"Adventure-travel is any activity used as a conduit to observe, share, enjoy, suffer, encounter, or experience that which is outside the boundaries of one’s own day-to-day life. You don’t have to go to Thailand or Central America to be an adventurer-traveler, but you can. And it’s probably better not to have a specific goal, but there are no requirements about that, either. 'Boundaries' is the operative word here; real, implied, or imagined, if your body or mind crosses a boundary, you are doing it."
~Randy Wayne White~
Are you an adventurer-traveler too?
Any kind of travel that steps out of the safe boundaries of what is generally considered recreational travel can have psychological and pedagogical benefits. Such benefits might include strengthened confidence, a broadened world-view, foreign language acquisition, cross-cultural skills, and so on. People usually think of adventure travel as something physically adventurous, such as kayaking down a wild river or scaling a high mountain. But adventure travel could mean almost anything that takes you out of your mental and cognitive box. Visiting an Ashram, living with a foreign host family and learning their language and cultures, traveling in a radically different culture,these and more would qualify.
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