Getting your passport stolen, having your bank freeze your account, or getting injured or sick just before or during your trip can make your vacation quickly go from a relaxing experience to a stressful one. We collaborated with our sister company, Taste Vacations, to come up with a list of travel tips that can help Continue Reading →
Category: Private Trips
Eight Domestic Vacations For Pandemic Times
Even now during a worldwide pandemic, it is possible to safely go on a vacation and still have a great time. Traveling to less-impacted areas with the bulk of your time spent outdoors can limit your risk. And while we may not be able to travel internationally there are plenty of destinations right here in Continue Reading →
GET YOUR GROUP TO COMMIT TO VACATION PLANS…AKA HERDING CATS
Try getting multiple friends or family together for dinner or an afternoon hike. It’s hard! What about a multi-day vacation? It’s hard enough just to gather the group, but then to be the one responsible for organizing the hotels, the transportation, the meals, the activities, the guides, etc….well, that can REALLY get overwhelming! We often Continue Reading →
How To Choose The Right Tour Operator for your Inca Trail Trek
There are many different levels of Inca Trail trips you can take and in general, “you get what you pay for.” But what’s right for you? You can go from bare bones trips where corners can be cut (with substandard equipment, poor food, low wages for staff, no training, etc.) to luxury trips where many Continue Reading →
South Africa: A Country of Diverse Experiences
Laurie Barnard, one of our wonderful Zephyr guides, recently led her first trip to South Africa earlier this year for a private group. The trip left quite an impact on her. We asked her to share her thoughts below. South Africa has always been a destination I longed to explore. So it was with great Continue Reading →
Paying It Forward: Traveling to Support Study Abroad
Travel is essential to being a well-rounded and conscious citizen of our world. Even if you just drive a few hours away from your home, there are a limitless number benefits to getting out of your comfort zone and exploring somewhere new. Over the past few years, Zephyr has been working with the University of Wisconsin-Stout Continue Reading →
Hands-on Learning: Private Baja Kayaking Adventure
As a part of our private tour offerings, we get to organize unforgettable trips for all kinds of groups and organizations. Recently, we had the pleasure of offering a private Baja Kayaking Adventure for the Dawson School, a private school in Colorado. Melissa Barker, the Director of Experiential Education for Dawson, shared her students’ experience: Continue Reading →
Travel On Your Terms: Go Private!
In addition to our scheduled group trips, Zephyr also offers a myriad of private trips, where you can choose your own destination and activity, and a trip date that works for you. For example, these are some of the private trips we have helped people plan in the past year: A food and wine trip Continue Reading →
When is the Best Time to Hike the Inca Trail?
This is one of the first questions potential travelers to Peru ask who want to hike the Inca Trail. Although there are a number of considerations as to when one should hike from the Sacred Valley to Machu Picchu, two are most important: weather and the availability of trail passes. Weather is never a sure Continue Reading →
Creating a Private Vacation
We at Zephyr Adventures generally run tours for groups of people who don’t know each other before they arrive. Sure, many of our travelers are repeaters and will know others on their next tour. But many people arrive on a tour not knowing anyone at all. We love that. Combining groups of fun, interesting people Continue Reading →