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28 November - 8 December 2021 | On Sale | |
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Duration | 11 days |
flexible payments on all 2021 and 2022 dream challenges
For the whole of January, instead of paying your full registration fee at once, you can break it down into three easy installments:
You can then choose to self fund the challenge costs or raise a minimum sponsorship target for your chosen charity up until 12 weeks before your departure.
Alternatively, you can pay your whole registration fee and challenge costs right away and enjoy a fantastic 5% off your challenge costs. Simply call us on 01590 646410 to get in on this special offer.
The Challenge
Discover the fairy tale forests, misty mountains and amazing wildlife of southern India on this once-in-a-lifetime trek for animal charities.
Together we’ll trek through the real life Jungle Book on an extraordinary wilderness adventure in Kerala. We’ll watch out for wildlife every step of the way, as we trek through the rolling green tea fields of Munnar and spectacular mountain panoramas to the Meesapulimalai peak of the Western Ghats.
Described as a treasure trove of wildlife by the WWF, the Western Ghats is home to nearly a third of India’s flora and fauna, from the 48 species of butterfly to singing flocks of cuckoos and colourful armies of frogs to famous big mammals, like leopards, elephants - and maybe even tigers, if we're lucky!
Hiking through heaven by day, by night we’ll camp in tea fields and upon mountaintops, experiencing unforgettable sunsets with birds chattering around us.
At the end of our mountainous Walk on the Wild Side, we’ll spend our last days visiting the amazing Periyar National Park and Wildlife Sanctuary, a protected home for some of the world’s most critically endangered species.
COVID-19 - keeping you safe
As we hope you know, the health and safety of our participants is always - and has always been - our highest priority.
Our team of experts here at DC has created a brilliant 14-step initiative, to minimise the risk of coronavirus and maximise your safety. Please click here to see our ground-breaking plan and rest assured that you're safe booking with us.
Free transfers for all 2021 challenges!
If you feel worried about travelling as your 2021 challenge draws closer, you can transfer your booking and registration fee balance to another 2021 or 2022 challenge free of charge, up until 12 weeks before your departure date.
Pay your registration fee and your challenge costs yourself.
£1,750
Pay the balance
Pay your registration fee and raise the minimum target for your chosen charity.
£3,500
Minimum sponsorship target
As we hope you know, the health and safety of our participants is always - and has always been - our highest priority.
Our team of experts here at Dream Challenges has created a brilliant 14-step initiative, to minimise the risk of coronavirus and maximise your safety. Please click here to see our ground-breaking plan and rest assured that you're safe booking with us.
With even the government unsure how exactly the coronavirus situation will eventuate, we can't make any guarantees; but we can promise you that we will always put your health and security first and will always be just and flexible in any decisions we have to make, regarding postponements and transfers.
If the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) advises against travel to India in 2021, the tour will either be postponed until a safer time or cancelled.
In this situation, we will email all participants registered for the challenge with options you can take, such as transferring to the postponed date or another challenge.
All tour operators and holiday insurance providers, including us, take our guidance from Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) advice. Dream Challenges is also proud to be a member of ATOL and ABTOT, which means your money is always protected.
Absolutely! As part of our amazing 14-step initiative to minimise the risk of coronavirus and maximise your safety on all our challenges we're delighted to have found a fantastic travel insurance policy, which covers you for COVID-19.
You can see the insurance policy here or click here to check out the full 14 actions we're taking to keep you safe.
Walk on the Wild Side is not designed for Olympic athletes – it is designed for people looking for an amazing goal to train and get fit for. A number of the people who will take part in this trek will have a low level of fitness when they sign up.
This challenge is the perfect motivation to get fit, while exploring one of the world's most beautiful countries and supporting animal charities around the world.
Please don't be! The majority of people will sign up on their own and our Dream Challenges are renowned for the amazing camaraderie and life long friendships made as our groups take on these incredible feats together.
Once you've signed up for the challenge, we'll send you a link to a private Facebook group for everyone registered for the Walk on the Wild Side Trek India 2021. Please feel free to use this space to swap questions, advice and updates with your fellow trekkers on your training and fundraising. You may also want to reach out to the fellow participants in this group to see if there's anyone in your local area you can meet up to train and fundraise with.
Absolutely not! One of the amazing things about the challenge is that people of all ages will come together to do something very special. Everyone who is at least 18 years old by the challenge date is more than welcome to join this awesome Walk on the Wild Side challenge.
You will of course need a pair of walking boots and you'll also need to bring your own three-season sleeping bag. We will supply you with a comprehensive list of everything you will need to take on the event well before your departure date.
We stay in comfortable camps in the mountains, tea plantations and National Parks for the first seven nights of this challenge. All camping equipment, except for your sleeping bag, is provided and already set up for us upon our arrival at each camp.
For the last two nights, we'll sleep in three-star class hotels on a twin sharing basis.
Yes of course! Let us know if you'd like to extend your stay by emailing us at events@dream-challenges.com before 12th November 2020 and we can look at options to fit your dates.
Your registration fee of £299 per person is used to administer the challenge and secure your seats with the airline.
Your challenge costs of £1,750 (ie. 50% of the fundraising target if you choose the Sponsorship option) cover:
In addition to paying your registration fee (£299) and either paying your challenge costs or raising the minimum sponsorship target, you'll need to budget for your:
The group size for this challenge will be a maximum of 40 people.
You will need to take out your own personal travel insurance covering health, accident, loss and repatriation. Dream Challenges has a recommended policy that provides appropriate cover for this type of activity. We will send you the details once you have registered. You can, however, take out your own insurance, providing it covers you for a charity trek in India.
You will be required to obtain a tourist visa for entry into India, we will send you all the relevant information and forms to do this before the challenge.
The Dream Challenges team are here to help you achieve your challenge and will support you all the way. We are on hand from the minute you sign up to answer any questions that you may have about your training or the challenge itself.
Once you have registered, we will send you a realistic training programme to help you get fit for the challenge. The programme builds up gradually as the event gets closer.
During the trek, we'll have two qualified doctors accompanying the group from the get go and at all times throughout the challenge, along with a team of experienced challenge guides and porters.
We’ll have an event leader, plus two qualified event doctors, who will be with you the whole time.
As we're not medically trained, we're afraid we can't offer you advice on this. We recommend you contact your GP or your local travel clinic, who will have the latest travel health advice.
We also recommend you visit the NHS Fit for Travel website here, to keep up to date with current travel health news and advice on staying healthy abroad.
NHS Fit for Travel website: https://www.fitfortravel.nhs.uk/home