I just can’t go on vacation and just sit around. I want to see and experience the kinds of things I would never see and experience at home. So I think I may have found the kind of holiday for me: adventure tourism. These adventure tours are usually packaged for groups and usually involve a country in Africa, Asia or South America. This deep, dark unknown is what creates the intrigue and adventure.

A trip that I looked at recently which really interested me was an African Safari. The advert explained how one gets close to the kind of animals that I would only normally see in the zoo or on National Geographic. This holiday was planned for the country of Zambia and was relatively safe, or as safe as a wild safari can be. I was able to look at some video footage of one of the tours and it looked like tons of fun. Perhaps it is not ideal to take my children on this type of trip, but what an opportunity for me to discover a new part of the world.

In another brochure advertising Adventure Tourism I saw, was a trip to the Yukon territory. I found this idea simply enthralling. Again, it would be discovering a part of the world with which I am not at all familiar with. One would have to enter and survive the harshest conditions, something that most people never experience and only Inuits ever encounter. I consequently spoke to a friend who had gone on a trip to the Yukon Territory and he said that it was most definitely not for the fainthearted.

Adventure Tourism is also huge in the Australian Outback. A large part of this exciting continent is uninhabited and inhospitable for living in. I used to love to watch Steve Erwin and how he hunted crocodiles and snakes in the outback. He was fearless and made it look like so much fun that you almost might forget how dangerous it actually is.

This kind of vacation is not for everybody and I have not yet taken advantage of an adventure package like this. I know that the more I consider it the temptation will eventually be so strong that I will not be able to resist. When I do make the leap, I imagine one of two things happening: I realize that it is not for me and I never go on another vacation like that again, or I become hooked and can’t see doing any other type of holiday. For an adventure holiday experience, go to Kondowe’s site and book your holiday now!