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adventure WEEK-LONG ADVENTURES 4


Top tips for short trips


O Choose a direct flight where possible, especially if clients are travelling long haul, so look for destinations with regional departures if you’re far from London.


Above: Kuoni’s Big Five Safari Left: Haggis Adventures’ West Highland Way Adventure


new six-day United Arab Emirates Expedition visits Dubai, Abu Dhabi, the Liwa Oasis, Al Ain and Ras Al Khaimah, and starts from £1,160 excluding flights.


Long-haul With just a two-hour time difference between Kenya and the UK, jet lag isn’t an issue, which is handy when clients want to spring out of bed and spot game on Kuoni’s six-night Big Five Safari, from £1,996 including flights and stays at the Voyager Ziwani Tented Camp in Tsavo West and Ol Tukai Lodge in Amboseli, which has a pool and rooftop bar with views of Kilimanjaro. There’s the chance to spot lions, leopards, buffalos, rhinos and elephants, so clients can tick off the big five in a week. Wildlife viewing is also the


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O Look for single-centre tours, or those that don’t cover vast distances, so clients spend more time exploring and less time on the road.


Wildlife viewing is the name of the game on the Churchill Polar Bear Adventure


name of the game on Cox & Kings’ Churchill Polar Bear Adventure in Canada, which gets clients out into the wilderness in specially designed tundra buggies to spot, photograph and learn about these Arctic giants. The five-day, £2,945 escorted tour includes accommodation, activities and flights from Winnipeg to Churchill. Going west again – let’s


face it, the jet lag is easier to cope with that way round, which is key on a short trip –


is TrekAmerica’s four-day Las Vegas to Grand Canyon Mini, from £589 land-only. Adventurers on this camping trip hike in Zion National Park, take a 4x4 tour of Monument Valley, including a stay with the Navajo people, and fly over the Grand Canyon in a helicopter before heading back to Las Vegas. If clients want to swap


work for a wilderness adventure in just a week, pint-sized Costa Rica is easy to explore. Cosmos has a seven-day Costa Rica Escape tour from the capital, San Jose, to the biodiverse Monteverde Cloud Forest and the geothermal region around Arenal Volcano, with naturalist-guided walks to spot wildlife including sloths and quetzals on the ground and high up on canopy walkways. Prices including flights start from £1,482.


O Make the journey the adventure, by choosing tours where the mode of transport is part of the fun, such as hiking, cycling or kayaking.


O Make jet lag work for clients. Most people find going west an easier adjustment, helping them leap out of bed to start the day.


22 | Travel Weekly touring adventure | July 2019


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PICTURES: SHUTTERSTOCK; JENNIFER DODGE; VISIT SCOTLAND/PAUL TOMKINS; VINCENTI SANDRA/BREBA


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