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Colca Canyon, Peru, Home of the Giant Condors

In Colca Canyon, Peru, giant condors are at home. Colca Canyon is on of the world's two deepest canyons, and the condors live on the ledges. Life in this remote Peruvian canyon continues at a pace set centuries ago.

VolunTourism - Top Sources for Finding Volunteer Travel and Vacations

These Web sites and companies are the best sources for travelers who want to find and book volunteer travel, service-based travel, or a vacation with a volunteer components

10 Summer Family Vacations in Cool Mountain Resorts

When temperatures climb in the city, head to the mountain resorts for beat-the-heat family vacations.

TSA Allows Carry-on Checkpoint Friendly Laptop Cases and Backpacks

Tired of pulling your laptop and other electronic gear out of your carry-on bag or backpack? TSA won’t make you take your laptop out of these checkpoint friendly bags and backpacks.

Extreme Base Jumpers and Rappellers Love Bridge Day

On Bridge Day in Fayetteville County, WV, base jumpers leap off the New River Gorge Bridge legally, and rappellers zip down their lines toward the water below. It's a spectacular spectator event.

TSA Approved Locks Keeps Suitcases Closed But Not Always Secure

TSA approved locks will keep your suitcase closed as it works its way through the baggage system when you're taking a flight. The Transportation Security Administration guards have the keys to open them, if they want to look inside.

Is Burning Man a Pagan Rite? A Contemporary Woodstock? You Decide

Burning Man. Is it a festival? A Pagan rite? An event? Trying to define the annual Burning Man gathering is like trying to describe what an art festival designed around a bonfire looks like.

Borrego Ranch Resort & Spa in California is a Camp for Adults

If you’re seeking a camp for adults, where you can stretch your body and your mind, check out Borrego Ranch Resort and Spa. At this luxurious oasis in the middle of the Anza-Borrego Desert, California’s largest state park, you’ll get your fill of adrenalin rushes and pampering.

Stalking the Lioness As She Stalks Her Prey

She's so fluid. Lying down, not a muscle twitches, as lion's eyes are riveted on the antelope grazing 300 yards away. They can't see the lioness, but we can. We're following the hunt.

Hiking in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park

AS the cool sandstone walls got closer and closer together until I was forced to remove my backpack and turn sideways to wiggle through, I understood why it was called a slot canyon. I was hiking in the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California's largest state park

Multi-Sport Trips and Vacations Keep the Adrenalin Pumped Up

Here are several companies offering multi-sport trips and vacations guaranteed to keep your adrenalin flowing.

Adventure Races -- Explore the World On a Global Scavenger Hunt

Have you watched the Amazing Race and wondered if -- or were sure you could -- compete? If so, the Great Escape 2009 is looking for globetrotters and adventurous travelers to join its annual Global Scavenger Hunt.

10 Tips to Find National Park Lodging When Rooms Are Scarce

America's national parks are wonderful playgrounds for adventure travelers but finding national park lodging during the summer can be difficult. Here are tips for reserving national park lodging in rooms or cabins, if you want to hike through the hoodoos at Bryce, go rock climbing at Zion, hike on paths that pass geysers at Yellowstone, or seek adventures in other national parks.

The Amazing Race for Ordinary Adventure Travelers

Competitours is the ordinary adventure traveler’s version of the Amazing Race. While contestants on the Amazing Race Television show race around the world, you can enter a Competitours adventure race, designed to challenge you and immerse you in the culture of the countries you are visiting.

Geocaching Treasure Hunt at South Lake Tahoe, California

Joining the annual geocaching treasure at South Lake Tahoe won’t cost you a cent and you could win some great prizes. This family friendly event takes place in June on the lake's south shore where California and Nevada meet.

Mountain Biking On Oahu, Hawaii, Isn’t For Wimps

Mountain biking on Oahu, Hawaii, can be an adventure. Especially when dodging cows, splashing through streams and watching monster movies being made.

National Public Lands Day : Your Change to Give Back

During the annual National Public Lands Days thousands of volunteers help clean-up and fix-up America's trails and national forests that have been worn down by hikers, mountain bikers and ATVs.

The Sheraton Steamboat Slopeside at Steamboat Ski Resort

The Sheraton Steamboat Resort’s metamorphosis was completed this winter, turning a shabby, ageing hotel with a slopeside location into a trendy lodging choice.

Scuba Diving Off the Shore of Curacao

On Curacao, one of the ABC islands that are surrounded by reefs, you just have to walk offshore and swim a few minutes to see colorful coral. There are more than 60 marked sites on this island in the southwestern Caribbean.

Scuba Diving -- Shore Dives and Offshore Dives in the Cayman Islands

The Cayman Islands are one of the premier dive locations in the Caribbean because the seabed falls away in a series of walls very close to the shore.

Scuba Diving -- Scuba Diving Off the Shore of Lady Elliot Island

Just walk off the shore of Lady Elliot Island, a coral cay at the southern end of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, and you can scuba dive among schools of fish, look into the mouth of giant clams and join the parade of fish in the coral canyons.

Scuba Diving -- Scuba Diving Off the Shore of Bonaire

Bonaire, one of the ABC islands in the southwestern Caribbean, is the tip of a submerged mountain whose flanks are lined with coral reefs. There are 86 marked sites where you can just walk offshore and start your dive.

How to Start Scuba Diving

Scuba diving through gardens of colorful coral surrounded by a cloud of fish is like touring an underwater art museum. But before you start scuba diving past coral walls 90-feet deep, or with dolphins or sharks, there's a lot you need to learn.

Winter Speed Festival for Adrenalin Junkies in Alberta, Canada

Adrenaline junkies can jump on the fast track at the annual winter Festival of Speed at Lac La Biche, Alberta, Canada. Whether you're a participant in the car, snowmobile, ATV and motorbike races on the ice-racing tracks, or prefer to be a spectator, you can also go snowmobiling, take a dog sled ride, or try extreme ice fishing.

Antarrctic Cruise - Watch Emperor Penguins Care for Fluffy Chicks

The movie, "Happy Feet," danced its way to box-office records. And, did you see the "March of the Penguins" movie that focuses on how Emperor penguins survive in their hostile environment? Take a Quark Expeditions' Snow Hill Island Safari and you can watch Emperor penguins care for their fluffy chicks.