Intrepid Travel – Real Life Experiences…

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Capturing on camera the things that you love about travel can be a challenge, but the rewards are worth it. Not only do you get to reminisce with your happy holiday snaps when you return, but you can enter the Intrepid Photography Competition and be in the running to WIN a trip of your choice!

So what makes a winning Intrepid photo? We asked Angela Strangis, Intrepid’s Studio Manager extraordinaire, what they look for when choosing brochure photos…

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Few people know more about travelling with a camera than professional travel photographer and writer Steve Davey. His best-selling works include Unforgettable Places to See Before You Die and Unforgettable Islands to Escape To Before You Die and he also runs Intrepid photography trips, so who better to give us tips on how we can capture great travel portraits…

“If every picture tells a story, then with a little bit of thought, you can make sure that your pictures tell a story about the person in your pictures. Close up, frame-filling portraits are fantastic, but sometimes you want a portrait that shows more about someone than what their face looks like.

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Imagine how many tours are operating around the globe at any given time, then imagine just how good Sumatran Highlights must be to be selected as one of National Geographic Traveler magazine’s 50 Tours of a Lifetime! Of course Intrepid trips have received this great recognition before, with small group adventures in Turkey, Iran, Borneo, India and Japan all making the coveted list, but what makes Sumatran Highlights so special in 2011?

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Being invited to partake in a local celebration is always a wonderful privilege, but as Intrepid’s Boris Golodets and his group discovered, getting to eavesdrop on a Russian wedding is almost as much fun…

“Not far from the Sadko Hotel, a hotel where Intrepid stays in Velikiy Novgorod, there is a cafe called Berg’s House. It is a quite new place but already has a good reputation and there are not many cafes to choose from in Velikiy Novgorod, so I was happy to take one of my groups there recently.

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Intrepid Travel signed up as a 2011 Earth Hour participant and encouraged our staff, followers and fans to join us in switching off for Earth Hour on Saturday, 26 March. Those who captured their Earth Hour moments with a camera went in the running to win one of 3 Lonely Planet Travel Photography books. And the winners were Ebony Jenkin, Malcolm Vella and Tara Kennaway. You can see Tara’s photo of their ‘mystery dips’ get together, where her friends had to guess what they were eating by candlelight

So just how does Intrepid go “Beyond the Hour and Day?”

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In the late afternoon in any Turkish town you will see cafes filled with cake lovers enjoying a sweet session of pogaca (buns), syrup-drenched lokma (fritters), or 40-layer baklava. It’s believed that food and drink sustain the body and the spirit, and as Susan Everett discovered, dining with local friends in Turkey is a real travel treat…

“On the Cairo to Istanbul trip a personal highlight was the homestay in a small village outside of Urfa. The whole evening was amazing. So as not to offend our kind hosts the men in our group wore their long trousers and for most of us women our sarongs came in handy as ankle-length skirts. We sat on cushions on the floor while the children finished their homework and their parents prepared a meal that smelled more enticing by the minute.

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Lush green rainforest, white-sand beaches, an abundance of wildlife and chocolate growing on trees! Maria Hach discovered that it doesn’t get much sweeter than Costa Rica!…

“Monteverde Cloud Biological Reserve is the closest to heaven that I have ever been. The fog, climate and altitude made the experience of hiking in an area immersed in cloud extraordinarily surreal. Our guide was a native Costa Rican and trained naturalist. As I followed him around the forest, walking on barely discernable trails, I listened intently to him talk about the history and character of the reserve.

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Intrepid’s Christian Schoberl is a self-confessed sugar addict and chocoholic. He’s the one to ask about all sorts of sweet treats in Europe, so it was no surprise to find him on a pfannkuchen pilgrimage from Berlin to Venice…

“It was day-one of our trip and already I was eager to try some of the local treats. I went into a bakery and ordered a krapfen. The helpful salesgirl explained that in Berlin they are called pfannkuchen – a pancake. It looks like a donut without a hole and is stuffed with chocolate, vanilla custard or jam. Except beware around carnival time, when some cheeky clowns fill them with mustard or horseradish!

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