Sales TeamDestinations
- Africa – safaris & wildlife
- Asia – orient & spice
- Europe – Mediterranean & ski
- Middle East – desert & dead sea
- Americas – lost cities, new worlds
- Antarctica – icebergs & expeditions
Adventure destinations
Ideal Destinations
The Adventure Company offers over 250 activity holidays to many destinations spanning every continent. We have many perfect destinations for your adventure travel, whatever your needs
Family Holidays
- Family Holidays - why we're first for adventure
- Single Parent Family Holidays
- Teen Family Adventures – adventurous trips
- Young Family Adventures – easy going trips
- Family Adventures – trips for children 5-12 yrs
- Photographic Family Holidays
- Family Activity Holidays - for children 5-12 yrs
Featured private group holidays
Private Groups
Fancy one of our fantastic adventures but only want to travel with people you know? Do it your way as a private group. We make private group trips for everyone, from big families to scouts and cadets.
Holiday Types
- Activity Holidays – all action adventure
- Cultural Tours – lost cities & local life
- Wildlife Holidays – global wildlife encounters
- Trekking Holidays – peaks & summits
- Hands On Trips – conservation & your help
- Collection Trips – added comfort & style
- Astronomy Tours – eclipses & stargazing
- Expedition Cruises – polar experiences
- Photographic Holidays - photos for families
- Charity Holidays - do something amazing
- School Trips - exciting school trips abroad
- Northern Lights Tours - aurora borealis
- Private Groups - Create your own group
Feature adventure holidays
Solo Traveller
We’ve developed a range of dedicated solo holidays & solo travel packages; exclusively for people booking on their own. Around 40% of all our passengers are solo travellers.
Michelle Friedemann
Job Title:
Customer Operations Executive
About Yourself
Having moved to the UK from South Africa just over 18 months ago with my husband, I have taken over from Angela when she moved over to Group sales, so my role is on the operational side, corresponding with our ground agents to ensure our clients have a fantastic trip to remember for a lifetime.
I have been involved in Adventure tourism in South Africa for over 15 years where I was the office administrator (and occasional guide) for two specialist tour operators – one dealing with Mountain based tours (Trekking, Rock climbing, Abseiling etc) and the other the KZN Battlefields, so I have a wealth of knowledge and experience from the ground operator’s perspective with the inherent challenges. I also was actively involved with the training, assessment and administration of Adventure guides throughout South Africa, and so know the importance of having correctly qualified guides / tour leaders for the activities which are been provided.
I am passionate about adventure travel and am particularly interested in mountain based activities, with that having been the majority of my experience, and added on to that has been mountain medicine, as trekking in the high Drakensberg requires guides to be trained to a high level medically as help is more often than not at least 48 hours away.
I also love Husky’s, having had 4 of our own over the years and now support a Husky rescue unit back in SA – another reason why sledding with Sibes is on my wishlist!
What do you love most about your job?
Working with a great team of ground agents to provide a high level of customer service.
What is your most memorable travel experience?
So difficult to say as there have been a few – trekking the full Tour du Mont Blanc (twice); holding a Koala and feeding wild dolphins in Australia; swimming with wild dolphins (world’s smallest) off New Zealand south island, exploring some fantastic coastal walks in New Zealand and waking up to sunrise over the Milford sound, have been some of my more recent ones.
Where have you been?
Obviously South Africa, England, France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Australia, New Zealand & Malta
Where are you going next?
A year is just not long enough, so my adventure travel/activity list for the next 5 years includes the following: SCUBA diving in the Med and Red Sea; visiting the Pyramids and Petra; Hiking in the Dolomites and Pyrenees; Dog sledding and learning to ski and getting to see the Northern Lights!
Best travel tip:
Take your own comprehensive first aid kit where you can so you know you have the medications that work for you. Of course there are countries where this is not possible, so make sure you check – you don’t want to end up in prison at the airport!
What inspires you to travel?
Experiencing all that is creation around us – whether it is soaring the air thermals with eagles; trekking in mountain ranges that are awe inspiring and often surreal or exploring the underwater world. I like the thoughts behind the following two sayings “If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space” and “Try to do something each day that scares you!” as for most of us getting out of bed in the morning can be the thing that scares us, but adventure travel across the spectrum - from family tours through to the more extreme – gives us the opportunity to live on the edge!
