Day-by-day travel diaries and photographic diaries of geology tours run by GeoWorld Travel
Our first tour of 2024 took us back to Oman. Our group enjoyed an awe-inspiring adventure through the country’s best geological sites. From ophiolite to sheath folds and from pillow basalts to the Moho, the journey was rich with geological wonders. A fantastic time was had by all!
We returned to the glorious surroundings of the Swiss Alps for our 2023 trip. Once again, the breathtaking scenery and fascinating geological stories gave us a most memorable journey. This blog post shares the 50 best photos from our 10-day itinerary.
In June 2023, we returned to Scotland to run our ‘Birth of Geology’ tour. We were very fortunate with the weather and we saw a wide variety of geological sites, including Hutton’s Unconformity at Siccar Point, arguably the most important geological site in the world…! This is a photo record of our trip.
We recently completed our 2023 England and Wales tour which took our guests through the complete geological timescale! We saw type areas of many geological time periods and outcrops from all geological time periods! These are our favourite photos with captions explaining what we saw.
We recently returned to the Canary Islands to explore the geological highlights of Tenerife, La Gomera and La Palma. These are our forty favourite photos from the trip.
Forty of our favourite photos from our 2023 trip to Oman. This wonderful country truly is a geologists’ paradise and we visited a whole range of sites on this trip.
In November 2022, we took a group of intrepid travellers on our “Trilobite’s Sahara Kingdom” geological tour of Morocco. Our 10-day trip across the Atlas mountains to the Sahara Desert was not only a trilobite extravaganza but also took in a dinosaur discovery site, mineral mines and various historic sites. This is a summary and selection of the best photos from the trip.
We returned to Germany in October 2022 for our “Volcanoes and Famous Fossil Sites” tour. The sites didn’t fail to impress! Our group was able to enjoy some exceptional fossil specimens in various museums, as well as visiting fossil discovery sites and searching for their own fossils. Visits to Ice Age caves and volcano sites rounded off a fantastic trip! We look forward to returning next year!
A photo diary of our geological and archaeological tour of Italy. Starting in Naples and finishing on Sicily, the tour takes in world-class vulcanological sites, such as Vesuvius, Stromboli and Mount Etna, and fascinating archaeological sites, such as Pompeii and Herculaneum. These are some of the best photos from the 2022 trip…
A photo diary of our 2022 trip to Iceland, which included not only geological highlights such as steaming fresh lava, geysers and fault planes, but also some awesome Northern Lights!
In July 2022 we took the first group on our geological tour of Switzerland – an Alpine Adventure. We saw a wonderful array of magnificent geological sites and were treated to superb scenery. This is our illustrated trip diary.
A selection of the best photos from our May 2022 Scotland trip. We were treated to some wonderful geological highlights, including Siccar Point, the Ardnmurchan Volcano and the iconic Fingal’s Cave.
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