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Singapore: A great starting place for the novice traveller

Justin Hunt is Reservations Manager at Tucan Travel’s London Office. He has travelled extensively through Australasia and Central America with Singapore being one of his favourite destinations.

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Travelling on a Budget in Peru

Part 1: Claire Turner, travel agent from South Australia, writes about her experience on board Tucan Travel’s Budget Expedition Andean Discoverer tour from Lima to La Paz.

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Welcoming in a New World

Over the years, many crazies have predicted that the world might end. The Medieval period was populated with apocalyptic theories based on the devil. Some thought that as the clock struck midnight, marking the beginning of the new millennium, in the year 2000, the apocalypse would happen while only last year thousands of people prepared for the world to end in the USA on the back of a crazy conspiracy theorist.

In a week’s...

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Ask the Tour Leader

Born near Darjeeling and now living in Nepal with his family, Rupan has proved to be a great tour leader for Tucan Travel for a number of years. His local knowledge coupled with his love for leading tours and trekking have made him a very popular tour guide. Here we ask him about his experience on the road.

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Zoe’s Trans Mongolian Adventure

The Trans Mongolian Railway holds a certain mystique for adventure travellers. It's one of the classic overland routes like the Trans Siberian which keeps attracting curious travellers every year. Part of my job at Tucan Travel is to organise the accommodation and the trains for the clients travelling on our Trans Mongolian Railway tour, which operates from St Petersburg to Beijing or in reverse from Beijing to St Petersburg. At times due to irregular train...

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The Adventures of Zoe and the Inca Trail Trek

I have recently returned from a slightly modified version of Tucan Travel’s Ballestas 1 tour. As I work in the London head office recruiting our tour leaders and drivers, during my trip I am required to also spend a bit of time in our Cuzco office struggling with their Spanish-speaking computers. This means that I don’t conclude my tour in La Paz, in fact I don’t get any further than Cuzco on this particular itinerary. Nonetheless, my experience was definitely something to...

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Introducing the All-New Amphibious Vehicle!

Inspired by the James Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me, this April we announce that travellers will be able to drive up out of the water and onto the beach, just like Bond did in his seriously cool Lotus.

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Egypt Adventures Bring Travellers All-New Rewards

As post-revolutionary Egypt starts to welcome back tourists, Tucan Travel has seen a renewed interest from travellers looking for an adventure holiday with a difference.

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Gorilla Trekking in the Rwandan Rainforest

Kevin Smith, sales rep travels to Africa to visit Rwandas gorilla community.

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Quality Overland Vehicles

Thinking about going overlanding? Cat Grant explains why Tucan Travel is best.

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