These are UK-based tour operators and holiday companies specialising in tours for families, family adventure tours, safaris, cultural, nature, exploratory and unusual family holidays.
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| Adventure Company, The |
0870 794 1009 |
(Used to be called Travelbag Adventures.) Dedicated programme of 50+ trips worldwide aimed specifically at adventurous parents & kids aged one to sixteen, including Elephant jungle safaris in Thailand, big game safaris in Africa, camels trains in Jordan's Wadi Rum in Jordan, and sailing a felucca down the Nile. There is a major flaw: when term starts, none of their school-friends will believe them! |
| Cheli & Peacock |
+ 254 2 604053 |
Luxury family safaris in Kenya with transfers by air to remote camps where kids can learn bush skills from Maasai guides, enjoy camel-trekking, and watch big game. C&P's website lists a number of UK operators who feature C&P camps. |
| Dragoman |
0870 499 4475 |
The overland tours specialist has its own dedicated website and brochure for family adventure tours in Africa. |
| Exodus |
0870 240 5550 |
Exodus have a dedicated brochure for their 'Families' programme featuring family adventure holidays for small groups and independent travellers in Greece, Jordan, Morocco, Egypt, Kenya, South Africa, India, Sri lanka, Nepal, Thailand, Costa Rica, and the USA. |
| Explore Worldwide |
0870 333 4001 |
Explore have a dedicated family adventure programme, which for 2006/7 which has now grown to 40 trips in 32 countries. These include the chance for families to meet Borneo's orang utans; go on safari in Namibia, Botswana, Tanzania, Zambia or South Africa; sleep under the stars on a Greek yacht; go cycling, canoeing, walking or fishing around the lakes & mountains of Macedonia, Slovenia or the Pyranees; explore the wonders of Egypt; or go dog sledding in Sweden; or watch the Aurora Borealis in Iceland. |
| Footloose |
0870 444 8735 |
The all-ages brand for TrekAmerica, specialising in walking & camping holidays in national parks and wilderness areas mostly in the USA, but also Canada, Mexico and Latin America. They have a set of family adventures including a 'Cowboys & Indians Discovery' trail in Nevada, Utah & Arizona; and trips to the Yucatan peninsula and Costa Rica. |
| Guerba |
01373 826 611 |
Guerba have a number of special family adventures each year - for example their 9-day nine-day tour to Morocco (which includes an overnight stay in a traditional nomad tent in the desert, camel-riding and watching acrobats and snake charmers. |
| Imaginative Traveller, The |
01473 667 337 |
IT have a dedicated brochure of holidays for adventurous families in a range of worldwide destinations including Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, India, Kenya, Egypt, Jordan, Nepal, Morocco, Turkey and China. Minimum age for children is six years. |
| Magic Globe |
0870 011 0270 |
Excellent programme of family adventures from safaris and touring holidays in Kenya and South Africa, to exploratory tours in Patagonia and the Galapagos islands. |
| Mountain Travel Sobek |
01494 448901 |
Family adventures in Tanzania, Honduras, Costa Rica, Galapagos, Canada, Mexico and the USA. |
| Peregrine |
01635 872 300 |
The small group adventures specialist has a dedicated Family Adventures Worldwide programme with trips to the Himalayas, Vietnam, India, China, Borneo,Thailand, Kenya, Namibia, South Africa, Peru and Antarctica - adventure indeed! |
| Reef & Rainforest |
01803 866965 |
R&R have a dedicated family adventure programme featuring eco-friendly tours for families in Central America, the Galapagos Islands, Borneo, the Seychelles and Madagascar. |
| Responsible Travel |
087000 52836 |
 Online portal/agency for conservational, environmental and community-friendly holidays of all types but with a leaning towards adventure and activity holidays for families as well as individuals. |
| Specialist Travel Consultancy, The |
0845 838 7667 |
STC have got family adventure holidays covered. For families with pre-school toddlers: adventures in Morocco, Turkey and Egypt. For 5-12 yr-olds the focus spreads out to include camel trips in Jordan, discovering China's Great Wall, dolphin watching in the Azores or dog-sledding in arctic Europe. And for teenagers the options are even more adventurous, and more global! STC acts as an approved agent for adventure and expedition travel companies. |
| Suntrek |
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Suntrek specialise in small group adventure tours in the USA, Canada & Mexico, typically travelling in minivans and camping. They have a Family trek itinerary in the South West for families with school age kids. |
| Travel Indochina |
01865 268940 |
Far East specialists operating a small programme of scheduled family tours in China, Thailand, Vietnam and India. |
| Tucan Travel |
020 8896 1600 |
Latin America specialists Tucan Travel have included a family programme for the first time in their new 2005 brochure. Three Peru tours are featured ranging in duration from 10 days to two weeks with a mix of activities available such as riding in a reed boat on Lake Titicaca, horse riding, mountain biking, white water rafting, jungle excursions and gentle walking. The emphasis is on wildlife, with opportunities to spot monkeys, alligators, tapir and parrots in their natural habitat. |
| World Expeditions |
020 8870 2600 |
World Expeditions have a number of treks and tours in Asia & Africa that have been "manicured with the younger traveller in mind". The minimum age is generally 10-12 years. |
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