THIS IS THE TRAVEL OF EXCELLENCE
WHO LIVES IT DISCOVERS THAT THE OTHERS ARE ONLY COPIES
UNUSUAL EXPERIMENTS
To live in harmony with the best friend of the man, to evolve in a spectacular decoration and to be filled with wonder in front of the magic at the aurorae boreales, and why not, to live an adventure in wild nature in the largest forest of the world through a tour in the middle same of the green lung. It is what one proposes to you through these some suggestions except standards.
Tours exclusively booked to the confirmed travellers who are not afraid to live ROUGH experiments out of beaten paths. It is about travel in the places most wild and inaccessible to the world. Places where the natural word takes all its direction.
The Amazon forest is the largest forest of the world; its 6 million square kilometers extends on 9 different countries: Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Suriname, the French Guiana and Guyana. This extent of greenery offers to its visitors the adventure with large “with”. You will embark on a boat along the Amazon river to reach your accommodation in the middle of the jungle. Already, you will realize of the vastness of the places and the power of the river. Nature reigns as a Master on these grounds of legend. More than 8 million plant species and animal made their habitat of it. But Amazonia still largely unexplored still conceals many surprises. One discovers there more than 8 new species each year. You will join then bank and will undertake a walk through the jungle to reach your housing. The size of the trees centenaries will make you understand that you are only one guest here. In the space of a few moments, you will have already met about ten monkeys and a multiplicity of insects… a setting in mouth of your adventure. After a first night spent in a hammock just protected by a roof and a mosquito net, you will awake thanks to the noises of the animals. But once the opened eyes, you will forget all your doubts and your fears on the fact of being come to Amazonia. Opposite you draws up an intact and majestic nature. You will leave to the meeting an indigenous tribe. You will be accommodated by the children of the “village”. The latter will introduce the Shaman and the other inhabitants to you. You will discover their lifestyle, their techniques agricultural and how these individuals manage to live in these hostile grounds where nature dominates. After one day spent to their sides, a total handing-over in question of the town life will be binding on you. The following days will be as rich as the first. Your nights will be as filled as your days. You will leave in night safari in search of king the places: the jaguar; true emblem of Amazonia. Arrived at the rice plantation of the forest, on banks of the Amazon you will be able to admire a starry sky as you never saw some. A sky saved by the pollution and the light of the man. The small lights on the river will not be the reflection of these stars but the eyes of the hundreds of caimans leaving to drive out.
After having seen a last flight of wild macaws blue it will be time to leave and join the civilisation. A thing is sure, your vision of the life will have changed after this experiment into indigenous ground. The words of the chief of the tribe on the love which it carries to its forest will remain engraved forever in your spirit…
The husky is almost a religion in this area of Canada, so much so that it is here that famous “Yukon Quest” came out. Yukon Quest is for a long time the race of most spectacular huskies in the world! On nearly 1600 kilometers through Canada and Alaska, of many “mushers” launch out in this adventure out of commun run! The borrowed route is the same one as that of the gold diggers at the end of the XIX ème century. OR' STANDARDS proposes to you to live this single experiment and to leave on a tour of Yukon while following the traces these famous “mushers”. Only in the vastness of the Canadian far North, this travel is ideal to combine efforts, passion and emotions… Usually, Yukon Quest is carried out in about ten days, where the man has only very little time to agree and even less to admire the nature which surrounds it. Extremely fortunately we worked out for you a travel which will enable you to benefit from the nature of Yukon. However, this route is booked to informed travellers who are not afraid to live single moments under extreme conditions. A travel to Yukon it is opportunity of discovering incredible landscapes, one of the last places on Earth where nature is intact and offers to you what there is of more beautiful….Calm. After having landed with the airport of WhiteHorse, you will be submerged by the Canadian cold but immediately heated by the reception of the inhabitants and the sight that you will have had since the port-hole of the plane. Your days will proceed in the following way: when you awake, the temperature will be of -20° and you will benefit from the splendid sunrise of Yukon by having your breakfast. The barkings of the dogs will make you understand that it is high time to deal with them. In order to familiarize you with them, it will be of your responsibility to prepare their food. It will be then time to leave on a tour of the vastness the Canadian far North.
To go, discover new valleys, to pass the collars, to turn around the mountains with the pilgrims, to cant around a fire, to share the one day stage or the bivouac of one evening with pastors in transhumance, to tie friendships in the villages, to get excited existences met, such are the mobile which carries our steps, and weave an increasingly dense link on this geography Tibetan. The muleteers and carriers communicate with us in the night days before and the rises towards the tops. The race of stars above our heads marks the rhythm of times which the step of our horses answers. This year ORNORMES proposes to you to join an exploration from the village of Nizhu to Yunnan to the majestic crown of Yading in Sichuan. Ten days of caravan with more than ten horses, two “Beautiful tents” arranged in exploration mode.
The seventh continent is the largest desert of the world, it is larger than all the joined together countries of Europe. This desert of ice is the coldest place and driest of the sphere. Only the penguins, the whales and the seals cohabit. This extent of ice offers to the travellers an adventure out of commun run in one of the places most inaccessible and inhospitable with the world. The time of a stay, forget your a priori on the arctic cold and leave to the conquest these grounds still far from known the man.
However, this travel is exclusively booked to the confirmed travellers not being afraid of the extreme climatic conditions. It is a travel that very little of people were likely to achieve but which books sometimes some surprises due to the climate.
Your tour will be able to begin various ways. It is possible to reach the white desert from South Africa with a plane. However, most travellers leave since the Terre de Feu located at the south Argentina. From there, is it still possible to take a plane, but what would be a travel in the Antarctic without living the experiment of the crossing of the Channel of Drake? This mythical channel of 1000 kilometers is a test with him only. It is to better have the well hung stomach, because during about thirty hours that its crossing lasts, the ship will have to face the winds as well as vaguenesses sometimes being able to reach the 10 meters in height. You will well quickly understand why the Antarctic is an inaccessible ground, it is a travel which is deserved largely.
You will be almost about to give up and want to return on your premise when finally is profiled with far the silhouette from the ice-barrier. Pure and bright. You will be plunged in an absolute silence that only the noise of the penguins and fall of the icebergs will come to disturb. This icy nothing then seems to you a promised land, a so much expected reward. You will not have any more that only one hastens, to go down from this boat and to leave to the conquest its inhospitable grounds.
You will suddenly hear agitation on the prow of the boat, you will approach to see what occurs and you will attend an imposing and single show then. An orc and its small evolving in dark water of the Ocean, with only a few meters of you.
In order to discover the Antarctic, you will embark on a zodiac which will enable you to reach the ice-barrier. The impression to be tiny will then be made feel during your navigation between the icebergs. Then, you will pose finally the feet on the ice and you will be submerged by the decoration which surrounds you. Worked by the sun, the wind and water, the ice takes forms sometimes quite mysterious. The icebergs and the high mountains of ice borrow stunning colors and colours! The bite of the cold will not be whereas a bad memory the excitation to discover the places so much will be important. The first activity will consist of an excursion in racket in order to go to visit the few scientific bases of the continent. It is not rare that during these escapades, you find yourselves encircled by a colony of emperor penquins. But it is in the twilight that most beautiful of the shows will be offered to you. It is at this time there that the white of the ice-barrier and the icebergs reflects the colors changeantes sky offering to the travellers a splendid range.
By taking again the zodiac to turn over to the boat you will have surely the chance of cross the road of a bench of whales. The first day on the seventh continent is undoubtedly more testing but also most magic, it enables you to foresee all the discoveries which book to you the stay. In the Antarctic, each day resembles itself and yet the activities do not miss.
The shortly after your excursion in racket, you will leave to discover the ocean in the canoe. Perched on your small boat, you will follow the group through the maze of icebergs. And whereas you pass under an arch of ice you will realize that the others moved away. During a few seconds, you will be alone in the world at the point more in the south of the sphere. This feeling of privilege will gray you and you will join the group to ski on the ice-barrier in order to discover the rest of polar fauna.
Each cave, each canyon forged in the ice will fill with wonder you; and yet if there is an activity in the Antarctic which one should not miss it is well the scuba diving. Far from the corals and coloured fishes of the Caribbean, the diving under ice will enable you to discover another facet of the Antarctic. If you had the feeling to be tiny compared to the icebergs, wait to discover their immersed face, much larger than that visible at surface. Only, vis-a-vis the abyssal blue of the Ocean, the absolute calm will be broken by the song of the whales and the underwater waltz of the seals. While going back to surface accompanied by a bench of penguins, you will realize that the Antarctic is a destination where all is only privilege.
After a few days of marvellous discoveries, it will be time to take again the course of Ushuaia. You will cross the Channel of Drake by having to the spirit all the imperishable memories created on the ground of the white desert…
Live an imposing experiment at the wheel of Baja 100 Race Bus, vehicles of two-seater competition, allowing to explore inaccessible territories sometimes even in 4x4. Through the desert of Atacama and its salar, its dunes, its altiplano and the Andes cordillera, you will be able to live single moments and strong emotions in adrenalin! It is not of a race, but of a challenge and an adventure. Our guide Jorge Murano, is a recognized pilot, having run 11 times at Rally Dakar, knowing to frame any type of driver.
Imagine there, in the middle of nothing, in the middle of savanna, in King Lion and his guests. Alarm clock at 6:00 to prepare with the morning safari, light breakfast and road with your guide To arrange. Your guide will have the hands on the wheel and the glance on the track in search of prints, of the traces the cat-like ones. He will tell you almost the night program of the animal only to his steps! The grandiose landscape of savanna will make drunk you of emotions, It is necessary to seek the animal, to look at everywhere, but in fact satisfy you to appreciate the landscapes which ravel, because of being to arrange it which will locate the animal. Initially a lion, one approaches, one prepares the camera, one trembles of emotion, and then here, you are vis-a-vis him. And if you look at well it is not alone! Not, you do not dream, they are well 4 lionesses and 10 small lion cubs which are around you. Calm, no risk. To arrange cut the contact, one listens to silence and one lives the present moment. I would tell you well the continuation, but even 1,000 pages would not be enough there! Nothing is worth your own experience.
Side sleep for the nomads: after the reception by your hosts, one installs you in your tent. Not, not do not seek, there is no telephone and your mobile does not function in full savanna. Except that, it there with all possible and conceivable comfort. A bed very comfortable fondant and, a bathroom with shower and warm water, a space of relaxation and a terrace with hammock. A council however: think of booking it before the monkeys settle there!
Side sleep for Robinsons: rocked by silence savanna and the whirr the hippopotamuses, you will spend a soft night. Your lodge very comfortable, that it is perched at the top of a tree or under a tent, contributes so that the safari continues until the end of the night. After a good night of sleep, go around the breakfast before going to the meeting of the animals. It is the moment when the guests tell the noises and the strange sounds of the night.
For the activities: side is in hiding, it is on board a vehicle 4x4 that you will go to the meeting of the animals, for one moment of shivers, it is on foot that you will do one strolls in the bush, for the pleasure one will propose a safari on the back of elephant to you, for the cowboys one will suggest an equestrian safari and for a fresh air, it is in the montgolfier that you will fly over savanna. Side river, it is in mokoro that you will discover the watery flora and in boat which you will observe crocodiles, hippopotamuses and much of other animals which will come to be refreshed at the edge of the river.
Few places on ground knew to preserve intact their beauty and their natural charm through the centuries. Old Burma, known today under the name of Myanmar, made in this respect figure of exception. Burma offers all the traditional beauties of Asia in only one attractive country. Virgin forests, mountains with the covered with snow summits, beaches sublimes, scented temples combined with a rich person and glorious old heritage of more than two thousand years. The spectacular monuments and the ancient cities attest of a vibrating culture always present among the 135 ethnic groups which compose the country. Where that you combine in Myanmar, that it is in river cruising on the Irrawaddy river or by flying over the ancient city of Bagan in the montgolfier, or to seek the tiger with the improbable appearance on the back of elephant, you will always have this feeling of adventure.
Road To Mandalay proposes to you to leave on a tour of incomparable treasures this country fascinating and still secret. To leave in tour along Irrawaddy is a single and unforgettable experiment. This majestic river which crosses the country of north to south reveals on its banks of the treasures hidden a long time with the eyes moreover world.
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