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Go wild! Top 5 adventures with animals

Go wild! Top 5 adventures with animals

One of the best parts of travel is getting up close to the different kinds of wildlife that share this planet with us. You can catch a glimpse of all kinds of them at zoos closer to home but that's no replacement for seeing animals in the wild, in their...

I doooo! Make your destination wedding an adventure

I doooo! Make your destination wedding an adventure

When you've got limited vacation time and a limited travel budget, it's sometimes a bit of a kick to the gut when you've got to use those to attend the destination wedding of a friend or family member. But destination weddings don't all have to be tropical beaches, khaki pants...

Freaks of nature: The world's strangest travel spots

Freaks of nature: The world's strangest travel spots

In most places you travel to around the world, everything looks as you'd expect it to. The water is in the ocean or in lakes and rivers. The trees are green and leafy, for the most part. Sure there are different species and climates to mix things up now and...

Ditch the umbrella! Top 5 adventures in the rain

Ditch the umbrella! Top 5 adventures in the rain

After a much more pleasant than usual winter across much of the country, spring has proven it still knows how to conduct itself properly and the typical mix of sunny days with April showers (and a bit of April snow) is the name of the game this season. But even...

Why do people eat ?gross` food?

Why do people eat ‘gross' food?

Deep fried hairy spiders? Fermented shark? Why some find these foods delicious and others shy away in disgust For a traveller, immersing oneself in another culture means to really try and walk in another pair of shoes for a little while. A traveller will often attempt to speak a few...

Best tree adventures to bring out your inner monkey

Best tree adventures to bring out your inner monkey

Usually adventures take place on solid ground, in the water, or while hurtling through the air but that leaves out a huge chunk of the accessible universe to have adventures in -- the trees! With a little bit of respect and a lot of creativity, you can have hours of...

Street foods you've got to try at least once

Street foods you've got to try at least once

Half the adventure of visiting foreign lands is in trying out new foods. You don't have to splurge on a fancy restaurant to get the best of what a new country offers -- in fact, your best bet is to check out the quick, cheap and easy street offerings. While...

Top 10 Secluded Caribbean Beaches

Top 10 Secluded Caribbean Beaches

March Break is upon us, conveniently coinciding with a growing sense of cabin fever. Even if you don't have kids and you haven't had a real March Break in decades, now's the time we all instinctively start eyeing up southbound airfares. What that means is that if you're heading south,...

Best Group Buying Sites for Adventure Deals

Best Group Buying Sites for Adventure Deals

There seems to be no end to group buying discount websites and newsletters these days. There are so many of them that those of us with fingernails can rest assured that there's no longer a need to pay full price for a manicure ever again. Phew. But deep inside these...