Preparing For Your Canoe Trip

A few safety and preparation tips before you launch on your canoe adventure travel vacation:

1. Before you go canoeing check with your physician to make sure you are healthy enough to paddle a canoe.
2. Make sure you know how to swim. Learn to swim both underwater and in moving water.
3. When you’re out in the wilderness on your canoeing trip, wear shoes.
4. If you wear eyeglasses or sunglasses, make sure you have a strap or cord to keep them from getting lost if you go in the water.
5. Wear a hat for protection from the sun, and carry a jacket in case it cools off.
6. If you take perscriptions medication, bring it with you.

Remember the boy scout motto - be prepared. Adventure travel is fun because of the risk and the remoteness of the locations you can access. If something goes wrong, you might have to wait several hours before help arrives.

Packing A Light Backpack

It’s probably stating the obvious to say that hiking on vacation with the lighter pack is going be easier.

So how does one make his or her pack lighter for hiking and trekking?

* Start by reexamining the large items you take on a hike: the backpack itself, your tent, and your sleeping bag. If your equipment is more than two or three years old, it’s time to go shopping. Today tent, packs, and sleeping bags can weigh a lot less than they used to and do their jobs just as well.
* Next, look at smaller items like your stove and cooking gear. The same idea applies here, although in this case ultra-lightweight stoves have been around for some time and continue to get lighter.
* Finally, look at everything in your pack and pare away unnecessary ounces relentlessly. It all adds up.

These trips prove true on almost any adventure travel excursion. If you are a true adventurer or eco tourist, you may enjoy hiking, caving, snorkeling or scuba diving and you should use the most up to dat equipment and baggage available. It doesn't have to cost an arm and a leg, but traveling efficiently will make your whole trip more enjoyable and you will be sure that your equipment is up to date and as safe as possible.

Adventure Travel Panama

Think of Panama and most people think of the Panama Canal. However, Panama is host to some magnificent natural scenery, including some of the most pristine areas of rainforest in the world. Panama and Panamanian Resorts are great for wildlife photography tours, and bird watching tours will enjoy the 940 recorded bird species found nowhere else on the planet.

The developing tourist industry is concentrating on eco-tourism. Although not well known for its beaches, Panama has almost 3,000km of coastline, perfect for snorkeling tours or scuba diving tours. The coral reefs and unspoild sands are as gorgeous as any of the more celebrated beaches in the region, with excellent hotels nearby. These are located both on the Caribbean in the north and on the Pacific in the south.

Adventure Travel Micronesia

Micronesia's core islands of Pohnpei, Yap, Kosrae and Chuuk and they offer a diverse range of natural ecosystems, from mangrove swamps to lush tropical rainforest and pristine coral reefs. A once-in-a-lifetime adventure travel experience awaits visitors on bird watching tours, snorkeling tours or scuba diving tours. The islands are blessed with many indigenous and introduced bird species.

* The lucky visitor may even spot the occasional rare deer, monitor lizard or fruit bat in the more rural areas.
* The surrounding coral reefs abound with tropical fish of every description and colors, as well as marine turtles and manta rays.
* The surrounding oceans are home to several large species of game fish such as marlin, mahi-mahi, tuna, barracuda, sailfish and assorted bottom fish.

Adventure Travel Ecuador

Ecuador has an array of vibrant indigenous peoples, well-preserved colonial architecture, otherworldly volcanic landscapes and dense rainforest.

From the capital at Quito, you are no more than a day’s travel from a jungle tour or wildlife photography tours through Amazon jungles, trekking up the slope of an active volcano, a sociable haggle with indigenous artesanos or a guided snorkeling tour along a tropical beach.

Somewhat more distant are the Galapagos Islands. Owned by Ecuador since 1832, the Galapagos are lauded as one of the world’s greatest natural history treasures, their unique diversity of plant and animal life living laboratory for scientists and casual observers alike.

Keeping A Bird Watching Journal

Many bird watchers like to keep a "life list" of the birds they have seen on bird watching holidays. But if you’re serious about bird watching, a checkmark on a list is almost useless for scientific purposes.

Instead, keep a field notebook or bird watching journal. When you go birding, write down which birds you see, where and when you see them, and what the birds are doing. Many years from now, your vacation memories could become scientific treasure.