| International adventure travel: Safaris, balloon tours, | | | | feet up a sledding hill, in Michigan. The rest of the |
| swimming with dolphins, bicycling down volcanos, | | | | story is on the website, but you can get information |
| trekking in the Himalayas, Walmart on Christmas Eve | | | | and a guide by talking to almost any hotel manager in |
| - the list is almost endless. This will not be a | | | | Riobamba, Ecuador.Go On A Jungle Book SafariIn |
| comprehensive listing of all the adventure | | | | southern Nepal, In the Royal Chitwan National Park, |
| opportunities out there. Instead, here is just enough | | | | you can see tigers, leopards, rhinos, and sloth-bears. |
| to whet your appetite.My Own International | | | | And where better to see them from than the back |
| Adventure TravelLong before hitchhiking across the | | | | of a large elephant? The tours are lead by naturalists |
| country at sixteen-years-old, I had a taste for | | | | and park rangers. Stay in the comfortable Safari |
| adventure. At fourteen, a friend and I bicycled 300 | | | | Lodge and take daily tours into the jungle.Take A |
| miles in a few days during one summer. At | | | | Mongolian Horseback TrekTravel with one of the |
| seventeen, I went international with my adventuring, | | | | great nomadic and horse-based cultures of the world. |
| hitchhiking from Michigan to half-way across Mexico. | | | | The trips take you beyond tourist routes, and you |
| Over forty now, I no longer put out my thumb - not | | | | can customize your trek to fit your schedule and |
| very often, anyhow - but I still love to travel.More | | | | budget. These tours are run from an office in |
| recently, my international adventure travel took me | | | | Mongolia, and they provides experienced guides that |
| to Ecuador. While there I climbed to the furthest | | | | are multi-lingual.Go Rock Climbing In RioWant an |
| point from the center of the Earth. Everest is highest | | | | outdoor adventure and city nightlife? Try a rock |
| above sea level, but due to the Earth's bulge at the | | | | climbing tour in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. You'll |
| equator, the peak of Mount Chimborazo, at 20,600 | | | | find routes for all skill levels in the Sugar Loaf, Urca, |
| feet, is farther from from the center of our planet. | | | | Corcovado and Pedra da Gavea mountains. Tours |
| The top is all snow, ice, and glaciers.My guide didn't | | | | include bilingual instructors, equipment rentals, and |
| speak English, and thought I was a mountaineer. I | | | | transportation, and start at under $100 per person. |
| had once used an ice axe and crampons to go forty | | | | |