Our Stories

Travel is essentially about storytelling, about sharing what we discover of our global home.  This blog is about just that — the unusual, the unique, the gems  — from Tombée du Ciel, House Fallen from the Sky, to the ghost trees of India, to the Bolivian cemetery where trains are buried. There are countless stories, large and very small, that we come across as we travel the globe. It would be a shame to pass them by without notice.

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OUR STORIES

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Working our way back

Date: August 20, 2020 | By: Brenda Lee | Travel Blog

Each month brings new answers and new questions. For many of us, the shift is beginning, albeit slowly, from a...

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Walk before we run

Date: August 13, 2020 | By: Deborah Kilcollins | Travel Blog

Greetings from Virtuoso Travel Week! I am normally an early riser, up at around 4:30 every morning. The first thing...

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Did you forget your TPS reports

Date: July 30, 2020 | By: Deborah Kilcollins | Travel Blog

Remember sitting in math class in high school and college and wondering when you would ever use this stuff? Well,...

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Keeping our perspective

Date: July 23, 2020 | By: Deborah Kilcollins | Travel Blog

Dear Agency Partner, As you all know Kenya is opening August 1, Tanzania and Egypt have opened up, with more...

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Live with Five Jr in Cartagena

Date: July 16, 2020 | By: Deborah Kilcollins | Travel Blog

You are too young to know what to do. I know you want to help, but you are still too...

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Big Five certified by WTTC

Date: July 9, 2020 | By: Deborah Kilcollins | Travel Blog

Big Five Tours & Expeditions has long been recognized for premier sustainable travel to more than 45 destinations in Africa...

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45 Parallel

Date: July 1, 2020 | By: Brenda Lee | Travel Blog

Wars have been fought over them, and treaties made and broken deciding them. Throughout history, the world’s borders have been...

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Live with Five Jr

Date: June 25, 2020 | By: Brenda Lee | Travel Blog

Dear Agency Partners, When we launched Precious Journeys®, our goal was to present family focused travel opportunities instead of merely...

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Play 60

Date: June 18, 2020 | By: Brenda Lee | Travel Blog

“You want me to wake up at what time,” said Aziz, our Tanzania Managing Director, at 2:00 am in his...

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Meet a Master Part 1

Date: June 11, 2020 | By: Deborah Kilcollins | Travel Blog

Dear Agency Partners, Over the last months, we have tried to give voice to the voiceless in Peru and Colombia....

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