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School Activity Expeditions
About us
Why choose an activity expedition? All inclusive pricing
We specialise in taking overseas activity expeditions and have
been operating since 1994. As well as taking schools away we
have worked alongside charities and corporate companies
designing bespoke itineraries with the activity at the centre of
the expedition. We have built up a great reputation for
exceptional in-country knowledge and support having worked
alongside the same local operators for up to 20 years.
By making the activity the basis of the expedition the costs are kept
lower as entertainment and transportation are both included. By
travelling through a country by foot or by bike the students fully
immerse themselves in the culture and environment and access
those areas off the tourist trail that would otherwise be inaccessible.
Why look out the bus window when you could be cycling along the
bottom of that valley or walking along that ridge line?
We believe that schools itineraries should be all inclusive and
inclusive for all. This means that there are no hidden costs for
students and the only thing they need pay for in-country are
souvenirs. By making it inclusive ‘for all’ we create itineraries that are
more affordable to allow more students to access these opportunities
and make the activities challenging but achievable.
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Fun
Experience
Journey Confidence
LeadershipConfront comfort zones
The BenefitsAccomplishment
Culture
Team work
Environmental
Awareness
Fitness
Staff & Support Local Crew
Trip Doctor
Discover Adventure LeadersLocal knowledge is invaluable, we are
therefore proud to always work alongside local
English speaking guides who stay with the
group for the duration of the trip. This provides
us with safety and support but also creates an
incredible cultural bridge for the students as it
gives them an unlimited source of information
on the country and local customs and
lifestyles.
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“I really enjoyed travelling
through Central America with
the students and showing
them my country. I had a good
time talking with the students
learning about where they are
from as we cycled. I was
amazed how through the trip
everyday they pushed
themselves to the finish line,
they were good kids for me
was a really good experience I
can not wait to do it again!”
Carlos Torres Our Central America guide from
Costa Rica
Our Moroccan Local guide
Safety is always our biggest consideration, we
therefore provide a UK doctor on our
expeditions who have a passion for the
outdoors to go with their altitude experience
and their medical knowledge. They will be
travelling with a comprehensive medical kit
allowing instant access to UK medicines and
expertise in an emergency.
Our leaders are selected for their experience in
harsh wilderness environments, knowledge of
travel in remote areas, friendliness and
approachability, sense of humour and ability to
safely and effectively deal with any situation that
arises. They are also trained in expedition first-
aid. We operate a 1:12 ratio so you’ll always be
adequately supported.
“I have led many trips in The Atlas
Mountains and Sahara Desert. The
most enjoyable trips are taking school
groups trekking, cycling and getting them
involved in community projects. The local
communities welcome us as if we are
family. It gives me a great sense of pride
taking the children to my homeland.”
UK Support
During the build up to the expedition you will be
assigned an account manager who will deal with
all the administration. They will also visit your
school twice in the lead up to present the trip to
parents and students and answer any questions
that may arise.
During the expedition the in-country team will
have full back up from the 24hr UK operations
room. If any issues do arise in-country there is
always someone on hand to deal with any
incidents and to liaise with the school and
parents.
Our Destinations
Short Haul Long HaulItineraries usually start from 10 days to ensure
the time spent on a flight and the time
difference is justified. However 7 day itineraries
can be created for our African destinations. By
choosing evening flights and sleeping on the
plane your students can be in county and
beginning their expedition by lunch time the
following day due to the small time difference.
These destinations can be anywhere from 5
days upwards. Your students will land in
country on the same or next day to departure,
we can therefore pack a lot into a shorter time
frame such as a half term without taking any
days off school.
Your students could go from their desks to
getting Sahara sand in their shoes within
12hrs.
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WondersMany of our destinations give your students the opportunity to visit one of
the Wonders of the World. Many people visit the Wonders of the World, few
get to arrive there or explore them by bike, raft or trekking.
SS Great Eastern
Bell Rock Lighthouse
Brooklyn Bridge
London sewerage system
Transcontinental Railroad
Panama Canal
Hoover Dam
Industrial Wonders
Panama Canal
Wonders of Nature
Iguazu Falls
Jeju Island
Komodo Island
Puerto Princesa River
Table Mountain
Halong Bay
Amazon Rainforest
Halong Bay (Vietnam)
Amazon Rainforest (Brazil, Peru)
Mount Everest
Harbor of Rio de Janeiro
Great Barrier Reef
Victoria falls
Paricutin
Grand Canyon
Aurora Borealis
Natural WondersMount Everest (Nepal)
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Victoria falls (Zambia)
Aurora Borealis (Sweden, Iceland)
Great Wall of China
Petra
The Colosseum
Chichén Itzá
Machu Picchu
Taj Mahal
Christ the Redeemer
Man Made Wonders
Great Wall China
Machu Picchu (Peru)
Taj Mahal (India)
Christ the Redeemer (Brazil)
The
All of our African destinations can be made
into an overland expedition. We use
converted lorry's which can carry groups of 25
people and all the tents, bikes and cooking
equipment needed to create a unique
adventure.
This keeps the costs to a minimum as the
group is self supporting and our experienced
drivers will take you off the beaten track to
give students the chance to enjoy a once in a
lifetime experience.
The truck and driver will also provide support
whilst the group are cycling, rafting or
trekking.
Overland expeditions teach the students to be
organised and work as a team as everyone
needs to pull their weight with the cooking,
cleaning and camp craft.
Overland expeditions
Projects and exchanges
With our long history with all of our overseas
agents we can guarantee that if your school
chooses to have a project element to their
expedition that it will be meaningful and
worthwhile with the money and time going
directly to the people that need it.
Having an English speaking local guide with
the group throughout the project will allow it
to flow smoothly without misinterpretations
or frustrations benefiting both the students
and the locals they are there to help.
If your school already has an overseas link,
an itinerary can be created to incorporate a
visit to that school as a part of an exchange
or a project.
Shaping the itinerary
Time of year: Jul / Aug
Activities:
Highlights: Its wild volcanic
landscapes, mountains, glaciers,
hot springs, geysers and
waterfalls make it a fascinating
country to explore. Routes take
in lava fields, past gushing rivers
and waterfalls and below the
permanent ice caps of
Langjokull.
Iceland
Short Haul Destinations
Romania Croatia
Corsica Turkey
MoroccoTime of year:
Activities:
Highlights: The lush Atlas
Mountains, running southwest
through the country, form a
stunning contrast with the desert
fringe to the south and east. Our
routes can either cycle over the
Atlas mountains, summit of
Toubkal or trek across the
Sahara.
Time of year: Mar - Oct
Activities:
Highlights: The spectacular
Istrian peninsula, a region of
pristine coastline, magnificent
forest, olive groves and
vineyards, dotted with fascinating
ancient sites.
Time of year: Mar - Oct
Activities:
Highlights: This region of France
is renowned for its warm weather
and is famous for its rugged high
soaring mountain pinnacles. Our
challenges can include mountain
treks, canyoning and high wire
adventures and a night in a cabin
on the largest high altitude
plateau on the island.
Time of year:
Activities:
Highlights The Lycian Coast is
an eclectic mix of colour, energy
and nature. Students can choose
to trek up Mt Olympus and then
spend 5 days exploring the
wonderful mountains towards the
Elmali plateau by bike before
kayaking in the Mediterranean
coast.
Time of year: Mar
Activities:
Highlights: Students participate
in husky driving, ice fishing, fire
lighting, building shelters and
snow-holes, cross-country skiing
– to name but a few. They are
unlikely to see any people other
than each other and the
occasional local people.
Sweden
Time of year: Mar - Oct
Activities:
Highlights: The Carpathian
Mountains are little-visited but
form one of the most beautiful,
fascinating and awe-inspiring
regions of Europe. Dotted with
Transylvanian castles and
small towns and villages little-
changed since medieval times.
All of our short haul destinations are
available from 5 days upwards. All
itineraries are flexible and can include
one or all of the activities shown. If you
have any other destinations in mind not
listed here we can still create an
itinerary to fulfil your needs.
Despite their close proximity to the UK
all of these destinations still offer your
students enormous cultural and
environmental differences to the UK
whilst offering incredible activity
challenges.
Feb – Jun / Sep - Oct
Feb – Jun / Sep - Oct
Time of year: Year Round
Activities:
Highlights: Students get the
opportunity to paddle Mokoros –
traditional dug out canoes -through
the Okavango delta. The Mokoros
can be loaded up to do a multi day
trip through this wildlife rich area
camping on islands and doing
walking safaris.
Time of year: Year Round
Activities:
Highlights: Kilimanjaro, the highest
freestanding mountain in the world
and the highest mountain on the
African continent at 5896m. Its snow-
capped summit rises high above the
dusty African savannah this is the
ultimate physical and mental
challenge for students.
Tanzania
Time of year: Year Round
Activities:
Highlights: Your students get to not
only see Victoria Falls but then get
into a raft and paddle the Zambezi
river camping in the gorge for 2
nights. They can then bike to lake
Kariba cycling along this incredible
lake before partaking in canoe and
walking safaris below the Dam.
Zambia
Time of year: Year Round
Activities:
Highlights: The Simien Mountains
form one of Africa’s largest and most
spectacular mountain ranges. Our
trek takes the students through the
national park, past Gelada Baboons
and Lamagier Vultures. The ultimate
goal is the summit of Ras Dashen at
4620m
Ethiopia
Time of year: Year Round
Activities:
Highlights: One of the most
beautiful countries in Africa, with
Lake Malawi – the third largest
lake on the continent – and
spectacular natural scenery
including dense forest, stunning
valleys and game reserves
providing a habitat for rare wildlife.
Malawi
Botswana
NamibiaTime of year: Year Round
Activities:
Highlights: The Waterberg plateau
is a massive table mountain in the
north of Namibia. Students can trek
and camp on this incredible remote
feature before cycling up the
Skeleton Coast – where whale
bones and shipwrecks litter this
incredible coast line.
AFRICA
Long Haul Destinations
There is an endless list of itinerary
options in this region of Africa. These
destinations lend themselves
perfectly to school groups as the
culture is easily accessible as the
locals are incredibly friendly and
quick to laugh. These itineraries can
also be changed and altered to suit
your school’s needs.
Time of year: Year Round
Activities:
Highlights: Often referred to as
'the country of Lakes and
Volcanoes’. Nicaragua offers
great possibilities for students.
They can climb active and
dormant volcanoes, swim in crater
lakes, walk through forested
slopes, and peek into the crater of
a volcano.
Time of year: Year Round
Activities:
Highlights: Machu Picchu is one of the
most iconic sights in South America,
and the culmination of the magnificent
Inca Trail trek through the Peruvian
Andes. We can create many variations
of the route to one of the new wonders
of the world. Culturally rich and
environmentally spectacular.
Peru
Time of year: Year Round
Activities:
Highlights: With its dense rainforests
and stunning coast line, Brazil gives
your students the choice of cycling
along the coast towards Brazil’s most
famous city, Rio de Janeiro. Or trek
through its dramatic mountains with
high waterfalls, blue pools and dense
rainforest.
Brazil
Time of year: Year Round
Activities:
Highlights: Our adventurous coast to
coast challenge involves crossing
from the Pacific Coast to the
Caribbean on foot, by bike and by
raft. We take in the country’s highest
active volcano, the students trek
from coffee plantations into dense
tropical rainforest.
Costa Rica
Time of year: Year Round
Activities:
Highlights: Hailed as one of the
great achievements of the 20th
Century, the Panama Canal is the
starting point of our iconic Trans
Central America bike ride. The
route gives students the chance to
cycle through Panama, Costa
Rica and finishes in Nicaragua.
Panama
NicaraguaLong Haul Destinations
South & Central AmericaLatin America is a super colourful
continent: the people, their clothes, the
food and life itself there is in full colour.
This combined with it’s vast diversity of
landscape where students can
experience coast, mountains, desert and
jungle all within a few days. South and
Central America is the continent where
everything can be achieved in one
itinerary without the need to compromise.
Time of year: Year Round
Activities:
Highlights: An incredibly diverse
country with ancient cultural
sites, amazing landscapes and
very hospitable people. With the
choice of trekking or cycling
through this incredible area
visiting the classic areas of Ho
Chi Minh City and Hanoi, the
French colonial city in the north.
Time of year: Year Round
Activities:
Highlights: India offers a broad
diversity of landscapes, people
and wildlife, with an incredible
mix of colourful cultures and a
sense of history at every turn.
Be it mountains, desert and
temples or rich tea plantations
and beaches your students will
love this incredibly fun country.
India
Time of year: Year Round
Activities:
Highlights: Nepal is in a league of its
own with breathtakingly beautiful
scenery, a fascinating culture and
friendly people. Be it the Annapurna
circuit or trekking to Everest base
camp your students will get to meet
the villagers whilst trekking through
this landlocked gem of a nation.
Nepal
Time of year: Year Round
Activities:
Highlights: An island renowned
for its natural beauty, fascinating
culture and beautiful beaches.
Our routes combine these with
fabulous, varied cycling or
trekking as we travel from the
northeast coast to the southwest,
along the central highlands that
form the spine of the country.
Sri Lanka
Time of year: Year Round
Activities:
Highlights: Students have the rare
opportunity to experience the
beautiful, untouristed landscapes
of the ‘land of blue sky’. Riding
through the remote valleys of the
Khangai Mountains of central
Mongolia, witnessing the
traditional herding lifestyle of the
Khalkh Mongols.
Mongolia
Vietnam
Time of year: Year Round
Activities:
Highlights: Home to beautiful rural
landscapes dotted with ruins of
ancient civilisations, small towns
and many temples including the
largest religious monument in the
world, Angkor Wat. A country
steeped in ancient and recent
history that will educate and
amaze your students.
CambodiaTime of year: Year Round
Activities:
Highlights: The third-largest
island in the world, and known
for its vast tracts of ancient
rainforest and high biodiversity,
harbouring many endangered
animals including the orang-utan.
This is the land of mountains,
thick jungle and rivers; its
remoteness is legendary.
Borneo
Time of year: Year Round
Activities:
Highlights: The Great Wall of
China stretches across this hilly
region of China with long spurs
and watch-towers often
disappearing into the mists.
Trekking or cycling gives
students the opportunity to put a
sense of scale to this immense
human achievement.
China
ASIA
TimelineInitial discussions and planning
Our schools manager will come visit you and discuss
• Aims and objectives
• Destination and activity options
• Projects
• Group sizes
• Training days
• Timescales
• Budget Creating the itinerary
• Discover Adventure will create and price itinerary
options based on the initial discussions
• School to decide upon an itinerary
• School launches the itinerary to specified year groups
• Schools manager to present itinerary to perspective
students and parents
Final details• Contract created between the school and Discover Adventure
• Numbers and names finalised
• Training day if requested
• Presentation to parents and students by your leader
• Invoice sent to school The expedition
• Group travels from school to airport and meets leader and doctor
• Scheduled flights
• Bike sizing where needed
• Trip briefing in country
• Itinerary completed with project where needed
• 24hr emergency UK back up
Post expedition• Expedition review
• Assess and evaluate
• Plan the next expedition01722 718444 l http://www.discoveradventure.com/schools
Get in touch
T 01722 718444
Discover Adventure Ltd
Throope Down House
Blandford Road
Coombe Bissett
Salisbury
Wiltshire
SP5 4LN
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