Adventure Life in the Guidebooks
More and more people are learning about our personal service, off the beaten path itineraries, and unique adventures. Check out these guidebooks that have recommended Adventure Life in recent years...
Bradt
Amazon Highlights: Peru, Brazil, Columbia, Ecuador (1st ed.)
US-based Adventure Life provides quality small group tour to the Ecuadorian, Peruvian and Bolivian Amazon, and further afield. On tours, group size is
kept to a minimum and the company aims to have a positive impact on local culture and the environment.
Feature our Amazon Adventure sea kayaking 8-day trip
Guides and Gear: US-based Adventure Life Journeys offers several different custom and small-group expedition into the headwaters of the Amazon on a year-round basis includes programmes that offer involvement with the Huaorani.
Traveler's Tool Kit: Mexico and Central America (1st ed.)
Dozens of U.S. and Canadian tour companies lead trips to Costa Rica,
with new ones popping up every month or two. I traveled with Adventure
Life and highly recommend the company. Its excellent guides go out of
their way to make sure group members are happy. This operator tends
to use smaller, family-run hotels and small restaurants off the main
drag.
Many responsible small-group North American operators leads trips to Guatemala. For example, Adventure Life runs well-regarded 6- to 12-day trips.
Some very reputable North American operators leads trip to Panama, including Adventure Life.
Environmentally
Responsible Tour Operators
The following are some tour operators and other
companies that provides services in Mexico and Central America and have signed
on to a code of conduct that commits them to follow guidelines of responsible
ecotourism travel: Adventure Life Journeys...
Moon
Handbooks Peru (1st ed.)
Adventure Life International is a five-year-old
company based in Missoula, Montana, that is a good bet for budget-minded trekkers.
Its nine-day Machu Picchu Pilgrimage includes Cusco, Machu Picchu, and a well-run
Inca trail trek for $1,495. It also offers affordable trips to the fabulous Tambopata
Research Center. It uses three-star, family-run hostels and local guides, and
gives independent travelers flexibility on where they eat. Maximum group size
is 12, though it often sends groups as small as two people. It has recently set
up a fund (www.earthfamilyfund.org) to give back to the countries it visits.
Frommer's
But a new entry is from the field of adventure travel. Adventure Life, which specializes
also in travel to South and Central America, has gotten into the act with its
own registry (you can see a sample at www.adventure-life.com/gift/trondle). Note
the button at the top of the page for "Give a Gift" and the note about
how much has yet to be raised, $5,680 "trip balance due" when I looked.
Adventure Life goes in for really rugged and exciting trips of the Indiana Jones
variety. Check them out at www.adventure-life.com. The phone for this Montana-based
outfit is 800/344-6118.
The
Rough Guide to Bolivia (1st ed.)
Adventure Life. 800/344-6118, www.adventure-life.com.
Small, personal organization with a community focus. Trips include an eleven-day
tour of Sucre, Potosi, and the Salar de Uyuni, and seven days in the Amazon staying
at the Albergue Ecologico Chalalan.
Fodor's
South America (6th ed.)
Adventure Life is mentioned 5 times in this
edition as a recommended tour operator!! Here are a couple snippets...
Adventure Life leads a kayaking journey along the Shiripuno River, paddling three to six hours per day; you also hike and meet Huaorani people (Ecuador section).
Adventure
Life focuses on Potosi, Uyuni, and villages near Sucre, and spends two nights
at a working hacienda (Bolivia section).
The
Bradt Travel Guide: The Amazon (2nd ed.)
Recommended tour operator
for the Amazon:
Adventure Life Journeys 712 W Spruce St., Suite A, Missoula,
MT 59802; tel: 800 344 6118; fax: 406 541 2676; email: info@adventure-life.com;
web: www.adventure-life.com. Lodge-based and camping/kayaking week long small-group
tours in lowland forest of Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia.
Hunter
Publishing
Adventure Guide to Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands (1st ed.)
Recommended tour operator for the Galapagos Islands:
Adventure
Life, an American company, offers 10-day and seven-day all-inclusive Galapagos
tours, as well as trips to the Andes and the Amazon rainforest. Contact them at
800-344-6118 or info@adventure-life.com. Their website, www.adventure-life.com,
provides complete information.
The
New Key to Costa Rica (16th ed.)
Listed as recommended tour operator
for US-based nature tour companies.
