A long time ago, adventure travel was considered travel by people who were looking for crazy and record-breaking adventures of some kind. Nowadays, we don't have to be on a TV program to feel that same sense of adventure, but without the risks and extremes.
No need to go through hardships, days without showers, canned food, and hours of unpaved roads. It is not necessary to renounce certain luxuries to be able to feel a dose of adventure in our trips. Every day, more and more tailor-made oriented travel agencies are designing trips incorporating a style of travel based on different experiences, which are what make a trip truly unforgettable and special.
From luxury tents with en-suite bathrooms for safaris in Africa to remote islands that are only accessible by helicopter including a chef and first-class level food.
Soft Adventure is a way to connect with your destination of choice in a more profound way that involves a reasonable and moderate degree of physical activity.
Whether it's going on a walking safari, sailing around Australia in search of crocodiles in a hovercraft, flying at over 50 kilometers per hour on zip lines over 200 meters high in Costa Rica, discovering Antarctica in small expeditions, sailing in a private junk on Halong Bay...
On these types of trips, originality is guaranteed because most of the proposals are usually really tempting, but we must not forget the real authenticity, safety, and quality of them.
Many times we see a web page or brochure with very suggestive photographs and when we get to the place we realize that it is overcrowded, or that the quality of the experience leaves much to be desired.
A different kind of safari, aboard a hovercraft, through the flooded plains of northern Australia where it is possible to observe countless species of birds and other animals such as water buffaloes and crocodiles.
This is the kind of trip that would be more difficult to organize by yourself, while taking advantage of the experience and opinion of professionals who spend much of the year traveling, trying everything they propose firsthand, and taking responsibility for your trip, is recommendable.
Before embarking on a trip of this kind we must review our personal dreams folder. Whether it is a safari to see the great herds of wildebeest up close, a visit to the glaciers that we see in documentaries on television, flying in a seaplane and landing on a large lake, a sunset in the desert, flying in a hot air balloon, stepping on the sand of one of those paradisiacal islands that we have seen so many times in the movies, or sailing up the Amazon river, the list is endless, but above all, very personal.
The best thing to do is to get first-hand advice from a specialist. Nowadays they are called Travel Designers or Travel Consultants, and they are professionals specialized in the design of tailor-made trips based on special experiences.
They work uniquely since all the trips they organize are entirely tailor-made for each customer, and their job is to make each of those dreams come true. They have no catalogs or fixed trips. They travel constantly and know everything they propose to you firsthand.
It is also important to take into account the time of year. The most obvious reason is the weather, as it sometimes prevents or helps make that dream trip viable. The northern lights occur all year round in the Arctic Circle, but since it is not dark in summer, you will not be able to see them and it is during winter when you should go see them.
The great wildebeest migration in Kenya-Tanzania is constantly on the move, and depending on the month you travel, a safari should be arranged in one area or another.
The paradisiacal beaches of the Maldives are also visited by monsoon rains several months a year, which can ruin your dream of enjoying the sun on pearl-white sand beaches. Also, coinciding in China with their New Year holidays can make your dream experience a possible disaster.
We should also ask ourselves what budget we want to invest in our dream adventure because as the ad said, our dreams aren't cheap and this type of personalized trip usually is of considerable expense.
If it isn't clear, an expert will always know how to guide us and help us when choosing the best time to minimize flight costs and get a room upgrade due to their personal relationship with select hotels. In short, an expert's job is to get it right and ensure that every euro spent to make your dream come true is invested in the best possible way.
Soft Adventure is a concept in which the experience is more important than the destination. What determines whether our trip is truly unforgettable is not where we go, but how we go. The experiences lived on these kinds of trips become core memories, often shared as a couple or family, turning them into something tremendously special.
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