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Two of my great passions are outdoor adventure and travel. When I can combine the two, well, that’s heaven. I find it particularly entertaining when I’m in a foreign land and have to learn a new vocabulary and a different perspective on outdoor pursuits. Take New Zealand, for example. Kiwis are notorious outdoorspeople with a…
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City of God is one of the roughest movies I’ve ever seen. It’s a drama about teenagers growing up in the slums of Rio de Janeiro. Before I went to Brazil this was one of the few reference points I had, and though somewhat intrepid as a traveler, I was apprehensive. However, we cannot know…
While much of my travel involves adventure and plenty of activity, even the most adventurous of us find ourselves traveling for other reasons. Like business. The modern traveler faces a situation that did not plague the traveler of the far past—we aren’t carrying hundreds of pounds of stuff, nor fixing wagon wheels, wrestling stubborn camels,…
Best American Adventures: Race the Arrowhead 135
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on August 19, 2010 We've just updated our popular America's Best Adventures feature with 50 new trips, bringing our grand total to 100 iconic escapes (see the map, state-by-state list, and photo gallery, too). So no matter what your pleasure—hiking, heli-skiing, surfing, climbing, biking, or paddling—we've got the perfect adventure for you. Check in each day for a…
New Trip: Syria: Camel Trekking the Dead Cities
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on April 26, 2010 Ask even your most well-traveled friends and they probably haven't visited Syria. At least not lately. Since 1979, the State department has considered the country a State Sponsor of Terrorism due to its support for organizations such as Hezbollah, Hamas, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. But well-established tour companies do go there, such a GAP Adventures,…
Best New Trips in the World: Hike and Kayak in Iceland’s Nature Reserve
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on November 4, 2009 For our annual Adventure Travel issue, we scoured the globe to find the 25 Best New Trips in the World for 2010, complete with a Best Trips photo gallery. Today, we present Iceland. The world's far corners are now well within reach. Iceland: Into the Arctic Circle At first glance, the fjord-y, fragmented northwest corner…
Best New Trips in the World: Bike France’s Pyrenees
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on November 2, 2009 For our annual Adventure Travel issue, we scoured the globe to find the 25 Best New Trips in the World for 2010, complete with a Best Trips photo gallery. Today, we present France. The world's far corners are now well within reach. France: Tour des Pyrenees If the gods were cyclists, you can rest assured…
Best New Trips in the World: Hike and Rappel on Costa Rica’s Caribbean Coast
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on October 30, 2009 For our annual Adventure Travel issue, we scoured the globe to find the 25 Best New Trips in the World for 2010, complete with a Best Trips photo gallery. Today, we present Costa Rica. The world's far corners are now well within reach. Costa Rica: Coast Confidential With Costa Rica’s Pacific coast looking more and…
A Case For Zimbabwe: Five Reasons to Go in 2010
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on October 27, 2009 Mark Nolting of the Africa Adventure Company was recently in our offices singing the praises of Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe?!? Place of rampant inflation and starvation? Run by iron-fisted crazyperson Robert Mugabe? We had questions, and Nolting had answers. And, biased though he may be—his wife is from the place, and Nolting’s company has some new and…
Best New Trips in the World: Canoeing With Botswana’s Big Game
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on October 23, 2009 For our annual Adventure Travel issue, we scoured the globe to find the 25 Best New Trips in the World for 2010, complete with a Best Trips photo gallery. The world's far corners are now well within reach. A few years ago, the 320,000 acres of land connecting the Okavango Delta with Botswana’s Linyanti marshes…
Best New Trips in the World: First Descent of Bhutan’s Drangme
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on October 21, 2009 For our annual Adventure Travel issue, we scoured the globe to find the 25 Best New Trips in the World for 2010, complete with a Best Trips photo gallery. For the next month, we're going to feature one new adventure daily, starting today with a first decent of Bhutan's Drangme Chhu River. The world's far…
“Friend” a Gorilla and Help Uganda’s Conservation Efforts
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on September 14, 2009 Making the pilgrimage to Uganda or Rwanda to see the mountain gorillas, admired for their humanlike mannerisms and massive grace, is one of the greatest adventure trips around. In fact, it's a trip we regularly feature in the pages of ADVENTURE, in part because the high cost, low-volume tourism model helps protect the natural environment of…
Deal of the Week: Climb Kilimanjaro This Summer!
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on July 7, 2009 Text by Annie Hay If there was ever a time to knock off one of the world’s Seven Summits, it’s now. This summer Alaska Mountain Guides International is offering a 20 percent discount on its ten-day Kilimanjaro expeditions, cutting the total price per person from $3,150 to $2,520. You’ll follow the Machame path to the…
News: Russia’s Kamchatka Opens Up
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on July 14, 2008 Claim a first ascent on an inactive volcano with new regular flights to the Pacific Ring of Fire. Text by Kirkpatrick Reardon It just got easier to explore it on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, the most volcanic region on Earth with 29 active volcanoes (several of them over 10,000 feet tall), rivers rushing with 30-inch rainbow…
Beyond Green Travel with Costas Christ
Oman’s Road Less Traveled
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on May 28, 2008 American travelers’ current reluctance to travel to the Middle East, egged on by media hype about danger and Islamic fear-mongering, has left Oman almost entirely to the young Europeans now flocking there. Our loss is their big gain. I just spent seven days kayaking the along the Straights of Hormuz, some 20 miles from the…
