Surrounded by Black Bears: Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge
Finding yourself surrounded by Black bears in the middle of the wilderness is probably a nightmare for most. Especially considering our car was parked 3 miles away and we were on foot! But instead of running scared, we crouched down in the grass, pulled out our camera’s, and began shooting. Once regarded as a vast wasteland in North Carolina’s Outer Banks, Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge is now 152,000 acres of unique landscape, home to a vast population of diverse and rare wildlife. Visitors to the Outer Banks used to...
read moreTammy Lowe. The adventure traveler I aspire to be.
She has trekked to Everest Base Camp, killed a guinea pig for food in Ecuador, and been spat on in the Amazon by a Shaman who was performing her exorcism. Tammy Lowe is the adventure traveler I aspire to be! I absolutely had to interview her! What do you love the most about travelling? That I get to visit countries completely different to my own. I am kind of addicted to culture shock…the more the better in fact! I am from Germany, so walking down an immaculately clean and orderly street in Munich, and visiting a remote village in the...
read moreOur Favorite Adventure
Time for another traveler interview! This week I would like to introduce you to Kathleen and Brock from Our Favorite Adventure! A truly inspiring couple, in 2012 they both quite their highly respectable 9-5 jobs and literally sold everything they own – bar 10 boxes which are in storage! They say they have learnt more in the past 15 months from full time travel than they have ever learned in the last 5 years combined, and encourage everyone to follow their dreams to achieve happiness, whatever they may be! After-all, shouldn’t...
read moreArrival in Barrientos: Antarctica
Before you visit Antarctica you have an idea of what it might be like. It might be cold there. The landscape is likely to be white. You might see penguins. There’s a high probability that you might see snow. It can get windy. You might even get sea sick.
Well forget all that, the only way to find out is to head there for yourself and see what the white continent is really like! So I did.
read moreThe Short Road to Happy
Ever wanted to try something completely different? Ever wanted to be inspired? Ever day-dream about embarking on the trip of a lifetime? Joel Key and Phoebe Mroczek are about to do all of the above. In the pursuit of happiness, and discovering what makes people around the world happy, this amazing couple recently quit their careers (Joel a Physio and Phoebe in Marketing), and are set to embark on an epic motorbike journey around the world across all six continents! I managed to catch Phoebe for a quick chat about her amazing adventure...
read moreAmazing Sets of …Stairs
Amazing Sets of …Stairs I have always thought that traveling is the best weight loss regime you could possibly undertake. While I have an irrational fear of the gym, and refuse to put my body through unnecessary exercise when at home, I have a love of the outdoors, a love for adventure, and when I travel I travel to destinations which naturally lend themselves to physical exercise. Forcing myself to run on a treadmill for an hour is the worst kind of torture I can possibly imagine, however I would happily hike for 7 days above the clouds to...
read moreKilimanjaro – The Best and The Rest!
This week has been an account of my time climbing Mt Kilimanjaro, and while the first two days were recorded in excruciating details for you, the last 5 days were unfortunately not – sadly I guess I was too exhausted as the climbs became more difficult to keep a diary.
So this is an overview of the best and the rest!
read moreThe Adventurous Life of a Student Volunteer
Our time volunteering in Costa Rica during January 2012, allowed us to take part in animal welfare projects around the country. Here is a brief overview of our project as put together by filmmaker Keira Austin. The benefit of volunteering as an International Student Volunteer was that at the end of our two week conservation project we were treated to a two week adventure tour of the country!
Click here to watch a full 15 minute documentary of our time as environmental conservationists.
read moreSpotted: The Big Five Animals of Africa
An African Safari is generally quite high on the bucket list of any traveler, and between Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Uganda, Zimbabwe and Zambia, there is no shortage of options or availability!
Each country is a popular safari destination in their own right, however when Mike and myself had the opportunity to spend two weeks traveling through one of these countries, we opted for Tanzania.
Figuring that we couldn’t go wrong on safari in the Serengeti National Park, we chose an absolute classic African Safari setting which pretty much guaranteed that we would spot the “Big Five!”
read moreTop 5 Reasons You Should Go on a Bike Tour!
This week’s guest post is from adventure couple Kathleen and Brock who run the travel blog “Our Favorite Adventure”. REASONS YOU SHOULD GO ON A BIKE TOUR So you want to go on a bike tour? Make it a reality and you will have the most fun you have ever had in your life…guaranteed! Don’t know what a bike tour is? It’s a two-wheeled, man-powered road trip that involves riding, camping, and slowly following whatever path you decide to lay out before you. Put simply, it’s a long-distance ride that lasts a while, usually a few...
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