Welcome to the Hinterland World of Adventure and Overland Travel
Hinterland Travel is a specialist adventure travel company, founded on over 35 years of overland adventure travel experience by Geoff Hann, its owner and Managing Director. The knowledge and expertise of Geoff in the Middle East, Mesopotamia and Afghanistan has put the Company into the forefront of Iraq and Afghanistan tour operators and experts. The two very successful tours in 2006 across the wilds of Northern and Central Afghanistan, led to the National Geographic Traveller Magazine accreditation as one of its '50 Tours of a lifetime'.

Tours to Iraq proper or Mesopotamia as we like to call it have had to be on hold since 2004 as currently we cannot guarantee travel around Iraq and access to the sites. In common with our Iraqi friends we are ever optimistic and will schedule tours as soon as it is practical to do so. But for now we are operating our Kurdistan Iraq tour in May and September 2008 which combines with some of Turkey and the Kurdish areas of Iran.

Please keep in touch with us for our latest Mesopotamia tours situation.

TOURS IN 2008 - AFGHANISTAN, CENTRAL ASIA and IRAQ.

April 12th 2008
Afghanistan Road Tour via Pakistan, the Khyber Pass and Iran. Note. We are avoiding Kandahar and the Helmand Province at the moment.

May 15th 2008
Kurdistan - South Eastern Turkey, Kurdistan Iraq and North West Iran Including Diyabakir; Ain Safni; Lalesh; Erbil; Sulemanyia; Rawanduz; Takht-i-Soleman; Bistun; Jolfa and Lake Van

June 21st 2008
Azerbaijan and Daghestan *NEW EXPLORATORY TOUR* Including Baku; Caspian Sea; Caucasus villages and mountains.

August 2nd 2008
Afghanistan - Central and Northern Tour Including the Minaret of Jam; Chist; Obeh; Heart; Balkh and Bamiyan.

September 6th 2008
Kurdistan - South Eastern Turkey, Kurdistan Iraq and North West Iran Including Diyabakir; Ain Safni; Lalesh; Erbil; Sulemanyia; Rawanduz; Takht-i-Soleman; Bistun; Jolfa and Lake Van

September 27th 2008
Afghanistan Road Tour via Pakistan, The Khyber Pass and Iran. Note. We are avoiding Kandahar and the Helmand Province at the moment.

September 27th 2008
Uzbekistan and the Lapis Mines of Afghanistan Including Tashkent; Khiva; Bokhara; Samarkand; Termez; River Oxus; Balkh; Ai Khanoum; Panjshir Valley; Kabul and the Khyber Pass.

November 14th 2008
Bangladesh & Burma *NEW EXPLORATORY TOUR* Including steamboat to Dhaka; Khulna; train to Chittagong; Cox’s Bazaar; Rangoon; Mandalay; Irrawaddy River and Patna.

Special note - In order to attract early bookings which help us to plan and confirm our tours we offer a 10% discount on all tour bookings (deposit & booking form) received in 2008 for 2009 tours.

My new book on Iraq is due out now in the bookshops, online or from the Publishers Bradt Travel Guides. at £15.99 per copy or less.


KASHMIR
Our principal destination into India has become Kashmir.
Note our Houseboats reservations from one day to whatever suits.
The Amarnath Cave Pilgrimage trek combined with House boats is projected for July/August 2008.