Lonely Planet's guide to adventure and small group tours

Feeling the urge for a high-adrenaline holiday or an exciting new destination? It's never been simpler to book an adventure tour. With a huge range of adventure tours on the Lonely Planet site, you can make your travel plans a reality with a few clicks of your mouse. If you have a few days to enjoy a Vietnam tour or weeks to go trekking in Nepal, we're sure you'll find the perfect adventure holidays on our site.

What should you look for in a tour operator?

• Reliability: are they comfortable trekking in Morocco and do they know it like the back of their hand, and are they well prepared if the trip doesn't go according to plan? When hiking, canoeing or mountaineering, you want to be sure you're in expert hands so make sure you choose a highly recommended tour operator.
• Expertise: the ideal tour guide has local insight, language skills and the enthusiasm to spice up and adventure holiday. With expert help you can find the craic in Ireland or scale the peaks safely on a Kilimanjaro climb.
• Eco-friendly: a tour package should help you experience a destination while minimising any negative impact. A good tour operator will be hapy to answer your questions about environmental concerns and cultural sensitivity.

Why book an adventure tour through Lonely Planet's recommended partners?

At Lonely Planet we live for travel and we only recommend tour operators we'd choose for ourselves.

With more than 100 adventure tours, you'll be spoilt for choice whether you want to tour America, explore India or complete the Inca Trail.

Whatever time period you have free –from a few days to explore Machu Picchu, a week for the highlights of Egypt or a month-long China tour –there's a tour package for you.