Travel Articles: Snorkeling

A solo adventurer to Quito & Galapagos finds a vibrant community of nature, wildlife & new friends

A recent Wall Street Journal article stated, "Enjoying an ocean cruise and breaking a sweat aren't concepts that traditionally go together. Indeed, the indolence that many people crave from such vacations is the very thing that keeps others away from them."

However, this is changing as there has been an increase ofcruise options …

Of the five species of sea turtles found in the Baja region, all are unfortunately endangered! Travelers spend 5 days in Magdalena Bay’s mangrove canals working on a community project with Grupo Tortuguero on this trip. The unique group is a collection of former poachers who are now committed to conservation. Enjoy Mexico while also helping preserve its natural treasures.

With Kassandra’s knowledge of the area and our requirements and dates, We felt like our Peru trip was tailored to our exact liking and it made for a fantastic, fabulous, wonderful, exciting and culturally and educationally informative vacation . No other travel company comes close to the private, tailored trip like we experienced. With …

A fabulous and educational trip to the Galapagos Islands and Peru with our daughters. Definitely a trip of a lifetime for our family.

After getting married in Montana in the summer, we treated ourselves to a honeymoon in January. We spent a week sailing on the Liberty Clipper around North Eleuthera and a few extra days relaxing on Governor's Harbour's pink sand beaches. It was the perfect getaway in the middle of Montana's winter.

Two weeks in Ecuador, including an 8-day cruise on the San Jose in the Galapagos, 3 nights of land-based explorations on the islands of Santa Cruz and San Cristobal, and several days exploring the Highlands around Quito, Cotopaxi and Otavalo. Fulfilling my lovely partner's lifetime dream of seeing Darwin's inspiration!

Cataloging my second voyage to the Galapagos Islands, with art, photography, wildlife facts and travel tips!

Adventure Life had the pleasure of hosting award-winning travel writer, Don Mankin, on his recent trip to the Galapagos. Don's blog, The Adventure Geezer, is an insightful reference for the active, mature traveler. Learn more about Don's impressive career history, his accolades, as well as his love of travel here.

This recent adventure in …

Sharon and Meyers here from Easter Island! We are honored to share with you this journal and the adventure of a lifetime. This is our latest chapter to our story of reconnection and international travel..the passion that brought us together. Y'ALL ENJOY!

A great trip with highlights being a morning scuba dive off Santa Cruz Island, an exhilarating hike up the Sierra Negra volcano, lots of curious and nonchalant animal/sealife, great company, accommodations and food, and knowledgable guides who accompanied us throughout our islands visit. Adventure Life arranged a last minute guided bus/walking …

Documents our Darwin's Islands Trip to Galapagos through Adventure Life - full of exciting tortoises, iguanas and the natural beauty of the islands.

Highlights from our amazing week, sailing the beautiful Bahamas aboard the schooner Liberty Clipper.

We had an amazing, eye-opening, thrilling 6 weeks of travel in Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Peru. Our bond as a family has strengthened and although we were really excited to get home, we are already dreaming about our next travel experience together!

Visiting Costa Rica had been on my bucket list for a couple of years before I was finally able to finalize details of the trip with Adventure Life(which was to be my third trip with them). My travel partner, Sarah, had not been able to arrange a time to go until now. I decided to do the “Beaches and Rainforest” tour to give us some variety.

We headed back in time to the deceivingly desolate Galapagos Islands for a cruise through Santa Cruz, Genovesa, Santiago, and Bartolome Islands. We then then continued to the lush Amazon Basin, where we enjoyed four days exploring the forest floor and canopy surrounding Sacha Lodge.

My trip through Adventure Life to Costa Rica and Panama in March 2012 for a fun, action packed week of snorkeling, zip lines, horseback riding, great cuisine, museums and more.

A trip beyond expectations, seven friends set out to cruise the southern seas.

My husband and I traveled to Belize for our first trip ever to Central America! It surpassed our every expectation!

A father and son trip of a lifetime to the Galapagos in April 2012. My son Ben (15) took all of these photos. Well, not the one of Ben on the lava rocks, I took that one.

Belize is wonderful, so much diversity, jungle, animals, beautiful birds, ruins, barrier reef (which is the second largest in the world). I loved the jungle, the people that I met on our Belize tour, the children playing like kids are supposed to play, and family unity. I am so grateful that I was able to go on our Belize trip and experience …

A trip that blurs the lines between ecotourism and black sea turtle restoration, community development and genuine cultural exchange. Join a local group of fisher-conservationists on a journey through majestic Magdalena Bay in the Baja Peninsula to participate in a sea turtle conservation project recognized around the world as a model for …

\"If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.\" Geena Davis

This was truly an adventure of a lifetime in Belize 2012. From the jungle to the ruins to the reef off Ambergris Caye - it was all a unique and wonderful experience on our Belize tour.