Adventure Travel and Unique Tours Information

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Adventure Travel can be defined as intentionally challenging.

Top 5 Activities
 
1.    Climbing      
2.    Whitewater Rafting      
3.    Adventure Travel - Multisport      
4.    Mountain Biking      
5.    Hiking-Trekking/Wilderness Travel     


Advice for the Adventure Traveler

Many travellers look for unique travel adventures. They want to discover relatively untouched and unspoiled lands, experience different customs, reach new understandings of the world, see exotic flora and fauna, or extend the limits of their physical capabilities. These activities are exciting. But they can also be dangerous.

By doing your homework before you leave, you minimize the chances of something going wrong. Take the time to learn about your destination and what you are about to do. Most of all, before you undertake a trip that will test you mentally and physically, make sure you know yourself. Is this what you want to do? Is this something you are capable of doing?

Bungee Jumping (Living on the Edge)

Bungee Jumping (Living on the Edge)

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Train! Yes The Train

  • RAIL TOURS - Mexico's Copper Canyon
    Los Mochis to Chihuahua on a pristine, fabulous sightseeing journey through the Sierra Madre Mountain range - see the Tumahara Indian Tribe (like no other on earth-come find out why!) and visit Pancho Villa's home. Special rail cars make for wonderful sightseeing.
  • The Trains of Australia
    Adelaide to Alice Springs on "The Ghan"-Experience the awesome mystery of Australia's Red Centre. This famous desert train travels 1555 kilometers in 20 hours. Relive the golden age of train travel.
  • Eastern and Orient Express
    Singapore, Asia's "Garden City" where you board the deluxe rail cars and embark on a 1200 mile journey to Bangkok, through Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia {the train station itself magnificent!) and into Thailand, with the scenery unfolding before a tableau of peaked roofs, Buddhist temples, lakes rivers and canals under canopies of water lilies...ALL ABOARD!
  • Rovos Rail's Pride of Africa and the World Famous "Blue Train"
    Rovos Rail takes you from Pretoria, South Africa through the historical Transvaal. The itineraries appeal to game lovers, romantics, steam-rail enthusiasts and sophisticated travellers.

    Take the Blue Train-as the song says...From Johannesburg to Capetown or reverse-Luxury and sightseeing-wonderful!

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Adventure Vacations: A 50-State Guide

Adventure Vacations: A 50-State Guide to Rock Climbing, Horseback Riding, Spelunking, Whitewater Rafting, Snorkeling, Hang Gliding and Ballooning

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Rock Climbing, Horseback Riding, Spelunking, Whitewater Rafting, Snorkeling, Hang Gliding and Ballooning

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Achievable Dream - The Motorcycle Adventure

Travel Guide - DVD1 - Get Ready!

Achievable Dream - Motorcycle Adventure Travel Guide - Get Ready!

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Grant and Susan Johnson, 11 years Round The World veterans and founders of Horizons Unlimited, the worldwide #1 website for motorcycle adventure travel, bring you The Achievable Dream - the most comprehensive, definitive guide on DVD for planning your motorcycle adventure.

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The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas

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