Adventure travel specialist Jonny Bealby says, “walk the back streets”

Mark Pawlak    Adventure Sports & Travel Thoughts, ash, mountainbikingholidays, New Adventure Travel Ideas, overlandholidays, trekkingholidays, Tribe Adventure Travel Blogs     Adventure Sports, Adventure Travel, china, cultural holidays, indepenedent travel, Overland tours, Syria, tours, travelling, trekking, Uzbekistan

There are a few countries that people simply never visit: some are dangerous, others just exist well beyond the imagination of regular travellers.

Jonny and Chia - Rampur

And it’s in these places where you’ll find the essence of travel. Looking for danger is a fool’s game; travelling in search of adventure, well that’s what it’s all about.

Having established award-wining travel company Wild Frontiers, Jonny Bealby is a man who researches, visits and explores the routes that later become his firm’s travel packages. Just returned from a mountainbiking holiday in Syria, he’s already packing for his next excursion. read more

Adventure sports romance – 5 places to pop the question

Mark Pawlak    Adventure Sports & Travel Thoughts, New Adventure Travel Ideas     Adventure Sports, Adventure Travel, proposal, Travel, Valentine's day

As its Valentine’s Day, we thought to look at the places where adventure sports people could pop the question. Why do it in the pub or at a party when you’ve got Peru or Parachuting to pick from?

On top of a mountain

Photo from Flickr user: M. Janicki

Just about any mountain will do. It could be Everest after a short trekking holiday in Nepal, or even one of the Lake District’s peaks after a day walk. Popping the question on top of a hill is one of the best ways to do it. Why? Well, having made it up there you’ll both be elated, your hearts thumping, with broad beaming smiles; a great time then to dig that ring box out of the waterproof case in the bottom of your day sack – and as you can be completely alone, you will also avoid any embarrassment should it go wrong! read more

Beating the new flight charges

Mark Pawlak    Adventure Sports & Travel Thoughts, New Adventure Travel Ideas     cheap flights, Flight problems, Travel, travel tips

Regular fliers will have spotted new charges appearing on the check-in experience. Although, with a little planning these can easily be avoided.

If, like us, you travel regularly, you’ll already be well aware of the ever stringent weight restrictions.

Photo from Flickr user: Alex E. Proimos

So, as clever travellers you probably seek out the empty check-in desk, then drop your hold bag on to see if you’ve made the weight.

The digital readout reveals you’ve either under-packed, which is good news, or your bag is too fat to fly and you’ll have to start shuffling items into other luggage.

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The Ultimate Round the World Trip

Mark Pawlak    Adventure Sports & Travel Thoughts, ash, New Adventure Travel Ideas     Adventure Sports, Adventure Travel, everest, extreme sports, gap year, kitesurfing, Overlanding, round the world, rtw trip, Scuba Diving, skydiving, Surfing, trekking

When booking a round the world trip we all have a budget. But what if price was no object? What if you could sample the most extreme adventure sports, in the world’s most stimulating environments?

Just where would you go and what would you do? You can tell us in a minute, but for now here it is: our absolute, ultimate, round the world, extreme sports holiday wish list.

Let’s begin in the Indian Ocean, scuba diving in the Maldives, finding our way among the corals and atolls of some of the world’s most impressive dive sites.

From here it’s onwards and upwards, and time for a bit of hard work (we never said it would be easy!). We’re off to trek Kilimanjaro, the highest freestanding mountain in the world…. As the oxygen thins and we push way above the cloud level, it’s soon time for the view of a lifetime. read more

Top Marks for Mercantour National Park

Mark Pawlak    Adventure Sports & Travel Thoughts, ash, New Adventure Travel Ideas     Adventure Sports, France, mountain biking, National parks, Travel News

Mercantour is one of our all-time favourite places, and we are not alone. In the widely respected Lonely Planet guide the French national park made top ranking. And it’s little wonder why.

If you’ve never heard of the place, take a look below. And if you have a national park in mind that you think has talents to match, just let us know.

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South Africa 2010 World Cup Sports Holidays

Lianne    New Adventure Travel Ideas     cape town, football, kitesurfing, shark diving, World Cup

World Cup 2010 in South Africa

We will be counting down the days to the World Cup, 100 days from today!

We’re getting quite excited, booking our days off in order to watch and root for our team. Unfortunately we’re unable to physically watch the games in South Africa, fingers crossed we’ll have a hot summer and we won’t notice the difference!

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New Adventure Travel Holidays added!

Lianne    New Adventure Travel Ideas     Adventure, Companies, Holidays, Travel, trekking

We are constantly building our network of companies across the globe offering the best Adventure Travel experiences as possible for our customers. We have five new travel companies on the site offering some great adventures from Great Wall of China treks, Sailing on British Virgin Islands waters,  Mountain Treks in Spain, Ice Climbing and many more adventures!

Panda Adventures

Sunsail Yacht Charters

Catalan Adventures

Glacier Guides

Barefoot Panama