Adventure Travel Vacation
Adventure Travel Vacation questions and answers
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Question: Could you suggest a good US travel (adventure/ vacation) web site.?
I'm travelling throught the US and maybe one with forums would be helpful. I remember Frommers had one, but I just looked and it's been reduced
Answer: http://www.myspace4travel.com
a website for travellers..new...meet fellow travellers
http://www.lonelyplanet.com
has tons of forums
Question: What was the best nature-adventure vacation that you've ever been on?
I'm a college student and am planning on embarking on an adventure-not just a vacation. I hope to do something daring. I've already traveled abroad alone, been to boot camp, and frequently go camping with family, so I need something that really tops it all. These are the best years of my life!!! Well, I love oceans, lakes, and rivers, and don't mind creepy-crawlies or getting a little gritty, so give me your best adventures ever!! Thanks!!
Answer: This wasn't a vacation but it was one of my best adventures. Several years ago before people started fencing and posting their land I bought a four wheeler. A friend of mine told me about a really neat valley near Cushman Arkansas near the White River. We were checking out the trails and some back roads when we found some old abandoned limestone mines. These mines or tunnels were probably fifty foot wide and about that tall. We road around in them most of the day and got lost several times.
Sometimes you can have an adventure in your own back yard. The best ones happen when you least expect it.
Question: Has anyone ever heard of Green Dragon Adventure Travel in Belize?
I'm going to Belize for vacation and want to know if anyone has ever done a package with them, and if they are any good? Please let me know. Thanks for your help.
Answer: Hello - I live in Belmopan, Belize and do website work for people in the area including several tourism clients. One of our clients, Banana Bank Lodge, is right next to him so I have heard a little bit about Green Dragon. Overall, Green Dragon is a well established business and has been working in the tourism field for a long time. The only downside that I have heard is if there are complications with your travel it might be difficult to work out with the folks at Green Dragon. Other then that they seem to be fairly good
Question: My girlfriend and i want to go on an exciting adventure filled vacation for 2 weeks. where should we go?
we have traveled a lot but most of our vacations are spent laying on the beach. i am bored with that. we love the caribbean and the beaches but we are open to go any where
Answer: you could go to Belize. It is Central america. Cost is very cheap. You could tour the rain forest and the country side in a jeep - go to the mayan ruins and then spend the rest of the vacation on a 4 mile island called Caye Caulker where you wlak around barfoot for days (no Cars) . the cost of a hotel there is $40.00 a night, the food is delicious fresh and cheap. They speak English and use American money. Doesn't get much better than that!
Question: Who Loves Adventure Traveling?
I'm always had a passion for travel and even more for journeying off the beaten path where you can see a country up close and personal.
I am writing a report on this at the moment and wanted to ask you a couple questions pertaining to the traits that best describes us as active adventure travelers.
I have listed the questions bellow:
1. What do you love most about traveling?
2. What are the things most important to you?
3. What are your pet peeves when it comes to traveling or other types of traveling?
For ex. traditional travel tours where you spend the majority of the trip sitting in a tour bus.
4. What's the most important things in your life? What do you value the most?
5. Have you been mislead before with false promises and offers as they relate to travel?
6. What are your hobbies and things you enjoy doing?
7. When you go on a travel vacation what makes your trip truly remarkable and memorable?
Answer: 1. I love to actually see places that I have only read about. Especially places that most "tourists" don't go to.
2. See places as they are, not as they may be described by tour operators. Meet people as real people, not as someone who just wants to make money off any "ugly American" who happens along. (I always learn a little of the local language before going, which is truly hard for an adult, but it helps with bonding. I speak only about four words of Chinese, but I was once told in China that "my Chinese is excellent", just because I tried.)
3. My major pet peeve is that most people who travel don't know history, geography, or foreign languages, and come with a lot of prejudices built in. That's why my husband and I travel alone where it is safe and possible to do so, and with adventure tours elsewhere. People who take adventure tours are usually quite a bit more interested in history, geography, foreign cultures, languages, and such.
4. What I value the most is to be kind, generous, patient, and to not harm others. The older I get, the more I believe that this is the best way to make your old age peaceful and calm.
5. No. We are very careful and check everything out.
6. Lots, but here is a partial list: Foreign languages and linguistics; animals; high altitude hiking and camping; sudoku; reading fiction and-non-fiction; finding out things I happen to want to know by searching the internet; being able to help others, especially family members who won't admit to needing help.
7 Being able to put the trip together with things I've read and studied. For example, during our recent trip to Europe, I visited the places related to Hemma of Gurk, an Austrian saint who lived around 1,000 AD, including her grave. For my husband, an expert on W.W. I history, we visited a museum in Austria and one in Slovenia that had wonderful historical pictures.
Question: I want to know where the wildest most exciting adventure or vacation u people have been on?
im interested in travel and adventures im just curious of soem great places to go and see and thign to do whiel you are there
Answer: Outward Bound (http://www.outwardbound.org/) on the Colorado River. Two weeks. It was absolutely a wonderful experience, and I've never done anything like it since. Unforgettable.
Question: Are there any travel companies better than Universal Adventure USA?
We are planning on a vacation this summer to Orlando, FL in the United States. I have narrowed down my top pick to Universal Adventure USA. Haven't heard anything negative about them. Give me some feedback..
Answer: I think you got a winner! I went with them last year
Question: Volunteer/working vacations/overseas travel?
looking to work/volunteer somewhere like thailand, cambodia, africa, costa rica, etc. preferably where it's paid for, and you simply help out and volunteer your efforts. Looking to getaway, get some experience. Preferably canadian sites. Adventure travel i suppose would work! Thanks!
Answer: Organizations that don't charge fees for volunteering, such as VSO Canada, UN Volunteers and the PeaceCorps, are NOT looking for adventure travelers "looking to getaway, get some experience." They are looking for people who can work in a language other than English, who have skills and experience that can lead to local people generating income, better feeding their families, improving children's health, etc., or that can lead to the transformation of key institutions, such as government, universities/schools or NGOs. They are looking for people who can commit to a two-year assignment, who have experience working with under-served communities, or who have a lot of experience in very diverse or religiously-conservative communities.
The goal is to give local people jobs, not to give Westerners a feel-good vacation -- hence why short-term placement agencies charge volunteers, or require these volunteers to pay their own way (transportation, housing and accommodation).
Here is a web site that can help you learn more about the skills and experience desired by long-term placement organizations, and how you can gain that experience locally. It also lists the various organizations that don't charge for volunteer placement (but require a great deal of experience -- the average age of a UN Volunteer is 38).
http://www.coyotecommunications.com/volunteer/international.html
There is a listing of the more-than-30 member organizations of the International Volunteers Program Association (IVPA) that is a good place to find reputable volunteer-for-a-fee programs.
http://www.volunteerinternational.org/
Question: What is a good Australian travel/tour company?
I'm planning on going on a trip to Australia for a week sometime in summer or fall of 2008, and am trying to find a good company to purchase a tour from. I'm single and in my early twenties, so I'm not really looking for a family-type vacation. I'd like something with some level of adventure to it. I like a lot of outdoor activities such as hiking, camping, and boating, as well as going to parties and bars. Does anyone know a travel company or website that offers some kind of tour? Or should I just buy a plane ticket and plan my own vacation?
Answer: I live in Aussie so personally I haven't taken and 'tours' as a 'tourist'.
Google 'outback adventures' you'll get loads of responses then it's a matter of working out your starting point.
Personally if you are young and on your own I would rather plan my own trip. However if you are looking for adventure come to Cairns! North Queensland
http://www.welcometocairns.com.au - for:::::
White Water Rafting
Bungy Jumping
Skydiving
Scuba Diving
Mountain Biking
4WD Touring
Sea Kayaking
Sailing
Flying Leap
Kite Surfing
Rapids Kayaking
Helifishing
Parasailing
Daintree Rainforest
Cairns Casino
Diving trips out on the Great Barrier Reef - http://www.greatadventures.com.au or http://www.greenisland.com.au
do the scoobdo - http://www.scubadoocairns.com or seawalker http://www.seawalker.com.au - all great experiences
http://www.cairnsvisitorcentre.com/reef_diving.htm
.. to name a few ideas
Question: Baja Mexico Vacation: Cheap Accomodation & Adventure Ideas?
I received two free tickets to San Diego, CA. I've been there, but would like to rent a jeep and drive to Mexico for 9 days. I have off from work 9 days in mid-September.
Any one have any recommendations for a city, hotel, rental cottage, etc. within 2 days drive of San Diego? Requirements: ON a beach Directly ON the Pacific or Sea of Cortez & offering snorkeling/scuba. Plus, any other "adventure" activities nearby (boat rental, ATV riding, horses, etc.) would be an added bonus. Free continental breakfast would be great, but "all inclusive" is a waste on light eaters who also do not drink.
:-)
Travel agents feel free to reply, but I am really looking for someone with direct recent experience with a place they liked or perhaps a property or B&B owner. There would be just two of us going. COST IS AN ISSUE: I don't need a 5 star hotel, just someplace clean and comfy to rest my head after a busy day.
Answer: I don't know where you'll be able to rent a jeep or why you think you need a jeep.
Most rental companies do not allow car to be taken across the border.
Here are some that do:
http://www.courtesyauto.com/
http://www.atwest-rentacar.com/drive_mexico.php?sess_lang=eng
http://www.cabaja.com/