Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Gap Adventures Voted Canada's Best Adventure Operator

I think the headline pretty much says it all. But if you're interested in the details, you can click here. Or if you're interested in Gap Adventures you can click here. That was easy.

If You Like Travel Expos ....

If you like real-time, in-person one stop adventure travel shopping then you may want to check out a few of these major city travel expos. Essentially, the expos gathers tour companies, adventure outfitters, country and attraction representatives for a couple of days of hard selling and gift bags. But it can be quicker than blindly searching the internet, and you get to ask your backpacker travel questions to live human beings. So click here to check out the list of upcoming adventure travel expos.

Monday, February 7, 2011

Preserve and Observe Wild Animals on Your Next Trip

A new website SEEtheWILD.org has come up with a way to help adventure travelers book trips were they can hang out with and help their favorite wild animals at the same time. They offer everything from hands on volunteering trips to standard eco tours with the conservation hook. It's all eco friendsly and a good time. You get great photos and a sea turtle gets to live for a hundred years or so. Businesswire has all the just released details here.

Saturday, February 5, 2011

Travel Myths Debunked

Ever heard the story of the guy whose identity was stolen after his personal information was swiped from his electronic room key? Or the one about thieves drugging passengers with sleeping gas on trains in Eastern Europe? What about money hidden in hotel bibles. These are just a few of the myths that make the rounds on the backpackers travel circuit. They make for good stories over a pint of the local beer of your choice -- but, for the most part, simply aren’t true.
For the full story, click here.

National Geographic offers adventure travel opportunities

Seems the folks over at National Geographic have decided to take their decades of adventure travel experience an share that with the rest of us travel mortals.

Essentially you'll be able to go along on what Nat Geo thinks are its coolest jaunts. And to make it convenient (and doable), they've divided their trips into easy, moderate, strenuous or ultimate challenge. I was hoping for a "Good Beer" category. But no luck. And there's a maximum of only 16 people on each trip.

No doubt the trips won't come cheap for your average backpack traveler. But it sounds like a good time. And it is Nat Geo. So click here to check out the just announced details.

Just you and a few thousand travel friends

It's about time. Someone has apparantly come up with the genius idea to use social media to group like-minded adventure travelers together on a global basis and to then use that collective buying power to get discounts from 50 of the world's top tour operators. Seems a cool concept. To hang with a few thouand of your backpacker friends, or just to read the San Francisco Chronicle news story on what its all about, click here.