QuickTips Index
Adventure Travel Trips with Austin-Lehman Adventures
Looking for a company that offers personalized, reasonably priced adventure travel trips that are limited to 12 people? Here's where to learn more about adventure travel with Austin-Lehman Adventures
Adventure Travel With Geographic Expeditions
Geographic Expeditions offers adventure travel and vacations around the globe. The varied adventures are to remote and challenging destinations since 1981, offers a varied portfolio of overland tours, treks, walks, and expeditionary voyages to the world's most astonishing places.
Train to Machu Picchu, One of New 7 Wonders of the World
The train ride to Machu Picchu from Cuzco brings out flavors of the rural lifestyle in Peru centuries ago. You'll travel through the the foothills of the Andes Mountains and across plains where locals farm on terraces built by the Incas.
Cliff Diving Is An Extreme Sport
Cliff diving - soaring off cliffs up to 80-feet high into lakes and oceans is an extreme sport, for sure. Here's where to learn more about cliff diving and see some great images of cliff divers soaring into lakes and oceans.
Find Philanthropic Adventure Travel with Elevate Destinations
If you're looking for a company that combines adventure travel with making a difference to destination communities, check out Elevate Destinations.
Get Outdoors During the Annual National Trails Day
During the annual National Trails Day, every June, hundreds of events take place around the country including hiking, biking, trail maintenance, horseback riding and paddling down streams. Here's where to find an event or activity near you.
Play Award-Winning Tom Fazio Golf Course in Southern California
The award-wining Montesoro is a private Tom Fazio designed course in southern California, but guests at the Borrego Ranch Resort & Spa can book a tee time. Montesoro is not your typical desert course: It’s simply one of the most beautiful courses around. The fairways roll through the desert like a green carpet with cacti and floral border.
Scuba Diving Treasure Hunters Can Dive the Atocha Trail with Mel Fisher
Would you like the chance to go home with up to $2,500 of treasure from the Nuestra Senora de Atocha, a Spanish galleon that sank Key West, Florida, during a hurricane in 1622? Mel Fisher’s Treasures, is offering a limited number of scuba diving treasure hunters the opportunity to spend a week learning about treasure hunting, scuba diving at the site of the Atocha.
Alpine Adventures Zip Line and Treetop Canopy Tours
Alpine Adventures zip lines and treetop canopy tours show you northern New Hampshire from above. Take your choice between racing your friends as you ride dual zip lines, or taking the Treetop Canopy Tour, a six-zip line trip.
Find the Best Whitewater River Rafting Trips at Rafting America
A one-stop source for whitewater rafting trips. Rafting America is a gateway Web site to 20 popular companies that offer river rafting trips in the United States, Canad and South America.
REI Adventures Offers Great Active Travel Trips
REI Adventures offers great active travel trips, such as canoeing on a lake here in the U.S., cycling in Vietnam, or sea kayaking and hiking in Croatia. And, these are just a few of the 90plus weekend-to-multiweek trips offered by REI Adventures, part of the REI that has more than 80 stores in the U.S. chock-full of equipment and clothing for adventure travelers.
Find Adventure Travel Specialists at Tripology
Consider Tripology a matchmaker! Adventure travelers will like the Tripology Web site because it's designed to quickly connect prospective travelers with up to three travel agents who specialize in the type of trip you are seeking, at no cost to you.
Luxury France Bike Tours With Digngo
Digngo specializes in luxury, tailor made bike tours focused exclusively on France. Based in Switzerland, Digngo offers luxury, tailor made vacations to France, including the Burgundy wine region, the Loire valley and its amazing chateaux, the island of Corsica, and Alsace.
Adventure Race on Ice - Red Bull Crashed Ice Skates Into Quebec City
Ever hear about the Red Bull Crashed Ice, an adventure race on skates? The race takes place on a 550-meter ice-track that not only winds its way through the Old Quarter in Quebec City, but includes a series of high-speed hairpin turn s, big-air jumps, drop-offs, and gaps.
Primal Quest Adventure Travel Race Tests Endurance
Arguably one of the ultimate adventure travel races, the grueling Primal Quest comes to South Dakota's Badlands August 15, 2009.
Golf Adventure - Secret Golf Course on the Hawaiian Island of Kauai
You might think cheap golf on Kauai, Hawaii, is an oxymoron, when so many courses cost $100 to $200 or more for a round. At Kukuiolono, it's just $9 for the right to play all day! (Plus $3 for a hand cart or $9 for a gas cart.) Thank Walter McByde.
A Surf School in Costa Rica for Women: Pura Vida Adventures
Looking for a surf school in Costa Rica? Pura Vida Adventures offers surf camps and yoga retreats primarily for women. The week-long surf schools offers individually designed surfing instruction. Surfers stay in beachfront villas.
Adventure Travel with Mountain Travel Sobek
Mountain Travel Sobek is a leader in adventure travel. This company introduces active travelers to the world’s best adventure destinations, from Alaska to Antarctica, from Zanzibar to Zambia, believing any fit, active, flexible person can embark on a walking expedition with a small group to the highest mountains in the world, when led by experienced outdoor guides who know the region intimately.
Tour Operators and Resort Properties Offer Discounted Trips
Here are some links to tour operators and resorts to find bargains for adventure travel (and more sedate) – vacations.
Big-Name Travel Websites Specialize in Deals and Bargains
Even the big-name travel sites, as well as ShermansTravel.com and TravelZoo.com are good routes for searching out bargains for adventure travel (and more sedate) – vacations.
Voluntourism -- A Web Site About Volunteer Travel and Volunteer Vacations
Voluntourism.org is a gateway to learning more about taking volunteer vacations, and the site lists specific trips that let you combine volunteerism and travel.
Pacsafe Anti-theft Purses and Theft Proof Travel Gear Keep Your Valuables Safe
If you want to keep anything from your passport and camera to huge backpacks safe, Pacsafe has the anti-theft travel gear for you.
Roaming Where Wild Animals Rule
If you’re hiking or mountain biking in the woods, up a mountain or in the desert and you see wildlife always keep in mind that they are original inhabitants, not you!
Make Travel Postcards From Your Digital Photos at HazelMail.com
Would you like to turn those digital images of your adventures into personalized travel postcards? It's easy to do at HazelMail, where you can add addresses and postage online, then print them out and toss them in the mail, whether traveling or at home.
Mimic Amazing Race teams on a zip line tour in Thailand
Contestants in Amazing Race Asia 3 flew along the Flight of the Gibbon ziplines in Thailand and you can, too. You’ll go from one zip line to another during this canopy tour through a rainforest near Chiang Mai