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About Wildside Travel

WILDSIDE TRAVEL was founded in 2006 as a boredom-buster for founder Andrea Livingston to write and escort her own itineraries.   Her first endeavour was the development of Guided Cycle touring in Samoa – offering the very first and very successful 15 day cycle tours over a 4 year period.  Cycling is now a very established activity for visitors to Samoa.  From this initiative came Event Travel Packages to the Samoa Seas Swim Series, Rarotonga Road Race, Niue Bike Rally, Rarotonga Triathlon, Road Tour of Samoa and recently the Vietnam Mountain Marathon for 'ultra' runners. So the focus is very much ‘Active Holidays for Active people’ and combining holidays with achievements.

Today, WILDSIDE TRAVEL offer a full travel service, alongside a range of Active, Athlete & Sporting event holidays.   Whether you'd like to explore on a walking or cycling holiday locally or abroard, attend a sporting event or maybe you seek your own adventure, but need some help to pull it all together, WILDSIDE TRAVEL enjoy the challenge of itineary creation.

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Go on, take a trip on the Wildside, you'll be glad you did!

Meet the Team

Andrea Livingston

Owner of Wildside Travel

I have worked in the travel Industry now for 25 years.  The last 19 of those have been in the Adventure Travel arena and escorting over 40 tours, the majority being WILDSIDE TRAVEL creations.

I'm a little unconventional, and  much prefer to be gallivanting outdoors given half a chance. I enjoy Road Cycling, Mountain biking, pool or sea swimming, Kayaking, running trails and hiking the alps.    Mildly competitive and always hopeful, this path has led to Adventure Racing, Multisport, Duathlon, Triathlon and Cycle Racing.     Living in the Tasman Region these opportunities are endless and given this sort of background and experience, I have managed to attract a range of New Zealand’s elite Multisporters and Adventure Racers.    These racers are travelling 3 or 4 times a year to high-profile races around the world.  It is imperative I understand their racing needs when they travel and keep a tab on their next move should anything go astray.  Offering Travel Services to these people is an absolute joy, and I struggle to call it work.

Aside from Wildside initiated tours, I like to keep my support going for a range of select holidays I think offer magical travel experiences, not necessarily huge physical challenges, but a uniqueness that can excite further adventures and like journeys. I am particularly fond of the featured Over 50’s Walking holidays in the USA, Sail & Cycle programs in Croatia, Grass Roots touring in Cuba, Bike and paddle options throughout South East Asia, Cycling the back-country of Africa, Madagascar, and Fiji or Mountain biking in North America.  You can often find these featured on my site.

Having lived and worked on many foreign shores… I have slightly diverse tastes, can be a bit wacky and like nothing more than sharing this all with you!   I hope one day you can join me for some 'travel less ordinary' and unique like-minded experiences

• Phone.0800 874 748 or 0274 369 025
• Email.andrea@wildsidetravel.nz

Where we've been

Testimonials

I've been traveling the world extensively for over 20-years competing in adventure sport, having competed in 27-different countries. I learned quickly that in order to compete at maximum potential, efficient and smooth travel is a critical component to performance. Wildside Travel has provided our team with smooth, well organised and cost effective travel since 2011. The nature of our travel and racing often means our needs change and evolve, we often have to adjust our travel plans while overseas and Wildside are always just an email or phone call away, always jumping to action to help us out. We wouldn't consider traveling to race without Wildside support.  The highlight of our relationship was a trip in 2012 that incorporated races in China and France, which earned us the World Championship Title, again in 2014 for a second World Championship Title in Ecuador and again in 2015, a third Title in Brazil and a 4th in Australia 2016.

NATHAN FA'AVAE & TEAM SEAGATE (NZ ADVENTURE RACING TEAM)

Over the past six years I have been multisport and adventure racing all over the world. The adventurous nature of the sport often takes me off the beaten tracks. Andrea at Wildside is fantastic at ensuring I'm at the right place, at the right time, every time. Allowing me to focus on the racing.

TREVOR VOYCE, TEAM SEAGATE

Wildside Travel has been fantastic to deal with, organising all my overseas travel for the last couple of years. Andrea was extremely helpful re-booking my flights back to NZ and sorting out my insurance claim after I injured myself competing in Colombia.

CHRIS FORNE, TEAM SEAGATE

I've been involved with Andrea at Wildside travel since our team started racing internationally 6 years ago. Our sport has taken us to all sorts of obscure places through China, Europe, South America and Central America. Andrea always sorts our itinerary out without a hitch. She's fun and friendly to deal with, and has more than once got us out of a pickle at extremely short notice. I'd recommend Wildside travel to anyone.

SOPHIE HART, TEAM SEAGATE

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