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The Company specializes in organizing safe and exciting Eco & Adventure tours throughout Venezuela. Our services range from simple to deluxe. We offer a complete travel service, which begins from the first contact until your return home. The trips are ecologically responsible and educational. To minimize environmental impact, we focus on small-group excursions and avoid destinations of large tourist groups. We employ professional local biologists and English speaking guides with an extensive knowledge of Venezuela. We hire native guides, drivers, boat operators, and hosts to benefit local economies. If you would like to know who travels with us, like Ian Wright of the world renowned Lonely Planet television program and why, visit our Recommendations page in our website.
We offer comprehensive pre-departure information, hotel reservation, domestic flight reservations, airport assistance and transfers in most areas of the country and customized itineraries throughout Venezuela.
*Comprehensive pre-departure information: This leaflet gives information about joining tours in Venezuela, how to get from the airport to central Caracas in case of need, useful contact numbers and other useful arrival information. Our goal is to make your arrival as trouble free as possible.
*Flight services: We are an IATA certified travel agency that can arrange you flights to any point in Venezuela or the Caribbean.
*Accommodation services: We have extensive contacts throughout Venezuela, which permits us to give the client the best value for their tastes in standard or superior lodging options.
*Transfer services: We can arrange reliable and safe airport assistance and transfers in most areas of Venezuela. Often, these drivers/guides will be bilingual.
*Customized Itineraries: If you would like to see more than one region of Venezuela, we can offer you a customized itinerary at a competitive price. Just contact our travel consultants with the regions you would like to visit and type of service you prefer, i.e., all inclusive, standard or superior lodging.
*Customized trekking services:
- Tours and transportation: 4WD jeeps (private) with professional drivers who know the routes.
- Domestic flight services: We issue and reconfirm and assist passengers with any change of schedule.
- Bilingual Guides: Please note that we do not use interpreters in any of our trips. It is always an English-speaking guide who is responsible for the group.
- Food on Treks: Breakfast: There is usually oatmeal or pancakes, bread, jam and butter, eggs & bacon, and plenty of coffee or tea, tropical fruits, juice and yogurt. Lunch: Different types of cheese, sausages, tuna sandwiches, spinach pie, etc. Dinners: Often three courses. Example: Vegetable soup, smoked trout or smoked pork chop with mashed potatoes and dessert. We also have vegetarian menus. All meals are included on our itinerary.
- Services while trekking: The camp staff will generally include the following: an experienced English-speaking mountain guide or naturalist escort (depending on the program). Plan on hiking or traveling 4-5 hours each day, depending on the overall group pace. Lunch is usually taken around 12-1 p.m. Depending on where the group is along the route; we usually spend an hour or so on a lunch break. When trekking, we arrive at the camp around 3:00-4:30 p.m. Tea is generally served around 5:00 p.m. and is a welcome treat at the higher camps. Dinner is served between 7:00-7:30 p.m.
- Equipment: 4-season tents: North Face Lunar Fire for 2 people; Rucksacks 60 lt.: Jack Wolfsking, North Face; Collective cooking equipment; Stoves: Coleman. And if you need, we can supply the following equipment: Various comfortable sleeping bags suitable to –20 Celsius: North Face Snow Shoe, Carinthya, etc. Mattress: Therma Rest; Fleece jackets and pants; Rain coats and ponchos; Gloves; Wool hats; Petzl head lamps; Water bottles.
- Radio-Communication & Mobile Phone: Security is vital for us, in 14 years we have never had an accident. We know the field very well and we understand that there are uncontrollable variables in high-risk activities. Thinking about this, we introduced radio-communication with a group of 6 Motorola Radios (P-100) 2 meter-frequency, which work with stations at the Sierra Nevada National Park and La Culata National Park. In other words, we cover 70 percent of the area in the Andes with permanent communication. Additionally, our guides bring cellular phones, which can reach every corner of Venezuela.
- First Aid Kit: We stock an extensive first aid kit, including pain-reliever pills, anti-diarrhea medication, strong analgesics, bandages, and suture equipment, in other words everything that is required in case of emergency in the mountains. Our guides are certified in Mountain and Glacier Rescue and capable of giving first aid. |
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