about the travel and learn experience

"Ours is a small company. We limit ourselves to destinations where we have lived and studied and have since visited many times. We plan each journey meticulously for groups of no more than 24 people, and we deliver each personally, making use of speakers and guides who relate well to inquisitive and questioning people.

Many of our speakers and guides have played key roles in the development of their countries.

This type of experience draws like-minded people and compatibility is a feature in our groups. You will find your life enhanced by your experiences in countries unknown to you, and by the friends you make as you travel.

A further benefit of this type of small group travel is that it is an all-inclusive experience; there are no hidden extra fees which many other tours impose for excursions and meals. You will not have the frustration of searching for booking offices, lunches, suitable transport or change for tips in a strange country. All these are part of your fee. "

Some Travellers' Responses

(Many of our travellers have joined us on several programmes.)

It will take a long time to sort and codify much less fully integrate all that you provided us last month - you created such a full experience for us.

It was a feast, a thrilling sensory experience, an intellectual challenge, a profound and moving journey. We are awed by the miracle of Africa and long to return, as you said we would (once we had dipped our feet into an African river).

Carl F Hinz, Connecticut, USA - the Hinz family did, in fact, return with us to Southern Africa recently.

Our trip to Africa has changed our minds, it has changed our hearts, and it has changed our lives. Part of us remains there in the eyes of the lion, in the beauty of the countryside, on the streets of the townships and African villages.

Jerry & Carol Ward, Colorado, USA.

Southern Africa was, quite simply, a life-changing experience.

Kirsty Burbery, New Zealand.

Our journey through New Zealand seemed less a tour and more like friends travelling together.

Genevieve Rhines, USA.

The magnetic pull of your tours is your knowledge of place, sense of history, politics and art and the personal input you make so sensitively.

Sue & Bruce Byers, Vermont, USA.

Contact us for names of people who would be happy to give you first hand responses to our programmes.

Doug & Megan Walker
The Travel and Learn Experience
P O Box 1701
Paraparaumu Beach
New Zealand

Tel: +64 4 905 9116
Fax: +64 4 905 9026

Email: douglas.walker@clear.net.nz