| The race to the poles has been won and the seven | | | | Yacht Race - still an impressive achievement. |
| seas and five continents have been mapped and | | | | No one has ever ventured 2,000 Leagues Under the |
| plundered but the human hunger for adventure isn't | | | | Sea, but the underwater world has set challenges for |
| sated. While some people still crave virgin exploration, | | | | man, with both its creatures of the deep and its |
| there are a lot of people who'd prefer something | | | | depths - conquer them in adventure holiday comfort |
| more achievable - an Adventure Holiday. On an | | | | by diving with Great White Sharks, or the less |
| adventure holiday you will have to work to achieve | | | | teeth-y whale sharks or dolphins, or take a submarine |
| your goal, but you don't have to risk death or | | | | safari to the depths on your next adventure holiday |
| frostbite to get there and you can be there in back | | | | to the Spanish sun. |
| in two weeks. | | | | If you're in the market to prove yourself on your |
| Explorers used to look upwards for adventure. | | | | adventure holiday there are still plenty of ways to |
| Everest took some conquering, and Mont Blanc's | | | | come of age in traditionally challenging style. Young |
| snows have made a worthy adversary in the past. | | | | men on Pentecost Island proved themselves with a |
| But Kilimanjaro was recently conquered by a bunch | | | | bungee jump of faith, and while you could travel |
| of celebrities for Comic Relief, and the impressively | | | | there to perform with the traditional vines etc. it |
| titled highest mountains in the United Kingdom and | | | | would be much more exciting and impressive to |
| Australia: Ben Nevis and Mount Kosciuszko, are ideal | | | | come of age in the same kind of way James Bond |
| for a short holiday adventure. Ben you can summit in | | | | would have - not with Miss Moneypenny - but by |
| about nine hours, Kosciuszko you can do in about | | | | repeating the Bond bungee from Goldeneye off |
| three - and during your Adventure Holiday you'll have | | | | Verzasca Dam. |
| climbed one of the 'Seven Summits'. | | | | China's Great Wall is an adventure holiday and historic |
| Sailors are some of the world's great adventurers, | | | | hike, but you can now get up to the wall via cable |
| setting off to discover a new land is pretty | | | | car and down via toboggan. Instead of racing to the |
| adventurous, but that kind of epic journey doesn't fit | | | | pole you can witness the wilds of Antarctica from |
| into your time off work. But those who crave the | | | | the deck of your cruise ship, and the Arctic though |
| open promises of the sea can still experience life on | | | | the window of your train, and instead of joining a |
| a tall ship, or attempt to sail round Cape Horn - or for | | | | Tureg Salt Caravan you can opt to camp in five star |
| the Adventure Holiday version charter a boat and | | | | luxury at Ksar Ghilane in the Sahara. Running with the |
| bob round Scotland's western coast. Or take your | | | | Bulls is kind of adventure holiday bullfighting lite, |
| adventure holiday time completing the Three Peaks | | | | though still pretty dangerous. |