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Carry-on Plane Bags

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Here's an update on the rules because the Transportation Security Administration, including the amount and you can carry gels and liquids in your carry-on plane bag. Plus, details on where to get continually updated info.

Top Adventure Travel Companies

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Your choice of an adventure travel company could ensure wonderful vacation-- or a memorable time but not-so-good memories. Here's a selection of reputable companies offering adventure travel trips.

A parrot shares quarters with guests at an Amazon jungle lodge

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A parrot nibbles on a lunchtime snack provided by workers at a jungle lodge next to the Amazon River in Peru

Street Musicians Play in Bucharest, Romania

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Violinist on street in Bucharest, Romania

Indiana Jones Adventure Trips

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The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull movie starring the brash adventurer Indiana Jones, opens May 22. Lots of tour operators are offering trips that follow the adventurer’s footsteps, or let you have similar experiences (without being chased by the bad guys).

Zipline & Canopy Tours

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Once, considered an exotic way to view nature from above, now days, you can find a zipline adventure (sometimes called a “canopy tour”) in dozens of places around North America, the Caribbean, Hawaii, Peru, new Zealand and many other countries. Click here to see if there's a zipline or canopy tour where you're taking your next vacation.

10 Summer Family Vacations

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When temperatures climb in the city, head to the mountain resorts for beat-the-heat family vacations.

Top VolunTourism Sources

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These Web sites and companies are the best sources for travelers who want to find and book volunteer travel, service-based travel, or a vacation with a volunteer components

Take a Zipline or Canopy Tour

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Are you taking a zipline or canopy tour on your next vacation and would love to know just what to expect? It's a trendy activity, especially in Costa Rica and a growing number of mountain resorts, from Whistler to Park City. But before you hook onto a line and start zipping, reputable zipline tour operators give you basic training,which may include a fast ride on wire close to the ground.

Extreme Zip Lines, Canopy Tour

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Zip Lines are strung among trees throughout America. If you're looking for adrenalin highs during aerial rides, just take a zip line tour. Whether you're living in or visiting Hawaii, California, New Hampshire, Alaska or dozens of the other states here in the U.S., odds are excellent there will a zip line or canopy tour within easy driving distance.

Heavenly Zipline

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Heavenly Mountain Resort in California claims it has the longest zipline in the United States. During the 80-second ride, you're guaranteed spectacular views of Lake Tahoe and the ski slopes you underneath as you descend.

Types of Adventurous Travel

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Check out these ten unforgettable types of adventure travel. These adventurous travel experiences range from scuba diving on the Great Barrier Reef or hot air ballooning over a desert in New Mexico to kayaking with the kids in the Pacific ocean by Vancouver, Canada.

5 Swiss Alps Day Hikes

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Looking for details on taking great day hike in the Swiss Alps? Greg Witt, author of "Ultimate Adventures: A Rough Guide to Adventure Travel", owns an adventure travel company that specializes in hiking, trekking, and photographic adventures in the Alps. Here are his suggestions.

TSAlocks

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TSA approved locks will keep your suitcase closed as it works its way through the baggage system when you're taking a flight. The Transportation Security Administration guards have the keys to open them, if they want to look inside.

Yellowstone in the Winter

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Visiting Yellowstone in the winter you can snowmobile or cross country ski past steamy clouds drifting from hot springs, watch Old Faithful erupt framed by the setting sun, photograph bison from the safety of your snow coach and watch wolf packs through a spotting scope.

5 Fantastic Family Vacations

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Taking the kids on a family trip ensures vacation memories you can talk about around a dinner table.

Metrosafe 200 Shoulder Bag

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The Pacsafe Metrosafe 200 travel shoulder bag is, quite simply, the best travel purse I've used during my years of exploring the world. The anti-theft features give me a sense of security on busy city streets. The bag's inner pockets keep my passport, credit cards and iPhone secure, but I can quickly reach everything else I've packed into various pockets.

The World's Highest Sea Cliffs Form a Natural Barrier for Kalaupapa Peninsula

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The world's highest sea cliffs guard Kalaupapa National Historic Park on Molokai, Hawaii

Take Copies of Key Documents

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Always travel with photocopies of your passport, credit cards, driver's license, health insurance information and otherimportant travel documents. If your purse or wallet is stolen, it's easier to replace everything if you have photocopies of the originals that show the passport and card numbers.

Massive Angkor Wat Is theCenterpiece of Angkor, Cambodia

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Photo - Angkor Wat is a massive Khmer temple in Angkor, Cambodia

Vietnamese Woman Floats Down the Perfume River in Vietnam in a Tiny Boat

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Vietnamese woman in a tiny boat on Perfume River in Vietnam

Romania Has Many Lovely Churches

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Photo - Romanian Church

A Sun Gate View of Peru's Machu Picchu, One of the World's Great Wonders

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Peru's Machu Picchu, One of the World's Great Wonders

How to Start Scuba Diving

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Scuba diving through gardens of colorful coral surrounded by a cloud of fish is like touring an underwater art museum. But before you start scuba diving past coral walls 90-feet deep, or with dolphins or sharks, there's a lot you need to learn.

New Hampshire Zip Line Tours

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Alpine Adventures zip lines and treetop canopy tours show you northern New Hampshire from above. Take your choice between racing your friends as you ride dual zip lines, or taking the Treetop Canopy Tour, a six-zip line trip.

Scuba Shore Dives

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If you love to go scuba diving, but are happiest walking off the shore and sinking into the water instead of jumping off a dive boat, you'll find these islands appealing. Each one has a variety of shore dives opening up underwater coral gardens and clouds of fish.

Travel With Gap Adventures

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Gap Adventures, which made National Geographic Adventure magazine’s top “Do It All” outfitter list again in the February, 2009, issue, offers a choice of more than 1,200 small group adventure travel trips to all seven continents.

Smith Turbo Fan Goggles

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Ever have your goggles fog while skiing down a mogul run and you can no longer see the slope, or have them go white in a powder storm? Smith’s Turbo Fan Prodigy, Phenom and Knowledge OTG goggles are a blessing for people who love snowsports and sweat a lot, but even more so for people who wear glasses that constantly fog.

Women's Travel Club

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The Women's Travel Club offers adventure travel trips that set women in exotic locales, on sandy island beaches and in sophisticated cities.

Red Bull Crashed Ice Adventure

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Ever hear about the Red Bull Crashed Ice, an adventure race on skates? The race takes place on a 550-meter ice-track that not only winds its way through the Old Quarter in Quebec City, but includes a series of high-speed hairpin turn s, big-air jumps, drop-offs, and gaps.

Cam Ranh Bay, site of battles during the Vietnam War, is a popular beach today

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Today Cam Ranh Bay, the site of battles during the Vietnam War, is a popular beach with locals and tourists.

Take a Bobsled Ride

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A bobsled ride down the track at Utah Olympic Park, site of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games, takes less than a minute but you'll go 70 miles an hour or faster.

Intrepid Travel Adventures

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Intrepid Travel is a niche adventure travel company that focuses on taking travelers off the beaten track in Asia, and in the Antarctica. Many of their trips are cheap, because travelers stay in the same accommodations as locals do.

Older Women in Bucharest, Romania, Often Wear Subdued Garb

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Photo -- Woman in Bucharest, Romania

Popular Family Vacations

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These adventure travel companies offer entertaining family vacations that are so popular these trips are repeated almost yearly. It doesn't matter if you want to take the kids on a family beach vacation, an overseas trip, an all inclusive family vacation, an affordable trip or a luxury experience, you'll find it here.

Surviving an Avalanche

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If you're a skier, snowmobiler, snowboarder or hiker who likes to explore the backcountry in the winter what do you know about avalanche safety? Here is where you can learn more about surviving an avalanche.

Austin-Lehman Adventures

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Looking for a company that offers personalized, reasonably priced adventure travel trips that are limited to 12 people? Here's where to learn more about adventure travel with Austin-Lehman Adventures

Checkpoint Friendly Bags

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Tired of pulling your laptop and other electronic gear out of your carry-on bag or backpack? TSA won’t make you take your laptop out of these checkpoint friendly bags and backpacks.

PacSafe Travel Purses

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PacSafe offers secure and light travel purses in several sizes ranging from the smaller citysafe 100 model to the spacious metrosafe 300 shoulder bag. The shoulder straps and purse bottoms are slashproof and clips attached to zippers keep thieves from sliding hands inside the purse.

Voluntourism with i-to-i

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i-to-i is a company that sends more that 5,000 people a year to volunteer at local projects around the world and immerse themselves in local cultures. These travelers choose voluntourism â€“ combining traditional travel with volunteer work â€“ to help make a difference both in their lives and others.

Voluntourism.org - Travel

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Voluntourism.org is a gateway to learning more about taking volunteer vacations, and the site lists specific trips that let you combine volunteerism and travel.

Top Terrain Parks Resorts

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These six resorts have outstanding terrain parks and pipes for skiers and snowboarders.

REI Adventures Active Trips

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REI Adventures offers great active travel trips, such as canoeing on a lake here in the U.S., cycling in Vietnam, or sea kayaking and hiking in Croatia. And, these are just a few of the 90plus weekend-to-multiweek trips offered by REI Adventures, part of the REI that has more than 80 stores in the U.S. chock-full of equipment and clothing for adventure travelers.

Canopy Tours

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If you want to swing from tree to tree for up-close views of the birds and animals that live there take a canopy or zip line tour. One way you walk on a swaying bridge strung between two trees; the other route you are zipping on a cable strung between trees. Either choice will put you anywhere from 20- to80 feet in the air.

Spring House was a multi-story home for ancestral Puebloans in Mesa Verde

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Photo gallery of ancestral puebloan ruins and hiking at Mesa Verde National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Ancient Fortresses Dot the Countryside in Romania

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Picture - Old Fortress on Hillside in Romania

Homes and Churches from Around Romania Are In The Village Museum

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Photo -- The Village Museum in Bucharest Romania

Hiking in Peru's Machu Picchu, One of the World's Wonders

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Image - hiking on the trail to the Sun Gate in Peru's Machu Picchu, One of the World's Great Wonders

Angkor, a UNESCO Heritage Site in Cambodia

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Photo – Man in Tree Wrapped Temple in Angkor, Siem Reap, Cambodia

Picture of Ancestral Ruins High on a Cliff in Mesa Verde National Park

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Photo gallery of ancestral puebloan ruins and hiking at Mesa Verde National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Heated Gloves

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Review of the latest generation Zanier Heat-GX heated gloves, which have an adjustable, integrated heating system that will keep your fingers warm for a full ski day.

Barns With Thatched Roofs Dot The Romanian Countryside

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Photo- A rustic barn in the Romanian countryside

Burning incense in a Buddhist temple in Hue, Vietnam

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Worshipers burn incense in a Buddhist temple in Hue, Vietnam

The Sacred Rock at Peru's Machu Picchu, One of the World's Great Wonders

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Image - The Sacred Rock at Peru's Machu Picchu, One of the World's Great Wonders

Mountain Travel Sobek

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Mountain Travel Sobek is a leader in adventure travel. This company introduces active travelers to the world’s best adventure destinations, from Alaska to Antarctica, from Zanzibar to Zambia, believing any fit, active, flexible person can embark on a walking expedition with a small group to the highest mountains in the world, when led by experienced outdoor guides who know the region intimately.

TravelRest Travel Pillow

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TravelRest has literally stretched the concept of an inflatable travel pillow, with its patented ergonomic shape. We found the uniquely shaped TravelRest travel pillow much more comfortable than the comparably priced, conventional pillows we've used during long airline flights and car trips.

Mountain Biking in Hawaii

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Mountain biking on Oahu, Hawaii, can be an adventure. Especially when dodging cows, splashing through streams and watching monster movies being made.

The temples in Hue, Vietnam, have colorful shrines

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A shrine The temples in a temple in Hue, Vietnam

Mule Skinners Lead the Trip Down the Cliff to Kalaupapa

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Mule Skinner on Mule Ride to Kalaupapa National Historic Park on Molokai, Hawaii

Hot Spring in a River Near West Yellowstone

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Winter in Yellowstone is more than Old Faithful – It is Snowmobiling, Cross Country Skiing and Animal Watching Too.

Extreme in Mott and Killebrew

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Expert skiers and snowboarders seeking the toughest and steepest inbounds extreme terrain know that locals provide the best "where to" tips. Brent Abrams, a member of Heavenly Mountain Resort's Freeride Team and a South Lake Tahoe native who grew up playing in Heavenly's terrain parks, trees and expert canyons tells all.

Top Adventure Travel Trends

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Can you predict the top adventure travel trends and destinations for 2010? Some of these adventure travel trends started in the last decade- 2000-2009. Do you agree with these trends and destinations?

Travel with Volunteer Abroad

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Voluntourism – combining traditional travel with volunteer work – is a growing trend. The Volunteer Abroad Web site lists many routes for finding interesting trips around the globe that let you travel with a purpose and immerse yourself in local cultures.

Sighisoara is a UNESCO World Heritage Center

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Photo - Sighisoara, Romania is on the UNESCO World Heritage Center list

The Imperial City in the Hue Citadal, Vietnam

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Vietnamese royalty lived in the Imperial City in Hue for hundreds of years. The walled Hue Citadel was the scene of key battles during the Tet Offensive in the Vietnam War. When the American soldiers took over the Citadel they reportedly found aging concubines still living in one of the buildings.

Geographic Expeditions

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Geographic Expeditions offers adventure travel and vacations around the globe. The varied adventures are to remote and challenging destinations since 1981, offers a varied portfolio of overland tours, treks, walks, and expeditionary voyages to the world's most astonishing places.

Get Your Passport Expedited

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Want your passport faster? Here's how to get your passport application expedited, when you need that document so critical to traveling abroad in a hurry?

Free Language Learning Tips

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Looking for free language learning tips? Shirish Nadkarni, CEO of Livemocha, a website that offers free language lessons from native speakers, offers tips for brushing up on your language skills before traveling internationally.

Nature & Wildlife Adventures

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Nature and wildlife adventure travel trips are growing in popularity. Would you like to dive with whale sharks, watch thundering herds during the annual animal migration in Africa or track wolves with your camera in Yellowstone National Park.

Woman carrying live chickens and food in buckets in a Vietnamese village

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Women in the Vietnamese villages often carry food and even live animals in two buckets that hang from a stick on her shoulders.

Hot Air Balloon Festivals

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When hundreds of hot air balloons rise en masse at a balloon festival, it's among the most colorful events on earth. Here's a gateway to some of the most spectacular hot air balloon festivals.

Bison in Yellowstone National Park

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Winter in Yellowstone is more than Old Faithful – It is Snowmobiling, Cross Country Skiing and Animal Watching Too.

Aquarium Scuba Dives & Snorkel

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Nose-to-nose with a 250-pound grouper, the scuba diver waved at the crowd on the far side of the glass in the aquarium. Did you know aquarium scuba diving and snorkeling programs are offered at more than 10 aquariums in the U.S., as well as in other countries?

The winter solstice is a time for parades in Cusco, Peru

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In Cusco, the gateway to Macchu Pichu, residents celebrate the winter solstice with many parades and festivities.

Zipline Tours at Whistler

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Summer or winter, you can take a zipline Tour in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. It's a nice break from skiing at the resort with North America's longest vertical, or after a day of hiking or playing golf.

Girlfriend Getaways & Trips

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You're a prime candidate for an all girls getaway if you want a temporary time-out from dealing with kids,a husband or work. Here's a list of companies that offer girlfriend getaways where it's okay to think about yourself first!

Go on a Dog Sled Tour

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Snuggle into the sled and let your musher control the 10 dogs leading your sled along a winter trail. Or, you could control the dogs yourself on some dog-sled tours. You can go on a dog sled tour anywhere from Minnesota to Alaska.

Inbounds Backcountry Ski&Ride

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Looking for places where you can find extreme backcountry-style skiing or snowboarding experiences but inbounds at resorts so there's avalanche control and ski patrollers around? Look no farther: Here's a list of some of the best places that expert skiers and riders love to explore.

Tips for Family AdventureTrips

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Looking for tips to plan a famikly adventure trip? Choosing and preparing for a family adventure trip that everyone, from your 5-year-old to your teen, will enjoy can be a family venture. Here are some tips for finding and getting ready for your first family adventure travel trip.

Dig This - - an Adult Sandbox

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Kids play with toy bulldozers and excavators in a sandbox. At Dig This, adults play with real bulldozers and excavators building roads, digging ditches and moving rocks in the first heavy equipment arena in the United States.

This Freestyle Skier Really Flips During the Siver Young Gun Open at Copper

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Freestyle Skier does a flip during the Siver Young Gun Open at Copper Mountain Resort, Colorado

A Family is Bringing Cultivation of Taro Plants Back to Molokai

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Woman working in taro field on Molokai, Hawaii

The Ho Chi Minh Museum in Hanoi Tells A Different Story of the Vietnam War

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Winners write history. The Ho Chi Minh Museum is a stylish museum that traces this leader's deeds in Vietnam before and during the Vietnam War. A home he lived in is also on exhibit.

Wilderness Survival Schools

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Is a Wilderness Survival School course for you? Gadgets, from a GPS to a Spot Satellite Messenger to all-weather clothing can help in some situations. But, what about when you’re so far off the beaten track, or hurt, and you’ll need to spend a night or more in the wilderness? These courses might teach you how to turn a potential nightmare into something bearable.

CMH HeliSki and HeliHike Trips

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If heli-skiing or heli-hiking are on your adventure-travel radar, check out the variety of trips offered by Canadian Mountain Holidays (CMH). In the winter this company offers heli-ski for advanced intermediates to expert skiers and snowboarders. In the summer, the heli-hiking trips for novices to experienced hikers and for families. CMH also has mountaineering trips.

Adventure Races for Adventures

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Adventure races are the ultimate experience for many adventure travelers. But, did you know that are adventure races for extreme athletes and amazing races for ordinary folks, too?

Fragile bridges span the gap between the two sides of Colca Canyon

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A bridge crossing Peru's Colca Canyon, the second deepest canyon in the world.

Machu Picchu at Dawn is Spectacular

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Image - Machu Picchu at dawn

St. Damien Found His Life's Calling Helping at a Hawaiian Leper Colony

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Snowkiting Adventures

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Snowkiting - when wind power from a kite hooked to a harness lets you ski or snowboard fresh backcountry powder for hours - is a fast growing sport. Picture yourself skimming atop virgin powder snow in an open meadow, on a frozen lake or sliding down a mountainside. When the wind is right, you'll be lifted off the ground and sail from 10- to 45-feet in the air as your kite scoops up wind and lets you fly free, until gravity brings you back down to the ground.

Narrow Gauge Hot Spring in Yellowstone National Park

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Winter in Yellowstone is more than Old Faithful – It is Snowmobiling, Cross Country Skiing and Animal Watching Too.

Travel -UN World Volunteer Web

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The United Nation’s World Volunteer Web is an online global clearing house for volunteerism. Here, you'll find links to organizations running volunteer vacations and trips, information about the annual Volunteer Day and more.

Yellowstone's Fountain Paint Pot Nature Trail

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Winter in Yellowstone is more than Old Faithful – It is Snowmobiling, Cross Country Skiing and Animal Watching Too.

Utah's Olympic Park

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The Utah Olympic Park is a playground for adventurous winter travelers. If you want to zip down a bobsled run behind a world cup bobsled pilot, try skiing down one of the nordic ski jumps or take an extreme zipline ride here's the place to visit. If you simply want to learn more about the 2002 Winter Olympic Games you can take a tour while your friends test themselves in these special sporting venues.

Snowmobiling on the trail system in West Yellowstone

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Winter in Yellowstone is more than Old Faithful – It is Snowmobiling, Cross Country Skiing and Animal Watching Too.

Buddhist monks praying in a temple in Hue, Vietnam

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Buddhist monks praying in a temple in Hue, Vietnam

A baby ocelet gnaws on a backpack in a Peruvian jungle lodge

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A baby ocelet gnaws on a backpack at a jungle lodge in Peru

The Air is Fragrant From Wildflowers Lining the Hiking Paths

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Hanging Heliconia and Other Hanging Heliconia and Other Flowers Grow Wild on Molokai, Hawaii.

Molokai Ranch Has Tents on Platforms at the Beach Village

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Tents in The Beach Village at Molokai Ranch

A Pervian weaver works on her hand loom

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A Peruvian weaver un Cusco work while her daughter watches.

Multifunction GPS Watch

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The Suunto X9i is a multifunction GPS watch that avid outdoorsmen, hikers and multi-sport enthusiasts who play in the wilderness will love. It interfaces with National Georgraphic TOPS mapping software, shows your current speed and distance, has an altimeter and thermometer, plus lots more.

Pacsafe Anti-theft Travel Gear

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If you want to keep anything from your passport and camera to huge backpacks safe, Pacsafe has the anti-theft travel gear for you.

Coffees of Hawaii on Molokai Offers a Plantation Tour

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A tour of Coffees of Hawaii on Molokai,Hawaii

An artisan stonecutter carves a sculpture in a crafts shop in Hue, Vietnam

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An artisan stonecutter carves a sculpture in Hue, Vietnam

Families Travel in Wagons in Viscri, Romania

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Photo -- Man and child in horse-drawn wagon in Viscri, Romania

Cross Country Skiers Enjoy Winter in Yellowstone

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Winter in Yellowstone is more than Old Faithful – It is Snowmobiling, Cross Country Skiing and Animal Watching Too.

Harvesting Hay in the Romanian Countryside

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Photo - A farmer moves his hay in the Romanian countryside

Horsebackriding in the Surf on Molokai, Hawaii

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Horseback riding on the beach on Molokai, Hawaii

Volunteer Travel

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Voluntourism -- combining a vacation or trip anywhere in the world with a few days or weeks volunteering is one way a growing number of travelers are making a difference. How do you decide if volunteer travel, whether it's spending a day at an African preserve feeding lion cubs or two weeks helping build a town hall in a third-world country, is for you?

Borrego Ranch Resort

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If you’re seeking a camp for adults, where you can stretch your body and your mind, check out Borrego Ranch Resort and Spa. At this luxurious oasis in the middle of the Anza-Borrego Desert, California’s largest state park, you’ll get your fill of adrenalin rushes and pampering.

Giant Condors Fly on Updrafts in Peru's Colca Canyon

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Giant condors swoop on updrafts in Peru's Colca Canyon, the second deepest canyon in the world.

Hoseback Riding at Kualoa Ranch on the Hawaiian Island of Oahu

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Company for Family Adventures

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Looking for a company that offers family adventures you and your kids will love? Here are several companies that offer family adventure travel chock-full of activities just for kids, plus adventures the entire family will enjoy as a group.

Versatile Fleece Jacket

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Eddie Bauer's First Ascent line has the versatile, award-wining Point Success jacket, great over a base layer, but can be slid in as a middle layer on cold days.

People Hike Down the Sun Gate Trail to Peru's Machu Picchu's Main Ruins

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Image - People hiking Down to Ruins at Machu Picchu, Peru

Angkor's Temples Are All Different But Fascinating to Explore

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Photo -- An Ancient Temple in Angkor, Siem Reap, Cambodia

Wall Frieze of Elephants at Angkor, Cambodia

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Photo - Wall Frieze on Temple in Angkor, Siem Reap, Cambodia

Viewing Llamas Up Close at Machu Picchu, Peru

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Image --a Llama Up Close and Personal at Machu Picchu, Peru

People Gather at Machu Picchu, Peru to Watch the Sunrise

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People Gather at Machu Picchu, Peru to Watch the Sunrise

Riding a Mule Down a Steep Cliff on Molokai, Hawaii

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The Guided Mule Ride to Kalaupapa on Molokai, Hawaii

Cooling Off During a Hike on Molokai

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Swimming at Moaula Falls on Molokai, Hawaii

Snowmobiler flies over a lip on a mountain in Montana near Yellowstone

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Winter in Yellowstone is more than Old Faithful – It is Snowmobiling, Cross Country Skiing and Animal Watching Too.

Start Rock Climbing

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Learning the highs of rock climbing introduces you to sky-high adventures. But learning how to climb safely is key to the adventure.

Nature Created a Dramatic Landscale in Red Rock Canyon

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Working Cattle Ranches

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If you're the horseback rider who wants to play cowboy for a week vacation at a working cattle ranch or join a cattle drive.

Fumaroles on Yellowstone's Fountain Paint Pot Nature Trail

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Winter in Yellowstone is more than Old Faithful – It is Snowmobiling, Cross Country Skiing and Animal Watching Too.

Scuba Diving in Cayman Islands

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The Cayman Islands are one of the premier dive locations in the Caribbean because the seabed falls away in a series of walls very close to the shore.

Visiting the Cemetery at Kalaupapa, Once the Colony for Cast-out Lepers

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St. Philomena Cemetery at Kalaupapa National Historic Park on Molokai Hawaii

Boating down the Amazon River in Peru at dawn

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Boating on the Amazon River in Peru at dawn

Lamas and People Meet in Peru's Machu Picchu, One of the World's Wonders

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Image - Llamas and People Share the Ruins in Peru's Machu Picchu, One of the World's Great Wonders

A Kitemaker Creates a Custom Windsock at the Big Wind Factory on Molokai

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Big Wind Factory Kitemaker on Molokai, Hawaii

Waterproof Camera Cases

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If you're looking for an inexpensive waterproof camera case to protect your digital camera, we found the DiCAPac Alpha case worked well while snorkeling and river rafting. Read the review.

Travel Deals on Auction Sites

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If your travel dates are flexible, check out these auction sites for deals and discounts on adventure travel (and more sedate) – vacations.

Climbing the Steep Steps of Angkor Wat Temple in Cambodia

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Climbing the dozens of steep step to get into Angkor Wat temple

Hikers Learn About Planting Taro in Halawa Valley on Molokai

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Learning about taro fields on a cultural hike on Molokai, Hawaii

An Employee Roasts Coffee Beans at Coffee of Hawaii

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Roasting Coffee at Coffees for Hawaii Plantation`

A local woman rides her a bike through a village in Vietnam

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A local woman rides her a bike through a village in Vietnam

Volunteer /Sierra Club Outings

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Sierra Club Outings runs volunteer travel trips around the United States, from New York City's parks to Wyoming's rugged backcountry.

Photographing a Bison From the Safety of Your Snow Coach

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Winter in Yellowstone is more than Old Faithful – It is Snowmobiling, Cross Country Skiing and Animal Watching Too.

Yellowstone is home to foxes, wolves, bison and other animals

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Winter in Yellowstone is more than Old Faithful – It is Snowmobiling, Cross Country Skiing and Animal Watching Too.

Fisher Price Active Gear

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Parents who enjoy taking the kids to national parks, on hikes and camping will appreciate this Fisher Price's new Active Gear line.

Adventure Travel Insurance

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Do you need adventure travel insurance? The travel insurance you bought for your next vacation might not cover camel riding in India, snowboarding in the Alps or bungee jumping in New Zealand. Here are companies that offer adventure travel insurance for travelers who love sports and adventurous activities.

Sherpa Cams on Mt. Everest

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If you want to see exactly what climbers on Mt. Everest face watch through cams that sherpas have attached to their helmets while climbing Mt Everest.

Keep Travel Documents Safe

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KeepYouSafe.com has a great concept: Storing copies of your travel documents and other vital records in an online safe deposit box. The company claims all information is encrypted using the same encryption technology that the military employs to protect sensitive data.

Mountaineering

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Mountaineering encompasses the sports of rock climbing, ice climbing, trekking and scaling the world’s tallest mountains. Here you’ll find links to different types of, and sources for mountaineering, rock climbing and ice climbing.

Techical Climbing in Red Rock Canyon near Las Vegas

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Volunteer Travel - - Earthwatch

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On a volunteer vacation or trip with the non-profit Earthwatch Institute even the drier aspects of science will come alive.

Zip Line in South Africa

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Zipping along 10 zip lines in one trip was a wild intro to the world of zip line adventures. But that’s what you get when you take the Zip Line Adventure at Tsitsikamma Coastal National Park in South Africa. (Adrenalin junkies note: When you’ve done this, head over to Bloukrans Bridge and do the bungie jump.)

Native Indians Sell Hand-woven Blankets at Travelers in Aguas Calientes, Peru

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Image - Native Indians Sell Blankets by Train in Aguas Calientes, Peru

Angkor's temple complex covers about 40 miles around Siem Reap, Cambodia

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Photo - Angkor Wat in Siem Reap, Cambodia

Adventure Styles

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Defining one's personal adventure style, whether it's choosing physical activities such as biking and hiking, or choosing trips to exotic countries.

Find Free Language Lessons

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Free language lessons are a great route for learning “hello,” “goodbye,” “where’s the bathroom?” or other important phrases, whether you’re visiting towns in countries where locals have never heard English or major cities. Visit Free Language Lessons for a list of companies that offer language lessons for free.

Package or Solo

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This piece discussed the differences between purchasing a travel package and planning the adventure travel trip yourself.

Internationl Expeditions Trips

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International Expeditions offers small-group eco-tours and nature travel trips to exotic locations including the Amazon, Egypt, Galapagos, India and Kenya during the annual animal migration.

Plan An Ecotourism Trip

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What's Ecotourism? It's traveling to natural habitats to see wildlife, without impacting the settings.

Ecotourism is such a popular form of travel these days that many tour operators now offer such trips. Here are some tips to think about and discuss with tour operators when planning to take an ecotour.

Gifts for Adventure Travel

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Are you looking for special gifts for your favorite adventure traveler and willing to spend up to $200? Here's a selection of gifts ranging roughly from $50 to $200, which adventuresome travelers will want to take along on their next vacation.

Luggage Limits

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Luggage Limits is a free search tool for flight-specific information about baggage allowances and fees. On this Web site, you simply put in airline, the name of the airport you are leaving from and your destination airport, then click.

Adventurous Tourists Are Visiting Cambodia's Angkor

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Photo – temple in Angkor, Siem Reap, Cambodia

A Woman Living in a River Village in Cambodia Travels by Boat

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A Woman Living in a River Village in Cambodia Travels by Boat

Llamas Wander Around the Ruins at Machu Picchu, Peru

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Image - Llamas Wander Around the Ruins at Machu Picchu, Peru

Unusual Accommodations

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Are you seeking adventure travel that involves unusual accommodations where you can spend the night? Here are three unusual lodging choices stretching from mountainsides to treetops to an ocean bottom.

Watching caimans at night on the Amazon River in Peru

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Watching Caimans on the Amazon River in Peru at Night

A Peruvian woman and her donkey

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A Peruvian woman in Colca Canyon guides her donkey who is carrying wood for fuel.

Scuba Diving Treasure Hunters

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Would you like the chance to go home with up to $2,500 of treasure from the Nuestra Senora de Atocha, a Spanish galleon that sank Key West, Florida, during a hurricane in 1622? Mel Fisher’s Treasures, is offering a limited number of scuba diving treasure hunters the opportunity to spend a week learning about treasure hunting, scuba diving at the site of the Atocha.

5 Salt Lake City Hikes

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Greg Witt, author of 60 Hikes within 60 Miles: Salt Lake City, has hiked well over a thousand miles of Utah trails. Here are his choices for five of the best day hikes close to Salt Lake City, Utah.

Frosty Trees are Coommon in Yellowstone in the Winter

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Winter in Yellowstone is more than Old Faithful – It is Snowmobiling, Cross Country Skiing and Animal Watching Too.

Climbing massive rocks in Red Rock Canyon near Las Vegas, Nevada

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Red Rock Canyon Puts You In a Wonderful Setting a Quick Drive from Las Vegas

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Ranches for Horseback Riding

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Many travelers enjoy horseback riding but want other activities, such as fly fishing, hiking and spa treatments, too. Here are some dude and guest ranches that offer horseback riding and much more. Some also prefer more luxurious setting than a rustic cabin after a day on the trail.

Extreme skiing in Killebrew Canyon at Heavenly Resort

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Extreme skiing in Killebrew Canyon at Heavenly, California

Highland Bowl's Extreme Slopes

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Expert skiers and snowboarders seeking the toughest and steepest inbounds extreme terrain know that locals provide the best "where to" tips. Ski patroller Dan Goddard knows the backcountry-style terrain in Highland Bowl at Aspen Highlands, Colorado, intimately.

Meeting Wild Animals

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If you’re hiking or mountain biking in the woods, up a mountain or in the desert and you see wildlife always keep in mind that they are original inhabitants, not you!

Waterfall in Yellowstone National Park

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Winter in Yellowstone is more than Old Faithful – It is Snowmobiling, Cross Country Skiing and Animal Watching Too.

Pictograph in Red Rock Canyon made by early Native Americans

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Winter Lodging in Yellowstone

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Yellowstone in the winter is an astonishing sight. Spend a few nights in the park, staying at the Old Faithful Snow Park Lodge or the Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel.

Park City Inbounds Extreme

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Expert skiers and snowboarders seeking the tough, steep backcountry-style inbounds extreme terrain know locals provide the best "where to" tips. Mark Saurer, assistant snow safety supervisor, can lead you to the stashes at Park City Mountain Resort.

Extreme Sport - Base Jumping

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"Extreme sports" takes on new meaning when you watch the CBS 60 Minutes segment on "Taking Flight with Birdmen." These extreme adventurers don "birdmen" suits then jump off some of Norway's highest cliffs. During the first few seconds of free fall the suits fill with air, then the birdman soars at up to 140 miles per hour. Here's where to see a video.

Church in Bucharest, Romania

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Photo - Church in Bucharest, Romania

Hiking Honeymooners Get Ready to Plunge Into a Waterfall-Fed Pool

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Honeymooners on a hike at Moaula Falls on Molokai, Hawaii

Jewish Synagogue in Brasov, Romania

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Photo - Jewish Synagogue in Brasov, Romania

American Indians have homes in the Acoma Pueblo

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Photos and Images of Acoma, an Indian Pueblo in New Mexico

ROW Adventures Trips

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ROW Adventures, which offers whitewater rafting and other adventurous trips, has had trips included in National Geographic Traveler Magazine’s “Tours of a Lifetime” for three years running, and Outside Magazine’s Top Ten New Trips for two consecutive years.

Adventure Travel With Travcoa

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Looking for luxury tours filled with adventures? Travcoa offers escorted tours, custom vacations and luxury private jet trips.

Festival Celebrating the Winter Solstice in Chivay, Peru

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Peru picture-- The winter solstice festival in Chivay, a town at the edge of Colca Canyon.

Globetrotter's LogBook

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Travelers who want a quick way to record memories while on a trip will like the Globetrotter's LogBook.

SmartWool Socks

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Skiers have been using Smartwool socks for years (because the company was started by a former ski instructor) and now hikers, mountain bikers and other active sports enthusiasts are opting for them, too. The colorful lifestyle socks are hit in the city scene.

Spruce House

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Photo gallery of ancestral puebloan ruins and hiking at Mesa Verde National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Iglesia de Ichupampa, a catholic church in Colca Canyon, Peru

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Iglesia de Ichupampa is just one of several catholic churches in Colca Canyon, Peru

Riding Through a Stream While Mountain Biking at Kualoa Ranch on Oahu, Hawaii

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Mountain Biking Over a Stream in Kualoa Ranch on Oahu, Hawaii

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Angkor Archeological Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site

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Picture - Temple complex at Angkor Archeological Park Picture -in Cambodia

Exploring Temples in Angkor, a UNESCO Heritage Site in Cambodia

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Photo – Visitor in Temple at Angkor, Siem Reap, Cambodia

Family Hiking in Peru's Machu Picchu, One of the World's Great Wonders

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Image - Dad and Child Hiking in Peru's Machu Picchu, One of the World's Great Wonders

Adventures in Vail

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Picture Vail, Colorado, as home base, from which you can ski on 5,289 acres of terrain in the winter, or raft, hike, mountain bike or go horseback riding on trails threading mountainsides and broad valleys in the summer. Year-round, you can, go fly fishing in golf-medal streams and explore Colorado’s high country.

Burning Man

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Burning Man. Is it a festival? A Pagan rite? An event? Trying to define the annual Burning Man gathering is like trying to describe what an art festival designed around a bonfire looks like.

Flying Trapeze Lessons

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You don't have to be a circus performer to learn how to swing through the air on the flying trapeze. Today, there are several schools in New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Baltimore and other major cities offering flying trapeze lessons.

Adventures in Jackson Hole

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Picture Jackson Hole, Wyoming, as the base camp, from which you can ski, hike, mountain bike or go horseback riding on the sides of mountains or broad valleys, go fly fishing in golf-medal streams and explore Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks.

Locals Shop at Street Markets in Romanian Towns

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Photo - Street market in a Romanian city

A family in a boat on the Perfume River in Hue, Vietnam

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Boats are the main means of transportation for many families who live along Perfume River in Hue, Vietnam. Visitors can cruise the river in vibrantly colored dragon boats.

Panels on a Wooden Church in Bucharest, Romania

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Photo - Hand-painted scenes on an old wooden church in the Village Museum in Bucharest, Romania