Adventure Travel

Office life has sent modern-day travelers searching for that jolt of adrenalin in skyrocketing proportions. Soar with the birds over the Swiss Alps, commune with a camel in Morocco, or search a savannah in South Africa.

Adventurepages.com has a listing of more than 400 trip summaries, with information and links to the tour companies. You can use their search engine to locate trips in a specific country, region or place such as a national park. Adventurepages also has a brief description of most of the places referred to in the trip summaries

Adventure Center provides safaris, treks, expeditions and active vacations worldwide to travelers looking for adventure and value. Over the past 24 years their philosophy has remained the same: to enable trip participants to immerse themselves in the country they are visiting; to learn to appreciate it's people, cultures and wildlife and the delicate balance necessary for their coexistence.

Founded in 1980 by intrepid travelers C. Steen Hansen and Andy Alpine, Specialty Travel Index is a great source for adventure vacations around the globe. It features more than 500 trips, listed by activity, destination and tour company. Specialty Travel Index also offers special bargains and travel articles.

Wild Land Adventures books group trips to Alaska, Central America, South America, the Middle East, Turkey and Africa. They also design custom trips that allow you to choose the location, itinerary and size of the group for an added cost of 10-25% of the normal fare.

REI promises to take you off the beaten track in it's small group trips to Antarctica, Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America and the South Pacific. They even hire local bilingual guides. Providing full service adventure travel is another great addition to the long list of co-op benefits and REI member services