OARS has just sent word about some great last-minute opportunities in the Grand Canyon. If you’re hankering for a last-minute getaway to one of the planet’s most spectacular places, read on!
So, we mentioned that it might happen from time to time, but now it’s really here…Due to a couple of last-minute cancellations, we just had [...]
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The first winner of the Adventure Collection’s Adventures of a Lifetime photo competition has been selected! Drew Notestine’s photo of snow-capped peaks in Patagonia was chosen from among more than 100 entries as the July winner. Notestine’s grand prize is a trip for two to the Galapagos with Lindblad Expeditions.
A native of Colorado who lives [...]
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Canadian Mountain Holidays just announced a very exciting Nomads program for trulyadventurous ski buffs. Here are the details:
Over the years, a few guests (and some of us staff) have been fortunate enough to ski through multiple areas on one trip (or even in one day). The experience of covering so much terrain is so profound [...]
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Backroads just announced its new trips for 2010, and they sound spectacular. Here they are:
New Classic Trips
Our new Dordogne & Bordeaux Biking trip is a perfect duo of France’s colorful history and renowned viticulture. Among the highlights: prehistoric cave paintings at Font du Gaume, exploring St-Émilion, whose history dates back to the 2nd century, [...]
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The Guardian recently reported a fascinating story that really captures the spirit of adventure and discovery. A team of scientists forged their way into a Jules Vernes-ian lost world in an extinct volcano in Papua New Guinea and discovered some 40 new species, among other wonders. You can check out the story here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/sep/08/mount-bosavi-creatures-discovery-scientists
And here are [...]
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The member companies of the Adventure Collection are profoundly committed to providing transformative travel experiences around the globe. In a time of economic challenge, they are also committed to offering an assortment of special value trips that can enable travelers to continue to build bridges of discovery and connection around the world – and can [...]
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I recently received a question for my Ask Don column about traveling to Europe. When I began to look into Adventure Collection companies’ adventurous options for would-be European visitors, I was excited by the possibilities. Here’s a selection of the tempting itineraries I found:
Backroads: Cinque Terre and Tuscany Walking
Backroads offers an astounding number of biking, [...]
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Art Wolfe’s stunning new photography book, Travels to the Edge: A Photo Odyssey, presents a world-roaming collection of profoundly inspiring images of fragile planetary treasures: wild places, wildlife and tribal peoples.
In this stunning, eye-opening, mind-expanding collection of photographs, veteran photographer Art Wolfe has assembled 130 of his favorite shots taken while wandering the globe for [...]
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