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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Helen Keller
A full-scale travel agency specializing in exotic and unusual travel destinations. Links include destinations to Tahiti, Antarctica, French waterways, European skiing, and tropical scuba diving adventures. The site has many large graphics making it slow to navigate, and several “front doors” to pass through before getting to the meat of the site.
Another water rafting outfitter providing excursions on the Colorado and Green Rivers of Colorado and Utah. This group also provides trout fishing and natural history trips. The site provides maps, descriptions of the difficulty of each trip’s rapids, as well as local weather reports for the region. You can also make a reservation for a trip directly on the Web site.
Take a virtual outdoors trek without leaving your armchair. Adventure Goat provides reviews of outdoor gear, links to adventure outfitters for booking trips, and detailed descriptions of a large array of adventures. You can link to travel descriptions by subject and geographic location. An Alta Vista-based search engine is also included so that you can go to other adventure sites on the World Wide Web.
This site describes Adventure Out, a Mount Hood guide company providing rock climbing, Lead Climbing, Natural History Hikes, van tours, and winter trips. Adventure Out also sponsors winter skiing excursions on Mount Hood’s North Face. Adventure Out specializes in team-building programs.
Adventure Quest provides a one-stop shopping site for over 1,000 adventure travel outfitters worldwide. You can search the site by company name, geographical location, and type of adventure.
A complete compendium of Web sites offering adventure travel tours and outfitting support in one handy place. The site is sponsored by On The Mark Adventures. On The Mark Adventures invites tour companies and groups to join their consortium via an online sign up form. A voluminous list of catalog links is also included for your enjoyment.
Links are provided for travel agency sites, the Seventh Annual World Congress on Adventure Travel and Ecotourism and Expo in Quebec, adventure travel business issues, descriptions of various adventure travel destinations, and a link to a publications site.
They provide tours to 84 countries. Their specialties are Adventure Travel, International Tours, Small Group Tours, and Worldwide Tours. They also provide services as Travel Agents and Tour Operators.
This site is provided by Access Travel and lists various African safari travel packages to Kenya and East Africa. You can book your trip via a link to Access Travel.
Advertises Arctic Adventours, a Norwegian company that specializes in creating exciting expeditions and explorations in the Arctic area, including Northern Norway, Jan Mayen, Spitzbergen, Franz Josef’s Land, and Northern Russia/Siberia.
Provides information about adventure travel packages with an ecological and socially responsible philosophy. Provides information about socially responsible travel, packages available, and a lengthy company background.
Denali, as the locals call it, is Alaska’s beacon to the world. This is adventure travel at its best, not to mention at its most dangerous. But armchair travel is fun too. If you have VRML (virtual reality software) installed, click on the 360-degree views of Denali offered as links from this site. Click on personal links to Mt. McKinley sites.
Advertises Outdoor Adventures vacation packages, which include whale watching, scuba-diving, sailing, kayaking, canoeing, hiking, bird-watching, and cycling in various national parks and other locations.
The National Park Service sponsors this Web site to present information about Acadia National Park. Links are provided to pages providing information about planning your visit, concessions, off-season visits, as well as books and literature. Links also are provided to other natural history sites, cultural history sites, and photographs of Acadia.
Provides information on packages, rates, and opportunities for the avid athlete and vacationer. Neat Web cam provides realtime photographs of various sport locations. Includes wind, surf, and snow conditions for the extremist on vacation.
A travelogue by Tim Lee called “A Quest for Riches in Sumatra.” The article is filled with wildlife photography and first-person accounts of various trips through Sumatra.
Provides information about western adventure travel packages, such as snowmobile tours, cowboy vacations, Alaskan cruises, and wilderness travels. Provides package background, pricing, and includes contact information.