Small World Journeys
Small World Journeys is a multi-day tour operator specializing in educational student adventures, custom trips, and tours with a focus on sustainability, biology, geography, and Aboriginal culture. They offer expert-guided excursions for groups of 10 o…
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Sustainability Commitment
We see sustainability as both a necessity and a differentiator. We feel obligated to make our community better because we exist, and that reflects in everything we do. Our tours include the perspectives of Australia’s Traditional Owners, an option for one or more community service projects, and one-of-a-kind activities focused on sustainability and conservation that exist nowhere else. We commit to donating 5% of our nett profits each year to environmental and community organisations, are actively working to reduce our carbon footprint, and we have pledged to continuously improve.
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Aboriginal Culture Discovery
5 days/4 nights; $1458 per student. This is an introduction to the region’s Indigenous people and culture, including camping on Mandingalbay Yidinji country, hunting for food in the mangroves with Kuku Yalanji elders, and crafting an art piece with a Gimuy Walubara Yidinji artist. There is an option to visit the Great Barrier Reef on a “Dreamtime” cruise with Indigenous staff.
Australia Highlights
10 days/9 nights; $2462 per student. Students experience the highlights of two regions: Sydney and Far North Queensland, including a walking tour with our Sydney guide, a visit to waterfalls and a cattle station, The Skyrail rainforest cableway, a wildlife park, hunting with Indigenous guides, the Sydney Opera House and the Great Barrier Reef.
Australian Tropical Biology
13 days/12 nights; $3770 per student. This trip features marine and terrestrial biology in the tropics. We introduce students to the biological complexities of tropical ecosystems through lectures and hands on practical field experiences. Our guides lead students through data collection in a variety of terrestrial and marine environments, rainforest transects and creating vegetation profiles, nocturnal wildlife spotlighting, an environmental debate. A highlight is a stay at he James Cook University Research station.
Best of Australia
10 days/9 nights; $3820 per student. This tour takes in Sydney, the Gold Coast, the Daintree Rainforest, the outback and the Great Barrier Reef so students can experience the most variety Australia has to offer in a compact trip. Activities include a Sydney Harbor cruise and walk with an Indigenousguide, surf lessons on the Gold Coast, discovering the Daintree rainforest with a Kuku Yalanji elder, snorkelling and sand dune tobogganing and a BBQ beach party.
Biology Camp - 5 Day Trip
5 days/4 nights; $1769 per student or 7 Day Trip: 7 days/6 nights; $1998 per student. While some biology camps spend lots of time in a classroom or in one location, this program introduces students to the incredible biodiversity of multiple environments in Far North Queensland. From the jungle-draped Wet Tropics to the sun-soaked Great Barrier Reef, this biology camp is designed to explore dynamic marine ecology as well as the terrestrial and human ecologies of this incredible region. Both of these fully academic trips visit the James Cook University marine labs and Herbarium.
Ecosystems & Global Biodiversity: Rainforest
4 days/3 nights; $1199 per student; or Reef: 4 days/3 nights; $1096 per student. Both of these trips focus on the Australian geography curriculum – biodiversity hotspots that are in danger. On the rainforest program, students visit a Daintree Rainforest research station and canopy crane and collect data on water quality and macroinvertebrates, participate in an environmental debate about a proposed development in Cairns and discuss traditional land uses with Indigenous guides. On the reef program, customers travel to Fitzroy island for geography activities and visiting the turtle rehab centre. They also track coral bleaching and predators at the outer Great Barrier Reef.
Building Leaders
5 days/4 nights; $1479 per student. This trip focuses on developing leadership skills with a “learn by doing” focus. The exhilaration of navigating an urban challenge, learning to abseil, or snorkelling for the first time will produce courage and confidence. And building a raft together, helping one another through an obstacle course or paddling as a team down white water rapids will foster a sense of teamwork and cooperation. A naturalist guide will introduce you to the area’s World-Heritage rainforest chock full of unique wildlife, ferns, flowers and hidden waterfalls and an Indigenous guide will give you his perspective on his rainforest country.
Outback Reef & Rainforest
7 days/6 nights; $2196 per student. This tour encompasses three diverse regions within one compact trip: the Aussie outback, The Daintree Rainforest, and the Great Barrier Reef. Students swim under waterfalls, learn about medicinal plants in the rainforest, sail to the reef for snorkeling, take part in an option community service project and learn about art and culture from Kuku Yalanji Indigenous people.
Marine Studies & Biology
4 days/3 nights; $1138 per student. Marine science in paradise! A marine biologist introduces students to some of the planet’s greatest biodiversity, and overnight on a tropical island adds depth to their marine science studies discovering the diversity of marine life at the reef. Activities include a visit to James Cook University’s marine labs, mangrove studies, the turtle rehab centre, citizen science through data collection, and camping on Fitzroy Island.
Community Service & Sustainability
9 days/8 nights; $3197 per student. On this educational excursion, students witness sustainability ventures in many forms: a bio-dynamic dairy farm, a self-sustaining aquaponics system, a grassroots Indigenous tourism business, a wildlife rescue centre and an “eco” sailboat to the reef. A presentation from a climate change expert and a debate about a highly controversial environmental issue rounds out the sustainability studies. Students also plant native trees and monitor the reef as a way to exemplify an “eco-tourist” and leave the area a bit better than when they arrived.
Sydney Discovery
5 days/4 nights; $1648 per student. The highlights of Sydney. A perfect stand-alone trip for international visitors, or great as an add-on to another Queensland based trip. Activities include a day trip to the Blue Mountains, a walk with an Indigenous guide in the Rocks, Bondi Beach, a cruise to Manly and the optional Sydney Urban Challenge.
Sustainability Warriors
5 days/4 nights, $1398 per student. On this student excursion in Queensland’s far north, you discover how “sustainability” takes many forms. Hands-on activities on this trip include native tree planting, assembling hygiene packs for the homeless, monitoring coral bleaching at the Great Barrier Reef and making crafts with the elderly–all projects that help people and the planet. This syncs in with Sustainability Studies in the new Australian Curriculum.
Tropical Adventure for International Students
5 days/4 nights; $1635 per student. This fully supervised tour introduces international students to the tropical rainforest and The Great Barrier Reef. This is a perfect way to meet other international exchange students. Students swim under waterfalls, meet the locals at an outback cattle station, learn about Indigenous culture and hold a koala. Students snorkel at Great Barrier Reef with our marine biologist guide. This is run only during NSW holidays.
International Baccalaureate CAS Tour
8 days/7 nights; $2599 per student. On this trip we honour students of International Baccalaureate’s Creativity, Activity and Service (CAS) program. To fulfil their commitment to being active, inventive and helpful to the community, IB students will find themselves engaged in a host of unique and character-building activities. Students create dot art with an Indigenous guide, plant native trees to revitalise degraded land, and learn to snorkel among a rainbow of life at the Great Barrier Reef. They work as a team to build a raft, to clean mangroves that serve as marine life nurseries, and to monitor the success of a Daintree Rainforest revegetation plot.
Ecosystems & Global Biodiversity: Reef
4 days/3 nights; $1096 per student. Both of these trips focus on the Australian geography curriculum – biodiversity hotspots that are in danger. On the rainforest program, students visit a Daintree Rainforest research station and canopy crane and collect data on water quality and macroinvertebrates, participate in an environmental debate about a proposed development in Cairns and discuss traditional land uses with Indigenous guides. On the reef program, customers travel to Fitzroy island for geography activities and visiting the turtle rehab centre. They also track coral bleaching and predators at the outer Great Barrier Reef
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QLD - Tropical North Queensland Region