To celebrate our 30th Anniversary, we have just assigned senior Tour Leader and destination specialist, Martin Charlton, to our iconic Egypt and Egypt / Jordan combo series for January 2017! This is where AA got it’s start, and Martin can’t wait to share one of his all-time favourite tours.
Tour Leader: Martin Charlton
Martin Charlton's tours
ACCOMMODATION UPDATE
Travellers on our very first foray into North Sudan this November (and three dates next year) will have the distinction of staying at Sudan’s first and only boutique style accommodation.
The Nubian Rest House is a small, boutique hotel located in Karima, in the northern part of Sudan. It is a short hike from Jebel Barkal, a small mountain approximately 400 kilometres north of Khartoum.
Located in the friendly northern town of Karima, the Nubian Rest House is an immaculate, well-placed, and sprawling property boasting a unique and traditional Nubian style, first-class amenities, stunningly landscaped grounds, and mouth watering regional meals. This comfortable lodge is the perfect base for our four-night, three-day exploration of the fascinating sites that make this place so special. Pamper yourself in Karima on this 17-day, three country odyssey!
NEW THINGS AND UPDATES
MAXIMUM 18
In case you missed it elsewhere in this issue, from 2017 onward, all of our tours will carry a maximum of 18 participants! Some of our special trips and walking tours might have a smaller maximum complement, but no tour will ever exceed 18.
Gulfoss waterfall (Golden Falls, in Icelandic) is Iceland’s most famous waterfall, and it plunges 32 metres (105 feet) in two spectacular drops.
SUDAN, DJIBOUTI & ETHIOPIA – NEW DATE ADDED
This one is flying off the shelves! For 2017 we will be offering at least three dates for this exciting new trip, including a NEW DATE running 05-21 Jan 2017, tour code SD1.
North Sudan, Djibouti & Ethiopia
SD1 | 17 Days | Details
Departure date: 05 Jan 2017
What A Site: Egypt's Saint Simeon Monastery
With our 30-year anniversary right around the corner, our minds turn nostalgically to our very first tour and one of our favourite sites of all time—Upper Egypt’s Saint Simeon Monastery. Not only is this a unique and fascinating place, the overall experience is further enhanced by our preferred means of accessing it—the venerable ‘Ship of the Desert’—the regal and iconic camel. We are also very pleased to be working with the descendants of the same local family, the Magdis, who have supplied camels to our groups since 1987!
Coptic Christians established the Monastery of Saint Simeon in the 7th century near Aswan in Egypt.
UPCOMING TOURS
We have some exciting tours coming up, to some of our favourite destinations, including Colombia and Panama, Uganda and Rwanda, Namibia and Botswana, Southern India and Sri Lanka, Italy, and Morocco.
When visiting Panama, one of the highlights is sure to be a trip into the jungle to spot a sloth. This is a photo of a three toed sloth. There are six known species of sloth, and Panama has three of them.
COLOMBIA & PANAMA – JANUARY
In the last few years, Colombia has shed it’s former shady reputation, with vast improvements to policing / security and socio-economic conditions and opportunities. These positive changes have enabled us to recently expand our itinerary for this amazingly varied destination, and we have seen a huge bump in travellers’ interest in this unspoiled natural and cultural gem.
MAIN FEATURE – 30th Anniversary!
MAXIMUM GROUP SIZE 18!
As we at Adventures Abroad look forward to 2017, our 31st year of operation, we continue to pride ourselves on our adaptability and the high value we place on the feedback provided by our very special family of travellers. When we launched in 1987, from a home basement office and a 1x1 inch newspaper ad for a tour of Egypt, the concept of small group adventure travel was fresh and exciting.
