We are a full service travel agency. We book flights and tours all over the globe,including cruises, cars, hotels, rail, and packages. We are well traveled and used to being cost conscious. We handle corporate, active and luxury travel. We are available on Saturdays as well as during the week, but by appointment. Call us at 510-848-9000 to set up a time, if that works best for you.
The world is yours to explore! Our tours connect you with real people, living traditional lives and leading their communities in preserving their culture and environment while fostering education, health and self sustaining livelihood. You will truly be a part of the life, rhythm and spirit of the places you visit, and come away with deepened understanding of other cultures' beauty, challenges, and the amazing people who are coming together to build a better world community. It's travel with a purpose...understanding, sharing beauty, and supporting endeavors toward improving the world.
We invite you to take a look around.... to learn more about us in the year 2010, our 30th year in the travel business. We are still here, and we intend to stick around to serve you the best we can. Our Travel Agency is located at 1824 Euclid Avenue, just a few steps from the north gate of the University of California at Berkeley.
At Vaya we create exceptional private guided tours in South and Central America, Africa, Europe, Asia, Antarctica and the Arctic. Each journey is tailor-made by our deeply knowledgeable Destination Specialists, who weave in best-in-class private local guides, thoughtfully designed excursions and truly superb accommodations, resulting in adventures that get you off the beaten path. We carefully handpick top-notch family run properties, boutique hotels, historic haciendas, safari camps, eco-lodges and the finest small expedition ships. Whether you choose one of our suggested itineraries or opt for a completely customized adventure, Vaya will help you get to truly know these extraordinary places and the people that call them home. Since our start in 2004, we’ve been dedicated to culturally and environmentally responsible travel. Vaya is a leader in supporting conservation and community-based initiatives in the destinations we take our travelers. For example, Vaya’s founder and president, Jim Lutz, serves as president of the International Galápagos Tour Operators Association (IGTOA), a nonprofit organization of 40 companies that is focused on protecting the fragile Galapagos Islands ecosystems while improving education and opportunities for the people who live there. Over 98% of our travelers would recommend us to a friend or travel with us again. Why not find out for yourself why?
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Visit Cuba with Vaya! Vaya arranges personalized trips to Cuba based on your interests, your passions and your curiosity. Cuba is rich in multi-cultural and multi-racial art and history. Whether it is music, history, food or the growing entrepreneurial movement, we are connected. You choose; we make it happen.
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We specialize in boutique cruises, captivating hotels, luxury destination, intriguing escapes & much more. We have a worldwide network of colleagues and connections, multiple resources, and preferred partner relationships to serve you.
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