ABOUT BAKTRAX

Baktrax is run by Alan C. Foster, Pai, Thailand and is approaching its fourth year as a partner with Safetraveller, Melbourne Australia (Travel Agent license 31424). Safetraveller has been in the industry for more than thirty years. www.safetraveller.com.au

Baktrax came into being as a result of all my travel experiences over a number of years. I'm lucky and feel privlidged to now be able to say, " I hate airports". Not flying, just airports. Once in the air with a glass of red and a movie all is well. But the excitement of airports wears thin after a few dozen flights.

Four adventure tours and one non adventure tour plus more than two years of independant back packing led me to the conclusion that only an overland truck tour across Africa was entitled to come under the banner of adventure travel.

I soon realised that we, the travelling public had been hoodwinked for far too long. Only because i travelled independantly after my tours did i find this out. Just for starters the word Adventure is usually a misnomer. Many use the term but very few actually are. Taking a local bus, let alone a private one along a modern Thai freeway is hardly adventurous. Sitting on a tourist beach with your fellow countrymen, likewise.

BAKTRAX IS NON ADVENTURE EXPLORATION.

Our itineraries focus on the local people and their cultures amid spectacular scenery. At the same time you can walk in the mountains, lay on a beach or even do a bit of partying. Baktrax combines it all.

So the Baktrax idea came to fruition as we try to correct all the dinosaur travel perceptions of yesteryear.

SOME OF THESE BEING:

• Pay as little up front as possible. ( Great marketing ploy perhaps). Then continually going into your pocket when on tour because you didn't realise very little was included in that little up front price. Preying on your gullibility.
• The bigger the group size the better. (Profit wise only).
• The perception that you must see everything a country has to offer in fourteen days. GO, GO, GO.
• You must travel hard and fast in uncomfortable vehicles and sleep in uncomfortable places just so you can call it an adventure.
• All of the above come under the banner of adventure travel in S. E. Asia.

Under the BAKTRAX banner:

We didn't invent organised travel but we are trying to perfect it.

• You pay for everything up front in your tour price and that's the finish of it.
• Maximum group size of eight means personalised service for all.
• You see less places, but more in depth so that you can remember all of them in the years to come.
• You will travel as slowly and as easily as possible while the emphasise will still always be on " When in Rome".

BAKTRAX: Trying to help perfect the way you see the world.