A short guide about Adventure travel
According to the U.S. based ‘Global Adventure Travel Trade Association’ - "adventure travel" - is any tourist activity that includes two of the following three components: a physical activity, a cultural exchange or interaction, and the engagement with nature. Tourabout’s ‘Adventure Category’ covers a wide range of holidays; ranging from out of the way destinations, to more physically active holidays. It encompasses holidays to almost 100 different countries and includes places like Machu Picchu and the Inca Trail, the Amazon jungle, hiking in Nepal, and cruising the Galapagos Islands.
Adventure tour packages offer exciting experiences that are physically demanding. Enduring, and of course thoroughly enjoyable - an Adventure holiday, is a personal accomplishment - through the thrills of dominating dangerous environments. White-water rafting, sea kayaking, horse riding, free climbing, hiking and trekking through natural areas are some examples. Adventure Tours are linked to an interaction with nature involving minimal civilization influences. The search is for personal redemption through challenge and sacrifice, and nature is the backdrop to an intensely personal experience. Nature dictates the rules and provides a stage for the adventurous traveller to play. Typically, these holiday packages are carried out in remote places renowned for their natural beauty and physical attributes.
So, for those with a spirit of adventure and who enjoy travelling into remote, inaccessible and possibly hostile areas, then Adventure travel is for you. If you are looking for a holiday that is just a little bit different, then be adventurous and take a look at what's available, you might just find your next trip is right here.
Adventure tours and packages
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Amazon & Beaches
21 Days
|From AUD $1470
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Botswana Adventure
14 Days
|From AUD $2765
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Silk Road Explorer
28 Days
|From AUD $5280
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South African Adventure
18 Days
|From AUD $2325
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Istanbul To Cairo
29 Days
|From AUD $1160
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Cape Town To Kenya
45 Days
|From AUD $2660
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Established since 1983, Kumuka, whose name originates from Africa, and translates in to ‘the start of a journey’, has taken travellers to many parts of the globe, offering an extraordinary range of trips.
Beginning with one expedition vehicle and a Trans Africa tour, we have steadily extended and broadened our operations, which now include tours to Africa, Asia, Antarctica, Latin America, North America, Europe and The Middle East.
As Kumuka has grown so do the expectations of it’s clients, and we continue to be true to our roots, catering for all manner of travellers united by a single desire: to experience their holiday to the maximum.
We are a Sydney based company incorporated in 1969 to design and market African Safari Holidays.
Over the 38 years we have been in business we have successfully operated a range of tours from South Africa Botswana Zambia and Zimbabwe and then Kenya Tanzania and Egypt. We have an endless array of options to fit into your time frame and your budget and particular interests. It is up to you!
Our Africa and Egypt brochures provide popular choices and our expert staff will be able to give you friendly tips -sourced from one who has “been there and done it”.
It is our first hand knowledge that makes us different from the rest and also our pride in knowing it all began with us.
Wendy Wu Tours specialises in the areas of China, Vietnam, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Cambodia and Laos, with extensive programs to each of these regions.
We have been in operation since July 1998 and since this time we have developed a wide range of product appealing to even the most varied of tastes.
With the continuous and effective formula of 'fully inclusive' tours each product has been carefully constructed to provide the client with the very best each country has to offer, as well as a diversity of regions and attractions.
Wendy Wu
Tucan Travel - Join us for your adventure of a lifetime.
Whether you want to travel on local transport and immerse yourself in the local culture or hightail it across the rugged countryside on a powerful, modern overland truck, or choose your own personalised itinerary, Tucan Travel has a travel style for you.
If you want to meet as many people as possible along the way, or just keep it small and intimate to give you that ‘friends on tour’ feeling, you will be able to see the world your way with our five distinctly different travel styles.
We offer travel options in Latin America, Antarctica, Asia and The Middle East for all travellers and Africa, South America and Europe specifically for 18 – 35’s.
Intrepid was started in 1989 with a passion to get travellers off the beaten track in Asia, to share some of the special places we knew and introduce different cultures and ways of life.
We wanted to develop a style of travel that was all together different, where as travellers we became a part of country - and not just tourists looking in. We wanted to have fun, meet people, learn things, explore, and do stuff we could never do at home. We wanted to travel by anything and everything, and stay anywhere and everywhere! We wanted to be intrepid!
Today Intrepid has over 600 staff, over 400 different trips, over 90 different destinations and many different styles of travel.