Category: Adventure Travel

Bungee Jumping: Leap Of Faith – For some reason, something gets excited in the human brain that makes us jump from a platform high in the sky with just a bungee cord to save us. When you really think about it, it’s crazy. But we still do it and we do it all over the world.

The history of bungee jumping goes back hundreds of years when it was known as ‘land diving’ in the small island nation of Vanuatu. Legend has it that a woman on Vanuatu’s Pentecost Island was unhappy with her husband and ran away from him …

Ice Climbing: Scaling Frozen Cascades – The drive to my home town takes me past the Mt Iron embankment on one side of the road and the maze on the other, with the “Leaning Tower of Wanaka”. I ski the hill and as always scan the mountains for signs of life. For a moment, before the east face of the Black Peak disappears behind trees, I see what I consider life: ice. On this day, when the air is stunned by winter, it slides in bright white lines down the bare slopes. Even though they are 30 kilometers apart, I …

Exploring Lost Cities: Archaeological Adventures – A “were-jaguar” figure, perhaps representing a combination of a human and a spirit animal, is part of an unburied ceremonial seat, or metate, one of the many artefacts found in making the ruins deep in the Honduran jungle.

In search of the legendary “City of the Monkey Gods,” explorers find untouched ruins of a lost culture.

Exploring Lost Cities: Archaeological Adventures

Adventures in Honduras have emerged from the jungle in a thrilling story of the discovery of a mysterious lost, unexplored city. The group is led to the countryside, which is uninhabited by a …