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What is OverlandingWhen we say overland travel that's exactly what we mean, travelling the world over land. Our chosen method of transport on most tours is our specially converted trucks, designed to provide maximum safety, comfort and accessibility. As you and your group will be sharing this vehicle for a considerable length of time, you'll be expected to take a turn helping with some day to day tasks. Each expedition includes a tour leader a driver/mechanic, to help with any unexpected events on the trip and help you make the most of your time on tour.Get far from the beaten trackWe now have a wide variety of tours operating in Africa, South America, Australia and New Zealand, the Middle East and Egypt, and now the Trans Siberian/Mongolia rail tour. Basically, wherever we hear there is a good time to be had we want to have an Overland Club tour operating there! ItinerariesWe class our overland tours as "adventure journeys" so all itineraries, route information and trip durations featured within our brochure and on our website are supplied in good faith. Itineraries may vary from that described and occasionally contingency routes are followed. In booking an Overland Adventure journey you should be aware of this. Overlanders must adopt a flexible attitude with regards to the itinerary and accept local conditions as they find them. That said, however, the itinerary contents are a good indication of each journey - and remember no journey is the same and no story is ever told twice. Our PriceIt is very important that you research properly the costs involved in an Overland tour. We hope that the brochure and our web site will make it easy for you to work out the real cost of your Overland adventure. The trip price that you pay directly to Overland Club or its agent is called the "land only price". This includes all land transport by the expedition vehicle, the use of all camping and associated equipment, and the services of the two-person expedition crew The Local Payment is the amount of cash you pay on Day 1 of the tour for locally incurred costs such as meals prepared by the group, campsite fees and associated group costs. We feel that having a local payment system is the better system for group travel, this way you have better value for money. Optional Add-OnsIn addition to the trip price, you will need to budget for your flights, insurance, visas, vaccinations; personal spending money, and the optional highlights that you wish to do. These optional add-ons are the things that you can do on a tour that are not included in the tour price. Our theory is that you can decide what you want to see and do when you get out there, and you would rather pay the local price anyway. Add-Ons are not included in the "land only price" and do not form part of the contract. The prices for optional "add-ons" such as white water rafting, gorilla permits, horse riding, can be found on the tour info pages. If you would like to join our mailing list and receive our newsletter, please visit the subscription page. Modular Tours in Africa, South America & Middle EastThe majority of Overland Clubs tours are modular; by this we mean that the longer tour is made up of sections or modules of several shorter tours. Designing our tours and departure dates in such a way allows Overland Club to offer the most competitively priced tours within the market. Overland Club can ensure its departure dates go-ahead and it can also ensure that the group of fellow travellers is varied throughout with people of different nationalities and ages. To give an example; our 58 day Great African Trail overland tour from Nairobi to Cape Town in Africa; is made up of 3 tours, the first 14 days being the Gorilla Safari, the next 23 days thereafter being the Wildlife Express from Nairobi to Victoria Falls and the final 21 days is as the Desert Delta Dunes tour to Cape Town. On this route new members will join at various stages and those on short vacations will terminate en route. This principle is widely acknowledged within the travel industry and with over 10 years experience in overlanding we believe this to be the preferred option of our customers, it helps keep the tour fresh and passes onto the customer a budget priced overland product. Remember we aim to deliver a value for money tour regardless of whether the tour has 6 participants or is 6 months in duration. We hope you agree. |
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