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"What, exactly, is Adventure Travel ?"
In many ways, coming up with an adequate answer to that questionis like trying to explain the concept of infinity. But I havereached several conclusions that should lead you down the righttrack even though you may find the answer rather elementary.
If we follow the dictionary, the two keywords involved -adventure and travel - are easily defined. The term travel is aconcept that needs no introduction to anyone, but adventure,alas, is not as straight forward and hence involves somecognitive elements of perception.
In other words, the term adventure can mean different things todifferent people depending on their very own perceptions andtaste. A trek in the country side might be a form of adventuretravel to some, but to a mountain climber, it is nothing morethan a walk in the country side!
As poet Ralph Waldo Emerson put it, "It is not length of life,but depth of life (that counts)...". So life is as you make itand see it really. You can choose to keep is simple, or becomerepetitive, boring and common, or you can make life and see itas a grand adventure in itself.
Applying this same concept to travel, we can keep it simple,repetitive and common, by following the masses and going to theusual big cities such as London, Paris or New York - or we canmake something which for us is extra ordinary, and have anAdventure Travel. The choice, as always, is ours to make.
Are we getting anywhere?
For some, Adventure Travel equates to grabbing the whitewater kayak and heading downto the river, or securing a bungee cord to your ankle andjumping off the bridge. To others, mixing with the local cultureup the amazon river in the tiny villages there.
If you ask a punter at the Rio Carnival why they are there,chances are they will tell you, for the Adventure of it. Ask adiver why they choose to dive and you will get a similar answer.Ask someone following the Inca Trail and again they will mostlikely tell you for the Adventure or it. If you asked me when Iwas about 10 why I climbed the hill and climbed over the fields,knowing I shouldn't have, while my mum sunbathed unknowingly atthe beach, I would have told you "for the adventure"
Floating in the clouds in a hot air balloon is an adventure. Sois a cruise to the exotic Galapagos. But even whisking thefamily away to a nearby theme park can be an Adventure to some.To some, a truly grand adventure involves viewing wildlife orspending time camping under the stars. To others, an escape togambling world Las Vegas makes their adrenaline flow, and bringsthe Adventure demon inside them to life.
Adventures come in all shapes and sizes. Big and small. Soft orhard. There is no limit, no rule.
Hopefully by now you are getting it. An adventure, whetherpassive or active, is the difference between common anduncommon; between normal and beyond normal. Try camping out in aspooky cemetery at night and tell me afterwards that, that wasnot an adventure! Or go visit the Pyramids of Giza, and tell meyou havn't been fantasizing about our ancient past.
Simply put, an AdventureTravel is really discovering what turns you on the most farwithin your soal. Adventure Travel is only limited to your veryown imagination and physical constraints. It doesn't matter ifyour sense of adventure is walking through an unexplored pathbetween the fields behind your house, or if you climb MountEverest. Adventure travel is what you make it - nothing more andnothing less.
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