JIM WEBB
Education: BSc Ecology and Forestry, Mountaineering with Western Canada Mountain School.
Languages: English, Spanish and German.
Tours Led: Cuba, Lesser Antilles (Trinidad, St. Vincent, Dominica, Guadeloupe and Antigua) and Western Canada (British Columbia and Alberta).
Favourite Destination: Germany for the gemuetlichkeit; Ecuador for the Andes and the Amazon; and SE Asia for the cultural and culinary feasts.
Info: My interest in environmental sustainability has brought me to the remote areas of Western Canada and my passion for the outdoors has brought me to the mountaintops of Ecuador.
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THOMAS EGLI
Education: BSc Ecology and Environmental Biology, PADI Instructor.
Languages: English, French, Spanish and (Swiss-) German.
Tours Led: Kenya/Tanzania, Egypt/Jordan, Greece, Croatia, Spain, Central America, Peru, among others.
Favourite Destination: Australia for its stunning wide-open spaces and colours; Thailand for its spiciness, Indonesia for its wicked diving; and Singapore because everything works.
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KERI MONTGOMERY
Education: Anthropology and Psychology.
Languages: English, Japanese, Spanish and some Italian.
Tours Led: Italy, Peru, Bolivia, Cuba, Chile, Egypt, Adriatic, Italy, Spain, Iceland, Greenland, Albania, Belize, Tuscan Rambler, Ecuador, El Camino de Santiago, East Africa, Greece, Turkey Guyana and the Caribbean.
Favourite Destination: Places that make your heart flutter the first time you experience them or the 100th: Orongo Crater on Rapa Nui, the Pantanal, Havana at night, the glaciers of Greenland, Iguazu Falls in the mist, Kyoto during the cherry blossom festival, and the stunning Salar de Uyuni (Bolivia) at 5000m.
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YVETTE HAAKMEESTER
Education: MA Classical History and Archaeology.
Tours Led: Turkey, Greece, Italy, Malta, Tunisia, Libya, Morocco, Egypt, Israel, Croatia, Spain, Slovenia, Ethiopia, Mali and Burkina Faso.
Info: She has been leading tours for 15 years. Her area of expertise is the countries of the Mediterranean basin. She has a particular fascination for the imprint of ancient cultures on modern ones (culture, religion, cuisine, music, architecture, etc.) She has resided in Turkey, Greece and currently in Hammamet, Tunisia.
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