founder of Davarian's Expedition Photography, expphoto.com
Welcome to Davarian's Expedition Photography.
Your guides are those like yourself...on a Journey a passage among friends who share the adventure of travel.
Long before tourists backpack their way across Andes Mountain trails, before they river raft river canyon rapids, and prior to tourists arriving by river canoes to remote jungle lodges, special exploratory teams take on the challenges of the Andes and Amazon to establish new adventure destinations.
Since the 1970's Expedition Photography together with fellow adventurers, photographers, and travel writers have organized treks throughout Peru, to the Amazon and Andes Mountains, to the coastal ruins and Pacific beaches of South America, and throughout the beautiful islands of the Caribbean.
Our mission is to share information about adVenture Travel. Come with us to Peru, a most wondrous and exciting destination for adventure, archaeology, and nature.
DAVARIAN HALL:
Founder of Davarian's Expedition Photography. As an accomplished photographic printer, stock photographer, and travel writer Davarian's work has been publish in numerous publications and web sites.
Over 29+ years he has traveled Peru, including 12-years as a marketing director in the travel tourism industry and for conservation organizations in Peru.
Currently he is the assistant to the director of the conservation NGO Camayoc Foundation in Chachapoyas, Peru.
Writer, story teller, and contemporary novelist, Kit has spent a great deal of his adult life traveling in the developing world, including two years in the Middle East.
Kit has visited nearly all of the world's Islamic countries, and also resided for a time in South America, most recently working in conservation and eco-tourism from Peru.
Renowned as one of the world's foremost expedition photographers, Gordon Wiltsie has climbed Himalayan mountains, mushed dogs on the frozen Arctic Ocean, skied in Antarctica, and hacked through the Amazon jungle to photograph the most remote reaches of the planet.
His book To The Ends Of The Earth has won critical acclaim.
Gordon recently won the 2008 Lowell Thomas Award for best Magazine Travel Photography for his images in Vanishing Breed, National Geographic Adventure, March 2008.
Don Queralto has been documenting historical buildings, structures and sites for over 35 years.
He has traveled throughout the U.S., the Caribbean and recently Greece, photographing art objects, paintings and sculptures for art galleries, museums and auction houses.
He was a student of architecture at the University of Miami and was influenced by Wilson Hicks and Phillip Brodatz, who was a mentor and taught him Photogrammetry Techniques including "Photo drawings."
Anthropologist Peter Lerche, author, historian, explorer, and authority on the religious world of pre-Inca Chachapoya, has lived in Chachapoyas, Peru, over the past 29 years.
Dr. Lerche's work as Director of the Department of Conservation of Archaeological Monuments and his research studying the Chachapoyas culture have resulted in the establishment of The Camayoc Foundation.
Juan Carlos Palomino Berndt is recognized by the South American Explorer's Club as one of the best naturalist guides for the Amazon.
Owner of Vilaya Tours, Chachapoyas Peru.
16+ years experience in the Andes Mountains. Rob is treasurer of the Amazonas Guides and the Amazonas Tour Operators Associations. He now lives permanently in Chachapoyas with his wife (reknowned for her unique Vilaya Tours box lunches) and daughter.
16+ years experience in the Andes Mountains. Rob is treasurer of the Amazonas Guides and the Amazonas Tour Operators Associations. He now lives permanently in Chachapoyas with his wife (reknowned for her unique Vilaya Tours box lunches) and daughter.
Left to the Spirit of adventure are the chance, fortune, danger, and luck of each day's journey. The passage is Vision, Imagination, and Perseverance.
Each team of our Adventure Expedition includes experts on natural history and/or archaeology, skilled wilderness guide that hosts the trek (Spanish and English speaking), local guides for specific areas, professional travel writer/photographer, all support personnel for camping, cooking, transport, and a special invitation to adventure-minded participants such as yourself.
Davarian's Expedition Photography is a cooperative alliance between the top travel operators, conservation organizations, and travel service companies who stand for the highest principles of conservation in Peru:
Amazonia Expeditions • Expedition Photography
World Class Travel Services • The Camayoc Foundation
Amazon Refuge S.A.
Travel arrangements are coordinated by our longtime friends at: World Class Travel Services Inc.
BOB TODD:
Owner of World Class Travel Services, Inc, (WCT) in Gainesville, Florida.
Establish WCT in 1983: Moon Handbook to Peru recognizes WCT: "is a leading seller of consolidated tickets and arranges professional, well-organized tours."
Establish WCT in 1983: Moon Handbook to Peru recognizes WCT: "is a leading seller of consolidated tickets and arranges professional, well-organized tours."