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events@travelweekly.co.uk PICTURES: Exodus Adventure Travels/Adam Roberts
Exodus bolsters Citizen Science portfolio with extra departures
Samantha Mayling
Small-groups tour operator Exodus Adventure Travels has unveiled new Citizen Science departures for 2025 and 2026. The programme enables customers to spend part of
their holiday – usually only a couple of hours – taking part in scientific research. Customers take freshwater samples, which are
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Youth travel specialist Contiki has added four safari holidays following a “notable rise” in demand for Africa. The six-day Kenya Adventure
includes game drives and a visit to a Maasai village, as well as optional experiences such as a hot- air balloon safari and mountain biking. Prices start at £1,485.
travelweekly.co.uk 14 3 JULY 2025 The six-day Tanzania
Adventure itinerary features daily game drives in the Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater and Lake Manyara. Prices lead in at £1,705. The 11-day Kenya and
Tanzania Adventure takes in five national parks, including the Masai Mara. Optional activities include archery and white-water
rafting. The 11-day trip costs from £3,115. The nine-day Cape, Safari and
Bushfire Festival tour of Eswatini and South Africa starts at £1,495. Prices do not include flights.
Trips include accommodation in premium campsites and transportation in overland trucks.
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analysed by Exodus’s partner, Nature Metrics, and their environmental DNA catalogued. Clients will receive an update on what the data
samples from their trip have helped to identify. In 2024, 78 samples were taken on Exodus’s
Citizen Science departures, which resulted in the detection of 797 species. The samples taken help to build the International
Union for Conservation of Nature’s eBioAtlas, a record of life in the world’s river basins and wetlands.
The Citizen Science departure on Exodus’s 15-day
Colombia: Culture, Coffee & Caribbean tour starts on September 13, with prices starting at £3,249, excluding flights. Clients will explore Tayrona National Park and the
Indigenous village of Katanzama. Other highlights include Bogotá, Zipaquirá Salt Cathedral and Cartagena. There will be two Citizen Science departures –
September 19 and October 24 – on the operator’s 12-day Jordan: Culture & Nature In Depth tour. The itinerary will take travellers to all six of Jordan’s
Unesco sites, including Petra and Wadi Rum. It will also visit other nature reserves such as the
Azraq Wetlands, as well as the Roman city of Jerash and the Dead Sea. Prices lead in at £1,979. Flights are extra. The eight-day Finnish Wilderness Week starts
from £2,049, excluding flights, with Citizen Science departures on December 14 and February 1, 2026.
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Contiki adds four safari holidays to Africa programme
A citizen science project
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