Ginny Prior for the Mercury News
"SINCE THE BEGINNING of time, man has been fascinated with caves. Dark, dank and mysterious, they test the very depths of our imagination. But while man lived for centuries in caves on dry land, it's sea caves that offer the real adventure. And no place in California has more sea caves than the Channel Islands..."
Related Links: Channel Islands National Park, Channel Islands sea caves slideshow.
Desert News
"Quark Expeditions, a specialist in polar adventure travel, has chartered the nuclear-powered icebreaker 50 Years of Victory for expeditions to the North Pole in 2008..."
Related Links: Quark Expeditions
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John Bordson for the Charlotte Observer
"The Atacama Desert is a very dry place, the driest desert in the world. There are some zones where it hasn't rained in decades; other zones have some dunes with the typical look of a desert, mixed with strange geological formations that resemble those on the planet Mars..."
Related Links: Atacama desert slideshow
27-7 Press Release
"With the Chinese government's recent closure of Tibet to tourism, travelers may not realize that there are corners of the old Tibet they can still freely travel. Mustang, an autonomous Kingdom on the Nepal/Tibet border is a place so culturally intact that many travelers find it actually more Tibetan than Tibet itself.."
Related Links: Mustang Kingdom, Kali Gandaki gorge, Intrepid Travel.com.
Reuters
"If two weeks by a pool with a margarita is your idea of the vacation from hell, you may prefer something more challenging with men's portal AskMen.com coming up with a list of the top 10 exclusive adventures..."
As I sit beside the raging North Johnstone River in far north Queensland and face four days rafting on the world's highest grade of rapids, I wonder if this time I have gone far too far...
A one-day lightning tour of the Gunung Mulu National Park caves can prove taxing in more ways than one. Feeling sore in many places, ZALINA MOHD SOM advises doing it at a more leisurely pace.
Kirk Taylor for the Daily Utah Chronicle
"Moab has got to be one of my favorite vacation destinations. This place is incredible for outdoor enthusiasts, and it's simply hard to beat..."
Ellen Fagg for the Salt Lake Tribune
"Ask the family who founded the place what sets apart Green Valley from other destination spas, and a couple of hours later you might find yourself sitting on the edge of a sandstone cliff, 120 feet in the air, trying to talk yourself into shoving off..."
