32 Types of Adventure Travel (Part I)

Adventure travels are not limited by joining extreme activity or extreme sport. According to the Adventure Travel & Trade Association (ATTA) adventure travel may be any tourist activity that includes the following three components: a physical activity, a cultural exchange and connection with nature. So lets checkout what you can do for your next adventure

Soft Adventure More focus on historical sites, monument, museums and history site

Soft Adventure Traveler who carry backpack for a long distance of time, using public transport and average lodge. Often love to mix with local and sightseeing

Soft Adventure A wildlife observation as well as recreational activity. It can be done with the naked eye, through a visual enhancement device like binoculars and telescopes, by listening for bird sounds, or by watching public webcams.

Soft Adventure Involving overnight stays away from home in a shelter such as a tent, a caravan, or even a motorhome. Generally participants leave developed areas to spend time outdoors in more natural ones in pursuit of activities providing them enjoyment. To be regarded as "camping" a minimum of one night is spent outdoors, distinguishing it from day-tripping, picnicking, and other similarly short-term recreational activities. Camping can be enjoyed through all four seasons.

Soft Adventure Is a sport or recreational activity which involves paddling a canoe with a single-bladed paddle. In some parts of Europe canoeing refers to both canoeing and kayaking, with a canoe being called an Open canoe.

Hard Adventure Is the recreational pastime of exploring wild (generally non-commercial) cave systems. The level of caving depending on conditions of the caving. Sometimes it can be categorized by soft and extreme.

Hard Adventure Activity of using one's hands, feet, or any other part of the body to ascend a steep object. It is done as recreation, competitively, in trades that rely on it, and in emergency rescue and military operations. It is done indoors and out, on natural and man-made structures.

Non-Adventure Is a passenger ship used for pleasure voyages, where the voyage itself and the ship's amenities are a part of the experience, as well as the different destinations, i.e., ports of call, along the way. Transportation is not the only purpose of cruising, particularly on cruises that return passengers to their originating port, with the ports of call usually in a specified region of a continent. There are even "cruises to nowhere" or "nowhere voyages" where the ship makes 2–3 night round trips without any ports of call

Non-Adventure Is an event ordinarily celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect of that community and its religion or traditions, often marked as a local or national holiday, mela, or eid.

Non-Adventure Traveler usually join the local activity with unplanned journey like barbecue, wedding ceremony or sometime religious activity.

Soft Adventure Using bycle for recreation, exercise or extreme sport. It is convenient to cycling because its easy and effective mode of transportation.

Soft Adventure Involving visiting fragile, pristine, and relatively undisturbed natural areas, intended as a low-impact and often small scale alternative to standard commercial (mass) tourism. Its purpose may be to educate the traveler, to provide funds for ecological conservation, to directly benefit the economic development and political empowerment of local communities, or to foster respect for different cultures and for human rights

Non Adventure Sometime traveler stay a night or two just to know the life of local or aborigine of country of visit. Their objective just to learn the life and daily routine of the local people.

Non Adventure Supervised program for children or teenagers conducted during the summer months in some countries. Normally, during summer camp campers include hiking, camping, campfires and many more.

Soft Adventure Is the activity of trying to catch fish. Fish are normally caught in the wild. Techniques for catching fish include hand gathering, spearing, netting, angling and trapping. Fishing may include catching aquatic animals other than fish, such as molluscs, cephalopods, crustaceans, and echinoderms.

Hard Adventure Off-trail, downhill skiing or snowboarding that is accessed by a helicopter, as opposed to a ski lift. Skiers board the helicopter and are carried to a landing zone on the mountain.

Soft Adventure Is the preferred term, in Canada and the United States, for a long, vigorous walk, usually on trails (footpaths), in the countryside. Sometimes hiking will be hard depending on the trail.

Soft Adventure Practice of killing or trapping animals, or pursuing or tracking them with the intent of doing so. Hunting wildlife or feral animals is most commonly done by humans for food, recreation, to remove predators that are dangerous to humans or domestic animals, or for trade.

Soft Adventure Use of horses for practical working purposes, transportation, recreational activities, artistic or cultural exercises, and competitive sport.