If you want to get out and see some fantastic places but want someone else to worrry about the details, then you should consider tour guides and operators. Here are some of our favorites:

• Nature-Bound Australia
  Nature-Bound Australia specialises in small group guided ecotours offering classic walks and experiences in the National Parks and World Heritage wilderness areas of Australia.

• Grand Canyon Tour Company
  This Las Vegas-based touring company provides guided hiking tours to the Grand Canyon's North Rim, and to Red Rock Canyon in Nevada.

• Geographic Expeditions
  Offers fixed itinerary and pre-planned tours world wide. Activities include walking, horseback riding, and kayaking. They feature eco-tourism, and were voted the world's best adventure travel company by the readers of Travel + Leisure magazine.

• Gordon's Guide - Adventure & Active Travel
  Adventure & active travel vacations worldwide! Offering dude ranches, whitewater rafting, houseboat rentals, bicycle tours, mountain biking, fly fishing guides, fishing lodges, vacation rentals, resorts, and over 30 other adventure & active travel categories.

• MICA Guides
  An Alaskan guiding company that will take you hiking on Glaciers, and can introduce you to Ice climbing.

• Pangaea Adventures: Alaska Summer
  This Alaska guiding company provides complete packages for kayaking and backpacking, as well as for multi-sport trips and adventure cruises. Check out their web specials!

• TREK ALASKA
  Another guiding company that specializes in hiking and Backpacking in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park.

• The World Outdoors
  Based in Colorado, this company provides biking, hiking, and multi-sport trips including horseback riding, kayaking, and snorkelling for small groups.

• The Blue Space
  An Adventure, Trekking, Hiking, and Canyoning Guides Co-Operative specializing in Nepal, Japan, Thailand, Australia, Chile, Mallorca, Pyrenees and Austria. Tailor made trips at budget prices.

• ACTIVE NEW ZEALAND
  Guided small group, hiking, biking and kayaking adventure tours in New Zealand - get your free brochure now!

• Timberline Adventures
  Guided inn-to-inn adventure hiking vacations throughout the western U.S. & Canada, including 34 national parks & monuments. Hiking programs created by hikers for those who love to hike.

• Outspire!
  Private Hiking and Snowshoeing Guides in Santa Fe, New Mexico

• Atlantic Rainforest Hiking & Trekking - Brazil 
  Brazil Adventure International is a S‹o Paulo based tour operator offering hiking & trekking tours through the Atlantic Rainforest Reserves on Brazil's seaboard (UNESCO World Heritage).

• Shankar Pandey: Independent Trekking Guide in Nepal 
  I am Shankar Pandey from Nepal and I am working as trekking guide in Nepal since eight years So f you are loking for cheap and best trekking in Nepal, please contact me.