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As the Beatles tell us, we get by with a little help from our friends. This is especially true with adventure travel. Veteran travelers can often be one of your most important resources for learning about lesser-known but wonderful destinations, for providing you with experiential advice about what to do and what to avoid when you’re on your trip, and for helping you to find the best deals on airfare, equipment, and other important travel costs. So you’ll want to know how to meet fellow adventure travelers –and we’ll provide you with a few tips to point you in the right direction.

But even your fellow travelers can’t tell you everything: they have their own trips to plan and take, after all! For comprehensive information about adventure travel, including strategies for choosing equipment, the types of adventure travel, and some destination reviews, you’d do well to check out “Earth Trek: Everything A Novice Traveler Should Know”, available for purchase and download at our travel and trekking guide .

Local Clubs

Often, cities have clubs and societies designed for travelers and outdoor types to meet and exchange stories about their adventures. Take a look in your phone book, ask around, or look for ads at local sporting goods and military surplus stores or travel agencies. You might also contact a city official who works with community organizations; some travel-centric clubs have partnerships with local government in order to provide funding and support for club events.

Personal Networking

More people are interested in travel than you might believe. Ask your friends and family members if they know any travelers at work or college, and keep an ear well open at parties, events, or even the grocery store. If you hear someone talking about their most recent trip or about travel-related topics, try striking up a conversation: if you can meet just one traveler, chances are that he or she will introduce you to many more.

Travel Forums and Websites

There are countless websites and online forums devoted to travel topics. Join a few forums and newsgroups and ask any questions you might have, or search the forum archives in order to learn about a few tips or destinations that you might not know about yet. Try to search once or twice a week for new travel websites. Some websites post directories of local travelers to help promote group trips, equipment sharing, or simple fellowship: take advantage of these and contact travelers that live in your area.

For More Information

For more information about adventure travel, consult “Earth Trek”, available at our travel and trekking guide

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It’s only natural for human beings to explore. We get excited at the thought of seeing new places, and tasting foreign cuisines. When it comes down to it, we just want to know everything the world has to offer. And this is why we all harbor an interest in world wide travel. Now I’m not saying that every single person will at some point take it upon themselves to venture out across the oceans and explore foreign lands. Many will not. However, there are many of us that demand on seeing certain cities, and countries, regardless of how far off they are. The trick is making the dream a reality.

If there was only one place on this earth you could visit, what would it be? No wait; let me guess. Probably the most cliche hot spots I can think of are France, Italy, Australia, Canada, Africa, England, and the USA, if you don’t already reside here. These are what world wide travel is all about. Pop open a search engine on the Internet and punch in any of these countries. You’ll be flooded with world wide travel deals and specials galore. Airlines and lodging services know where people are headed, or at least where they prefer to travel to. It’s sounds kind of funny, but when I hear my family members discuss traveling outside of the country, they routinely mention Canada, Paris, Rome, Venice, and Australia. What a shocker! Pretty much the same places every other American wishes to visit.

Traveling, especially world wide travel, is nothing to be taken lightly these days. As you’ve surely seen on the world news time and time again, we’re constantly at war. Therefore it’s rather difficult to tell what regions are completely safe to visit, and if now is a prudent time to leave your home country at all. There’s no doubt we have to be cautious when visiting foreign lands. Furthermore, you should remind yourself that just because you’re stoked about seeing a far-off country, doesn’t mean that the locals there are excited about seeing you. In my experience with world wide travel, foreigners want our money, but not typically our company. All the more reason to take precautions while visiting. Travel safe and plan ahead.

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Whether you are taking cross country motorcycle tours, or just a trip down to grandma’s house in Florida, traveling across the country can be a big adventure. In my life, I have taken dozens of cross country travel trips, and each one has been different. When I was in college, it was a pretty casual thing. We would clamber into my friend’s beaten up old Ford, head out, deciding where we were going on the way there. That was it. Looking back on it, it seems foolish. So many things could have gone wrong after all, and we took no precautions in our planning. Yet back then, we felt carefree. Cross country traveling was just a way to unwind from the semester, and we would do it every chance we had.

Nowadays, my cross country travels have become a little bit more sophisticated. You see, I am currently employed as a travel writer, and my cross country road trips give me ample fodder for my books. I was actually inspired to take up this career by a road trip that went wrong. A travel book that we were using seemed to be up to date, but it actually had some bad information. There were whole towns that were listed in the cross country travel guide that in fact didn’t exist. This is a problem when you are running low on fuel and you expect one of those towns ahead. After spending the night in the wilderness, camped out in our broken down car on the side of the road, me and my buddy decided we would do everything we could to help stop this from happening to other people. I became a travel writer, he became a state trooper.

Nowadays, cross country travel information is better than ever before. With satellite imaging and Google maps, online travel guides, and all of the other sources of information on the Internet, there are more resources than ever before. Of course, some of these are better than others. In my opinion, the best resources for cross country travel are local guides and printed books. Most cities will have an online website that will provide you with some reliable information about what is there. For their part, the reputable travel guides will give you some good general information about the regions your cross country travel takes you through. It is always best to consult more than one source of information, but what happened to me all those years ago is a rare events nowadays.

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Witness wildlife up close and personal and in their own habitat is hard to beat. Add wonderful scenery and it’s an experience one never forget. African safari travel have become very popular and there are numerous companies that provide packages designed to bring a bit of adventure under expert supervision. Accommodation is usually in lodges and camps, equipped with everything you need. There is a company cook preparing meals and barbecues.

Kenya is one of the more popular destinations for this type of adventure travel and a beach holiday could be combined with an African safari. you will find 40 National Parks and game reserves in the country. My favorite and one of the most spectacular is the Kimana Game Sanctuary , which is located at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro. Rain forest is the terrain at the Mount Kenya National Park and stretching plains dominate the Masai Mara. Experience guides drive parties in 4×4 vehicles or in open back trucks. They also travel in mini buses sometimes. To be able to get an aerial view of the landscape, there are fly/drive packages, using small, light aircraft. Opportunities to see leopards, gazelle, crocodiles, giraffes, zebra, lions and hippos is offered to you by Kenya.

South Africa, another beautiful country, teeming with wild animals. An African safari here offers a great variety experiences, including wetlands, semi-desert, open grassland and old forest. The Phinda region is very popular and can be explored on foot, by vehicle or light aircraft. Some parties are also taken by boat on the waterways. The wildlife sighted here is likely to be lions, rhinos, elephants, buffalo and leopard. In the Madikwe Game Reserve you find leopards, elephants and packs of hyenas and wild dogs.

To give you a truly unique experience, there are companies that organise an African safari to Uganda and Rwanda. Uganda is known for its population of lowland gorillas and chimpanzees. In the savannahs of the Queen Elizabeth National Park there is a chance to see elephants, giraffes, antelope and birds.

To meet the gorillas in the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest or at the Mgahinga Volcanoes , groups are taken on foot through the tropical rainforest, which is home to many different species of birds. The Murchisson Falls National Park is reached by boat on the River Nile. Here you will find impressive waterfall and the animals in the area include warthogs, zebras and baboons. Rwanda is well known for its mountain gorillas and there is said to be 350 of them in the tree lined slopes of the Parc National des Volcans. In the Uganda and Rwanda region, with its volcanoes, falls, lakes and forests there are treasured areas witch offers the best chance of seeing gorillas in their natural surroundings.

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