New Zealand, Peru, Vanuatu, Australia adventure tours, hiking and cultural vacations

Aspiring Adventures is a dynamic adventure tour company offering small group holidays to New Zealand, Peru, Australia, and now Vanuatu. After 16 years combined experience guiding trips all over the world, these are the places we know best and love most.  We hike, bike, kayak, swim, dive, eat, drink, dance, and play our way through the stunning scenery and unique cultures of each of these destinations.

Do you want to experience New Zealand, Peru, Vanuatu or Australia? We delve deep, engaging with the environment, the culture, local characters, and daily life, not just the cultural clichés and the postcard moments. If this sounds like you, then read on - our adventure vacations are for you!

We only run a few tours each year, carefully timed so you experience the highlights of the local calendar – such as initiation rites in Vanuatu, street parties in Peru, and food and wine festivals in New Zealand and Australia. Keeping it small means we and our other guides are fresh and keen, trips stay real, and our personal service one of a kind. Excited yet? We are – we love this stuff!

Our Adventure Tours

• Australia

  Highlights: Hike around Uluru (Ayer's Rock), dive or snorkel with clownfish on the Great Barrier Reef, explore Sydney and Melbourne, hike to Cradle Mountain in Tasmania, climb Mount Kosciuszko (the highest mountain in Australia, more of a hike really), check out Australia's amazing wildlife... and much more!

  • Price: From $1,775
  • Season: September to October

• New Zealand

  Highlights: Hiking the Milford Track, visit wine regions, cycle the Otago Central Rail Trail, kayak New Zealand's crystal clear waters, swim with dolphins in Kaikoura, go nightspotting for the elusive Kiwi, give the ancient sport of curling a push, hike to glaciers and through rainforests... read on!

  • Price: From $3,475
  • Season: November to April

• Peru

  Highlights: Hike the Inca Trail, explore Machu Picchu, experience riotous multiday street festivals, discover a world-class cuisine, delve into historical Cusco, visit famous and little-known Inca and pre-Inca sites, stay with locals living an ancient lifestyle, bike from glacier to rainforest in one day...and much more!

  • Season: May to November

• Vanuatu

  Highlights: Hike to and stay in traditional 'Kastom' villages on Espiritu Santo island, check out 'Naghol' land-diving - ancient initiation rites on Pentecost Island, scuba dive the world famous wreck of SS President Coolidge, experience the active volcano Mt. Yarra on Tanna Island in action, chill out on Hideaway Island... and much more!

  • Price: From $2,975
  • Season: April to May