We offer geology geotourism tours around the world, visiting fossil sites, volcanoes, geoparks and more. Based in Wales where we also offer day tours.
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Check out our blog: https://geoworldtraveldiaries.com/ Geotourism is more than just the rocks
and ice, it is about experiencing the whole geodiversity
of a destination, which includes its biology and history
too. Spectacular scenery normally goes hand in hand with
incredible wildlife and fascinating human stories and our trips
combine all of these things. Travel with GeoWorld and gain somethi
ng extra: All our trips are
guided by an experienced Geologist. On one of our trips you will see
the wildlife and historical sites that you may expect to see on other
trips, but in addition you will have the geology and scenary explained
to you. GeoWorld’s trips are currently run in the Polar regions and
Wales, but will soon be expanding to offer trips to other destinations
such as the Pyrenees, Canadian Rockies, Galapagos, Iceland and East Africa.
16/10/2024
Last week we returned from our latest 'Classic Volcanoes' of Italy trip 🇮🇹 We had a fantastic time seeing geological and archaeological sites in the Naples area before taking a ferry down to the Aeolian Islands and Sicily. It was a great trip which took us to five of Italy's active volcanoes - Vesuvius, Stromboli, Lipari, Vulcano and Etna, with other stops of geological interest along the way.
Here are some of the our favourite photos, with captions, from our nine days in Italy 📸
11/10/2024
Less than 24 hours from getting home from the Italy Volcanoes tour, we saw these stunning aurora. The picture was taken just a few hundred yards from the GWT office. Pictures from Italy will be posted in the near future.
07/10/2024
Here are photos from last night on Stromboli but this time not cropped square by Instagram
07/10/2024
Grazie ! Pictures obtained on last night's hike. Thanks too to for guiding us.
06/10/2024
Today is International and today we are in the Aeolian Islands World Heritage Site getting ready to climb . Here is a picture taken on our last visit 2 years ago.
04/10/2024
We have just completed the first part of our 'Classic Volcanoes' tour of Italy 🇮🇹 and the group are right now setting sail on the overnight ferry from Naples to the Aeolian Islands for the next part of the trip! In the early hours of the morning, the ferry will pass Stromboli, which is the group's destination on Sunday! However, they will arrive on Lipari later tomorrow morning, with lots of geological sites to see there first. So far, the Naples area has provided some outstanding geological and archaeological sites for the group to enjoy: Campi Flegrei, Herculaneum, Vesuvius and Pompeii.
Here are some photos of the highlights of the trip so far📸
01/10/2024
Our ‘Classic Volcanoes’ tour of Italy has begun! 🇮🇹🌋 The latest GeoWorld Travel group have just enjoyed a welcome meal in Naples and tomorrow the tour proper begins. First stop in the morning willl be Vesuvius, shown in the photo towering over Naples. James took this photo from our hotel’s roof terrace just this evening! We’ll spend three full days in the Naples area before taking a ferry down to the Aeolian Islands and then travelling on to Sicily, where the tour concludes next week.
19/09/2024
This time last week, our 2024 Iceland 🇮🇸 tour concluded back in Keflavik. We had a wonderful time circumnavigating the island, taking in some astonishingly good geological sites!
📸Here are 50 of the best photos from the trip, with captions - we hope you enjoy them!
15/09/2024
While one GeoWorld Travel group was exploring Iceland recently, we have also had another group exploring the rather different geological landscape of Southern Namibia! The 'Diamonds, Canyons and Fossils' trip, led by our excellent Namibian guide, Nicole, is being run for the first time and it will conclude back in Windhoek in just a couple of days time. Nicole and the participants have been sharing some photos with us (thank you!) and here are a few of the best - it looks fantastic!
We will be running the tour again in 2026, so if you would like to join this wonderful trip of geological discovery, then please let us know. Details of the itinerary can be found via the link in the comments.
09/09/2024
It hardly seems possible, but we are almost at the end of our Iceland trip! It’s been a geology-packed time so far, so here are a few photos of some of the highlights. We’ll be sharing a gallery of the best photos from the whole trip in the next week or so.
03/09/2024
After a few weeks off, we’re delighted to be starting our latest geological tour in… Iceland!🇮🇸 Our group met up this evening and, yet again, we are very fortunate that our tour has coincided with a volcanic eruption on the Reykjanes Peninsula. James arrived in Iceland yesterday & managed to get a few spectacular shots of the volcano🌋 We can’t wait to start the tour proper tomorrow!
21/07/2024
On Wednesday evening, we arrived back in Geneva having completed our ‘Alpine Adventure’ trip around the Swiss Alps🇨🇭. We were fortunate enough to see some absolutely breath-taking scenery and plenty of fascinating geology. It was a great pleasure to travel with a great group of people! Following on from our mid-trip post, here are 40 more captioned photos showing the highlights of the whole trip. Switzerland was as geologically interesting and beautiful as ever and we can’t wait to return in 2026!
If you would like to be with us on the 2026 trip, please make contact and we can ensure that you are the first to know when dates/prices are confirmed.
14/07/2024
We are at the halfway point of our 'Alpine Adventure' trip to Switzerland! 🇨🇭 So far our group have journeyed from Geneva to Zermatt via Neuchâtel, Interlaken, Lucerne, Glarus and Fiesch. Today the group are enjoying spending time in the shadow of the Matterhorn, but they have already enjoyed some fabulous Alpine scenery and have seen plenty of Switzerland's wonderfully complex geology! Here are some photos from the first half of the trip. 📸
If you would like to join us in Switzerland, we will be returning in 2026. Please make contact if you would like to be informed when dates/prices are confirmed and booking is open.
James Creswell of GeoWorld Travel talks about the billion year time gap between the billion year old Torridonian sandstone and 3 billion year old Lewissian g...
11/06/2024
Our Scotland 2024 trip has begun! The first touring day was today, and the first stop was Siccar Point. Siccar Point is regarded by many as being the world's most important geosite because it is here in 1788 that James Hutton stared into the abyss of geological time and the science of geology was born.
09/06/2024
Whilst we are looking forward to the start of our Scotland trip tomorrow, we also have a GeoWorld Travel group out in Namibia at the moment! The 2024 Northern Namibia trip concludes in Windhoek on Wednesday, but today the group are in the Etosha National Park, enjoying some wildlife alongside the geology! Here are a few photos shared by the group from the trip so far.
If you are interested in joining us in Namibia, the trip will be running again in 2025 (29th May - 11th June) and we will shortly be confirming the price and opening booking. If you are interested in the trip, then please let us know and we can contact you as soon as booking is open. Details of the trip are in the comments below.
27/05/2024
📸As promised, here is Part Two of the trip album from our recent South Africa 🇿🇦 trip. The second part of the trip had more wonderful geology sites, including gold and diamond mines, and some of the world's oldest rocks in Barberton, but one of the non-geological highlights was a game drive in Kruger National Park - what a treat!
We will be returning to South Africa in March 2025 - the link to the itinerary can be found in the comments below. Booking will be open shortly, once the price has been finalised. If you are interested in joining us, do let us know, as places are already being reserved!
23/05/2024
It's hard to believe that it's nearly two months since we got back from South Africa! 🇿🇦 It was a great trip taking us all the way from Cape Town to Johannesburg. Now that we have edited and sorted the photos, we are pleased to be able to share Part One of the fully-captioned trip album with you. We hope that you will agree it's a really stunning place with some fabulous geology. We will be sharing Part Two of the trip album in the next few days...
📸If these beautiful pictures spark your interest, then you might be interested to know that we will be returning to South Africa in March 2025. The itinerary is now published on our website and the link is in the comments below.
29/04/2024
On Saturday we completed our 2024 England and Wales trip! After our previous, mid-trip post, we travelled further into Wales and visited many great geological sites in Wales and the Welsh borderlands. We visited the type areas for the Cambrian, Ordovician and Silurian periods, we visited industrial World Heritage Sites and we enjoyed the wonderful mountainous scenery. There was even time to search for a few of our own trilobites! Here are the highlights of the second half of the trip.
If you would like to join us on future trips, please do get in touch. We hope to be able to announce dates for a repeat England/Wales trip in 2025 very shortly...
20/04/2024
And just like that, we are halfway through our England & Wales trip! The group arrived in the picturesque town of Crickhowell this evening, ready to start exploring the geology of Wales in the morning! So far, the group has been treated to some fantastic geological sites (and, thankfully, some lovely spring weather!) Here are some photos of the highlights from the first five full touring days...
16/04/2024
Our England & Wales tour is underway! James met the latest group of GeoWorld Travellers at a Heathrow Airport hotel yesterday and they set off this morning. First stop was the iconic site of Stonehenge, followed by a guided tour of the fantastic The Etches Collection museum, by Steve Etches himself. The day then concluded with a visit to Kimmeridge Beach on the Jurassic Coast before heading to tonight's hotel, a short distance from Corfe Castle. Tomorrow, the group will return to the Jurassic Coast for three more days exploring this most geologically interesting of World Heritage Sites. We look forward to sharing more photos and updates with you as the tour progresses!
26/03/2024
The South Africa Pioneers trip is completed! Im at Johannesburg airport on my way home. Here are some pictures from the second half of the trip.
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This time last week, we returned to Frankfurt at the conclusion of our "Volcanoes & Famous Fossil Sites" tour of Germany. We had a fabulous eight days exploring the world-class fossil sites, volcanoes and meteorite impact craters. We visited no less than four Lagerstätten (sites of exceptional fossil preservation) and had the opportunity to search for our own fossils in some of these localities. We enjoyed visits to a number of excellently presented museums to further add to our knowledge of the field sites on our itinerary. Towards the end of our tour, we spent some time in the Eifel area and visited the type area for maar volcanic craters. As well as these geological highlights, we also enjoyed viewing the cultural artefacts from the UNESCO World Heritage Site Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura, as well as visiting the caves themselves. As always, there were many, many highlights! Here are some of our favourite photos from the trip...
We will be running this trip again in 2025, so if you would like to join us, please get in touch!
Here is part 2 of a short video series of the pillow basalt in Wadi al Jizzi that James recorded in Oman!
#oman #wadialjizzi #omangeology
Here is part 1 of a short video series of the pillow basalt in Wadi al Jizzi that James recorded in Oman!
#oman #wadialjizzi #omangeology #throwbackthursday
Today was the final day of our Canary Islands trip and the tour ended this morning in Tenerife. We are going to share a complete photo gallery next week. Until then, enjoy this video of James on Mount Teide.
#teide #tenerife #volcano #geology
Swimming in the Bimmah Sinkhole in Oman would be a welcome refreshment during these hot summer days in the northern hemisphere!
This is another short clip from our 2022 Oman Trip. Next time we go to Oman will be in late January/early February 2023 and there are only few spaces remaining. Contact us if you would like to join!
#ThrowbackThursday #Oman
Here's a short clip from our 2022 Oman Trip. Next time we go to Oman will be in late January/ early February 2023 and there are only few spaces remaining. Contact us if you would like to join!
Earlier this week we completed our second tour around Scotland this year. Some of our guests then continued on to Shetland for a 4-day tour of the islands with our colleague, Robina.
As we are preparing to lead a 6-day trip around South Wales next week, we haven’t had a chance to finish editing the photos from the latest trip, so here is a video of James at Fingal’s Cave back in May!
A brief overview of the geology of Loch Coruisk
We’re halfway through our Scotland tour and today we were fortunate enough to have a breezy but sunny day for our boat trip to Loch Coruisk. In this video, James gives a brief overview of the geology and you can see the stunning scenery for yourself - a truly amazing place!
We’ve also seen Siccar Point, the Highland Boundary Fault, Loch Ness, Hugh Miller’s Cottage, the Lairg meteorite impact site, the world’s first identified thrust fault (at Knockan Crag), 3 billion-year-old rock, the world’s largest boulder and the Corrieshalloch Gorge. And we still have 3 days to go…!
We’ll be back in June with another group and again in 2023.
Geology in Wadi Al Kabir, Muscat, Oman
Here's another video from our recent trip to Oman. This is from the final day of the tour and shows some really important geological features right in Oman's capital city, Muscat.
If you'd like to read more detail about the whole trip, we have just published the trip diary here: https://geoworldtraveldiaries.com/2022/04/07/oman-2022/
Al Ayn Beehive Tombs and a former atol
Another video clip from our recent #geology tour of #Oman Here we see the Al Ayn Beehive Tombs #worldheritagesite and an incredible geological feature: a mountain that was once a submarine volcano with a coral reef on top of it, in other words an atol, that was obducted onto Arabia with the Semail ophiolite.
Edicarican aged stromatolites, uncomfortably overlain by Permain aged beach sediments!
Oman's Snowball Earth deposits
A short video about Snowball Earth glacial deposits and the tropical capped carbonates that immediately overlie them.
The Moho in Wadi Al Abyad
We got back from Oman just over a week ago and while there made several short videos, here is the first:
A great #geology day on the #isleofskye with the theme being #dinosaur trackways and the largest mass movement landslide in Britain. The video shows a sauropod🦕 trackway at Duntulm. It was discovered in 2015 and is 170 million years old. We also saw dinosaur prints at Brother's Point and An Corran and had a guided tour of the Staffin dinosaur museum by Dugie Ross. At the Quirang we saw Trotternish landslip where a 2km long block of Paleogene lava has slipped down on faults in the weaker #jurassic sediments beneath.
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GeoWorld Travel specialises in leading geotourism geology tours and placing people on polar expedition cruises through our PolarWorld Travel website. The company was founded in November 2012 by James Cresswell, and is based in the Brecon Beacons National Park, in Wales, United Kingdom, where we also offer day tours, through our Brecon Beacons Tours website.
JAMES CRESSWELL - DIRECTOR AND GUIDE
James is the Director and founder of GeoWorld Travel, and personally guides most of GeoWorld Travel's trips. He a geologist gaining his degree in Geology from the University of Bristol, and his Masters in Oceanography from the University of Southampton. Before setting up GeoWorld Travel James traveled to around 100 different countries and used to work as the geologist guide aboard expedition cruise ships. Countries and areas he guided in, before establishing GeoWorld Travel include: Antarctica, Svalbard, Canada (Arctic and Rockies) Greenland, Russian Arctic & Geographical North Pole, Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Kenya, Botswana, Mozambique, Madagascar, Seychelles, India, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Caribbean, the South Pacific,St Helena and Tristan da Cunha. James' passion for communicating geosciences began when he started his career working in the television documentary industry. He was the researcher on a Discovery Channel geological series, and was part of the BBC’s ‘Blue Planet’ series.
To read more about James and to see the selection of talks he can give, please check out his Public Speaking, Publications & Photography website here: www.jamescresswell.com
ABBY CRESSWELL - FINANCE AND HOTEL BOOKING MANAGER AND ARCHAEOLOGIST GUIDE
Abby is both James's wife and a qualified archaeologist. At GeoWorld Travel she manages the finances and hotel bookings. In addition to her work at GeoWorld Travel, Abby works as an IT Consultant in the Heritage Sector. Abby gained a 1st in her MA (Hons) degree in Medieval History & Archaeology at the University of St Andrews, and she gained a distinction in her Masters in Landscape Archeology at the University of Bristol. From time to time she accompanies James on tours or day trips adding an extra dimension with archaeological guiding.
NICOLE GRÜNERT - NAMIBIA GUIDE
Nicole leads our Namibia trips. She holds a Masters degree in Geology from the Technical University in Aachen, Germany. She immigrated to Namibia in 1994 and since then has been leading geological tours and safaris.
YOUSSEF NOMADA - DRIVER IN MOROCCO
Youssef is Moroccan and lives in Ouzarzate. He is originally from the fossil rich area around Merzouga where we spend much of our time on the tour. Youssef and his brother run their own tourism business in Morocco, and provide our transportation via Toyota Landcruisers . They also provide our picnic lunches and cultural information about Morocco.
POLAR EXPEDITION CRUISE GEOLOGIST GUIDES
GeoWorld Travel, through its PolarWorld Travel consultancy, places people on expedition cruises in Antarctica and the Arctic. These cruises will have an experienced geologist guide aboard as well as wildlife and historian guides. For 10 years GeoWorld Travel's Director James Cresswell used to work as a geologist guide on these expeditions. James no longer guides these trips, and the geology guiding is provided by the onboard team, however GeoWorld Travel can tell you everything you need to know about these trips and can book you on the expedition that best suits your needs.
