Access to a number of countries countries continues to be uncertain due to civil disorder. Dates for Journeys planned by Calidex for 2024-5 are therefore subject to change. Brief descriptions of three Journeys for 2024 & 2025 are set forth below; please click on the appropriate button for more trip detail.
Lamalera: The World’s Last Subsistence Whaling Village
For centuries Indonesia’s Lamalerans have hand-harpooned whales & rays for food—for survival, not for the preservation of culture. Follow them as they open their hunting season.
April 29-May 4, 2025
China’s National Parks, Wildlife & the “Redlands”
Spectacular Huanglong & Jiuzhaigou, Yunnan’s incomparable “Redlands” and the Black Snub-nosed Monkeys of Tacheng National Park
May 7-20, 2025
Folkloric Mexico: “Day of the Dead” & the Voladores
Oaxaca to Pueba and the Cuetzalan Sunday Market
October 31-November 7, 2024