A few months back we wrote a post about The Best Travel Gear for Your Next Trip by asking the Zephyr team what items they couldn’t live without while guiding our tours. Since then we’ve had a few other conversations both with our team and with our awesome network of fellow adventurers on social media. Continue Reading →
Category: Hiking & Trekking
Hadrian's Wall – A Traveler's Perspective
Hadrian’s Wall is one of the most popular attractions in Northern England. It stretches for a remarkable 73 miles through rolling lush countryside (with many a lounging sheep!), past imposing abandoned forts, by impressive castles and through the vibrant cities of Newcastle and Carlisle. Rick Otis, a long-time Zephyr traveler, took this quick 360-degree video Continue Reading →
4 Misconceptions About Hiking the Inca Trail Revisited
If you’re a Zephyr alumni, you know that we thrive on your input! We survey our travelers after every trip in order to continuously improve our tours year after year. We also conduct other surveys to help us understand your wants, needs, and goals. In the past, we conducted a survey asking potential travelers for Continue Reading →
Breaking Out Of Your Comfort Zone
Everyone has their boundaries or personal limits of just how far we’ll push ourselves both mentally and physically. From time to time, breaking out of your comfort zone is necessary to ensure that you continue to grow and learn as a person, and so life doesn’t get stagnant and stale. This is why we love Continue Reading →
Top 5 Questions for Traveling to Bhutan
Bhutan is one of the most fascinating and welcoming countries in the world, and is one of the few places left that has, for the most part, yet to be influenced by Western culture. It’s a perfect destination for adventure travelers with its remote hiking trails and enchanting culture. Zephyr offers two options on our ten-day Bhutan Continue Reading →
Travel Inspiration – Fueling Your Wanderlust
WANDERLUST |ˈWÄNDƏRˌLƏST| (N.) A STRONG, INNATE DESIRE TO WANDER OR TRAVEL Who doesn’t love to daydream about where you’d like to travel to next? To think about the people you will meet, the places you will see, and the food you will eat. To get excited about immersing yourself in another culture and learning new Continue Reading →
The Best Travel Gear for Your Next Trip
Since we’ve been in the adventure travel business for almost two decades, we’re asked quite frequently about what’s the best travel gear to bring on one of our adventures. We’ve pulled together a few recommendations below- though certainly not an exhaustive list, it’s a great place to start. (Please note: Zephyr Adventures has not been compensated Continue Reading →
Inca Trail Trek – Amazing Journey, Amazing Views
Hiking the Inca Trail is on many people’s bucket lists – and for good reason! The scenery, culture, and altitude make the journey on the trail a memorable experience. This past April, Jack Witt, our friend and fitness, wellness, and life coach, led a group of adventurers across the Classic Inca Trail. “This really was the adventure Continue Reading →
The Power of Nature
“What was the highlight of your trip?” After each Zephyr tour we run, we ask participants to complete an online evaluation and rate every aspect of their adventure from food and lodging to guides, routes, and activities. But the highlight question is the very first one we ask and, I’ll admit, my absolute favorite to Continue Reading →
Oregon Wine Adventure – A Closeup Look at the Eola-Amity Hills AVA
Wine often expresses a sense of place. Place is attributed to by a number of different factors: layers of mineral deposits and sediments left after millions of years of geologic activity that contribute to different flavor profiles; climatic factors like temperature patterns & annual precipitation that have an effect on vine growth and, therefore, trellising practices and Continue Reading →