point you reach. You can combine this trek with a scenic helicopter ride over the Himayalas.
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Prices start at $1135/person
Categories: Luxury · Nepal
Summit of Kilimanjaro
Interesting in joining a group for an amazing trek? We have dozens of confirmed treks for 2009. Remember you can also start a trek on any day of the year and customize it to meet your interests!
- June 3
- June 14
- June 24
- July 5
- August 2
- August 5
- August 12
- September 13
- April 19
- June 1
- June 8
- June 9
- June 9
- June 15
- June 22
- June 26
- June 29
- June 30
- July 6
- July 13
- July 20
- July 27
- August 1
- August 3
- August 10
- August 17
- August 24
- August 31
- September 7
- September 14
- September 21
- September 28
- September 10
- September 18
- October 5
- October 12
- October 19
- December 22
Categories: Inca Trail · Kilimanjaro · Nepal · Peru · Tanzania
Adventure all wrapped up!
Climbing Kilimanjaro
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Gift of Giving Back
As you reflect on your great travels over the year, remember to help the local people where you visited. Charities Within Reach helps the Shalom Orphanage in Tanzania, global porter projects, and Free A Child in Nepal. Donate to these great projects and make a difference!
Categories: Bhutan · Galapagos · Inca Trail · Kilimanjaro · Machu Picchu · Nepal · News · Peru · Safari · Tanzania · Tibet · Uganda / Rwanda
Here is a great calendar for planning your trip at just the right time!
JANUARY
- Tanzania: Peak migration in southern Serengeti
- Galapagos: Green sea turtles begin egg laying
FEBRUARY
- Tanzania: Sauti za Busara Swahili Music and Cultural Festival in Zanzibar
- Peru: Inca Trail closed for cleanup
- Peru: Carnaval (Festival)
- Ecuador: Carnaval (Festival)
MARCH
- Bhutan: Paro Tshechu (Festival)
- Tibet: Butter Lamp Festival
- Peru: Inca Trail permits sell out for July and August
APRIL
- Tanzania: Low season discounts
- Peru: Semanta Santa (Holy Week) Celebrations
- Galapagos: Massive arrival of waved albatrosses to Española Island with amazing courtship, green sea turtles begin to hatch
MAY
- Tibet/Nepal: Peak season for Everest Base Camp
JUNE
- Peru: Inti Raymi Festival
- Tibet: Saka Dawa Festival
- Elbrus: Climbing season begins (June-September)
- Ecuador: Cotopaxi summer climbing season begins (June-August)
JULY
- Tanzania: Peak migration in western Serengeti
- Ecuador: Founding of Guayaquil Celebration
- Galapagos: Whales and dolphins can be seen
AUGUST
- Peru: Santa Rosa de Lima Celebration
SEPTEMBER
- Tibet: Shoton (Yogurt) Festival
- Ecuador: Fiesta del Yamor and Colla Raymi
OCTOBER
- Kenya: Peak migration in Masai Mara
- Bhutan: Thimphu Tshechu (Festival)
NOVEMBER
- Aconcagua: Climbing season begins (November-February)
- Bhutan: Black-necked cranes arrival and festival
- Ecuador: Cotopaxi winter climbing season begins (November-February)
DECEMBER
- Peru: Chocolatada Festival in Cusco (hot chocolate and gifts to city needy and rural villagers)
- Ecuador: Founding of Quito Celebration
- Galapagos: Giant tortoises begin to hatch
Categories: Bhutan · Ecuador · Galapagos · Inca Trail · Kenya · Kilimanjaro · Machu Picchu · Nepal · Peru · Safari · Tanzania · Tibet
Adventures Within Reach is offering two trips with archaeologist John Bellezza in 2009 — one to remote regions of Tibet in May and one to the forbidden kingdom of Mustang, Nepal in September.
John Vincent Bellezza is a visiting scholar at the University of Virginia where he specializes in the pre-Buddhist phase of Tibetan civilization. Bellezza, a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies and Explorer’s Club, has spent 25 years exploring the most remote parts of the Great Western Himalaya and Tibet. No ordinary academic, John is a great story teller and entertainer, skills he developed during his long years of wandering around the Himalaya. His latest book, “Zhang Zhung: Foundations of Civilization in Tibet”, provides comprehensive treatment of the pre-Buddhist civilization he discovered single-handedly.
View of Himalayas from Pokhara
The Tibet Looking Glass trip is a unique opportunity to see Tibetan civilization in all its splendor with John Vincent Bellezza, one of the world’s leading authorities. From Buddhist monasteries to Eurasian animal art, this journey reveals Tibet in all her depth.
The Mustang trip gives you the opportunity to go to the places where few have been before. Most of the trek keeps to arid, high deserts inhabited mostly by people of Tibetan stock. The men folk are either traders or farmers while the women mostly tend the fields. Along with insights into the everyday lives of the people of “Lo” you will have the opportunity to witness their vibrant culture and also a chance to get a look at Lamaistic Buddhism little changed by time.
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Categories: Nepal · News · Tibet
As peace is restored in Tibet, tourism to Tibet will reopen in June, 2008.
Nepal continues to remain calm and safe for tourists. Good news from the Nepal Tourism Board — tourism to Nepal increased 27% in 2007.
The Tibetan and Nepalese people desperately need your tourism dollars. Plan your Himalayan trip today!
Bhutan continues to be peaceful and calm. Visit this land of tranquility!
Categories: Nepal · Tibet
Adventures Within Reach is now offering volunteer trips to two of our hottest destinations: Nepal and Tanzania.
Learn about the Free A Child program in southern Nepal in our two-week itinerary which also includes the best of Nepal: Kathmandu, Chitwan National Park, and Pokhara. A trek in the Annapurna region can be added to the end of the trip.
In Tanzania, volunteers will clean up Kilimanjaro while trekking (optional summit) and work in an orphanage for a week. Our full itinerary also includes a safari to the best game parks in Tanzania.
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Categories: Nepal · Sustainable Tourism · Tanzania
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