Image credit: Göran Höglund (Kartläsarn) Alyssa Azar, the 18 year old Australian climber is preparing to try climbing Mt Everest for the third time, with a goal to become the youngest ever Australian to reach the summit and conquer the Everest. In her first attempt, Azar escaped an avalanche that killed 16 sherpas in April 2014. […]
Image Credit: Gregory “Slobirdr” Smith Look forward to travelling to Western Australia next year, to pass amazing time underwater with your 45,000 kg friend! Australian government is going to let travelers swim with majestic humpback whales at the World Heritate Site of Ningaloo Marine Park from next year, joining the small number of places – Mexico, […]
The Nordic nation of Sweden, which was so far very generous to the hundreds of thousands of refugees travelling to Europe in search of shelter, has finally changed its mind. After taking in refugees from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and some countries of Africa throughout 2015, Sweden to impose temporary border control from the noon of […]
Recently, the wonderful photos of photographer/IT worker/solo adventurer Tomasz Furmanek have caught our eye. The photos were taken as he was kayaking around Norway’s fjords during a few months of solo travel. We think his photos are simply stunning and that they do inspire going on an adventure – even if that means alone, and to […]
An amazing colorful spectacle can be observed in the sky over parts of Europe and the United States. The Aurora Borealis makes a rare appearance outside of her usual home in the skies further north, closer to the polar region. In the previous nights, it was already visible in some parts of the United Kingdom, […]
The 1st World Indigenous Games have ended at the weekend. Held in Brazil over a 10-day period the event was a combination of sporting and cultural programs. Dozens of delegations of Indigenous peoples from around the world including from Australia, Russia, Ethiopia, New Zealand, the Philippines and Brazil took part. In total, 24 Indigenous ethnicities were […]
We’ve all been there. Done something reckless, while drunk, and regretted it the next morning. That feeling of hungover dread as you assess the damage done the night before. Well, for Scotsman, Jamie Ather, panic set in when he realised he’d drunkenly booked a £520 flight from Glasgow to Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. He told the Daily Record, […]
Chile’s Atacama Desert is normally a dry landscape, but it’s currently transformed into a sea of flowers. Dormant seeds underground – in what’s one of the driest places on Earth – have come to life after massive rainfall in the region earlier this year. Rare rainfall near the Atacama Desert in Chile’s north, an area […]
Just a few hours till the world famous Rickshaw Challenge kicks off again, one proclaimed as one of the world’s last 10 real adventures among diving between tectonic plates in Iceland and rowing across Siberia’s lake Baikal. This time, the challenge will start in Chennai in Tamil Nadu on India’s east coast and then go […]
Vietnam is set to reduce the cost of its tourist visa for visitors from US$45 to $25 starting from the 23rd of November 2015. The change comes in an effort to increase the number of foreign visitors to the Southeast Asian country, that has seen a slump in tourist numbers over the past year. For the multi-entry visa, […]
In adventure travel news, n innovative new natural desert reserve spanning 10 percent of the total area of Dubai has been launched in the UAE. The Marmoon Desert Reserve Project is set to be the site of several ecotourism projects and conservation efforts contributing to the protection and nurturing of the environment,…
In adventure travel news, n innovative new natural desert reserve spanning 10 percent of the total area of Dubai has been launched in the UAE. The Marmoon Desert Reserve Project is…
