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Extreme Sports Holidays

Alpine activity holidays with Just Slovenia

Alpine activity holidays with Just Slovenia

Specialist tour operator, Just Slovenia, is offering a new activity break for 2011, which includes kayaking, white water rafting and hot air ballooning.

Looking for adventure? Take the Fun Taiwan Challenge

Are you an extrovert, a risk taker always looking to challenge yourself? If this sounds like you and you’re 18 or above, you could be one of 12 contestants from around the world to join a brand new reality TV game show in Taiwan!

Adrenaline-fuelled escapes at luxurious Castlemartyr Resort

Adrenaline-fuelled escapes at luxurious Castlemartyr Resort

Add a slice of adventure to your life with an adrenaline-filled short break at the luxurious five-star Castlemartyr Resort in County Cork, Ireland.

Are Brits losing their sense of adventure?

Are Brits losing their sense of adventure?

New research reveals nearly one quarter of people can’t recall the last time they experienced a rush of excitement.

Dame Kelly Holmes tries sandboarding in Abu Dhabi

Dame Kelly Holmes tries sandboarding in Abu Dhabi

Multi-gold medal winning Olympian, Dame Kelly Holmes, swapped her running shoes for towering dunes as she tried her hand at sandboarding in Abu Dhabi's vast Rub' Al Khali (Empty Quarter) - the world's largest expanse of unbroken sand, equivalent in size to France, Holland and Belgium combined.

Extreme adventures in Dominica

Extreme adventures in Dominica

Awaken your inner ‘spirit of adventure’ with an unforgettable holiday to Dominica this year. Dominica (pronounced Dom-in-ee-ka) is a spectacular green island of rugged mountains, lush rainforests and rushing rivers in the Eastern Caribbean, lying south of Guadeloupe and north of Martinique.

Experience Cornwall

Experience Cornwall

Cornwall is becoming increasingly renowned as an experience rich destination with the thousands of visitors who come to the county every year.

Weird and wonderful weekend breaks

Weird and wonderful weekend breaks

Escape the rain and the January blues with an abseiling adventure in Jersey, a whisky tasting weekend in Scotland or a kite flying festival in Cyprus.

Give your heart another reason to pound this Valentine's

Give your heart another reason to pound this Valentine's

Allow the Isle of Man to offer you a breathtaking Valentine’s Day experience this year.

Glen Plake on the changing face of California skiing

Glen Plake on the changing face of California skiing

Glen Plake first skied aged two. According to his official biography: "…it was his third-grade teacher who used a Möbius flip from the seminal '70s ski flick Outer Limits as a way of demonstrating math that turned his life. For Glen, there fell into place a connection between skiing and the wider world, an understanding that there were deeper forces beneath this sliding on snow. In that brief flash of insight, Plake knew that skiing held something greater for him."

I’m not a celebrity but I’d like to go there

I’m not a celebrity but I’d like to go there

Jungle surfing in the canopy of the oldest rainforest in the world is just one of the unique experiences YHA Australia offers during a stay in the Australian jungle and you won't even have to face a bushtucker trial - but the option is there if you want to!

iFLY Dubai launches ‘Ladies Day’

iFLY Dubai launches ‘Ladies Day’

iFLY Dubai, one of the most popular leisure destinations for tourists and residents in the Middle East, has launched “Ladies Day” to accommodate the growing requests from local and expatriate ladies.

Alternative snowy breaks from Black Tomato

Want to have an adventure in the snow before the ski season starts? Black Tomato have three suggestions for alternative snowy breaks:

Extra costs for tavellers flying with sports equipment

Extra costs for tavellers flying with sports equipment

Airport Parking and Hotels (APH), the long-stay airport parking specialist, is helping active holidaymakers this winter by comparing how much airlines charge for checking-in sporting equipment.

Extreme sports require maximum cover

Extreme sports require maximum cover

Whether they are planning to Flashpack India, Island-Hop Thailand or explore New Zealand in a VW Camper during their gap year, like it or not, students are almost certainly going to find themselves making the most of cheaper extreme sports and adventure activities on their travels.