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	Audley Travel Group
6 Willows Gate, Stratton Audley, Oxon OX27 9AU			MAP
tel: (01869) 276 200

Specialists in flexible tailor-made travel and small group tours across South East Asia, China and the Indian Subcontinent plus South America. Working towards a CERT award.
Offers a lot of trips to wildlife areas. Danum Valley conservation area in Borneo for example is a favoured area to visit and in India can arrange trips into Project Tiger parks.
If people want five-star accommodation will arrange it but can also arrange homestays, and b&b, apparently very popular in Uzbekistan. Also three and four-star hotels which tend to be locally owned.
Transport is generally with a local guide. Partners in each country are either locally owned or jointly locally owned, and look for local guides, for example in Tibet always try to get Tibetan rather than Chinese.

Recommendations

Because do completely tailormade itineraries have sent people with families ‘all over the place'. staff talk to families about what they want and can arrange visits to local schools or even orphanages, where childen can meet children of their own age.
Reports more and more families with parents who have travelled extensively take longish trips once the children are 8-10 years. Recently sent a family of four for two months travelling through National Parks in Malaysia, India, Tibet, China and ending in Hong Kong and children came back and wrote up an extensive diary.

Sample Price

Sri Lanka is one of the cheaper destinations and for a family of four for a couple of weeks would be around £1,200 per person for adults, children say £800. China is now notably more expensive, Borneo a two-week trip around £1,500 for adults, £1,000 for the children. Included in the price are a private guide and transport, entry costs to parks, but only b&b accommodation because encourage people to go out to experience the local eating places.