Self-guided adventures
Not available in 2010.
Winter or summer, self-guided adventures provide a great balance between a guided group tour and planning a trip on your own. We'll organize all of the reservations and logistics, recommend favorite hikes and sights, and arrange a trip that meets your specifications. There's no guide and no group, so you have the freedom to go at your own pace and enjoy at your leisure. You can count on knowledgeable advice and superb vacation planning.
We offer the following self-guided adventures in hiking, trekking, and bicycle tours:
Hiking
Everything Chamonix - Hiking in the French Alps.
Everything Zermatt - Hiking in the Swiss Alps.
Everything Leukerbad - Hiking and thermal baths in Switzerland
Trekking
Tour of the Aiguilles Rouges - Trek in the French Alps.
Tour of Mont Blanc - Trek in the French, Italian, and Swiss Alps.
Tour of Mont Blanc Express - Trek in the French, Italian, and Swiss Alps.
Tour of the Great St Bernard - Trek in the Swiss and Italian Alps.
Tour of the Muverans - Trek in the Swiss Alps.
Bicycle tours
Rhone Route - Cycle in Switzerland with freedom without luggage.
Aar Route - Cycle in Switzerland with freedom without luggage.
Rhin Route - Cycle in Switzerland with freedom without luggage.
There are many reasons to take a self-guided tour. Perhaps you don't want to be part of a group, maybe you have your own group, or just prefer to go at your own pace. Many people have restrictive travel dates that don't match up with our guided tours. Self-guided tours are more flexible (in the planning stages) and affordable. The choice is yours!
We offer a variety of well-tested self-guided packages, self-guided versions of many of our guided tours. We can also customize any of these tours to lengthen or shorten them, add inn-to-inn stretches or extended village stays. We only arrange self-guided tours in the areas we know and love best.
Our self-guided tours include the booking of hotels/mountain huts with breakfast and dinner, hiking maps with highlighted routes, carefully detailed route descriptions (including longer, shorter, and rainy day options), and lots of useful information that will help your trip run smoothly. We will be happy to arrange your transportation to and from the start of the tour.
Not included are lunches, drinks with your meals, transportation, and extras.
We use the best available topographic maps. View a sample hiking map.
View a sample route description (pdf, 124kb).
Please contact us for futher details about our self-guided tours.