Adrenalin Pumping Vacations
August 23, 2007
Do you always feel like doing something that was so exciting that your friends called you an “Adrenalin Junkie?”
If this is what you are nicknamed then this article is just for you. Here are some adventurous ways to spend your vacation and survive solely on your adrenalin.
1) Extreme High Altitude Sky Diving In Memphis, Tenn.
This kind of jumping, known as a HALO, is usually performed by the world’s elite military. Get strapped onto a military-trained jump master and jump from a plane that is 30,000 feet high (twice the altitude of a typical sky dive) into air 30 degrees below zero. Wearing an oxygen mask is a must to prevent passing out. The parachute opens as low to the ground as possible.
2) Fly A Fighter Jet In Burbank, California
Star in your own version of Top Gun. Along with a Hollywood stunt pilot, you will be flying in a real L-39 fighter jet while movie cameras roll and record the experience. Whether it is flying low through desert canyons or maneuvering along the coast in speeds that reach an excess of 500 miles an hour. Hovering just 20 feet above the ground and speeding straight up like a rocket to 20,000 feet.
3) Train Like A Cosmonaut In Moscow
Spend a day at the Yuri Gagarin Training Center, where cosmonauts prepare for space missions, then partake in three adventures. First, get strapped into a chair and slide into a long tube where you are weighed down and have to attempt to move. Next, climb into a space suit and try to simulate a space walk while suspended in air. Last, get strapped into a chair which spins you around in different directions, much like in space.
4) Race-Car Driving In New Zealand
Compete in a Kiwi Road Rally, one of the country’s biggest sports events held throughout the year, against professional drivers. After a week of training with a coach, you’ll be assigned a souped-up race car, a team manager and safety gear, and you’ll race in a one- or two-day event on gravel, mud, hilly and snow-covered roads. Reach speeds of more than 100 miles an hour.
5) Extreme Biking And Ice-Climbing In Bolivia
After a day of training, bike on a road with 800-foot drops and move on to a road with 14,000 feet of vertical descent–one of the steepest downhill mountain-bike roads in the world. Ride from the top of the Chacaltaya down into the dense jungle at the foot of the Zongo Valley. After another day of training, take a two-day ice climb up Huayna Potosi Mountain and reach a peak of 20,000 feet.
6) Tectonic Plate Diving And Snowmobile Racing In Iceland
Take a Jeep from Reykjavik into the heart of the geo-thermal and active tectonic plate area of Iceland. Guided by instructors, dive a few hundred feet deep between two tectonic plates–an experience few people have tried. The next day, drive to the island’s southern glaciers and race snowmobiles on the virgin snowfields of the glacier.
7) Cave Tubing In New Zealand
Cave tubing, also known as black-water rafting, is unique to New Zealand and uses an inflated rubber inner tube as a flotation device. This adventure takes you into the dark Ruakuri Caves in the Waitomo region. In this underground universe, you’ll ride on high-speed rapids, maneuver through tight crevices and go down waterfalls while surrounded by hundreds of glowworms on the limestone walls.
8 ) Dive With Sharks In The Bahamas
Depart on a boat from a marina on Grand Bahama Island for a two-hour journey to an area known as Tiger Beach because of its dense shark population. You don’t need diving experience, but a certified dive instructor will be on hand to assist you as you climb into a cage and go under water. You’ll breathe through an air hose connected to the boat and come face to face with tiger, lemon and hammerhead sharks. This information has been gathered Forbes.com
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This is one of the best things I’ve read in a while. It’s right on the bat, and a must-read!.