Expeditions · The 25 South Edit

Go further than the map.

Polar voyages, gorilla treks, and walks to the world's great wild places — handpicked from the expedition operators we can help you compare, and planned as one seamless journey.

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Four expedition partners · One advisor

The operators behind the journeys

Quark ExpeditionsIntrepid TravelProject ExpeditionTourRadar

Five ways to go far

Choose your expedition.

Every journey below is run by an operator we book directly — and every one is planned around you.

Emperor penguins and their chick on Antarctic ice

Polar · Antarctica & the Arctic

The ends of the earth

Polar Frontiers

Quark ExpeditionsSmall expedition shipsIAATO member

Small ships built for ice, expedition teams who live for it, and landings by Zodiac on shores most travelers never see — from the Antarctic Peninsula to the Northwest Passage.

Ways to go

Antarctic Explorer — 11 days, Peninsula & South Shetlands
Snow Hill — walk among emperor penguins
Northwest Passage — 17 days in the High Arctic

Quark has been polar-obsessed since 1991 — their flagship carries two helicopters for flightseeing over ice you can't reach on foot.

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African elephant walking across open grassland

Wildlife · Africa & beyond

Where the wild things are

Wildlife & Conservation

Small groupsExpert local guidesDav Safaris · Intrepid

Gorilla trekking at dawn, elephants at the waterhole, whales surfacing beside your Zodiac — wildlife encounters led by people who know the animals by habit, not just by name.

Ways to go

Gorilla trekking — Uganda & Rwanda
Botswana safaris with Intrepid
Antarctic whales, seals & penguins with Quark

Mountain gorilla groups are capped at eight visitors a day — permits are limited, so we plan around them early.

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Trekker walking toward snow-covered Himalayan peaks

Trekking · The great trails

Nepal · Tanzania · Peru

Trekking & Active

15-day Everest Base Camp10-day Kilimanjaro Lemosho8-day Inca Trail

The world's great footpaths, walked properly — with local guides, porters carrying the weight, and itineraries built around acclimatization, not bravado.

Ways to go

Everest Base Camp Trek — 15 days
Kilimanjaro, Lemosho route — 10 days
The Inca Trail — 8 days
Kumano Kodo & via Dinarica with Intrepid

The Inca Trail caps daily permits months in advance — booking early isn't advice, it's the whole game.

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Culture · Off the brochure

Pakistan · Mongolia · Borneo

Remote Cultures

Intrepid ExpeditionsSmall-group journeysB Corp certified

Intrepid's Expeditions range goes where the brochures stop — reindeer herders in Mongolia, orangutans in Borneo, the Karakoram in Pakistan — in groups small enough to be welcomed.

Ways to go

Pakistan's Karakoram Highway
Reindeer herders of Mongolia
Orangutans of Borneo
Saudi Arabia, opening up

Intrepid has run small-group trips since 1989.

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Giant Galápagos tortoise in its island habitat

Islands · Galápagos & beyond

Ecuador · The Pacific

Islands & Oceans

Galápagos journeysNaturalist guidesSmall ships

Sail with licensed naturalists among giant tortoises, marine iguanas, and blue-footed boobies — wildlife with no fear of people, on islands that feel like another planet.

Ways to go

Galapagos Discovery — 9 days with Intrepid
Island-hopping by small ship
Snorkeling with sea lions & turtles

In the Galápagos you explore with a licensed naturalist guide — it's the law, and it's the magic.

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Live from our marketplace

Expedition highlights, live.

Explore supplier-listed tours, then confirm the departure, availability and booking arrangements with us.

Tours operated by TourRadar's operator network.

Mountain gorilla surrounded by dense green forest

Why book expeditions with an advisor

Expeditions have moving parts. That's our job.

Permits, seasons, fitness, connections — the difference between a trip and an expedition is everything around it. We handle the around.

Permits & seasons — Inca Trail caps, gorilla permits, Antarctica's November-to-March window
Matched to you — fitness, pace, and comfort level, honestly assessed
Many operators, one journey — ships, treks, and excursions combined into a single plan
Backup throughout — one call to us before, during, and after

The operators we book

Four partners. One standard.

We book these operators directly for our travelers — here is what each one brings.

Quark Expeditions

The polar specialists.

Polar-obsessed since 1991. Purpose-built ships that offer different guest capacities by ship, with expedition teams, Zodiacs, and helicopters.

Intrepid Travel

The small-group pioneers.

Running small-group trips since 1989 — journeys across many destinations, group sizes that vary by trip, B Corp certified.

Project Expedition

The experience layer.

Tours and excursions across many destinations — day tours, shore excursions and transfers to consider for your trip.

TourRadar

The live marketplace.

Multi-day tours from a range of operators, searchable live above with advisor help to compare the options.

Operator names appear for recognition; journeys are operated by the named suppliers.

Simple, start to finish

How it works.

Three steps between you and the far corners.

Tell us the wild idea.

A place, a species, a summit. Dates if you have them — dreams if you don't.

We design the expedition.

Operators matched, permits and seasons handled, pace set to yours.

Travel with backup.

One call to us before, during, and after. If plans change, we help you review the available options.

The question: what's the wildest place you've pictured yourself?

A glacier calving at midnight? A guided gorilla trek? Start there.

Tell us your answer

Before you go

Questions, answered.

Are the highlight tours bookable right now?

The optional tour browser shows supplier-listed options. Confirm the departure, availability, inclusions and booking arrangements with us before committing.

Why book an expedition with an advisor?

Permits, seasons, fitness, connections — we handle everything around the trip, and we're one call away before, during, and after.

Which operators do you work with?

Quark Expeditions, Intrepid Travel, Project Expedition, and TourRadar's operator network.

When should I start planning?

Early — Inca Trail permits and gorilla trekking permits are capped and sell out months ahead.

Your expedition · starts here

Bring us the idea.

A place, a feeling, a half-formed idea. That's enough — we'll match the journey, and the details, to the trip you actually want.

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