Recommended Adventure Tour Companies
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Your ‘Go To’ for Bucket List adventures!
Email me to get an exclusive discount, good on ANY of Active’s fantastic worldwide tours! This discount code works on their sister companies, Austin Adventures and Discovery Bicycle Tours as well.
Active Adventures
One of my favorite adventure tour companies! Active Adventures is based in New Zealand, and we all know how Kiwis love to have fun! While most tours are hiking focused, Active often mixes it up with some cycling and paddling for a multi-sport adventure.
Active Adventure tours are all inclusive, so all you have to do is have fun! Their tours are all ‘Bucket List’ adventures and many of their destinations have been covered on the Active Travel Adventures podcast, including:
New Zealand Machu Picchu Patagonia Galapagos Mont Blanc Italian Lakes Iceland Annapurna Nepal Lodge to Lodge Bhutan Dolomites Kilimanjaro Botswana South Africa Tanzania Bolivia and Peru
Austin Adventures offers outstanding ‘Adult Only’ and ‘Family Friendly’ adventure tours in the USA and around the world. Definitely check them out for their US National Park tours! Yellowstone is their backyard and no one does it better! You can check out their incredible adventures HERE.
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Choose Discovery Bicycle Tours for your next cycling adventure! They offer terrific tours throughout the US and the world! Top quality bikes and expert guides, along with a well curated tour ensures you’ll have a wonderful and exciting adventure. Check out their tours HERE.
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Boat Bike Tours
BoatBikeTours.com offers amazing, affordable European cycling adventures where you stay on a lovely ship each night of your adventure (so you only unpack ONCE!).
Choose your adventure: challenging or mild! Often, on any given day, you can choose a shorter or longer ride depending on your mood and the weather.
Breakfast and dinner is included, and you can pack a lunch from the breakfast bar each day if you’d rather skip the cafe!
You’ll have plenty of time to explore museums, cafes and quaint villages as you cycle through charming back roads and greenways.
The world leader (and very first!) expedition leader : go on utterly epic, bucket list worthy worldwide expedition cruises with my favorite expedition tour company, Hurtigruten.
Hurtigruten Expedition Destinations include:
Antarctica (and there are expeditions that include Patagonia, the Falkland and South Georgia islands) – hear about my own experience HERE.
Northwest Passage Greenland Alaska British Isles
Norway Svalbard Iceland North America South America Europe Galapagos
Caribbean and Central America West Africa and Cape Verde Global Grand Expedition
Transoceanic Expedition Cruises
Your ‘Go To’ company to plan your El Camino!
Check out all of my El Camino interviews about the various Camino routes HERE
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Follow The Camino
If you want to walk the popular El Camino de Santiago in Spain, this is your tour company!
Follow the Camino focuses exclusively on arranging your Camino adventure. Whether you want to walk solo or with family or friends, or walk the final 100 km with a guided group. You can tell them your budget and FTC will arrange appropriate lodging and can transport your luggage so all you need to do is carry your daypack and walk! If you are into cycling, they can assist you in biking the El Camino, too!
Listen to Kit’s interview with founder, Umberto Venosa HERE to get some fascinating insights on walking the Camino. You can also hear from a pilgrim (as Camino walkers are referred to) here: El Camino de Santiago.
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Your ‘Go To’ Resource for European Walking Holidays
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One Foot Abroad
Walking holidays are an outstanding way to explore new cultures and landscapes! You get to meet locals and actually become part of their village life, instead of seeming like you are looking through a fishbowl. Walking holidays are slow travel at its best, and One Foot Abroad is my ‘Go To’ company to arrange the logistics for me.
One Foot Abroad offers European Walking Holidays. Explore their website for the astounding variety of tours they offer, both guided and self-guided.
Here are walking holidays covered on the Active Travel Adventures podcast:
El Camino de Santiago Scotland’s West Highland Way England’s Cotswold Way Portugal’s Fisherman’s Walk Norway’s St Olav Ways Japan’s Kumano Koda UK’s Best Walking Holidays
UrriTrek – Costa Rica Camino Guide
UrriTrek is the premier guiding company for the NEW Coast to Coast Camino in Costa Rica. I used them for my own hike in April of 2022 and highly recommend them.
Not only do they guide you, but UrriTrek has also been instrumental in fleshing out the infrastructure for this new Camino. To date, only around 1000 people have hiked this magnificent trail!
Use my exclusive LINK to save $100 on a full UrriTrek Costa Rica Camino!
Bhutan Gateway Travel
This is my ‘Go To’ Bhutan tour company if I want to design my own Bhutan adventure. Bhutan requires you to use a local guide throughout your tour, so if you want to see Bhutan solo, with a partner or friend, or if you want to create your own small group tour, be sure to check out Bhutan Gateway Travel! And for the current discount Promo Code, email me. I used BGT for both my 2018 and 2025 Bhutan tours.
Your ‘Go To’ Asian cycle tour company: offering both guided and self-guided bike tours
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Art of Bicycle Trips
If you want to truly experience Asia, consider traveling like a local and go on a long distance bicycle tour! Art of Bicycle Trips offers both guided and self-guided bike tours to India, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Sri Lanka and Bhutan. They are now venturing into Europe, too! Imagine cycling around the fjords of Norway. E-bikes are available on some tours, for a little extra help. Tours are rated by difficulty so you can find long distance bike tours that are fairly easy to quite challenging.
Here are some Asian Bike Tours covered on the Active Travel Adventures podcast:
Vietnam and Cambodia Rural Northern Thailand
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Active Riding Trips
Worldwide horseback riding adventures for beginners, intermediate and advanced riders. A fantastic way to see the world and meet fellow riders! From exploring Iceland on a genuine Icelandic horse to entering Petra on horseback like Indiana Jones, you are sure to find an exciting horseback riding tour to fit your skill level and curiosity.
Use the exclusive Promo Code ATA5 to save 5% off of any Active Riding Adventures tour!
Trailblazer Wellness : Train for your Adventure!
Based on your current fitness level and the adventure travel trip you are embarking on, my friend Becki with Trailblazer Wellness can customize a training regimen to make sure your muscles and body are ready to go. It’s no fun to discover – too late- that your body can’t keep up with what you are asking of it, especially when you are on your hard earned vacation! Let Becki and Trailblazer Wellness custom training program give you confidence and help ensure your success!
Use my link to get an exclusive 10% ATA discount on your first 1, 3 or 6 month coaching program – sweet! FREE Initial Consultation!
10% DISCOUNT PROMO CODE
Trailblazer Wellness offers coaching packages for 1 month, 3 months and 6 months. Active Travel Adventures listeners can get 10% off one package by emailing Becki[at]trailblazerwellness.com and referencing the ATA discount.
Remember, some of my recommendations may be what are called Affiliate Links. This means that, should you decide to purchase something from them using my link, that I may earn a small commission. Don’t worry – it won’t cost you any more, and often the companies offer ATA members a special deal. I try to put out the best content possible on this website and the podcast, and you can show your support of Active Travel Adventures and show me a little love by please using my links if you are planning on buying from them anyway. It helps cover some of my costs. Many thanks! Kit