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Interested in Adventure Travel? Start Your Search. Get them to a hospital at Home with a Medjet Membership. Back to top. What is adventure travel, anyway? Keep reading: 5 countries to visit for the best hikes in the world 9 awesome types of adventures for Being a hip world citizen and keeping your heart rate up both come down to finding the freshest, funkiest types of adventures the universe has to offer.

Safari Is there anything like being within arms reach of a lion to prickle your senses and make you feel alive? Yoga Not all types of adventures involve death-defying antics. Multi-adventure travel Why choose one when you can have them all?

Laos Just a hop-skip-jump away from the well-traveled tourist paths of SE Asia, Laos remains relatively undiscovered, to the delight of adventure travelers.

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I like to be on my own. I need team support. I prefer to be alone, but sometimes its fun to share the pain. I like to work alone, but I don't mind if competition surrounds me. Percy Fawcett. Robert Peary. Jacques Cousteau. Sean Conway. It took awhile, but I can.

No, that's why I have friends. I don't need a fire. I know how to make a trap. Yes, since I was a kid. Does fishing count? I learned when I was a scout as a kid. I can figure it out. Fish is gross. I go for a lot of long walks. All the time. Cardio, abs, bulking up. Not much, but I am naturally strong. I run a lot. I'm a swimmer.

I enjoy running. I can jog to the mailbox. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Twitter - Facebook. I just wished more Americans would get out there. In comparison of people from other well developed OECD countries It just seems like there is a lack of sense of adventure, curiosity or wonderment from Americans.

Partly because most Americans are lucky to get 1 or 2 weeks vacation a year, and along with a declining standard of living with less disposable income. Although there is some of that where we here in the States are conditioned by our fear rmongering media that makes it appear that the rest of the world is far more dangerous then the safety of our US perimeters. I really thought that the article was well-written and thought-provoking, Candice. I can relate to some of the reasons you list.

My over-riding experience is to visit many places, meet new people, see wonderful sights and go to my maker for having been fortunate enough to have seen so much.

I always say after a trip that if I do not go on another trip for whatever reason I will look back and say that I have seen and done so much more than one could hope for when I started out becoming the adventurous tourist! A really good piece. The chance to meet completely different people with completely attitudes and outlooks on life to you is one of the delights of adventure travelling. Hi there! This article could not be written any better! Looking through this post reminds me of my previous roommate!

He always kept preaching about this. I appreciate you for sharing! Unfortunately I could not buy the Daily News paper on the day my feature on Adventure Tourism appeared. But I read it on line. Today 22 August I found your message. Almost every Wednesday one of my features appears in the Daily News. At the moment I write on Greek Epics.

Thanks, Kaviratne. I read your article when I was planning to write a feature on Adventure Tourism relevant to Sri Lanka. I found important points for my information. Hope to hear from you. An impressive share! I have just forwarded this onto a colleague who had been conducting a little research on this. And he actually ordered me dinner simply because I found it for him… lol. So let me reword this…. Thanks for the meal!! But yeah, thanks for spending the time to talk about this issue here on your website.

I think the other side of the coin is that without eco-travel, many of the national parks and preserves around the world would not be possible.

Is it even possible for the ordinary person with a family to live a life where they spend their life traveling the world learning without being ridiculously wealthy?

Is it possible?