Adventure Travel
Jubilee fly-drives - using just three days of annual holiday - Stateside-style
Take advantage of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee double bank holiday bonanza in June and explore the US on a seven or eight-night fly-drive holiday – using just three days of annual leave – courtesy of specialist operator, Bon Voyage.
Intrepid Travel adds more dates for sold-out Burma tour
Intrepid Travel has added a further 36 departures for its Best of Burma tour in response to exceptional demand from passengers.
SpiceRoads bicycle tours to Pakistan and Kazakhstan
SpiceRoads Cycle Tours is setting the altitude limit higher with two new tours to off the grid destinations of Pakistan and Kazakhstan.
Challenge yourself in tropical North Queensland
The 'Adventurous by Nature' tropics provides the perfect stage for the 10-day festival that will see people of all ages and abilities competing across a variety of events culminating in the 'Cairns Airport Challenge Cairns' iron-distance triathlon.
The big five American adventures for 2012
As the land of opportunity continues to hold its appeal over Brits with more than 3.5 million travellers jetting off to the USA last year, Grand American Adventures expects 2012 to have an even bigger draw on holidaymakers.
World Expeditions epic African journey: 112 days, 10 countries
Starting in Cairo you drive through the Nile Valley where you can enjoy ancient Egypt on display before taking a vehicle ferry into Sudan and deep into the beautiful Nubian desert.
Girl only getaways are on the up!
It’s true, women are becoming more adventurous, the fairer sex outnumbering the men on Acacia Africa’s overland expeditions by two to one.
Adventurers wanted! Work DiffereNT in Australia’s Outback
Swap the drudgery of the inbox for the beauty of the Outback, and ditch the 9-5 rat race for a crocodile park, as you could enjoy the experience of a lifetime working in Australia’s Northern Territory.
Swim with the crocs Ben Fogle style in Australia's Northern Territory
This Sunday (26th February 2012) sees the second episode of 'Swimming with Crocodiles' on BBC2 when Ben Fogle will be heading to Australia's Northern Territory for some more jaw and claw croc adventures.
Explore leads the way with 96% summit success rate up Kilimanjaro
Adventure travel specialist, Explore, has announced that it has the highest summit success rate on its Kilimanjaro treks of any major tour operator.
Hot air ballooning over Cappadocia
Journey Anatolia is highlighting a holiday that combines two extraordinary experiences, sleeping in a hotel carved out of rock by night, and by day, drifting serenely over Cappadocia’s lunar-like rock formations – the so-called fairy chimneys – in a hot air balloon.
The mother of all holidays
Our dear mothers, they deserve a break don’t they? They spend years bringing us up, taking care of our every whim, and even when we finally fly the nest, we still keep our mums close.
Look up - Big sky experiences in Alberta, Canada
The big skies of Alberta offer a range of activities to be enjoyed - from star gazing in the World's Largest Dark Sky Preserve, Jasper National Park, to dancing Northern Lights in Alberta North and a plethora of heli-opportunities across the Province including heli-yoga.
The ultimate self-guided trek: Khan Tengri Base Camp, Kyrgyzstan
Hiking and trekking specialist Walks Worldwide has launched what is arguably the ultimate self-guided trekking holiday on the planet; a two-week sojourn into the Tien Shan Mountains of Kyrgyzstan to Khan Tengri Base Camp.
Get the best holiday deal, but don’t compromise on your departure date
There are plenty of travel deals, flash sales and even discounted mystery tours available to travellers, but a fixed departure date might mean missing out on your dream holiday. So is there an alternative?