QuickTips Index

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.

Lonely Planet Travel Books Are Bibles of Travel Tips and Advice
Lonely Planet travel books include guidebooks for destinations worldwide, language guides, digital guides, audio guides, and travel books filled with advice, photography and personal travel stories.

What Day Is Christmas This Year - Plan Your Vacation Around Christmas Day
When is Christmas this year? Plan your Christmas and Holiday Week vacations ahead using this 2008 - 2017 guide.

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.

You’ll Find Great Adventure Travel Vacations with Gap Adventures
Gap Adventures, which made National Geographic Adventure magazine’s top “Do It All” outfitter list again in the February, 2009, issue, offers a choice of more than 1,200 small group adventure travel trips to all seven continents.

Auction Sites Have Deals and Discounts for Adventure Travel
If your travel dates are flexible, check out these auction sites for deals and discounts on adventure travel (and more sedate) – vacations.

Adventure Travel Web Site - ShermansTravel.com Lists Travel Bargains
Seeking value for your vacation dollars? ShermansTravel.com is a Web site that lists hundreds of travel deals, vacation and cruise packages and airfare bargains.

Find Adventure Travel Trips and Deals on Travelocity
When you're seeking adventure travel trips at good prices try Travelocity.

Want Your Passport Faster? Get It Expedited!
Want your passport faster? Here's how to get your passport application expedited, when you need that document so critical to traveling abroad in a hurry?

Hiking Trails - Free Hiking Trail Tips on TrailLink.com
If you’re looking for hiking tips on where to go, TrailLink has detailed information on more than 30,000 miles of bike trails, walking trails, equestrian trails, and hiking and running trails. On the site, you can customize directions to points along a trail, and share photos, reviews and GPS data.

Find Your Dream Trip at an Adventure Travel Expo
Find your dream trip of a lifetime at one of the Adventures in Travel Expos in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle or Washington DC.

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.

Wife Carrying Contest Winner Wins the Wife's Weight In Beer
Wife Carrying Contests may have started as a joke in Finland, where supposedly a man would court a prospective wife by racing into a village, grabbing her and carrying her off. True or not, today the Wife Carrying World Championships are held in Finland, the North American Wife Carrying Championships are held at Sunday River, Maine, and there are regional contests in other states.

Heli-ski with Mike Wiegele Helicopter Skiing in Canada
When you go heli-skiing with Mike Wiegele Helicopter Skiing, expect the helicopter to drop you off atop powder runs in alpine bowls, slopes or glades, somewhere in the 1.2 million acres of terrain this company has access to in Canada’s Bugaboo and Monashee mountains.

Canadian Mountain Holidays Heli-Ski and Heli-Hike Trips
If heli-skiing or heli-hiking are on your adventure-travel radar, check out the variety of trips offered by Canadian Mountain Holidays (CMH). In the winter this company offers heli-ski for advanced intermediates to expert skiers and snowboarders. In the summer, the heli-hiking trips for novices to experienced hikers and for families. CMH also has mountaineering trips.

Learning Holiday - Edventures are Fun Learning Vacations
Learning Holiday is a gateway to all sorts of learning and educational vacations and trips. On the Learning Vacations Web site you will links to vacations and trips for adventurous travelers who like to learn and volunteer. Cultural immersions with the Maoris in Africa, whale watching in Hawaii, surfing in California and cooking classes in Peru are the merest sampling of the diverse offerings.

Is Red Bull’s Dolomitenmann the World’s Toughest Relay Race?
Arguably the most extreme relay race in the world - the Red Bull Dolomitenmann teams of four to run and mountain bike up and race down the Dolomite Mountains in Austria’s East Tyrol, soar over peaks in a paraglider and kayak on rushing white-water rivers. Here's where to see the action.

Adventure Travelers Will Appreciate The Gear Junkie's Equipment Reviews
The Gear Junkie thrives on expeditions to rugged locales, joining adventure races and testing equipment for hiking, mountain biking, diving and a range of other sports. His site has dozens of honest, thoughtful equipment reviews.

Luggage Limits - Airline Baggage Allowances
Luggage Limits is a free search tool for flight-specific information about baggage allowances and fees. On this Web site, you simply put in airline, the name of the airport you are leaving from and your destination airport, then click.

Adventure Travel Guest Author Greg Witt
As a popular explorer, mountaineer, adventure guide, author, and speaker, guest author Greg Witt is uniquely qualified in the area of Adventure Travel because Greg lives the adventures he writes about.

Fly Jets - Take a Supersonic Jet Flight Over Cape Town, South Africa
If you’ve ever had the urge to touch space, grab a seat on the world's last serviceable English Electric Lightning jet and you’ll fly at almost 1 ½ times the speed of sound. If you don’t want to fly 50,000 feet high, how about handling the controls of an air-to-air combat jet, or being the navigator in a nuclear strike attack bomber?

Take a Zip Line Tour in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada
Summer or winter, you can take a zipline Tour in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. It's a nice break from skiing at the resort with North America's longest vertical, or after a day of hiking or playing golf.

Zip Line Adventures in Tsitsikamma, South Africa
Zipping along 10 zip lines in one trip was a wild intro to the world of zip line adventures. But that’s what you get when you take the Zip Line Adventure at Tsitsikamma Coastal National Park in South Africa. (Adrenalin junkies note: When you’ve done this, head over to Bloukrans Bridge and do the bungie jump.)

Camelbak Better Bottle Is BPA-Free and Spill-Proof
The Camelbak Better Bottle is BPA-free and has the Camelbak patented Big Bite Valve, When the bite valve is up, you just bite slightly and sip it as if you were drinking from a straw. No need to tip it to drink and it’s spill-proof. You can unscrew the top and it’s wide enough to add ice.

Adventure Shows on the Discovery Channel Enitce TV Watchers
Couch potatoes will find a variety of adventure shows on the Discovery Channel. Adventurous travelers can get some tips from watching the Discovery Channel's adventure shows on TV.