Active Travel Adventures podcast I Inspiring Multi-Day Adventure Trips Around the World
Discover the world's best hiking, biking, and paddling adventures on the Active Travel Adventures Podcast. Get inspired to take your next multi-day trip — no extreme fitness required! We cover active vacations that any reasonably fit person can do, especially if they train. Adventure travel holidays offer a fun and more immersive cultural experience! What You'll Discover: * Trekking routes both the popular Bucket List trails and treks, plus many less discovered routes * Cycling holidays in small groups, solo or the fun boat and bike tours * River rafting and kayaking adventures (often combined with hiking and cycling) * Small group guided adventure tours from around the world * Adventure travel ideas that you can plan on your own, with your partner or with friends -- Popular Hiking Adventures covered include: trekking Nepal, the Dolomites, Mont Blanc -- Popular Long Distance Walking Holidays include: Caminos in Europe, Costa Rica and Japan and many popular UK long walks -- Popular Biking Adventures include cycling Vietnam, boat and bike tours in France and Greece -- Popular Paddling Adventures include rafting the Grand Canyon, kayaking in New Zealand Plus many vacations that combine a bit of hiking, cycling and paddling! -- Popular National Parks in the US and around the world Many shows teach you the outdoor skills you need to go on these fun adventures! ATA's mission is to inspire and empower you to lead a bigger life through adventure travel. Travel the Active Travel Adventures way! On the website, you can see photos and videos of the adventure covered, plus get more information about the trip covered. You can also get a FREE Travel Planner for each adventure by signing up for our once a month newsletter.
Episodes
Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks are spectacular from the window of a car—but they're even better when you get out and experience them.
On this adventure, we hike through some of America's most dramatic landscapes, pedal beneath the towering Tetons, and hit the Snake River for a thrilling whitewater rafting trip. Along the way, we encounter Yellowstone's famous geysers, spectacular canyons and abundant wildlife, whi...
Nine years, hundreds of adventures, and a whole lot of stories that never made it into the podcast—until now!
To celebrate the 9th anniversary of Active Travel Adventures, I'm sharing some of my favorite travel stories: the hilarious mishaps, unexpected encounters, questionable decisions, hysterical miscommunications, and stories that still make m...
Finally: a fun and affordable way to explore Europe! Join us today to learn about taking a European vacation on a boat and bike tour, where you can see some of the best destinations in Europe on a mostly all inclusive tour.
On a Boat and Bike tour, you only need to unpack ONCE as your 'hotel' is a beautiful sailing ship or barge with a private bath. Each day you cycle to explore a new destination, either with a gu...
What's Your Misogi? Why It's Never Too Late for a Big Adventure
What if you chose one challenge each year that was so meaningful—and just a little bit intimidating—that you weren't sure you could actually accomplish it? That's the idea behind Misogi, a Japanese-inspired concept centered on taking on a difficult, transformative challenge. It does...
Patagonia is one of the world's last great wildernesses—a land of towering granite peaks, turquoise lakes, thundering glaciers, and wildlife found nowhere else on Earth.
In Part II of my Patagonia adventure, I'll take you through the breathtaking highlights of Argentina's Patagonia, including the breathtaking Perito Moreno Glacier, and treks around El Calafate and El Chalten (two really cool mountain towns).
Patagonia is one of the world's last great wildernesses—a land of towering granite peaks, turquoise lakes, thundering glaciers, and wildlife found nowhere else on Earth.
In Part I of my Patagonia adventure, I'll take you through the breathtaking highlights of Chilean Patagonia, including the legendary trails of Torres del Paine National Park on the famous W Trek.
You'll discover why Patagonia ranks in my Top Three Best Hikes,...
This important travel series focuses on how to prevent many of the common travel problems and what to do should they happen anyway.
We create a three tier backup system for the critical components of travel: Health, Transportation, Money, Passport and Travel Documents, Phone and Communication failures. Plus we also cover Natural Disasters, Civil Unrest and the Human side of travel problems, such as compatibility of fell...
This important travel series focuses on how to prevent many of the common travel problems and what to do should they happen anyway.
We create a three tier backup system for the critical components of travel: Health, Transportation, Money, Passport and Travel Documents, Phone and Communication failures. Plus we also cover Natural Disasters, Civil Unrest and the Human side of travel problems, such as compatibility of fell...
This important travel series focuses on how to prevent many of the common travel problems and what to do should they happen anyway.
We create a three tier backup system for the critical components of travel: Health, Transportation, Money, Passport and Travel Documents, Phone and Communication failures. Plus we also cover Natural Disasters, Civil Unrest and the Human side of travel problems, such as compatibility of fell...
How Smart Travelers Handle Problems, Disasters & Unexpected Adventures
In this three part series, we will explore the main problems that you may run into on your travels and how to prevent and/or mitigate them. We will cover health issues, money problems, navigation snafus, communication challenges, document loss problems, as well as the less common but more serious civil unrest or ma...
Dreaming of trekking in the Himalayas without needing to be an elite mountaineer? In this episode of Active Travel Adventures, we explore the unforgettable Annapurna Base Camp Trek — one of the world's most scenic and achievable hi...
In this Part II of my Peru adventures, we finish up our adventure travel tour with my affiliate, Active Adventures (exclusive listener promo code - Email Me to get the code) - good on ANY of Active Adventures epic worldwide tours!), and then my sister Terry and I head off on our own to explore other exciting places in southern Peru and Bolivia, including:
- Climb up to sacred Humantay Lake
- Climb Palccoyo Rainbow Mountain
- D...
Trek Machu Picchu Inca Trail plus Hike and Bike the Sacred Valley of Peru
Join Kit as she describes her hiking adventure with her sister Terry. On this first part of their month long Peruvian and Bolivian adventure, they tackle a Bucket List adventure: trekking the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. They also hike and bike the Sacred Valley of the Incas, and...
What is it really like to cycle Vietnam?
In this episode of the Active Travel Adventures Podcast, I'm joined by Jeff and Ed, two experienced cyclists who share their firsthand experience riding a 13-day Vietnam guided cycling tour from Saigon to Hue.
Explore Croatia's stunning Dalmatian coast by hiking, biking and paddling! Start from Split and work your way to Dubrovnik on this exciting and fun adventure.
We discuss all of the fun activities our guest Lesley did on her Active Adventures tour, the great food and wine and wonderful accommodations.
COMPLETE SHOW NOTES See important links for planning your adventure, p...
What's it really like to cycle from Amsterdam to Bruges — and sleep in your luxury floating hotel along the way?
In this episode, we dive into the unforgettable Amsterdam to Bruges bike and barge tour, one of Europe's most relaxing active adventures. Pedal flat scenic routes through the Netherlands and Belgium, cruise...
Solo Travel Tips and Advice
Many of us are afraid to travel solo. On today's show we delve in to how to travel solo safely, plus the pros and cons of solo travel. I interview three expert solo travelers to get their best advice and encourangement. Visit the website to delve deeper into the pros and cons of traveling solo safely.
Make your travel life smoother with these great (mostly free) travel apps.
On today's show, you'll learn about the best recommended travel apps for planning, to save money, transportation, lodging, food and activities, getting around, security, translation, plus some solid travel tips from the world travelers on my recent Bhutan adventure as well as highly rated travel apps from other hard core trav...
I hiked to Everest Base Camp in Nepal to commemorate my 65th birthday. In Part II of this two part series, I cover more of the actual trekking experience. You can download Part I here to learn more about training, preparation for EBC, packing, and what to expect and more.
COMPLETE SHOW NOTES See important links for planning your EBC adventure, photos, videos and m...
I hiked to Everest Base Camp to commemorate my 65th birthday. In Part I of this two part series, I cover how I prepared and trained, what I packed and what I carried with me in my Day Pack, Lukla flight tips, tea houses (that's where you sleep along the EBC trail), porters, guides a bit about Kathmandu and more. Part II covers more of the actual trek experience. You can download it here.
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