Explorers World Travel
Designing African Safaris, Asian Adventures & World Tours since 1979
Destinations
Every destination we offer has been meticulously researched by our team of explorers. We only design trips to the places we dream about every day.
Asia
Your Adventure Begins
EWT began in 1979 as an operator of worldwide natural history tours for zoos, museums, alumni associations and other not-for-profits. Today EWT specializes in photographic African safaris, and experiential private journeys to Asia. You can travel with a scheduled group tour, or as your own private group or family tour. Today our founder Jim Heck continues to lead a handful of trips per year, utilizing his depth of knowledge of Africa & fluent Swahili to offer an experience like no other. The EWT headquarters are in Galena, Illinois, near the Mississippi River.
What Makes Us Special
Explorer-Led Journeys
Join company founders on one of our annual small group journeys.
Owner Designed Trips
We only operate a handful of trips per year, so you will work with the company owners from start to finish.
Benefit Of Experience
We've been designing bespoke worldwide adventures since 1979, so you're in the best possible hands.
“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”
Aldous Huxley