subject: Highly Enjoyable Adventure Holidays For All Age Groups [print this page] Going on adventure holidays with the family can be an expensive business and a lot of parents tend to err on the side of safety. That's a natural enough attitude to have: after all, the trip is likely to be a big-spend item and caution naturally comes to the fore. Trips away are a little like eating out at restaurants; we tend to stay on familiar surf 'n' turf where we know what we'll get and what it'll cost us.
But maybe it's time to broaden your horizons both literally and metaphorically and try something different by taking yourself out of your familiarity zone, spreading your wings and exploring some of the wonders of the world on an adventure holiday that will galvanise the whole family.
Becoming a parent doesn't mean you've lost your sense of wonder and children, with their insatiable curiosity and blotting-paper minds, will embrace the idea of exploring those places they've only seen in books and on screens. It's time to let reality bite!
Wizardry
Why? Well, go on to the internet and, in seconds, you'll be able to find yourself an interactive tour of, say, one of the great gothic cathedrals of Europe. Technology can take you into every nook and cranny, CGI its construction and show you just how it looked on its completion hundreds of years ago.
But for all that technological wizardry, you cannot smell the incense that, for a millennium, has seeped into the very fabric of the building; you cannot touch the stonework and feel the smooth polish that was the work of a craftsman's whole life; you cannot hear the echoes of music and voices as they fall from the fan-vaulted ceilings.
To understand what that cathedral really is you have to go to it, to stand and walk within it, to see not just a two-dimensional image, but a three-dimensional sensory experience of which you are a part and not just a spectator.
Discovered
It's just the same with landscapes and to really understand mountains, forests, rivers and deserts you have to climb them, explore them, canoe on them and trek through them and you need to do it in the same way that the native people of the land have discovered and developed themselves.
It may sound the stuff of the great 19th Century explorers - of Livingstone and Stanley, of Lewis and Clark but it's not and there are fantastic adventure holidays to be had for the whole family.
Grandparents, parents and children can all join in and share the discovery of some of the most beautiful and important areas of the globe, meeting the local people and understanding just how our environments come to shape our lives and our cultures.
It's all great fun, too, with exciting, safe and well-organised itineraries available that make sure you get the most for your time and your money. And that money is well spent, not in terms of cost, but as an investment in both stimulating your children in mind and body and strengthening the bonds of the whole family.
by: jane
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