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Trams to boost tourism to Peruvian archaeological sites
Published: Dec 12, 2014
By: Bob Schulman
"Adventurous travelers who’d like to beat the crowds to the two ruins can see them before the trams open, thanks to trips offered by...Adventure Life." Learn more about the
Chachapoyas Discovery tour and the
Choquequirao Trek.
Travel+Leisure A-List: Top Travel Advisor
Published: Aug 1, 2014
For the fourth 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 evaluated hundreds of travel agents and picked their favorites for the annual A-List of Top Travel Agents. Adventure Life is honored!
Travel + Leisure A-List: Top Travel Advisor
Published: Aug 15, 2013
By: Editor
For the third consecutive year, Travel + Leisure selects Adventure Life's Brian Morgan as the go-to advisor for travelers looking to take a
Galapagos cruise and
Peru tour. Travel + Leisure editors evaluated hundreds of travel agents and picked their favorites for the twelfth annual A-List of Top Travel Agents. We are honored!
Travel + Leisure A-List: World's Top Agents 2011
Published: Sep 1, 2011
By: Clara Sedlak and Maria Shollenbarger
Adventure Life's Brian Morgan is selected by Travel + Leisure A-List as one of the world's best agents and operators for the Galapagos and Peru. T+L evaluated thousands of agents to come up with this highly selective list of the best in the businesses... With a wealth of expertise, these power brokers are the most informed and connected in the travel industry...
Galápagos
Brian Morgan
Excited About: The new eco-conscious cruise regulations, which will help protect the area’s natural wonders. The standards stipulate that no operators may offer tours of longer than 15 days.
Years as Agent: 12.
Other Specialty: Peru.
10 natural wonders to see before they disappear
Published: Apr 26, 2011
By: Laurel Delp
Adventure Life is featured by MSNBC and Budget Travel as their operator of choice to visit treasured Antarctica. "...Tourism is both bane and boon: it can add strain to already distressed areas, but it can also provide income, which in turn can help preserve these wonders. We spotlight 10 areas under threat — some lesser known than others — that can still be visited responsibly. Should you decide to plan a journey, we've recommended our favorite tour operator for each destination. In some cases the price tag may be higher than your average vacation, but consider it an investment in Mother Earth... "...Adventure Life has a 10-day cruise through the Drake Passage and along the Antarctic Peninsula on a former oceanographic research vessel. The trip includes viewing many species of penguins, whales and icebergs by Zodiac, and a visit to a scientific station..."
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From Cusco to Puno by Rail
Published: Dec 30, 2008
By: Vicki Stout
"...Oscar, one of the legions of bellmen uniformed in gray wool, flashes his million-dollar smile and signals to me. Reuben from the aptly named Adventure-Life tour is here. It’s a short ride in his van to the Wanchaq Station, a brief preamble to the journey of a lifetime...
...Adventure-Life: This U.S.-based tour company specializes in small tours (six to eight people) in Latin America and Antarctica. Guides are local experts. Hotel choices range from basic to luxury. Itineraries can be customized.
Transitions Abroad
Published: Jul 25, 2008
By: Sandra Kennedy
Pastel-colored homes, cobblestone streets, bougainvillea-covered walls and looming volcanoes offer the first glimpses of Antigua. The UNESCO World Heritage site embraces thousands of travelers wanting to experience this world-famed Catholic celebration commemorating the Passion, Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Antigua, Guatemala comes alive with its annual "Semana Santa" Holy Week, held sometime between March 22 and April 23. The entire city participates in the solemn activities during the week with a joyous celebration on Easter. Spanish missionaries from Seville initiated this religious occasion during colonial times.
...Adventure Life Journeys is one of a few tour groups for this Easter Festival. It has a nine-day trip with a local bilingual guide, small groups, and sustainable tourism practices. It includes the Easter Festival, ChiChicastenango and Solola Markets, as well as Lake Atitlan.
Scottsdale Magazine
Published: Jun 10, 2008
By: staff editor
Scottsdale Magazine
Adventure Life attracts those seeking to push the limit of their thrill-seeking endurance up a north or two. This 12-day adventure offers participants the chance to experience native culture via an overnight stay with local families. The Manco adventure begins with your arrival in Lima where you soak up a bit of civilization before flying off to Cusco the next morning to immerse yourself into the mysteries of the witches' market, or explore the capital city of Inca's many plazas, ancient ruins and museums...
...A well-planned itinerary for those unaccustomed to extreme heights, such as the 14,403-foot La Raya pass, gives adventurers the opportunity to become acclimated before exploring the region's many ancient temples and archeological sites...
Southern Exposure
Ancient Treasures Waiting to Be Found: Cusco & Machu Picchu
Published: Jun 1, 2008
By: Vicki Stout
Southern Exposure Magazine
Machu Picchu, the mystical Lost City of the Inca, which seems to hang in midair between the clouds above and a rushing river below, is the reason most travelers, myself included, head to Peru...
...Our Adventure Life tour leader, Boris Bonnett, is a Cusco native who earned a college degree more than a decade ago in tourism. He is extremely well versed in the region that is his home and its rich history...
...WHEN YOU GO: Adventure Life, based in Montana. The company specializes in small groups and eco friendly travel in Latin America and Antarctica.
The Times
Guatemala: Easter Festival, ChiChi and a chicken bus
Published: May 1, 2008
By: Sandra Kennedy
TheTimes
Usually independent travelers, they toured with Montana-based Adventure Life Journeys, joining seven other travelers to experience the nine-day Easter Festival and much more.
After a 45-minute ride from Guatemala City, my husband and I passed through an intricate wrought-iron door into Hotel Aurora. Its plain façade belied the lovely courtyard brimming with aromatic roses, chrysanthemums and bougainvillea circling a stone fountain.
Usually independent travelers, we decided to tour with Montana-based Adventure Life Journeys. Joining seven other travelers, we experienced the nine-day "Easter Festival," ChiChicastenango and Solola Markets, Lake Atitlan, a macademia plantation, indigenous markets, villages and Maximon (a Mayan deity). We journeyed on tuk tuks (open air taxis), a flatbed truck, lancha (motorboat), van and chicken bus...
Smart Travel
The Best New Trip of 2008
Published: Oct 8, 2007
By: Molly Feltner
As the audience for adventure travel becomes more sophisticated, the call for trips that truly abandon the beaten path or explore popular destinations in new ways is growing louder. Each year, many adventure providers introduce new trips to help meet this demand. After checking in with hundreds of outfitters from around the world and getting a sneak peek at what's cooking in their trip laboratories, here are my picks for the best new adventure trips of 2008.
The forgotten kingdoms of Peru
When most travelers think of Peru, the Incan ruin of Machu Picchu is often the first—and only—destination that comes to mind. But what most never realize, even after visiting Machu Picchu and other well-known Incan ruins, is that Peru is home to countless other fascinating sites, including those built by other civilizations that pre-date the Incas by a thousand years. That's why Latin American specialists Adventure Life is launching a new trip that covers the full spectrum of Peruvian ruins, including those in the seldom-visited northern part of the country.
'The Inca were only the last in a long line of sophisticated pre-Columbian cultures in Peru,' says Adventure Life founder Brian Morgan. 'From the 1st to the 15th-century A.D., [northern Peru] was home to some of South America's most prominent cultures—the Moche, Lambayeque, Chimu, and Chachapaoyas. Like the Inca, they were exquisite craftsmen and excelled in the skills of ceramics, agriculture, architecture, metallurgy, and warfare, but their temples and arts were completely unique from the Inca...'
Endless Vacation
Voyages of Discovery
Published: Sep 1, 2007
By: Meg Lukens Noonan
Not your typical port: Passengers aboard and Adventure Life cruise can spend the night ice-camping on the Antarctic Peninsula's Paradise Bay.
It's not secret that taking a cruise has never been the vacation for serious adrenaline addicts. Granted, it can be exhilarating to snag an unclaimed lounge chair on the pool deck after 10 a.m., but for most thrill-seekers, traditional cruises seem unbearably tame. Well, times are changing. In the past few years, ships of all sizes have launched itineraries designed to appeal to even the most adventurous travelers. Far-flung ports, challenging wilderness excursions and heart-revving life-list experiences that have replaced duty-free shopping and drive-by bus tours. The payoff? Incredible memories, a deep sense of accomplishment and -- after a full-day of calorie-burning -- guilt free returns visits to the buffet table...
...A 12-day Adventure Life voyage carries 49-passengers from the mountain-rigged city of Ushuaia in southern Argentina across the Drake Passage to the South Shetland Islands and the Antarctic Peninsula -- where summer highs top out at 50 degrees and the sun can shine for 20 hours a day. Guests board inflatable boats to see Gentoo penguins, ocras and the Wendell seals; paddle sea kayaks through a maze of ice floes; and scale glaciers using crampons and ice-axes. They can also ski the white wilderness or do the full Shackleton: and overnight ice-camping excursion.
Perceptive Travel
Published: Jul 1, 2007
By: Tim Leffel
...I'm on a nine-day, action-packed tour of Costa Rica with a fittingly named outfitter: Adventure Life. There's a lot packed into those that phrase, "Adventure Life." If we already lived an adventure life, would we need to pay a tour company to give us more of the same somewhere else? The phrase certainly sounds more interesting than our actual life: sleep, eat, work, sleep. Somehow "Treadmill Life" just doesn't have the same cachet. We sign on with Adventure Life so we can stop being softies for a while and remember what it is to get a natural rush...
Jax Fax
Published: Jun 1, 2007
By: Jonathan Siskin
While the word "paradise" is overused in travel literature, it is absolutely on target when describing a South Pacific cruise......One of the newest entrants into the South Pacific cruise market is Adventure Life VOYAGES, a Missoula, Montana-based company that is among the leaders in land based tours to Central and South America. The experts at Adventure Life have selected a few choice expedition cruise vessels and paired them with enticing itineraries to some of the far-flung corners of the globe..."
Jax Fax
Published: May 1, 2007
By: Jax Fax
Adventure Life, an eco-based adventure travel company that specializes in trips to Central and South America, is selling the eight-day Reefs and Cayes package starting at $1250 per person double. Participants will glide among the cayes and coral reef while sea kayaking or snorkeling with blue parrot fish, neon blowfish, and study purple plume coral, brain coral and sea fans; eat from the bounty of the sea, and pitch their tents each night under the starry sky. Visit. www.adventure-life.com
Transitions Abroad
Best in Travel Class 2007
Published: Apr 7, 2007
By: Christina Heyniger and Sherry Schwarz
Adventure Life specializes in family adventures and custom tours throughout Latin America. It adheres to small group travel not only as a benefit to travelers, but also on principle as a way to minimize its "footprint" on the places and cultures they visit. Optional homestays expand cross-cultural awareness, and partnerships with local guides and family-owned ecolodges contribute to local economies. 
Connected with such organizations as the International Ecotourism Society and Leave No Trace, Adventure Life is further committed to environmental protection. Indeed, guests of the Pure Patagonia Base Camp Trek stay in Torres del Paine National Park's eco-camp, equipped with composting toilets and igloo-shaped tents that are built to minimize environmental impact. Led by a Patagonian guide and crew, the 8-day hike to glaciers, lakes and rainforests starts and ends in Punta Arenas, Chile.
Valley Advocate
Published: Jan 18, 2007
By: Stephen Hartshorne
Sailing the historic Northwest Passage in a polar-class icebreaker
Since the Age of Discovery began in the sixteenth century, explorers have been braving the frigid weather and powerful sea ice of Canada’s northern reaches in search of a Northwest Passage to the Pacific Ocean...
...Adventure Life of Missoula, Montana organizes expedition cruises to places almost no one else can get to, and one of them is the Canadian Arctic. Icebreakers and shallow-draft vessels can take you through the very waterways which explorers searched for centuries....
...Adventure Life’s Canadian Arctic cruise aboard the polar-class icebreaker Kapitan Khlebnikov offers you the opportunity to be one of the very few intrepid souls who have navigated the Northwest Passage. Like AL’s other expedition cruises, the voyage includes presentations on the wildlife, geology, glaciers and human history of the High Arctic from naturalists, historians and scientists....
Motivation Strategies
Published: Jan 1, 2007
By: Marc Boisclair
Smaller cruise ships can deliver an unforgettable experience.
When Steve Brown wanted to thank his employees for buying into his company, he decided to forego a standard cruise, instead choosing a ship and ports less traveled. "I wanted something unique, an incentive experience that gave us the chance to relax, celebrate, get outdoors and do some team-building," says Brown, who operates the Trout Lodge fish hatchery in Washington State. So he hit the Internet and landed at Adventure Life, a Montana-based company that specializes in off-the-beaten-path tours for small groups.
"He came to us about our Patagonia trip for his group – seven owners and spouses who were going to Chile on business anyway," says Johnathan Brunger, Adventure Life’s adventure coordinator. The big draw, adds Brunger, was the four-day cruise’s mix of adventure and spectacular sightseeing with posh digs and gourmet food, a combination Brown felt would prove a good fit for his group. Did it work? In his post-trip evaluation, Brown was ecstatic: "It spoiled my wife and me to an extent that we would never go on a big-ship cruise again." ...
The Mercury News
Published: Jul 24, 2005
...Photographer
Pauline Lubens booked her trip through Adventure Life -- a fine choice,
she says, for travelers who want their entire vacation booked ahead
of time and don't want to fend for themselves in Quito, Ecuador. Her
trip was on the Seaman, a small "tourist"-class yacht with
eight cabins and bund beds, for a maximum of 16 passengers...
Arizona Republic
Published: Jul 10, 2005
By: Kendra Gonnerman
Have you ever thought about taking the Inca Trail less traveled in
Peru? My friend, Mary and I were excited to take the Inca Trail to Machu
Picchu, but then we found an alternative trail that would take us around
to modern Incan communities and magnificent views of the snow-capped
Andes.
Adventure Life put together a wonderful tour that took us to Cusco
and the Sacred Valley and then on a four-day trek along the Cachiccata
Trail. Our vacation concluded with our visit to Machu Picchu for two
days...
The Honolulu Advertiser
Published: May 23, 2005
By: Lou and Joan Rose
GALAPAGOS
ISLANDS, Ecuador — The dark shape darted straight at our masks,
veering away at the last possible moment. Here it came again. And again
— turning, swerving and passing us just out of reach. A sleek young
sea lion was playing with us! When we finally returned to the beach,
he followed us to the water's edge, looking wistful over losing his
playmates. To our utter delight, 500 years of human contact haven't
been long enough for the creatures of the Galapagos Islands to evolve
a fear of humans...
*The Roses have traveled all over the world and have
an excellent website with excellent travel tales, advice and adventures
to share. Visit: The Rambling
Roses to learn more.
Western Montana InBusiness
Published: Apr 30, 2005
By: Jared Ritz
Even
though born and raised in Havre, Brian Morgan knows what it is like
to feel trapped by the urban environment. People want to get out of
it, he says – which is exactly why he thinks his business, Adventure
Life Journeys, is taking off.
Sacramento Bee
Published: Apr 19, 2005
...type "adventure" and "Chile" into your favorite Web search engine and you'll come up with spots such as Adventure Life - https://www.adventure-life.com/chile/chile.php - which touts treks through the wilds of Patagonia, coastal cruises and camping trips in the Atacama Desert...
USA Today
Published: Mar 11, 2005
By: Gene Sloan
The
next Costa Rica, some call Guatemala. And for good reason. Like its
long-popular Central American sibling to the south, Guatemala is home
to soaring volcanoes, idyllic lakes and steamy rain forests full of
monkeys, crocodiles and toucans. Unlike Costa Rica, it also harbors
some of the world's most spectacular ruins, remnants of the ancient
Mayan civilization, as well as a vibrant modern-day Mayan culture. With
the country stablizing, U.S. adventure companies such as Adventure Life
that have long offered trips to Costa Rica are beginning to add Guatemala
to their mix.
