I started Gone With The Wynd when I couldn’t travel to the places I really wanted to on my own. I wanted to go to places where I needed to hire guides, cooks, boats, security, 4x4s, porters and more, and it was prohibitively expensive – the cost is more or less the same for one person as for ten. I was born with itchy feet; there was a huge map on my childhood kitchen wall and I used to ponder it and want to go everywhere. I still do. I primarily specialise in New Guinea and go back again and again and again, but I am fascinated by traditional cultures everywhere, particularly the Pacific region and West and Central Africa.
Every trip is led personally by Viktor Wynd or one of our specialists, such as Dr. Louise Fenton. Groups are tiny, usually 5–10 people, and every expedition is a voyage of discovery rather than a package holiday.
Join Viktor Wynd on his 15th New Guinea expedition to the D'Entrecasteaux Islands, one of the remotest, least-visited parts of Papua New Guinea.
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This is very much an exploratory expedition. I am told that we will be the first tourist group to visit!
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For our third expedition to the peaceful Republic of the Congo (NOT its neighbour the DRC), we will head deep into the little-visited Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park.
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Join our 28th expedition and our 3rd collecting expedition to Papua New Guinea's Sepik to visit remote villages, meet crocodile warriors and collect extraordinary carvings.
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Join historian and anthropologist Dr Louise Fenton on an extraordinary journey through Benin in search of Voodoo, including the annual National Vodun Days Festival.
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Join Viktor Wynd on an expedition to the remote Kalash Valleys and the fabled Peristan, the land of the fairies.
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