We offer geology geotourism tours around the world, visiting fossil sites, volcanoes, geoparks and more. Based in Wales where we also offer day tours.
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.
16/02/2025
🌟✈️🌏TRAVEL WITH US IN 2025!🌏✈️🌟
While most of our trips this year are fully booked, we do still have a few spaces remaining if you would like to join us on our adventures in 2025. Our availability is...
🌏 USA: Yellowstone, Dinosaurs & Grand Canyon
16th - 27th September 2025 (5 spaces)
🌏 Canary Islands: Volcanic Island Hopping
8th - 16th December 2025 (8 spaces)
Details of the trips can be found on our website - links in the comments below.
Do get in touch if you'd like to sign up for one of these fantastic trips!
More dates for 2026 trips will be announced soon.
03/02/2025
We were so engrossed in looking at rocks and visiting amazing geosites in Oman 🇴🇲 that we forgot to post photos while we were on tour - sorry! Now that the tour has finished though, we have had a chance to look back on our photos and we have chosen our 50(ish!) favourites. We hope that you enjoy them! 📸
We will be going back to Oman in 2026, but that trip is already fully booked. If you are interested in joining us in the future, please do get in touch and we can add you to the waitlist or priority booking list for the next available trip.
22/01/2025
And we're off...! After a short winter break, we are kicking off our 2025 schedule with a return to the geological paradise which is Oman 🇴🇲 Our group gathered in Muscat yesterday and today enjoyed the first full day of the tour. Stops we visited included the Moho (📸pictured), Snowball Earth deposits and a Permian/Ediacaran unconformity. We arrived in Sohar at the end of the day and we will be spending two nights here. We look forward to sharing more updates from the trip with you!
This photo is taken in front of the best example of the Moho in the world. This is the boundary between the earth's crust and mantle. The base of the cliff is mantle rock (peridotite) and the upper part of the cliff is rock from the oceanic crust (gabbro).
24/12/2024
04/12/2024
And that's a wrap! Just under two weeks ago, we finished our 2024 schedule when our final tour of the year arrived back in Marrakech. We had another wonderful tour of Morocco, visiting a wide array of geological sites and seeing a huge variety of world-class fossil locations. As always, the trilobites stole the show, but there was plenty more to see besides! This year, for the first time, we included the Geoparc Mondial Unesco Mgoun in our itinerary. Our group enjoyed a guided visit of the excellent museum in Azilal and marvelled at some great dinosaur track sites within the geopark. Throughout the trip we were well looked after by our friends at Morocco Explorer - thank you Youssef and team!
📸Here are some photos of the highlights of this year's trip - we hope you enjoy them!
18/11/2024
We're on the homeward stretch of our final tour of 2024! Our group has been enjoying the delights of Morocco 🇲🇦 for the last eight days and we have just two more full touring days to go! As always, there are too many great sites and wonderful places to name individually, but our journey from Marrakech to Ouarzazate, on to Zagora, Alnif, Mherch and Merzouga, has been full of fascinating geology and outstanding fossils. Our friends at Morocco Explorer have taken good care of us, as always - thank you!
📸 Here are a few captioned photos from the trip. We will be sharing a full trip album in the coming weeks.
13/11/2024
Now that's what I call a trilobite! A wonderful example of a Asaphellus stubbsi from the Fezouata Shale of Ouled Slimane. It is Tremadocian (Lower Ordivician, 480ma) in age. Found by local fossil miners.
06/11/2024
The GeoWorld Travel team were in London today for the World Travel Market! We met up with some of our existing suppliers and other travel world friends! We were also excited to talk with suppliers from countries that we don't offer trips to... yet! We have had some great conversations and made great new contacts today. We look forward to getting to work on exciting new itineraries soon...
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.
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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.
We offer geology geotourism tours around the world, visiting fossil sites, volcanoes, geoparks and more. Based in Wales where we also offer day tours.
