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Happy New Year!
In our January/February 2011 issue
Career winding down or retirement looking busy but boring? Check out expert tips to "reboot your life" through challenging, educational, affordable travel sabbaticals.
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. In addition, we invite you to check our latest TravelWatch column for fast-breaking travel news ... always intriguing food for thought. Finally, our innovative Travel Advertiser Directory is a treat not to miss. See why for yourself!
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: December 1, 2011
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 and join our email notification list for TravelWatch!
Lifelong learners with a passion for nature will want to sign up for educational "adventure studies" at a newly opened eco-facility in Canada's North. Year round, live and learn alongside scientists and student researchers on short courses that spotlight polar bears, birding, the Northern Lights, and beluga whales.
A volunteer organization based in Tanzania is 
capitalizing on its four years of managing life-changing, reliable placements by expanding to other countries in Africa, Asia and South America.
Consider a vacation in Costa Rica where everything from the domestic air flights to the lodges and resorts where you stay meet the highest environmental and sustainable standards in the world!
For a birders dream vacation, ride the rails across America from the Atlantic to the Pacific coasts, and bird three totally different ecosystems. This creative 14-day tour has an enviable popularity record, so sign up soon for May 2012.
Successful completion of the inaugural volunteer ride on horseback through Central Turkey's Cappadocia region has created memorable adventures for the riding participants and valuable dental services and children's programs for the remote villages visited in 14 days. Next Cappadocia ride is June 2012.
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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!
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Step aboard an elegant river cruise ship with Travel with a Challenge editor, Alison Gardner, to sample a week of stimulating exploration along the Rhone and Saône Rivers from Arles in southern Provence, through Lyon and on to Chalon sur Saône in southern Burgundy. Every day the 130 guests have much to see and do!
Whether you are considering a "sabbatical" from a successful career or from a busy schedule of commitments in retirement, the four Sabbatical Sisters, co-authors of Reboot Your Life, offer insightful planning tips for a long term travel experience, based on their experience of many rejuvenating, life-changing sabbaticals.
Several years ago, Global Volunteer Network founder, Colin Salisbury, shared his own remarkable story of a calling that deeply touches both people and environments in need, and his vision for this volunteer service organization. Now we celebrate with GVN its 10th anniversary and its 15,500+ volunteers to date who have served in countries around the globe. See new images and Colin's update.
A leading conservation organization in southern Africa offers inspiring nature holidays for international volunteers on two fronts: nursing injured or orphaned wildlife in care centers or conducting field research that will help us understand and protect species at risk. The subject of our charmingly-illustrated article tried both assignments during a month-long holiday. Here is her story.
Several years ago, Global Volunteer Network founder, Colin Salisbury, shared candidly with our readers his own remarkable story of a calling that regularly touches both people and environments in need, and his vision for this volunteer service organization. We celebrate with GVN its tenth anniversary and acknowledge its 15,500+ volunteers who have served in countries around the globe. See new images and Colin's update.
On a visit to several of Spain's historic towns and cities, veteran travel writer, Marianne Scott, ponders the pros and cons of self catering holiday apartments as an alternative to hotel accommodation. Her experience is candid and insightful, giving readers food for thought about whether such an option could work for them.
Coming in March/April: Discover the delights of being a WWOOF volunteer on organic farms throughout the U.S., and learn about narrowboat cruising on England's waterways.
Check out our "Feature Link of the
Month"!
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.
The 21st century is offering many creative ways to share stimulating vacations between the generations, be they adult with adult or adult with children and grandchildren. Our new Family Travel Theme Page offers plenty of ideas worldwide for how to make memories between family members of every age.
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, Belgium, 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, volunteer possibilities, and the active adventures sure to appeal to older travelers.
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.
Except for a few iconic destinations, Latin American countries south of Mexico are unfamiliar to most travelers. That's too bad! Our collection of feature articles takes readers behind the scenes, onto the byways and into the essential grassroots of countries from Cuba and Nicaragua to the Peruvian Amazon and Patagonia.
This theme page showcases our feature article collection on challenging, meaningful vacation opportunities across the vast South Pacific region, from Hawaii, New Zealand and Australia to French Polynesia and Rarotonga in the Cook Islands. Hop on a plane, a freighter, a ferry or a bicycle .... and be there!
In response to our readers' persistant interest in planning their travel interests around reliable, creative volunteer opportunities, we are pleased to showcase an ever-widening range of destinations and volunteer ideas around the world. This 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!
Travel with a Challenge web magazine features richly illustrated articles and travel news on family vacations, cultures and destinations, cruise and train travel, nature and wildlife holidays, and volunteer vacations suitable for senior travelers. Explore the website via the site navigation menu below to access our acclaimed Travel Theme Pages, Travel Article Library and Travel Advertiser Directory. See our Privacy Policy.
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