Adventure Travel Blogs

I have just been on the hotline to my old mucker Paul Goldstein, Exodus guide and award winning photographer. He is currently raving about the migration, one of the very best – ever, in the Masai Mara where he is leading back to back special photographic trips for some very lucky Exodus clients. For the man who has done his lions share of big cat game time, that is some statement.

This little chat made me reflect on my own top three wildlife experiences in my decade at Exodus. So, in ...

Early morning we set off from Hanoi for a four hour drive through the ever changing Vietnamese landscape to visit the Halong Bay. Our driver masterfully negotiated his way through the millions of scooters on busy Hanoi's roads and took us across the Red River in only an hour or so. We continued driving past the lush green paddy fields for the next two hours before reaching Halong bay.

Halong Bay is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Quang Ninh province, Vietnam. The bay...

After I completed my A-levels back in ‘86 I needed a holiday. I decided two years would suffice! I had been on a family holiday to France and a school ski trip to Spain, but had never been anywhere ‘exotic’ in my life. After leaving school, I worked the summer harvest back home in rural Lincolnshire and saved every penny to buy a ticket to somewhere hot – and as far away a possible! Having ‘phoned the cheapest ‘bucket’ shops in the London back-streets, I managed to get a charter fl...