Best Multi-Active Tours & Holidays 2026 2027

Exodus Adventure Travels is a UK company founded in 1974 that offers active holidays worldwide. Its itineraries cater to different fitness levels and you can book trips with or without a guide. Specialising in walking and cycling trips, it also offers mixed-activity holidays and more unique adventures, such as journeys to the Arctic. All activities are led by experienced and qualified leaders or local guides who are experts in a particular activity. Whether it’s cycling, trekking, stand-up paddle boarding or kayaking, our leaders live for the outdoors and are committed to providing fun but, most importantly, safe experiences.

Councillors are reliant on public support to remain in office which often means they are more reactive to public opinion, an effect often exacerbated when elections are approaching. As public figures, Councillors will often be first in line to receive criticism for schemes. During the pandemic we unfortunately also saw how criticism and abuse found its way to local authority officers. Having thought of what challenges there might be in advance of a scheme being delivered can make it easier to handle those challenges. This includes being clear about the legality of a scheme and what legal process that scheme is following, such as an Experimental Traffic Order. The fundamental thread in design, maintenance and operation of the highways and transport network should be that the needs of all users should be considered to create an inclusive public realm.

CIHT’s Creating Better Streets suggested how a strategy for creating inclusive environments when developing streets might sit within a hierarchy of legislation and guidance shown in the below diagram from Creating Better Streets. If you’re short on time but hungry for action, this new four-day Acatenango Volcano Hike & Antigua Short Break is made for you. Kick it all off in colourful Antigua with local coffee, a walkthrough town and a visit to a women-led farming project before learning to press tortillas by hand.

Travel during the green season – usually from November to April in many parts of Africa – for newborn wildlife, dramatic landscapes and excellent birding. Experience a walking safari in Kenya and stay in private conservancies for a more immersive way to explore the bush. Hike beneath Patagonia’s granite towers, explore salt flats and stargaze beneath the Atacama’s desert skies. Combine world-class snorkelling and diving with jungle rivers, caves and wildlife-rich interiors. All our WRPs offer package deals, but some give you the option to book your own extras elsewhere.

This page features adventure trips and active vacations around the world, from completing the five-day Mohare Danda Trek in Nepal to downhill mountain biking in Colorado to whitewater rafting in Costa Rica and beyond. Be honest about where you’re at and commit to a training plan to reach your goals. It could be walking more in your spare time, doing a couple of longer bike rides weekly, or incorporating more cardio and resistance training in your workouts. We have a maximum group size of 16 travelers – though most trips average just 10 people. This means you can reach out-of-the-way places and get to know the locals while enjoying plenty of camaraderie along the way. Countless local communities have developed their own special ways to navigate and preserve their land.

Selection of where to create active travel infrastructure will usually be done through a combination of transport modelling and using local data and knowledge about residents’ outside catering New Forest concerns. In addition CIHT’s, Planning for Walking (2015) and Planning for Cycling (2014) contains specific guidance on the planning aspects of active travel. Transport Scotland has also published an updated version of Cycling by Design which contains information on the process of planning for active travel, similar to Wales’ Active Travel Act guidance. CIHT’s Creating Better Streets report from 2018, sets out 5 objectives that should underpin street design.

• You set the pace without a guide while your luggage is moved between its recommended hotels.
• It’s not just the trip itself that customers were impressed by – the booking process sounds smooth too.
• When enquiring, Trailfinders can put you in touch with a location specialist, and one impressed customer told us that the ‘depth of knowledge and personalised service from their travel consultant was outstanding’.
• Trailfinders’ strength lies in building custom itineraries, which often involve adventures and activities.
• This involves providing technical guidance, knowledge and advice on schemes – and not simply to ‘ask for your view’.

Explore places you couldn’t yourself

However, you will need basic skills like riding a bike and being a confident swimmer. Hiking through the High Atlas Mountains is a world away from the fanfare of Marrakech’s Djemaa el-Fna, and yet full of surprises. After a challenging but rewarding cycle, jump off the wheels to hike around the dramatically located village of Aroumd, where you’ll pass walnut and apple groves, local houses and farms. You’ll be hungry after, which is perfect timing to feast on a traditional dinner with your homestay hosts.

Different levels, all epic adventures

In the future, when not working under emergency conditions, a more balanced approach to delivery of active travel schemes is recommended. As highlighted on this page, there is good advice and established practice for engagement with the public and other stakeholders, however resource at local authorities to commit fully to this aspect of scheme delivery is scarce. CIHT has previously highlighted the position of local authorities in terms of a lack of revenue funding in Improving Local Highways (2020), which makes long term meaningful engagement more difficult to allocate resources to. Experimenting and altering schemes should not be considered a failure, but part of an iterative process of getting things right. The difficulty can be that withdrawing or altering schemes is currently looked upon as a failure of the authority, something politicians want to avoid. This fear can lead to a risk averse environment, where there is little appetite for implementing active travel schemes.

Recognising this and being able to communicate the benefits and consequences of different transport schemes is important when working together with Councillors. By being able to communicate the reasoning behind schemes in a way that non-transportation professionals can understand, you are more likely to gain at least their understanding and hopefully also support. Gaining Councillors understanding and support is important to help them champion schemes. While involving the public as little as possible may make professional life easier in the short term, the reason that more proactive participation is considered best practice is because it is likely to deliver better outcomes in the long term. Quora Doing this in practice is often made difficult because it is more resource intensive and that resource is often not built into the budget of schemes. Further, involving the public if timescales between allocation of funding and delivery are too tight, makes it very difficult or impossible to involve the public sufficiently such as according to the Gunning Principles.

Longer term financial commitment and flexibility to enable schemes to be developed and implemented, and recognition that active travel provision is more revenue funding hungry than standard schemes, because of ongoing maintenance. In England, currently only around 2% of total transport spend is spent on active travel. Touch down in a new destination for Intrepid on the Hiking in Madeira trip. Climb Pico do Ruivo (the island’s highest peak) and trace seaside trails between small villages. When you’re not hiking, swim in volcanic rock pools, lounge on black-sand beaches and refuel with grilled seafood and a glass of poncha (local rum).

Our expert guides and brilliant travel concierges are hand-picked to provide a genuine experience, bringing your destination to life with care and passion. When embarking on active adventures abroad or domestic, make sure to get travel insurance. While our trips have many inclusions, you can usually sit out if you’d like some downtime.