Above and below: Senior Tour Leader and Borneo Explorer Tours Director Alison Pritchard feeling right at home.
Above: Gene Hardy - Borneo Explorer Tours Director and Eco Tourism Advocate.
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Passionate People
Borneo Explorer Tours has been set up by travellers for travellers who want to immerse themselves in the nature and culture of the lands they travel.
Borneo Explorer Tours has built its business through connections established by its founders Alison Pritchard and Gene Hardy, who fell in love with serving adventure minded clients in exotic gorgeous natural settings. Borneo Explorer Tours now partners with local businesses and people who share their ethos for protection and contribution. In doing so, Borneo Explorer Tours assures you of an authentic and meaningful journey into the mesmerising heart of Borneo.
Alison Pritchard - Senior Tour Leader and Director
alison@borneoexplorertours.com.au
As a longtime traveller and adventurer, Alison jumped at the chance to live and work in Borneo managing Mulu National Park and World Heritage Area in 2014. Alison spent her late teens and twenties roaming the world’s distant corners, before returning to Western Australia to live in the wild Kimberley region. Back in the city in Perth, she enjoyed managing Yanchep National Park but yearned for more adventure.
Moving to Borneo’s Sarawak region was life changing for Alison. In all her life and travels she had never felt so connected to a land and its people. Under the spell of its wild reaches – immense jungle canopies home to a wild assortment of animals, from enormous butterflies to endearing orangutans and the hilariously designed proboscis monkeys. And the people! Never before have she encountered people so quick to welcome strangers, to truly connect with them and to warm hearts with their dazzling smiles.
When the time came for Alison to leave Borneo, she vowed that she would return and, when she did, she would come back and work for the people of Borneo - not them for her. She would get her hands dirty and bring others who share her passion to make a difference to lives and lands in this culturally, geographically, environmentally rich part of the world.
Borneo Explorer Tours guides travellers into the pulsing heart of Borneo, giving you a taste of its major attractions while also revealing hidden treasures in vibrant backstreets and in the pristine depths of its jungles. You’ll never forget the spectacle of great flocks of bats filling the sky as they pour from Deer cave, or the enchanting feel of the jungle alive with dazzlingly coloured butterflies and birds and howling troupes of monkeys.
Gene Hardy - Director
gene@borneoexplorertours.com.au
Gene Hardy was born in Margaret River, Western Australia and has an extraordinary knowledge of the multi-day hiking and adventure tourism industry. Prior to becoming one of the directors at Borneo Explorer Tours, Gene travelled and worked worldwide as a journalist for various sporting publications, developed environmental, interpretive and team building programs in both Australia and the UK and worked for a number of Conservation agencies and NGO’s in the South West of Australia.
In 2010 Gene set up Explorer Tours Pty. Ltd. and started trading as Cape to Cape Explorer Tours (CCET). CCET has won numerous local and state tourism awards, including Business of the year at the Regional Telstra Small Business Awards in 2017 and Gold in the Ecotourism Category at the Perth Airport WA Tourism Awards.
Gene has a Bachelor’s Degree in Communications and a Diploma in Education and is also a keen waterman and has represented Western Australia a number of times surfing, playing underwater hockey and won the World Wooden Bellyboarding Championships at Chapelporth Beach, UK in 2005. Gene sites trekking the Peruvian Inca Trail in 2005 as his life’s hiking highlight, though parts of the Cape to Cape Track in WA and South Coast Track in TAS come pretty close!