Fitness Adventures

Vacations mean a change of pace, a gentleness with ourselves, a time of rest and renewal, and a time to stretch ourselves and encounter new people, new lands, new ways, and new options – Anne Wilson Schaef

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How to Plan an Active Vacation

Forget the standard hangout by the beach or sightseeing through a city vacation. Hiking, walking and biking are less common ways to explore a destination, according to Susan Sparks, a travel adviser at Points of Interest Travel in Aspen, Colo., who specializes in customized active trips. “When you take an active trip, you’re out in nature and get a perspective on a place that most travelers don’t. Plus, you’re moving a lot and burn plenty of calories to balance out all the eating and drinking that are typical on vacations,” she said.

But she cautions that all active getaways aren’t created equal and offers tips on planning one that’s best for you.

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 How to Plan an Active Vacation

Your idea of an active vacation could mean waking up early to embark on a full day of heart-pumping movement. For another traveler, however, a half-day of leisurely walking with breaks built in for long lunches and cultural tours constitutes activity. Pick a trip according to your definition of active.

8 Great Wellness Getaways That Aren’t Yoga Retreats

Book a trip to one of these global wellness retreats in stunning locales to inspire some positive change and instill healthy habits that will endure well beyond 2018.

Adventure Journal

Adventure Journal is an online magazine devoted to outdoor adventure in all its forms. It was founded in 2008 by Steve Casimiro, former editor of Powder magazine, founding editor of Bike magazine, and West Coast editor of National Geographic Adventure.

Mpora

Inspiring adventure. Want to get your videos or photographs featured on Mpora? You can submit your videos and photos to Mpora.

Outside

The mission of Outside magazine is to inspire participation in the world outside through award-winning coverage of the sports, people, places, adventures, discoveries, environmental issues, health and fitness, gear and apparel, style and culture that define the active lifestyle.

The Active Times

Great ways to be fit, find adventure, and visit the wild.

The Adventurists

We live to find ways to make the world a bit more difficult. To bring chaos into our over-sanitised lives. To create adventures where you don't know what will happen tomorrow or if you'll even make it. Because we think there's no greater moment than those seconds when you leap into an abyss of uncertainty and disaster.

The Inertia

The Inertia is the definitive voice of surf, mountain, and outdoors – featuring unique, energizing perspectives from our culture's most talented individuals.

Athletic Minded Traveler

As an athletic-minded traveler, I know first hand how difficult it can be to find legitimate workout options, especially the best hotel gyms. This website essentially guarantees that my out of town exercise questions will be answered before I leave home.

Bearfoot Theory

Getting outside is that simple, and here on Bearfoot Theory we show you how. But first things first. We aren’t your typical outdoor website. We don’t feature pro-athletes hucking themselves off cliffs or kayaking class 5 rapids. No. None of that crazy stuff. We are a blog for EVERYDAY PEOPLE. Hikers. Campers. Backpackers. Paddlers. Sun-bathers. If we can do it, so can you.

FitStays

FitStays was started in 2018 as a way to track all-inclusive weight loss resorts and healthy travel options around the United States. Think of this site as your travel guide for healthy vacations—bookmark it, and come back often when planning your next trip.

Health and Fitness Travel

Health and Fitness Travel is a luxury wellness travel company specialising in creating exceptional healthy holidays around the world. Founded in the UK with headquarters across the globe in both London and Australia we are leaders in health and fitness holidays and go the extra mile to ensure you receive an exceptional experience from start to finish.

OARS

O.A.R.S. was the first exclusively oar-powered rafting company permitted to operate trips on the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. Through our four decades in the adventure travel industry, we have become the largest and most diverse family of river-based adventure travel companies in North America, operating on over 1230 miles of rivers in the continental U.S.

REI Adventures

Why has REI offered adventure travel trips for more than 25 years? To get people outdoors! It's really that simple. For us, getting people outdoors is our mission, our goal, and our passion. And it's been that way for over 75 years! So whether you dream of cycling the winding roads of Zion National Park, exploring the unique flora and fauna of the Galapagos Islands, trekking through the Himalayas, or joining us for a close-to-home weekend getaway, we're here to help you live that dream.

Responsible Travel

Responsibletravel.com was launched in April 2001, with backing from Anita Roddick (founder of The Body Shop). We are the first and largest business promoting and selling responsible and eco travel globally.

ROW Adventures

A leading adventure travel company since 1979, ROW Adventures leads adventure travel tours around the globe. From our beginnings as a whitewater rafting company we've grown slowly but surely, developing authentic, life-enriching journeys that benefit not only our travelers but the places and people we visit. Our specialty is small, intimate groups, hand-crafted and well-orchestrated itineraries, expert leadership and a personal connection to the places we go. We are proud that Travel + Leisure Magazine readers made us the 2012 World's Best Tour Operator.

Sports Tours International

Choose from the finest cycling, running and hospitality events, active sporting holidays at the world class Club La Santa or golf holidays in some of the best locations and on the finest courses in the world.

SwellWomen

Realizing an opportunity to create a wellness program for women, Me-Shell founded SwellWomen, a Maui vacation that combines two of her blissful passions, surfing and yoga. From the start, SwellWomen has flourished thanks to exposure from the national and international media. And, of course, to the continuous referrals from satisfied guests who have been treating themselves to SwellWomen’s surf and yoga camps since it’s establishment in 2003. SwellWomen continues to grow, and now includes SwellCo-ed, surf and yoga vacations open to men, women and couples.

The Natural Navigator

Natural navigation is the rare art of finding your way using nature, including the sun, moon, stars, weather, land, sea, plants and animals. It is possible to navigate naturally on land, sea or even in the air. Tristan Gooley’s approach to the subject is unique in that he does not view it as a survival skill, but as a means to enrich journeys and connect with the world around us.

Trusted Adventures

Our Adventure Travel members are ranked by National Geographic among the "Best Adventure Travel Companies on Earth" and many of our adventure vacations have been awarded "Tours of a Lifetime.

Wildfitness

Wildfitness runs fitness holidays designed to transform your body and your approach to fitness - helping you become lean, strong, pain-free and buzzing with energy. Whatever your age or fitness level, our lifestyle philosophy based on nature & evolution will not only make real changes to your body during your holiday but will also give you the tools for life-long health & vitality.

Adventure Sherpas

Adventure Sherpas has been a leader in the Adventure Travel Industry since 1994. Our care for the environments and communities we travel to has defined our company and made us proud to travel the world with friends and clients.

Adventures Cross Country

Since 1983, we have offered the finest trips in teen travel. Our programs invite students to travel to exciting destinations, make meaningful cultural connections, and experience exhilarating activities in a safe and comfortable environment.

Adventures in Good Company

Adventures in Good Company is not the only company that offers outdoor adventure travel for women.

Arizona Outback Adventures

Arizona Outback Adventures specializes in multi-day adventure tours in the Grand Canyon, Northern and Southern Arizona, and Utah and guided hiking and biking day tours, bicycle rentals for families and team building and other events for corporate groups. Each year, over 8,000 guests trust AOA to handle their daily activities and week-long vacations.

Austin Adventures

For an Adventure Travel Company - Smaller is Indeed Better Dan and Carol Austin, the owners of Austin-Lehman Adventures, are intimately involved with our day-to-day operations, and always available for questions and comments. As a small company, we believe keeping things small is important. We never have more than 12 guests on our adult trips and 18 on our family adventures.

Back Country Excursions

Fantastic trails, guided group rides, personal service, and a wide variety of interesting terrain and topography for all abilities is what you can expect.

Back in Form

Explore forms of meditation and relaxation that create balance and a feeling of tranquility and promote physical, mental and spiritual healing. Classes include Yoga, Pilates "Core Stability Training," Tai Chi, Walking and Stretching.

Backroads

Active travel is the difference between looking at life and living it. Stand spellbound on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon after a spectacular 40-mile bike ride. Breathe in the scent of rosemary as you hike to a Tuscan hill town. Listen to the chatter of monkeys overhead as you raft down a Costa Rican river. Rather than experiencing the world as if it were simply a museum with everything cased behind glass, Backroads invites you to experience the world with all of your senses. Get ready for a total unforgettable experience.

Cooper Aerobics

Cooper Aerobics Center in Dallas is an international leader in health and wellness research, education, products and services–all designed to help people achieve optimum health and fitness at every stage of life.

Expediciones Chile

Expediciones Chile invites you to come explore the best kept secret of Patagonia, a magical place where hundreds of glacial lakes are connected by thousands of kilometers of pristine rivers, all flowing through the dramatic Andean Mountain range. Come visit us in the heart of this paradise, the Futaleufu River Valley. Be enchanted by its natural rhythms, where condors soar in southern thermals high above turquoise rapids thundering through rarely explored granite canyons.

FIT Tours

FIT Tours provides you with physical and mental rejuvenation by combining weight loss, fitness and health programming with exciting worldwide travel. From serene spa resorts you will explore some of the world's most exotic travel destinations, integrating touring with exciting and challenging physical activities, stress reduction, healthy nutrition and wellness education in a fun group motivated atmosphere.

Fitpacking

Fatpacking provides participants a supportive environment in which slower hikers can feel comfortable and enjoy themselves. If you love the outdoors, but are a little overweight or older and prefer not to be rushed, Fat Packing could work for you.

Fresh Tracks Canada

The best journeys are customized to what you like to do, and the pace you like to do it. A chat with a friendly insider can help eliminate misused days and upset travel companions. We specialize in travel that doesn't follow the crowd. Our Canada vacations can be booked as they are, fine-tuned or completely custom-made.

Gordon's Travel Guide

The goal at Gordon's Travel Guide is to make it quick and easy for active travelers and trade professionals worldwide to research, plan and experience adventure travel and active vacations by providing high quality, informative information through multiple and integrated media. Gordon's Travel Guide is a leader dedicated to promoting adventure and active travel, and the companies providing these services

Great American Adventures

Grand American Adventures is committed to delivering the finest small group adventures, and no other region on earth offers the diversity you'll discover in the Americas. Spectacular natural sights, challenging and rewarding activities and encounters with some of the world's most colourful cultures and wildlife, all make up the experience Grand American Adventures.

HE Travel

Adventure, culture, leisure or luxury, HE Travel is the leader in gay travel tours and gay adventure travel today...

Mountain Travel Sobek

When you venture into foreign lands, tackle snowy peaks or raging whitewater, you want the best guides at your side. With decades of experience in the field, MTS guides offer inspirational enthusiasm, exceptional leadership, and sheer volume of knowledge (better than any guidebook!).

Mountain Trek

Every April Mountain Trek offers fabulous, off-the-beaten-path adventure treks, rich in cultural and historical significance.

Pure Adventures

Bicycle tours and hiking tours in Europe in our unique Self Guided format is what we do! It is our mission to provide exceptional self guided cycling and hiking tour services that allow our clients to experience their destination in their own unique way.

Randonnee Tours

Randonnee brings you an exceptional line of self-guided active vacations in Canada, the United States and Europe. We've been North America's leading specialist in self-guided active tours since 1990.

RealAdventures

Every day, RealAdventures helps thousands of travelers find great accommodations, plan relaxing vacations and pursue exciting adventures. From romantic bed & breakfasts to luxury vacation rentals, from bungee jumping to safaris, and from Alaska to Zimbabwe, RealAdventures is a comprehensive resource for travelers around the world

Retreats Online

Explore eco, nature and wilderness retreats; farm and ranch retreats; activity retreats like hiking and fishing. All are designed to put you in touch with the natural environment. Go to nature to be healed.

Sivananda Ashram

The Yoga Vacation Program was designed by Swami Vishnu-devananda to ensure true relaxation on all levels – body, mind & spirit. Join us here in Paradise!

Sonki Fitness

Pack your fun-loving spirit, make new friends and indulge your senses as you kayak and swim through pristine waters...hike spectacular trails...dine by starlight...dance under the moon, and daydream in a hammock. A vacation that renews your energy and zest for life while enhancing your fitness!

SpaFari

Acclaimed fitness adventures, spiritual journeys and wildlife eco-tours. Each active eco-adventure vacation includes mountain hiking & fitness, yoga, meditation, massage, weight loss, spa cuisine, upscale accommodations, cultural explorations and rejuvenation of mind, body & spirit.

The Girl Outdoors

I’m Sian, and this is The Girl Outdoors, a blog for anyone who loves adventures. It features travel, sport, photography, outdoor style, places to stay and gear reviews, and it’s here for inspiration if you feel like you need some fresh air.

The Healthy Holiday Company

Our experts can tailor-make a fabulous healthy holiday for you, whether you prefer multi-activity or deep relaxation — or a blend of both. How about a luxury healthy villa holiday in Andalusia, Marrakech or Corfu? Or a yoga, fitness, detox, hiking, wellness or tennis holiday?

Travel to Wellness

Launched in 2004 Travel to Wellness was the first editorially-driven online magazine catering specifically to the growing number of wellness-minded travellers and the expanding spa and wellness travel niche.

Whole Journeys

Whole Journeys will continue its mission to explore the culture and traditions of food through travel by escorting travelers on immersive active foodie adventures.

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