Our 10 Best Wildlife Encounters
One of the greatest things about swimming outdoors is the chance to share your strokes with wildlife! From cruising with whale sharks in Indonesia to watching marine iguanas in the Galapagos, we're sharing a selection of our 10 favourite encounters with wildlife from the past 20 years of...
Find Your Perfect: Greek Island
From rare wildlife to ancient ruins, each idyllic Greek Island offers something different... For every swimmer there's a Greek Island seemingly made for your needs. In this blog, we explore each one with a view to delivering you to your own personal paradise. From lunar-like Milos to the...
Our 7 Best Trips For Non-swimmers
Believe it or not, we don’t just cater for swimmers on our semi-aquatic trips around the world… This selection of our best trips for non-swimmers are ideal for those of you who aren't looking to get watered. Culture seekers, trail hikers, stargazers and bird watchers - we've got something...
'The Girl That Does Those Crazy Swims': Maya Merhige (Interview)
'I swim for each and every single person that has ever been touched by cancer...' Scoping out the Ocean's Seven as a high school senior is something outside the realms of imagining for most of us. Yet Maya Merhige is not your typical classmate. Aged 16, this Californian marathon...
3 Key Questions: Improve Swimming Technique
What 3 questions are SwimTrek coaches asked most often? Every year we run Coaching Camps around the world. We speak to every species of swimmer you could imagine. Of course, our world-class coaches hear all kinds of questions too. In this blog, we've picked out 3 questions that keep coming...
10 Things To Know Before Your First Swimming Holiday
Our active holidays are safe, comfortable and always exciting. You don’t have to take our word for it, we’ve picked out insights from SwimTrekkers last year to help introduce you to your first ever swimming trip... Newcomers, fear not, we all have the same concerns when we join our first...
How To: Choose A Wetsuit For Open Water Swimming
Our team of world-class, qualified coaches here at SwimTrek know a thing or two about picking the right gear for a swim. We asked Head Coach, Shaun, his top tips on how to choose the right wetsuit for open water swimming... I’m often asked about how to choose the 'Perfect Swimmer's...
Where To Swim If…
Some say swimmers are solitary creatures who sink happily into the subaqueous muffle of life with our ears submerged. Maybe there’s some truth to that, but one thing our trips have shown us these past 20 years is that swimmers also love to hit the chop in numbers! Of course, there are all kinds...
A-Z: World’s Best Swim Spots
Get ready for another watery meander around the world! This time, we’ve prepared an alphabetised selection of the World’s Best Swim Spots, from the vine-encircled cenotes of Mexico to the wave-slammed ocean pools of Australia... Anbaraa Island, The Maldives Our Maldives trip takes place in some...
Around The World In 80 Swims (Part Four)
For the final time, we're ready to launch ourselves headfirst into another 20 astonishing adventures in seas, rivers, lakes, ponds - you name it! It's the final stretch in our open water odyssey with fresh entries every Thursday. We hope you enjoy Part Four of this global feature series:...
