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Experiences that change your perspective.

It all begins with a wild idea.

At Thoughtful, we organize trips for some of the most interesting and life changing experiences in the world.

We want to help you better understand the wild world we live in and experience things you never thought were possible.

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Our guiding principles

We strive to share incredible experiences with you.

Many of these experiences take place in spectacular wild areas.

This means that we also have a responsibility for how we care for these places.

We seek to meet wildlife on their terms. We strive to minimize invasiveness and value quality over quantity.

With luck, we believe this trust built with our wild hosts can create truly life changing moments.

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2025 Experiences

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Orcas and Winter Whales in Norway

January 12th - 18th, 2025 (Sold Out)

January 17th - 23rd, 2025 (Sold Out)

Lofoten Extension: January 23rd - 26th, 2025 (Sold Out)

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Sperm Whale families and culture in Dominica

April 30th - May 4th, 2025 (Sold Out)

May 4th - May 10th, 2025 (3 spots left)

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Amazonian River Dolphins in the flooded forests of Brazil

June 8th - 14th, 2025 (Sold Out)

June 15th - 21st, 2025

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Uganda gorillas, chimpanzees, & rafting on the Nile

Primate Treks Focus: July 5th - 13th, 2025 (2 spots left)

Complete Itinerary: July 13th - 24th, 2025 (3 spots left)

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Humpbacks in spectacular Niue

September 6th - 13th, 2025 (1 spot left)

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We take you farther

My name is Alex Pham.

I started Thoughtful to help people experience incredible, perspective-changing moments, while going deeper in each destination that we visit.

I want to help you find more of what makes the world such a joyful place.

If you want to learn a bit more about me — well, it’s a long story.

I’ve been fortunate enough to have led incredible wildlife experiences from Argentina to Norway to Uganda. I have a particular love for whales and the ocean.

Before Thoughtful, I advised government policymakers, invested in social impact businesses in Africa and Asia, and lived in 10 countries.

And now I get to meet incredible, inspiring people (like you) and help you do things you never thought were possible before.

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