Why Pick Wild Recces?
- Be the first
- Pay less
- Smaller group sizes
- More flexible itinerary
Wild Recces
Whilst continuing to focus on our tried and trusted destinations, we are always on the lookout for exciting new adventure travel locations and itineraries to add to our portfolio; and we want you to be our guinea pigs!
Whether through our guides interests, our own information or your requests, we like to offer the most novel and original adventure tours, which means constantly developing new ideas. Every year we are delighted to offer our intrepid clients the chance to accompany us on our recce trips as they are invaluable in helping design and refine itineraries for future trips.
“Blazing the trail across the High Pamirs, the epicentre of the epic Great Game, was a truly amazing experience. What could be more exciting than investigating the lost routes of some of the world's most daring explorers and spies!” Duncan Grossart
Tours & Dates
Starting in March 2012
Myanmar (Burma): The Road To Mandalay
14 days starting on Sun 4 Mar 2012An enigmatic land of golden pagodas and mist-shrouded jungle, Burma was once described by Rudyard Kipling as a place ‘quite unlike any...you know about’. Isolated for years by the outside...
Starting in April 2012
Wild Walk In Old China
16 days starting on Fri 6 Apr 2012Yunnan - The Tea & Horse Caravan Trail once rivalled the Silk Road in importance. For more than 1,000 years it connected China with India via Tibet and Burma. Dizzying river valleys and towering...
Starting in May 2012
Cuba Horse Trek
12 days starting on Wed 16 May 2012A beautiful tableau of limestone mogotes, underground caverns and fertile farmland, Cuba’s Pinar del Río Province enjoys a well earned reputation as one of the country’s most...
Starting in June 2012
Wild Walk In Albania (Recce Tour)
9 days starting on Sat 9 Jun 2012‘Land of Albania! Let me bend mine eyes on thee, thou rugged nurse of savage men’.So wrote Lord Byron in his famous poem Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, where he chronicled the...
Starting in September 2012
Montenegro: Wild & Active (Recce Tour)
9 days starting on Sat 1 Sep 2012Montenegro has recently emerged from the shadow of its turbulent past to become one of Central Europe’s most beguiling destinations. Sandwiched between craggy granite peaks and the blue waters...
Starting in October 2012
Kenyan Highlands Horse Safari with Jonny Bealby (Recce Tour)
8 days starting on Sat 13 Oct 2012This exciting new trip takes place predominantly around the Laikipia Plateau, one of East Africa’s undiscovered natural treasures. Second only...
Heart Of India In Style
17 days starting on Fri 19 Oct 2012Often overlooked by in favour of the more tourist-friendly regions to the north and south, for the committed Indiaphile, the centre of the country offers a magical mix of experiences, well off the...
Starting in November 2012
Myanmar (Burma): Elephant Bill River Expedition
15 days starting on Sun 18 Nov 2012An enigmatic land of golden pagodas and mist-shrouded jungle, Myanmar was once described by Rudyard Kipling as a place ‘quite unlike any...you...
Nagaland Festival Tour
18 days starting on Sat 17 Nov 2012Unlike much of India, most of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Nagaland have remained off the busy trail of mainstream tourism. For years, access to the area was restricted for political and security...
East India Tribal Odyssey
15 days starting on Sat 3 Nov 2012Few visitors get to see the real India; to truly experience the daily beauty of the rural landscape away from the crowded urban centres that lie along the main tourist trail. At Wild Frontiers we...
Private Journeys
Tour Leaders
Jonny Bealby
Growing up in England, Scotland and Canada, Jonny developed a passion for travel and upon finishing college journeyed extensively in Australasia and the Far... Read More
Carol Turner
Carol worked with the explorer John Blashford-Snell as his PA and expedition coordinator, concentrating her work on the wild elephants of North India and... Read More
Peter O'Sullivan
Peter first visited Cambodia in 1993 and spent 2 months travelling from Phnom Penh to Angkor Wat with a film crew recording the lives of the water-dwellers.... Read More
Attaullah (Atta) Khan
Attaullah Khan, nick-named Atta, is a native of the mountainous kingdom of Hunza. Being inspired by his uncle, Issa Khan, the most famous sherpa of early... Read More
Marc Leaderman
Narrowly escaping the "lawyer, doctor or accountant" stereotype career that is the fate of many London sons, Marc taught English in Romania & Japan... Read More
Ed Jocelyn
After completing a PhD in Soviet History – a topic without much future, if ever there was one – Ed ran away to China... Read More
Max Wood
Max was born in Yorkshire and brought up in Lancashire. After studying at university in Coventry he realised that there was much more in this world to... Read More
Dominico Mocchi
Dom has been running horse treks in Asia for more than ten years. A great friend of Jonny's, with the same enthusiasm and love for the countries in which he... Read More
Bhopal Singh
Bhopal graduated in 1995. He did his diploma in hotel management at the Indian Tourism College, Udaipur and completed his travel industry training at the... Read More
Simon Watson
Simon was born and raised the hard way in the remote wilderness of the Oxfordshire Chilterns where the seeds of a passion for adventure travel were first... Read More
Johnny Paterson
Employed for eleven years by Encounter Overland in Asia, Africa and South America, Johnny's experience of leading and managing treks, safaris and expedition... Read More
Jai Prakash (JP) Sharma
'JP is a born tour leader, perfectly poised between efficiency and mischief.' The Observer.
Born in a tiny village in southern Rajasthan, JP Sharma... Read More
Unni Krishnan
Unni started his career in tourism in 1998 at Lucknow with Travel Bureau where he acted first as a tourguide and then from 2002 as a tour escort and... Read More
Louise Worsley
Louise has always had a passion for travelling and has been lucky enough to indulge this throughout her career.
Highlights include trekking to... Read More
Holly Hunt
At three years old on the West Coast of Ireland Holly decided she wanted to live with lions in Africa.
By 27 she had held addresses on the foothills... Read More
Prodhi Sing
Pradhuman, or Prodi as he is known, hales from Bhawrani, a small village in western Rajasthan. Being born into a noble family he was crowned at the age of... Read More
Dhala Campbell
Named after a Yemeni fort and pass, Dhala was brought up in Scotland and spent her childhood mucking about on horses.
The travel bug started when... Read More
Tom Skipwith
As a baby being taken around India on the back of a motorbike by his travel-crazed parents, the adventure bug was firmly embedded and a nomadic soul was... Read More
Tom Skipwith
As a baby being taken around India on the back of a motorbike by his travel-crazed parents, the adventure bug was firmly embedded and a nomadic soul was... Read More
