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In the January/February 2010 issue
The cover story encourages travelers with disabilities or limited mobility to consider African safaris -- our contributor has written the "how to" book and experienced it all from his wheelchair. Next, read an inspiring story about a professional theatre company and theatre school that revived a near-extinct farming village in Alberta, Canada, turning it into an arts travel destination attracting 40,000 visitors a year. Then, embrace winter with a snowy trip way
above the Arctic Circle to learn about Finland’s
reindeer herding challenges.
And finally, sign up for a senior-friendly Italian
language learning program any time
of year on the fascinating island of Sicily.
An inspiring guidebook on Sub-Saharan Africa spotlights the most accessible safaris, tours and independent travel options for people with disabilities. GoAfrica Safaris & Travel
Also, be sure to visit the magazine's entire Travel Article Library and the handy Theme Pages to browse our growing collection of richly-illustrated features. Then check our latest TravelWatch column for fast-breaking travel news and additions to our Special Offers & Prize Draws. Finally, our innovative Travel Advertiser Directory is a treat not to miss -- each page is dazzling!
This travel website also includes a Consulting Services section designed for tourism professionals and organizations wishing to tap into the visible subject and design expertise demonstrated on these pages.
All New Stories: February 1, 2010
Alternative travel and active, adventure travel
are growing at such a pace, there is always news to share and fresh horizons
to consider.
See our latest news picks!
Check out this week-long personal visioning retreat in the spectacular mountains of Montana's Centennial Valley. What better way to consider life's crossroads and where you want to go in the future?
A women's 
travel authority shares her thoughts on why she chooses to explore big cities the world over by subway instead of taxi. You will enjoy her 20 insightful tips for how to look like a local and enjoy the experience and cultural insights at minimal expense.
A new tour in September 2010 invites small-group participants to follow in the footsteps of medieval Crusaders through Turkey, Syria, Jordan to Israel, with a renowned specialist in this colorful history.
A nimble fingered pickpocketer can ruin an otherwise great vacation. TripAdvisor readers share their top ten "picks" of cities where extra care should be taken to make sure you don't become a victim.
Two new coffee table-size books of travel inspiration and photographic beauty encourage potential globetrotters to look beyond the obvious places with a fresh perspective. Great conversation starters!
New
Design -- Check these exciting pages!
You will love our colorfully-illustrated Advertiser Lynx Directory for
the best in accommodations, tour
operators & travel planners, wellness & spiritual
vacations, cruising
and barging, volunteer
vacations, educational
travel, travel products & services, transportation,
and more. Check the latest Feature Link
of the Month.
NEW HEADINGS AND THEMES ADDED MONTHLY! Don't miss our Travel
Article Library, arranged for easy access by
topic and country destination.
This archive presents all of Travel with a Challenge's richly-illustrated
collection of stimulating articles and helpful information on creative, challenging
vacations for mature travelers. Our readers use this resource very actively!
SOMETHING NEW! From time to time we come across some great new books, DVDs, travel clothing, travel gadgets and helpful tools that we think our readers would like to know about. If we've looked it over, we like to share our thoughts as part of what promises to be a growing collection of useful information and travel inspiration. Check back often!
Click on title or image button
to read each article in full.
No more do wheelchair adventurers and slow walkers have to miss out on the breathtaking scenery, abundant wildlife, and colorful tribal culture of Sub-Saharan Africa. Author, Gordon Rattray, documents how with his new guidebook that encourages people with limited mobility to tour and do safaris in six countries.
After becoming a near-ghost town in the early 1970s, the tiny Canadian prairie village of Rosebud discovered theatre as a stepping stone out of the past by creating a globally-recognized theatre training school and professional theatre that attracts 40,000 visitors annually to its dramas and musicals 10 months of the year. Megan Kopp tells this inspiring story.
With
a Lapland reindeer herder as guide, adventure travel writer, Margie
Goldsmith, spends a day in Finland’s forest wilderness 230 miles/370
kilometers north of the Arctic Circle. She learns
about this longstanding economic lifeline for the Sami people, and discovers
new challenges to such a traditional way of life in the 21st century.
Fifty-plus and keen to immerse in Italy’s language and culture? Our New Zealand-based contributor, Venetia Sherson, journeyed to Taormina, Sicily for a two-month, senior-friendly language learning program that achieved all that and more in a picturesque, historic setting overlooked by the ever-active volcano, Mount Etna.
A CLASSIC SELECTION from our always-accessible Travel Article Library! Slovenia and Croatia are now well-appreciated destinations for Europeans, less-known to North Americans and others living outside the continent. Explore some of their unique natural and cultural attractions with this article.
A CLASSIC SELECTION from our always-accessible Travel
Article Library! California's Yosemite National Park has plenty to offer the active nature explorer from horseback riding adventures to hiking through deep valley gorges and around spectacular waterfalls in this UNESCO World Heritage destination.
Coming in March/April: A visit to Canada’s magical Magdalen Islands in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, and a small-ship exploratory cruise on Peru's upper Amazon.
Check out our "Feature Link of the
Month"!
From time to time, prizes and discounts are offered to our magazine readers. Check
back regularly to see what's new:
Body Mind Spirit Journeys offers a $100 travel discount
for our readers on any of its tours. Register for the BMSJ Newsletter indicating
code #TWC-11, and take a quick survey to receive the $100 travel discount
to journey to one of 13 countries offered.
Hungry for vacation ideas and personal experiences but
want an article menu in bite-size chunks? Click
on the title or accompanying image to browse our collection of Travel
Theme pages, each colorfully and clearly laid out on a single page that
showcases articles about that theme or destination region.
We are pleased to launch a theme page showcasing our feature article collection
on vacation opportunities across the vast South Pacific region,
from Hawaii to Australia and French Polynesia to Rarotonga in the Cook
Islands. Hop on a plane, a freighter, a ferry or a bicycle .... and be
there!
We have recently introduced this theme page in response to readers' persistant
interest in planning their travel interests around reliable, creative
volunteer opportunities in an ever-widening range of destinations
around the world. Our collection of personal stories and objective reports
will inspire and motivate you!
Definitely our most visited Theme Page any month of the year, the Alternative
Hawaii collection takes readers way beyond Waikiki to explore the finest
treasures and pleasures of six islands. Nature, active adventures suitable
for seniors, unique places to stay on each island, and wellness vacations
with a Hawaiian flavor!
The Mediterranean Travel theme page offers articles that
immerse readers in the history, cultural richness, cuisine, senior-friendly
active adventures and rich contemporary cultures bathed in that magic Mediterranean
light that characterizes Italy, Greece and the Greek Islands, France, Spain,
Slovenia, Croatia and Turkey.
The Cruises and Train Travel theme page showcases unusual,
small-scale, vacation explorations in Mexico's Copper Canyon, Southeast
Asia, India, throughout Europe, Canada's Rocky Mountains, and Alaska with
the uncommon perspectives of small ships, sailing ships, freighters, trains,
river and barge journeys.
As people increasingly recognize the need for physical wellness, emotional
strengthening, and spiritual depth for healthy living, Wellness,
Spiritual and Pilgrimage vacations are often becoming a quest
for meaningful life direction. Plenty of food for thought and inspiration
in our collection of feature articles!
The Bird, Marine Mammal and Wildlife feature articles
present a dazzling showcase of Nature's rarest and most curious as well
as lots of educational facts and suggestions for unusual, often remote
nature holidays. The photography in these articles is worth a visit in
itself!
The European Travel theme page opens windows on a varied
menu and style of explorations in Ireland, France, Scotland, Germany, Austria
and England. Our authors share their travel stories going by barge, camper
van, on foot, in a wheel chair, even entering a classroom or two.
The Asia and India Travel theme page spotlights our feature
articles with cultural, natural and educational vacation opportunities in
China, Vietnam, Hong Kong and India. Enjoy the color, the cuisine, the diversity
and the active adventures sure to appeal to older travelers.
Let Alison Gardner, world expert on stimulating vacations for mature travelers, help you design winning tours, select hot destinations, reach mature travelers who want to use your services, and create websites which are not only stunning to look at but cost-effective in reaching your target audience.
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