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New Tour: Arizona: Saguaro National Park & the Sonoran Desert

Picture yourself cruising across the open desert, surrounded by magnificent mountains and the wide-open Arizona sky. Our new bicycling vacation is the perfect way to experience the fascinating cultures, history and natural wonders of the American Southwest.

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Master Chefs at Work: A Guide to Observational Cooking with VBT

One of the best ways to experience the heart and soul of a destination is through its food. Cooking classes abroad can give you insight into local ingredients, culinary traditions and how food ties into culture. VBT takes these adventurous experiences to the next level by offering cooking classes with local master chefs on many of our tours.

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2018 Web Specials - Just Updated!

Travelers with a spirit of spontaneity can choose one of our weekly deals and go where the wind takes them. Are you able to make a destination decision and travel in a few weeks? Our Web Specials provide the greatest savings available.

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The VBT difference means unsurpassed quality at an unbeatable value. That’s why 98.6% of our travelers tell us they plan to travel again with VBT

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We Offer Easy, Moderate, and Advanced Biking and Walking Tours

Whether you’re an easy rider, steady Eddie, or Tour de France hopeful, we have the perfect active vacation for you. VBT offers deluxe, small-group bicycling and walking tours worldwide—including destinations in Europe, Costa Rica, New Zealand, Vietnam, Peru, South Africa, Chile, and the United States—at a variety of different levels and paces. So there’s never any need to rush…unless you really want to!

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VBT’s Affordable Prices Get Even Better with These Great Values

From Web Specials and Good Buy Discounts to Travel Credits and Cash Rewards, VBT is always finding more ways to save you money. Plus, with our Dare-to-Compare Guarantee, if you find a U.S.-based active vacation company offering a lower-priced trip that also includes roundtrip international airfare, FREE use of a custom bicycle, walking poles, local trip leaders and accommodations of the same quality as ours, we’ll give you one VBT vacation…for FREE!

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You’ll Stay on the Map…and Go Off the Beaten Path

With VBT, you can look forward to daily sightseeing that includes the most important monuments—plus frequent behind-the-scene forays revealing the culture that gave rise to those iconic attractions. And while your legs are walking or pedaling in the great outdoors, your mind is getting a workout, too, with fascinating people to meet, tall tales to listen to, and cultural interactions and learning part of every trip, every time.

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Our People Make the Difference

To us, your trip is not just a vacation, but the start of memories that will last a lifetime. That’s why everyone from our Trip Designers to Tour Consultants to Trip Leaders are all dedicated to give you a world-class travel experience. We also only hire residents of the region to guide your trip because we know how much it will enrich your perspective to have a credible expert to explain local customs, share local history, and recommend the secret spots that only insiders know about.

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This was my first biking vacation ever. It definitely will not be my last! Puglia was beautiful, the biking was just challenging enough to be both enjoyable and a workout, and our guides (Marco and Martin) were just the best! The highlights for me were: the masserie, the prosecco/wine, the incredible dinners, the priceless views, all my new friends, and the olive oil of course! I also highly recommend the Rome post tour...what a fun and romantic city!”

Shannon Virginia
Our first VBT vacation and my wife and I loved it. Didn't know what to expect so every day was exciting. We were led by two VBT guides that were outstanding. My favorite part was bicycling through the vineyards - 360 degrees of beauty. Food was very good and the group members that randomly came together were a lot of fun. We added on Paris at the end - well worth it and a great way to end a fantastic vacation.

David Colorado
We cannot recommend this trip highly enough. Croatia is stunning. We went the first week of September--perfect as the crowds had gone but it was still in high 70s. The biking usually ended with or included a swim in the crystal clear aqua Adriatic. Our leaders were outstanding--went way above and beyond-- and our group was all incredibly nice people. Memories to last a lifetime--outstanding in every way!!

Liz Idaho

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