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NEW STORY SECTION READY
What's Your Story?
We've received a wild response to our request for your Wildland Adventures stories to celebrate our 20th Anniversary. We'll feature new stories every month like Hugo Frank's incredible Make-A-Wish adventure bonding with cheetahs (and much
more) in Namibia. You can read more stories on our website and add your own on our new Storytelling webpage by clicking below.
 View our Travelers' stories
Post your Wildland story
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The Make-A-Wish foundation called Carmin Arnot, our Southern Africa specialist, and asked if she could make 15-year old Hugo Frank's wishcome true. His wish? to "go sand boarding and touch a cheetah!" Carmin got
busy organizing a safari to Namibia for Hugo and his dad Ron. The trip was a success. Make-A-Wish and Wildland Adventures, wish granted.
Read both their stories below:
"I bonded with that Cheetah!"
~Hugo Frank
"I got to hang, so to say, with some cheetahs… and best of all, ran with one and played with it."
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"With gratitude to Make-A-Wish and Wildland" ~Ron Frank
"…our last night @ 4:30am being woken by a large male lion who lay down 10 meters outside our tent, woke us with a roar, and began an hour of deep guttural 'communication' …"
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Namibia Trip Note: As camps fill up during peak travel in Southern Africa July-September, consider the vast open space and year-round blue sky of Namibia for an African experience with a difference.
Itinerary: Namibia Explorer
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Patagonia Late Season Discount
Shoulder season discounts and cabin upgrades valuing up to $440 now available.
Itinerary: In the Wake of Magellan: Patagonia by Land & Sea
Galapagos Holiday
, 2 Cabins Left
The last remaining space during Christmas vacation in Galapagos are two cabins for up to 4 persons on the Samba for Dec 16-26, 2007.
Itinerary: Galapagos Christmas Odyssey M/V Samba
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 I don't like 'fully escorted' and my husband doesn't like to do things on our own when we are in a non-English speaking
country.... so your trips are the perfect compromise in between.
Mary DeWolf
Galapagos Wildlife Odyssey |
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A New Path in Peru
Every Wildland Adventure starts with a vision. It may be our dream, a guide's idea for a great new trip, indigenous people inviting us into their community-based tourism initiative, or your suggestion for an active vacation. Our newest
adventure in Peru is a lodge-to-lodge trek to Machu  Picchu. It combines all of these designs; our 20 years
of seeking out the best in Peru, the brain child of one Peruvian family to create a hut-to-hut hike in the Andes, working closely with the native Quechua people of the region, and requests by Wildland trekkers seeking the amenities of a
warm bed and a glass of wine around a cozy fireplace. This year, through our Travelers Conservation Trust program, all our trips to Peru support the
Casa de Milagros orphanage in the Urubamba Valley which you can visit on special request.
Audio:
Listen to an Interview on Peru with Wildland President, Kurt Kutay |
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Special 20th Anniversary Inaugural Trip!
Machu Picchu Mountain Lodges Trek
 Make history by joining Wildland President, Kurt Kutay on this first-time exploratory 20th Anniversary
Adventure trek through the Andes July 21-31, 2007. You'll also be part of a film production and take home a professional DVD movie of our experience! Our new lodge-to-lodge trek is a physical, cultural, and spiritual journey along ancient
footpaths and through indigenous communities in the high Andes en route to the legendary ruins of Machu Picchu. Trekking in style from lodge to lodge we explore a spectacular route in the Cordillera Vilcabamba under towering snow-capped
peaks dominated by Mt. Salcantay (20,574), the sacred Apu of local Quechua communities. Like Inca royalty, we overnight in the comfort of well-appointed trekkers' lodges with private rooms, exceptional international and Peruvian cuisine as
well as a sauna, Jacuzzi, and fireplace. This less traveled route is a more spectacular high Andean trek than the Inca Trail itself.
more...
Give Machu Picchu Its Due
 Whether you are arriving to Machu Picchu by train or hiking the Inca Trail, plan to spend at least
one night at the site allowing time for a guided tour and to explore and photograph on your own after the day tourists have departed and before they arrive the next morning. We recommend the Machu Picchu Pueblo Hotel above all others.
Click here for more about Machu Picchu hotels
Virtual Tour:
Machu Picchu
Sacred Valley Off The Beaten Path
Our itineraries include at least a day or two to explore the Sacred Valley of the Incas, especially to acclimatize before trekking. Here you'll find some of the finest Inca ruins and preserved villages, still inhabited by Quechua-speaking
people. We also take you to weaving and pottery workshops, to the Casa de Milagros orphanage, and hikes on side trails to local villages to learn about Andean culture and local life. The new Inka Villas Urubamba provides a great base for
families and private groups:
See more of the Inka Villas Urubamba
Hiking the Inca Trail
We offer several itineraries that include the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu combined with explorations in the Amazon. A real advantage of our Inca Trail Treks is our permanent base camp near the trail head which gives us an extra day to
acclimatize and allows us to start out early ahead of the trekkers coming in by train. Trail permits are sold first-come, first-served and sell out months in advance.
Inca Trail Trek and Amazon
Inca Trail Trek and Rainforest Explorer
Explore the Real Amazon
 Our trips into the rain forests of Manu and Tambopata cannot be compared with other regions of
the Amazon where development has disturbed habitat and wildlife. Accompanied by naturalist Amazon guides, we offer you several routes and itineraries into the best ecolodges of Manu and Tambopata.
More about travel to the real Amazon of Peru
Click on the links below for some eye-witness wildlife sightings on our
Manu Wildlife Safari.
Video:
Jaguars come in view along the river
Video:
The Cock-of-the-Rock lek in action!
Video:
A tapir from a nocturnal blind |
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