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Join one of our 304 small group country tours for the perfect overview of your favourite destination. Explore the Kenyan savannah or the mysterious land of Ottoman Turkey, see Ancient Egyptian pyramids or visit Thailand’s northern hilltribes. If you want to get to grips with Vietnam’s imperial past, bargain for trinkets in Turkey, or hike Peru’s Inca Trail, these trips will give you the best your destination has to offer. Travelling with a small group of like-minded individuals, you’ll experience cultural highlights and local insights, and leave with a real sense of place.
These full and frank independent Small group country tours holidays reviews are from travellers who have booked directly through responsibletravel.com. They are not edited by us or any of the companies we work with. Find the real story, from real travellers below.
The whole trip was unforgettable - especially loved the rural parts we visited and stayed in and the various transport and accommodation - much fun and very unique! Every day waking up was like Christmas morning, so exciting.
(more)The temples were amazing. I had an amazing time - the guides were great, really looked after me. I loved every minute...
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Most memorable was staying in a remote raft house in the middle of a lake surrounded by rainforest and gibbons!
(more)The most memorable parts of our trip must be the crazy cyclo tour through the streets of Saigon and eating insects in a bar overlooking Phnom Penh! (more)Many memorable and exciting experiences: The awesome caves, the jungle trekking in Sangklaburi, canoeing down the river Kwai for 3 hours. (more)
There were several memorable parts. Seeing Petra, climbing up to the Crusader's castle with just my son and feeling as if we owned the world: seeing the Milky way for the first time as we lay on a sand dune in the desert blackness while at Wadi Rum. (more)
Near Mari we had a tyre blow out on the bus and had to stop to get it fixed. Within minutes the whole village had turned out to see what was going on and wanted photos taking and to talk to us. We were only 10 miles from the Iraq boarder but the people could not have been any more friendly. In some ways it was the high spot of the holiday. (more)
Our night in a Bedouin tent was unforgettable: the guides singing by the fire, our meal (couscous of course!) sitting on the floor around the communal table and the children playing in what was to them the biggest beach in the world. (more)
The lovely boat trip and time spent in the Mekong Delta were the most memorable parts of the holiday. (more)
What I took away with me was the scale and depth of the warmth of the people towards us Westerners and a far better knowledge of the nature of Iranian culture. (more)
As each day passed it became my favourite day so far! The Inca Trail of course and the island home stay have to be my top two. The holiday was made all the more memorable because of the great group we were travelling with and of course our guide Dante.
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Most memorable werer the Jungle walks, sleeping in a temple on a sacred mountain and travelling by boat past floating villages... (more)An excellent holiday, an excellent experience, one which I very much hope to do again.
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Most memorable? Each new place visited on the itinerary. The variety was brilliant... Recycling was handled extremely well and local people were used in the one place where it was possible and mattered, i.e. Monument Valley and the Navajo Indians. (more)
Hard to judge as it was all so brilliant, but probably the felucca trip and diving in Dahab were the most memorable. The sights are amazing and the people friendly, who could ask for more on a fab holiday! (more)Most memorable were sitting in a restaurant in Hoi An overlooking the river at night; Trying local dishes at each place we visited. (more)
The whole trip was memorable, but I particularly enjoyed the 4 days we spent in Luang Prabang. At a relaxed pace we visited ancient buddhist temples, watched the early morning ritual of alms giving, conversed with the monks, met the locals at the markets... (more)We invite every traveller who books a holiday via us to send in a review. Because we don't run the holidays they're completely independent and unedited... remember to read between the lines though, as two people on the same holiday can have different views!
For solo travellers or family adventurers, small group holidays are an excellent way to see any country. We sent Jerrine, one of our helpdesk experts, on a group adventure in India to see first hand what a group holiday is all about. "Having always travelled independently on my globe trekking adventures I was curious to see how a small group adventure would compare. India has always been high on my must-do places to visit so I was delighted to take up the challenge. Here´s a little bit about my adventures and what a small group holiday is really like...
Always happy when the flight is over, but usually apprehensive about tackling the language barriers and over-zealous taxi drivers I was more than happy to be greeted with a smile by an Exodus representative. I was soon whisked off to the hotel where I met what was to be my new family for the next 8 days. . Read more about Jerrine's adventure on a small group country tours in this India small group country tours article.
