Explore Tour Reviews

A thoroughly enjoyable and thought provoking trip in the best tradition of Explore.

Too much free time in La Paz. I enjoyed the trip and Machu Picchu is amazing but I think the itinerary could be improved.

Really good tour with sufficient space for recovery when sick, respite from heat or additional visits if required. Least enjoyed Delhi and Delhi hotel but everything else was excellent. Please give more advice and information for early arrivals as they are on their own and advise explorers to exchange some money at the airport if not provided at the ...read more hotel.

A perfect trip for our family, the children were a good age for this trip at 15 and 17.

Again, even families need down time. On our journey there were 8 kids (ages 10-18), all in good health and very eager to travel. This trip was non-stop, so a day (or half day) of rest would have been nice. Our evening at the Kasbah Itrane would have been a great place to relax.

I had a great time on this trip. We were a small group of 10 so had lots of space on the two trucks and great views on safaris. Andre and Sydney worked brilliantly together on the trip and ensured that everything went to plan. They both are very knowledgeable about Africa, the animals and culture.

Enjoyed the holiday immensely

Need to sort out accommodation at Laminkoto CampIt is way below acceptable standard. Other than that we had a great trip, Well done to all involved.

A good tour giving a good experience of Senegal and Gambia.

Earlier you had less People on the trip. This time you had 18 guests. This is to many and in the future we will search for trips With less participants. 10 -12 is a good number of participants.

Personally, I would have no problem paying a little more to ensure that the accommodation was of superior quality, but the trip was great.

This was a holiday of a lifetime for my daughter and I and allowed us to experience so many different things in a relatively short space of time and in a safe environment. Thank you, we will be back!

It would be good to include a visit to a coffee plantation and to learn more about the local cuisine, e.g. how to make injera.

In my opinion the flight back through Miami was a better experience than through Houston on the way out. Excellent trip and a great tour leader. Made some great friends.

The "cooking dinner" in Petra and also in Wadi Rum was a nice experience. The guide was a very good chef and gave us good information about what we should eat. 5 stars!

I got the impression that the trip doesn't run regularly, therefore Dexter our trip guide didn't really provide us with lots of additional information - but he was always willing to find things out and make arrangements for us.

Concentrate on Belize and keep Tikal for Guatemala tours. Cockscomb Reserve was done too late in the day for birding - we left Placencia very early and should have gone to straight to Cockscomb and had brunch afterwards, we wasted time having a long breakfast.

What might be helpful is to provide a map of Sri Lanka as part of the pack. We often found ourselves looking at maps at the train stations and others, trying to track our movements on the tour, and what the terrain looked like. Leech socks were useful, and were provided by Explore. We took gaiters, because we had trouble sourcing them in Australia, ...read more and as it turned out we didn't need to take them. We would recommend that leech socks be provided by Explore as standard.

Fantastic trip, The only other comment i would make is that the breakfast at the Ramada Princess in Belize City really was not up to much and of all the accommodation that we stayed in this was the only one that was disappointing..

Would be an excellent trip if the itinerary was better planned to avoid the very long trip to Santa Lucia.