Want to find out a bit more about Adventure Life? Check out some
of these great publications that have written articles about our tours.
Browse through these brief summaries or click on the links below to
read the full articles!
USA Today
Published: Sep 22, 2005
By: Gene Sloan
...While thousands of miles of Incan trails crisscross the mountains
of Peru, most major U.S. adventure tour companies only have offered
treks on the so-called "classic" Inca Trail that leads directly
to the famous ruins of Machu Picchu. Now that's beginning to change.
With the Peruvian government enforcing limits on visitors to the classic
trail, which has been plagued by overcrowding, firms are adding more
treks on "alternative" Incan trails connecting lesser-known
ruins. ....The Missoula, Mont.-based company this summer launched "Cachiccata
Trek: The Inca Trail Less Traveled," a 10-day trip that includes
three days of trekking on the Cachiccata Trail, a route that passes
the ruins of Chokekillka. The trip includes a stop at the ruins of Ollantaytambo
and a train trip to Machu Picchu....
New York Times
Published: Sep 18, 2005
By: Marjorie Connelly
...Based
in Missoula, Mont., Adventure Life Journeys, (800) 344-6118 or www.adventure
-life.com, organizes trips ranging from 10 days to 23 days; the longer
trips include visits to the Falkland Islands and South Georgia Island.
A 10-night voyage aboard the 110-passenger Akademik Ioffe visits the
South Shetland Islands and the waterways of the Antarctic Peninsula,
focusing on areas with the best possibilities of viewing wildlife. Including
an optional overnight camping excursion, fares start at $5,390 a person...
San Francisco Chronicle
Published: Apr 21, 2005
The Costa Rica Pacuare Nature Reserve recently began accepting visitors, and the US-headquartered Adventure Life is booking guests into the lodge. Founded 13 years ago to protect and study leatherback turtles and green turtles, the reserve accepts only six guests at a time, who work side-by-side with reserve's biologists tagging and measuring adult turtles and finding and moving nests to protect eggs from poachers...
Bradt Travel Guides
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.
Ultimate Adventures: A Rough Guide to Adventure Travel (1st ed.)
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
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
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 Edition)
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.
Published: Nov 12, 2025
By: Mark Chesnut
Monika Sundem, CEO of Adventure Life, an Affluent Traveler Collection affiliate, has witnessed an evolution in how consumers perceive the concept of responsible travel. “In our early days, few travelers ever mentioned sustainability — most just wanted to support local communities,” she says. “Over time, we’ve seen growing awareness around things like habitat preservation, plastic reduction and carbon impact. It’s evolved from a niche concern into something more mainstream, though still secondary to the desire for a meaningful travel experience.”
Sacramento Bee
Family Travel 5: Feeling run down? R&R awaits you at these getaways
Published: Apr 8, 2024
By: Lynn O'Rourke Hayes
Glamping adventure (Baja California, Mexico)
With time on an island and in the mountains of Baja California, Mexico, this eight-day glamping adventure delivers visitors into the heart of nature. In La Paz, take in the cultural and architectural landmarks of Baja’s capital. Water lovers will be eager to swim, snorkel, and kayak in search of tropical fish, sea turtles, manta rays, dolphins, whale sharks and bird species on Isla Espiritu Santo. It’s a National Marine Park and part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Sea of Cortez. Your adventure will conclude at the Sierra de la Laguna Biosphere Reserve with scenic hikes and a stay in a luxury tent camp run by a local ranching family.
Published: Sep 6, 2020
By: Jamie Carter
Ski to the South Pole! Before you consider skiing the last 60 nautical miles to the southernmost place on Earth, you should know that Adventure Life’s “Ski Last Degree” package with Antarctic Logistics and Expeditions starts at an eye-watering US$65,790.
For that, you get a return flight to Union Glacier – Antarctica’s only “resort” – another flight to the South Pole, and 11 days camping, skiing and support on the high polar plateau.
Travel+Leisure Top Travel Advisor: Galapagos Specialist
Published: Dec 2, 2019
Before joining the team at Adventure Life in 2011, Erin Correia spent six years traveling the world and teaching theater to children in places like South Korea and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Today, she's the company's go-to person for all things Galápagos. She personally sends between 300 and 400 travelers to the islands a year. Her trips range from island-hopping cruises to land-based expeditions and can include both active pursuits, like hiking and kayaking, and leisurely explorations.
Travel+Leisure Top Travel Advisor: Adventure Travel Specialist
Published: Dec 2, 2019
With fluency in Spanish and K’iche’, a Mayan dialect spoken in Guatemala, Kassandra Magruder can plan a variety of blood-pumping experiences in Central America and beyond. The adventure travel advisor arranges trips trekking in the Andres, mountain biking on safari in Zimbabwe, and kayaking in Antarctica. She planned some 400 adventures last year, all while jetting off to Peru to spend two weeks hiking in the Cordillera Huayhuash mountains, plus stints Botswana, Alaska, and South Africa.
Published: Dec 28, 2018
By: Jill Schildhouse
Some destinations are best explored by boat just as snow begins falling in North America—so grab your passport and hit the high seas before spring arrives.
Published: Aug 7, 2018
By: Phil Marty
"Namibia is probably best known for its huge, brilliantly colored sand dunes. For those attracted to Africa’s famed wildlife it would seem a less likely destination than East Africa and the Serengeti. Yet it’s a place that’s home to elephants that have adapted to the desert as well as zebra, giraffe, various antelope, ostrich, lion, cheetah and leopard." Discover this land of dunes and denizens on our
Namibia Adventure trip.
Travel+Leisure Travel Advisor, Small Ship Cruise Specialist
Published: Aug 1, 2018
Our Trip Planner,
Mary Curry, was named the
Travel+Leisure "Top Travel Advisor" for Small Ship Cruises this year! She specializes in family travel and adventure travel. However, she has personally traveled to numorous destinations and is an expert who can help you with most ANY travel dreams you might have.
Travel+Leisure Travel Advisor, Galapagos Specialist
Published: Aug 1, 2018
Travel+Leisure named our very own
Erin Correia as the
2018 Top Travel Advisor for the Galapagos Islands! Some other destinations she specializes in include Antarctica, Peru, & Patagonia. This is a much-deserved honor for our expert Trip Planner.
A Traveler's Path
Published: Nov 11, 2017
By: Jacob Baynham
"Brian Morgan’s life may have taken an entirely different course were it not for a well-positioned stranger on a return flight to Missoula...." Learn about how our CEO/Founder, Brian Morgan, found his passion in travel.
Published: Aug 10, 2016
Our CEO & Founder, Brian Morgan, has once again been named the "Travel+Leisure A-List" Galapagos Islands agent. The 2016
A-List selects travel experts for specific destinations around the world. As always, it is an honor to be included on this exclusive list.
Global Cycling Vacations Catch On
Published: Dec 10, 2015
By: Bob Schulman
“'Swelling numbers' of holiday-makers-on-bikes are jetting off to cycling tours this winter, reports a group of specialists in the sport. And more and more cyclists are said to be heading to spots off the beaten track, such as mountains and lakes in Tasmania, the Canary Islands and South America." This article highlights Adventure Life cycling tours to both
Ecuador &
Colombia.
Published: Aug 1, 2015
For the fifth consecutive year, Travel + Leisure selects Adventure Life's Brian Morgan as the go-to advisor for travelers looking to take a Galapagos trip. Travel + Leisure editors evaluates hundreds of travel agents to choose their favorites for the annual "A-List" of Top Travel Agents. Adventure Life is honored!
