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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Backroads Adventure Travel Trips for Hiker, Bikers and Multisport Fans
Backroads, founded in 1979, is an active travel company that offers 300 itineraries, including biking, walking/hiking, multisport, and Insider Trips, which shift the focus from physical activity to in-depth cultural explorations. Seventy-five percent of Backroads guests have traveled with Backroads before or were referred by a friend.

Adventure Travel - BikeHike Adventures
BikeHike Adventures is for travelers addicted to exploring the outdoors during multi-sport adventures. The company offers trips to Costa Rica, Peru, Vietnam and other countries with a focus on going well off-the-beaten path and learning about local cultures.

Adventure Travel -- Ecotourism and Nature Trips With International Expeditions
International Expeditions offers small-group eco-tours and nature travel trips to exotic locations including the Amazon, Egypt, Galapagos, India and Kenya during the annual animal migration.

Adventure Travel Trips and Vacations With Travcoa
Looking for luxury tours filled with adventures? Travcoa offers escorted tours, custom vacations and luxury private jet trips.

Searching for Off-the-Beaten Path Adventure Travel: Visit Intrepid Travel
Intrepid Travel is a niche adventure travel company that focuses on taking travelers off the beaten track in Asia, and in the Antarctica. Many of their trips are cheap, because travelers stay in the same accommodations as locals do.

Family Trips With Adventures By Disney
When you hear the word "Disney," do you only think of Mickey Mouse and Disneyland? Adventures By Disney is a company that offers imaginative family vacations throughout the world.

Adventure Travel - Hands Up Holidays Blends Adventure and Volunteer Vacations
Hands Up Holidays runs many high-end, luxury volunteer adventure trips to 32 countries throughout Africa, Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe and the Pacific. Groups are as small as two and no larger than 12.

Adventure Travel - Access Trips Offers Adventure Sports in Exotic Locations
Access Trips is an adventure travel company that offers adventure sports instruction in exotic destinations ranging from Japan and Turkey to Slovenia and Patagonia.

Trip Insurance Might Save You Money
The more expensive the trip, the more you should consider purchasing trip insurance.

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