Adventure vacation – tips, travel destinations & recommendations

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What people consider an adventure vacation varies greatly from person to person. What is a thrill for one person doesn't even make another person yawn. I have listed my most adventurous travel reports and blog posts for you on this topic page about adventure holidays and have put together some helpful tips and recommendations for planning your trip below.

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Adventure vacation - between thrill and adrenaline, wild nature and new paths

An adventure vacation is probably one of the best ways to completely break away from everyday life. Package travelers, beach vacationers and anyone who just wants to relax while traveling will certainly have little use for this form of travel.

An encounter with wild dolphins is one of the most spectacular experiences you can have in Mauritius. Photo: Sascha Tegtmeyer
An encounter with wild dolphins is one of the most spectacular experiences you can have in Mauritius. Photo: Sascha Tegtmeyer

An adventure vacation is for adrenaline junkies, people who love new things and are looking for thrills and adrenaline rush, natural beauty of the world, solitude in the wilderness and new paths. What makes an exciting and forgettable adventure vacation? We give you valuable tips for your next tour.

Activities with the experiential characteristics characteristic of adventurous situations predominate and are experienced for their own sake, i.e. H. There must be a motive for adventure.

Thomas Trümper, 1995

Overview - What characterizes adventure holidays?

  • make unique experiences that you will not soon forget
  • Discover new places and regions where you've never been before
  • try new sports and push your limits
  • get to know foreign countries, cultures and traditions
  • focus more on people and their stories and thereby gain new perspectives
  • react flexibly and spontaneously to the unforeseen and open up to unexpected experiences.
We all know the feeling that "normal" life sometimes seems boring. Daily routine, work and commitments can quickly trap us in a comfort zone and make us feel like we are missing something. This is where adventure vacations come in - they offer us the opportunity to step out of this comfort zone and embark on a new, exciting adventure. But what drives us to seek more and more adventure? This question is not easy to answer, because each of us has our own reasons. But one thing is certain: we all strive for a fulfilling life that allows us to delve deeper into the world and give us unique experiences.
Adventure vacations can take many forms - what is boring for one person is adventurous for another.

Why does it have to be an adventure vacation?

Many people, including us at Just Wanderlust, consider normal life - everyday life - to be a pretty boring affair. Sure, you can find fulfillment in many little things in life. We simply don't have much use for the term normal. Life is too short to lie on the sofa all day, just struggling with work and experiencing nothing. Anyone who feels the same should book their next adventure vacation as soon as possible.

Because our planet is simply incredible and offers an endless variety of opportunities to throw yourself into an adventure with body and soul and to experience thrills, excitement and simply something new. The question of why it has to be an adventure holiday is easily answered: because the everyday is not enough for us and we are looking for an extraordinary experience in our lives that will give us a uniquely beautiful time and that we will remember for many years to come.

The question that we ask ourselves so often: How do you turn an ordinary holiday with sun, beach and sea into a real adventure holiday? What distinguishes an adventure trip from a normal trip? We want to get to the bottom of this question in more detail.

The question of why it has to be an adventure holiday, is answered quite easily: Because the everyday is not enough for us and we are looking for an extraordinary experience in our lives, which allows us to penetrate deeper into the world, brings us a uniquely beautiful time and the we will remember for many more years.

Sascha Tegtmeyer, Just-Wanderlust.com

This turns every ordinary journey into an adventure

The good news is: adventure vacations are an incredibly subjective matter. The extraordinary experience begins where it feels like an adventure just for you. For some, it may be a test of courage to take a long-distance trip instead of the usual Mallorca vacation.

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Adventure vacation: Snorkeling with wild dolphins is one of the most adventurous and unique experiences ever.

An adventure vacation is always an experiment in which you get to know yourself better. And if you are a bit anxious, you can slowly approach the topic of adventure holidays.

1. Book a normal package holiday and individually convert it into an adventure holiday

One of the easiest ways to go on an adventure holiday quickly and easily is to simply book a package holiday as usual and make your stay at the holiday destination particularly exciting. Get a rental car and explore remote bays, go on a discovery tour by bike, hike through the area or really mix with the locals. To experience an adventure vacation, you don't have to completely throw away your idea of ​​vacation and travel - a few small changes are enough to turn a package holiday into an adventure vacation.

2. Adventure holiday as a complete individual journey

Actually, you have the opportunity to put together your own vacation at every travel destination in the world. You book a flight and look for your accommodation on the large and well-known portals. You don't need luxury hotels for your adventure vacation, but above all accommodation with character - and you can often find these with people who rent out their apartments privately. This often creates exciting contact with locals who can give you valuable insider tips. Organizing an adventure vacation as an individual trip is an exciting matter in itself. We spent our first adventure vacation in Thailand - only booked the flight and selected all the accommodation later on site.

For me, wreck diving is an incomparable adventure - what travelers want to do on their adventure vacation is a very individual matter and needs to be well planned.
For me, wreck diving is an incomparable adventure - what travelers want to do on their adventure vacation is a very individual matter and needs to be well planned.

Nature trips, diving holidays and extreme sports: What types of adventure trips are there?

You have practically no specifications for your adventure trip. Whatever you like is allowed. And that's why many travel topics ultimately count as adventure holidays. These include diving holidays, where you have spectacular underwater experiences with fascinating sea creatures in the most beautiful places in the world. Of course, this also includes nature trips and hiking trips - for example in Canada or the USA - where you immerse yourself in untouched nature.

At the end of the tour, visitors can feed the elephants. Photo: Sascha Tegtmeyer
And now go out, out of the comfort zone and out into the world: on every corner await you adventures! Photo: Unsplash

And all adventure tours with sports and extreme sports such as long bike tours, skydiving or kite surfing also count as adventure trips. Of course, there are also exciting holidays with surfing and stand-up paddling. And a cruise can also become an adventure vacation. These include, for example, ship expeditions to the Arctic or Antarctic or themed cruises such as a ship tour to the orcas in Norway, where you dive with killer whales. As you can see, there are many ways to experience an adventure trip.

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Abenterurlaub: If the trip is really exciting, you forget everyday life as in flight. Photo: Oliver Sjöström from https://ollivves.com

What activities can I do on an adventure holiday?

Of course, activities on an adventure holiday are what make a trip something very special. Only those who do something can have exciting experiences and rediscover themselves. There are countless nerve-racking activities on an adventure holiday such as hiking, climbing, skydiving, an off-road jeep tour, surfing, camping, canyoning, quad biking, traveling by helicopter or plane, bungee jumping or doing survival training in untouched nature.

The list of options for creating an adventure vacation is endless. You can certainly think of many more exciting activities for your adventure trip. For us, it is particularly adventurous to simply drive into the blue at your holiday destination in a rental car and discover new places and secret, hidden hot spots on a tour.

What adventurous things can you experience on vacation?

  • Hike and discover
  • Go climbing
  • Do a skydive
  • go on tour off-road with the jeep
  • Surfing, kite surfing and stand up paddling
  • Adventure camping
  • Canyoning and rafting
  • Go on quad tours
  • Airplane tours, balloon rides and helicopter flights
  • Bungee jumping
  • Survival Training
If you like it a little faster, you can go on a tour in an all-terrain vehicle or put your skills on the water to the test with surfing, kite surfing or stand up paddling. Photo: Sascha Tegtmeyer
If you like it a little faster, you can go on a tour in an all-terrain vehicle or put your skills on the water to the test with surfing, kite surfing or stand up paddling. Photo: Sascha Tegtmeyer

Adventure holidays with children – unforgettable experiences await in Germany, by the sea and worldwide

Yes, of course you can also spend your adventure vacation with the kids. No matter whether you are traveling in Germany, taking an adventurous beach holiday with the little ones or taking the children with you on a trip around the world, adventure holidays with children are something very special and have their very own ambience. Southeast Asia, for example, is incredibly great for families to spend adventure holidays. Caribbean destinations such as Costa Rica or Cuba are also great to explore with your children. And in Germany there are countless opportunities to spend adventure holidays.

Father and son adventure vacation

It sounds a bit cliché, but it's incredibly fun. A father and son adventure vacation is a very exciting experience for the two of them. We experienced it ourselves. So often you live next to each other with your family and you don't really make time for each other. But on a father and son adventure vacation, the family members can really come together again, because shared experiences bring them together.

During a holiday in Germany in Timmendorfer beach the recovery factor is very high! Photo: Sascha Tegtmeyer
During a holiday in Germany in Timmendorfer beach the recovery factor is very high. Photo: Sascha Tegtmeyer

Especially on a father and son adventure vacation, you don't necessarily have to travel that far. A tour through Germany or a short road trip can help you really notice your favorite people again. Just go out into the blue together and discover something new together. This is perhaps one of the most beautiful aspects of an adventure trip.

Book a cheap adventure holiday – and get away more often

An adventure trip doesn’t have to be expensive at all. Of course, an adventurous trip can also be combined with a luxury vacation. But you don't have to spend a lot. You can book a cheap adventure holiday at any time without having to make major compromises in quality. You are guaranteed to get good value for money for your adventure holiday, especially outside of peak travel times. Even those who are very spontaneous and book two days before departure can sometimes achieve particularly good conditions for their adventure trip.

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My detailed conclusion

Adventure vacations are not about who has the most exciting and crazy experience. It's more about enjoying life in all its facets and embarking on an individual journey of discovery. It's not about impressing others or emulating them. Because what is an adventure for one person can be a boring walk for another.

Every adventure vacation is unique and depends on your interests, preferences and goals. It can be a mountain hike, a dive to a sunken shipwreck or a journey through foreign cultures and countries. Whatever it is, it should be something that excites and fulfills you.

Do you often go on adventure holidays? What have you already experienced? And what do you have planned? Share your experiences in the comments.

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