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Do Not Pay A Visit To The Beach This Year – Check Out An Innovative Action Holiday

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

For some individuals, a great vacation includes enjoying a beach or a cabin in the woods. They dream of being waited on hand and foot and having nothing to worry about. For some people, a fabulous vacation includes adventure!

These are people who like to stay active. They enjoy mingling with fellow travelers. Is this is bio of you? Are you tackling a decision of what kind of adventure travels you want to try on your next vacation? Deciding on an ideal adventure trip can be wearisome. Ample adventuresome opportunities abounds! Here are some of our best-loved adventure vacations.

Do you enjoy photography? Have you always dreamed of photographing the world’s most famous locales? Photo Explorer Tour can make your dream come true. These are international tours led by internationally renowned photographers. The company comes up with tours of places throughout the world. If you are unsure of your desired destination, that is fine. You can join a group, after making travel plans that are convenient for your time schedule. Photo World Tours plans specific tours to specific places on specific dates. Just join any tour group and go with them wherever they are, when you have vacation time. Enjoy the spontaneity of it!

If you’re an enthusiast of extreme adventure travels, why not try out a hot air balloon trip someplace? Have you thought about a white water rafting adventure? Have you thought about trying Bungee jumping? Some people are thrilled about skydiving. Definitely there are places to do this in many towns. With an extreme adventure vacation, it is possible to go skydiving over the Grand Canyon. Partake on a hot air balloon adventure over the Australian outback. The world is a giant playground when you become an extreme adventurer. A trendy extreme vacation is paragliding in India. Why not give it a try?

Are you a food connoisseur? Do you tantalize the idea of learning about and taste testing cuisine from around the world? How about going on a culinary tour? For obvious reasons, Italy is among the most popular of destinations for food connoisseurs who want to have the experience of tasting cuisine it its “native habitat.” Ireland, Spain and Greece also offer fabulous “culinary tours.” In addition to tasting the food after it’s prepared, by “native” chefs, these tours also allow you to learn how to cook a variety of dishes on your own. This is a terrific adventure travel for a chef on the rise or any lover of food.

Not all adventure travels have to be about risking your life. You can have an exquisite adventure vacation without bungee jumping, skydiving or hoping a shark won’t destroy a cage. At the same time, for the adrenaline fueled, that risk is half of the fun of any adventure based vacation.

How about a bicycle tour? There are companies that will follow you in a van in the event that you get so tired or sore that you need a time-out. You can bike all over the world in French wine country or Australia or the entire British Isles, including England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. What better way to truly immerse yourself in a country than seeing it from the back of a bike.

The trick to taking a truly memorable vacation is to challenge yourself while still having fun. Get on with it!

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Feeling Down and Out, Bucko? Time To Begin Planning Your Costa Rica Vacation

Saturday, October 24th, 2009

Everybody seems to be hunkered down in a funk. The leaves have fallen, the days are getting colder. The Boys of Summer are freezing their bats off and nearly ready to put them away until Spring. A Costa Rica vacation may be just what the doctor ordered. Here are some great reasons to take that Costa Rica vacation now.

1. Airfares are unbelievable right now. They have not been this cheap for years. And, with Costa Rica tourism down by about 15% this year, an informed and frugal traveler can really take advantage of the plight of hotels and resorts. Luxury resorts like the Hilton Papagayo are offering rates around $160.00 a night, seniors pay even less, and more budget-conscious folks who travel Costa Rica can stay at very nice Costa Rica hostels (some with private rooms) for about $12.00. For the best bargains, visit between May and mid-November. Tip: look for a cash discount because many places offer substantial price reductions for cash. Do not be shy: ask and ye shall receive!

2. Visit one or more of hundreds of pristine Costa Rica beaches. Uncrowded, tropical beaches on two coasts. Black sand beaches, brown sand beaches, sea shell beaches, rugged rock-strewn beaches. Explore the same Caribbean beach where Columbus named Costa Rica 600 years ago. Fish off of Drake Bay, named after Sir Francis Drake, who visited the Costa Rica Pacific coast a decade before sinking the Spanish Armada and saving England.

3. Frolic on the same Costa Rica beaches as Britney Spears or Mel Gibson (you need to bring your own Russian model). Do not forget to bring your surfboard because some of the best surfing on the planet is found here. Most beaches are completely free but if you prefer to visit a very popular national beach park called Manuel Antonio, there will be a small entry fee.

4. Consider becoming an ecotourist. Check out Ostional National Preserve on the fabulous Gold Coast, where thousands of olive ridley sea turtles come ashore in massive nestings, called “arribadas”, perhaps the largest spectacle of its kind in the world. Arribadas occur year-round but the biggest (sometimes involving hundreds of thousands of turtles) typically are when the moon is in its last quarter during the months of July to November. Or, head over to the Caribbean coast and tour Tortuguero National Park, the biggest green sea turtle nesting preserve on earth.

5. Costa Rica has been called the “Switzerland of Latin America.” This mountainous little country has nearly as many species of birds as in the entire continental U.S., nearly 1000 in all. You can hike every inch of Africa without seeing as many species of butterflies as Costa Rica has. One of every five animal and plant species on the world are found in this country.

6. If you are adventurous and fit, visit magnificent Corcovado National Park on the southern Pacific Coast, a place National Geographic calls “the most biologically intense place on earth.” Though small, it is true wilderness that hosts the largest remaining population of scarlet macaws in Latin America, including crocodiles, monkeys, and six kinds of wild cat, including the spectacular jaguar, all living in some of the tallest primary forest remaining in this region of the world. Bring your camera, bandaids for blisters, and mosquito repellant.

Writer Victor Krumm lives in Costa Rica. Visit his acclaimed website about Costa Rica Vacations and be sure to check out the magnificent Seven Wonders of Costa Rica

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Costa Rica Sea Turtle Satellite Tagging Expedition

Saturday, September 5th, 2009

Recently, a Costa Rica based scientific fin and satellite tagging expedition got underway at Cocos Island to study the migration patterns of marine turtles.

Marine researchers, scientists, and conservation volunteers spent some 30 hours boating to the island in their quest for more knowledge about these ancient marine animals.

They are engaged in a kind of scientific working Costa Rica vacation that they hope will contribute to preserving these incredible animals now endangered in much of their range.

Cocos Island was described by the famous oceanographer, Jacque Cousteau, as the most beautiful island he had ever encountered. The small island, only about nine square miles in size, lies some 340 miles off the Pacific shoreline of Costa Rica, almost halfway to the Galapagos Islands.

It was not the lovely palms or beaches that enthralled Captain Cousteau. Its beauty is just off its shores, under water, in a place that Costa Ricans have voted as one of the Seven Wonders of Costa Rica. It is there that one finds priceless treasure: vast numbers of fish, whales, porpoises, and turtles.

Since the days of dinosaurs sea turtles have roamed the world’s seas.

The mighty Tyrannosaurus preyed on them more than 200 million years ago as they came ashore to nest.

These ancient beings are found in all the seas on the globe except the frozen Arctic and Antarctic.

Sadly , no more. Today, our unrestrained beach development and robbing of their nests have put them at risk. Millions have been in South America to make expensive Italian shoes.

The prescient Captain Cousteau remarked that: “If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.” A being visiting from another planet might conclude that such a result would be just.

However, more and more governments and conservation organizations are trying to restore at least some turtle populations. International treaties relating to sea turtles are now in place, though many countries have yet to implement them. Conservation organizations, scientists, and researchers have begun tagging ocean roaming turtles in far away places like Cocos Island, the Galapagos, Columbia, and other areas. Some animals are fitted with numbered flipper tags while others bear satellite transmitters that are tracked around the clock. It is all part of an effort to monitor their migration patterns.

These taggingvolunteers, scientists, and researchers know that marine turtles can be around another 200 million years but only if men pay more attention to protecting them than exploiting them.

The writer, Victor Krumm posts from tropical Costa Rica. Follow his lovely site Costa Rica Vacations and for info about marine turtles check out Sea Turtles

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