Wild Frontiers launches ‘Adventures With Purpose’ collection

Wild Frontiers has announced a new set of holiday packages dubbed ‘Adventures with Purpose’, to encourage travellers to make a change in the destinations they visit.

This collection brings together many of the brand's favourite community-led experiences to showcase the people and projects that are taking positive strides to support and develop local livelihoods and conservation efforts through tourism. 

These itineraries aim to take guests off the beaten track, opening up a world of wildlife protection and educational initiatives, community-run homestays and pioneering eco-lodges. From visiting women's empowerment projects and meeting local tradesmen, to hiking spectacular remote landscapes and seeing local conservation at work, the Adventures with Purpose will guide guests towards the very best of responsible tourism efforts around the world.

Here, we've listed some of the most exciting and rewarding new itineraries:

Cambodia

Duration: 8 Days  

Delve into the wonders of the ancient capital of the Khmer Empire, discovering hidden jungle temples of Angkor, floating villages and an array of local initiatives that reflect Cambodia's strong commitment to responsible tourism and community support. Centrally based in Siem Reap, at a hotel that itself can boast some ground-breaking initiatives, guests will enjoy a range of quite unique experiences that will afford an opportunity to support some truly exceptional projects.

These include elephant rehabilitation projects and scholarship programmes, landmine clearance and local village support schemes. This trip gives travellers the opportunity to learn at first-hand about educational and environmental developments, kayak amongst the floating villages of Tonle Sap and eat with the locals, as you enjoy Cambodian hospitality and delicious street food.  

Namibia

Duration: 15 Days 

Covering some 200 million acres of abundant floodplains, woodland savannah, dramatic desert landscapes and haunting coastal scenery, Namibia is a conservation treasure-house and an environmental success story. The first African country to incorporate the protection of the environment into its constitution, its far-reaching initiatives are seeing incredible results. The creation of communal conservancies, ground-breaking research projects and anti-poaching directives have resulted in increases to lion, rhino, cheetah and zebra populations across the world's richest dry land.

This extraordinary self-drive adventure takes guests deep into the heart of one of Africa's most visually striking and abundant landscapes, affording an opportunity to not only witness first-hand these remarkable conservation projects, but to actually play your part in ensuring their ongoing success. Staying at some of the country's most successful and remote private concessions, you'll have opportunities to enjoy some truly unforgettable wildlife encounters, as you go in search of black and white rhino, rare desert elephants and bottlenose dolphins. 

Mongolia

Duration: 14 Days 

The remote wilds of Mongolia are an outdoor-lover’s paradise. Blessed with breathtaking vistas of vast open steppes, rocky mountains, towering sand dunes and forested valleys, the country is perfect for remote exploration, by vehicle, foot, kayak and horse, where you can really escape the distractions of modern life and contribute to conservation and community-based tourism efforts throughout the region. 

After a chance to take in the culture and history of Ulaanbaatar, the country’s lively capital, head off into the forested mountains of the Terelj National Park, where you can kayak down the Tuul River before moving on to the isolated wild steppe of Gun Guluut. There will be a chance to look for wild mountain sheep and the rare horses of Hustai National Park before your journey then carries guests deep into the rolling hills of Central Mongolia.

Here travellers will begin a four-day hike through the alpine landscapes of the Khangai Hills, home to the famed Eight Lakes of Naimun Nuur. Camping beside the lakes each evening, guests pass their days trekking through some truly inspiring scenery concluding the trek with a visit to the beautiful Erdene Zuu Monastery of Kharkorin en route to the rich wilds of the Khogno Khan National Park.

Nicaragua

Duration: 15 Days 

Sandwiched between the Caribbean and the Pacific Ocean, it seems appropriate that Nicaragua’s name translates as “united with the water”. It also seems an apt starting point for an adventure that combines the best of the country’s conservation and community initiatives in one incredible journey. Taking guests into the cultural and community heartlands of Central America’s largest country, this itinerary allows guests to travel well off the beaten track, staying in a series of sustainable lodges and hotels, as well as enjoying the hospitality of local homestays and local families.

Very much focused on the environment and the community, travellers will experience a side of Nicaragua that few visitors ever see. Learning first-hand about wildlife conservation, educational initiatives and projects that have been specifically set up to help local communities to better support themselves. There will be opportunity to enjoy some truly unique interaction with local people and enjoy the natural beauty of some of the country’s most remote and breathtaking national reserves.

Few journeys combine such a wealth of social, environmental and cultural highlights whilst also affording you an opportunity to make a real positive difference during your trip.