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