Making life a holiday with interesting vacation and adventure ideas.

Anyone interested in participating in an Asian-centered, scavenger hunt travel adventure competition, GreatEscape2008, should visit the official website, where you can enter online or call Greg Clayton in Australia, on 0433 118454.

Built on the same principles as the successful Global Scavenger Hunt™, The Asian Scavenger Hunt™ is scheduled to take place beginning and ending in Australia between November 8 and November 22, 2008.

Labels: 2008, Adventure Travel, Asia, Australia, competition

The Land Rover G4 Challenge is an exciting global adventure competition with driving at its core, run in support of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.

The programme begins with a gruelling series of selections and culminates in the three-week long Challenge Finals, when teams of two competitors from each of the 18 entered nations will compete for victory. The Challenge Finals are due to take place in Asia over remote and rugged terrains that will provide stunning scenery, exciting locations and test off-road driving with activities such as mountain biking, kayaking, climbing, orienteering and abseiling, pitching competitor teams against each other in tests of driving skill, initiative, strategic thinking and physical fitness.
Anyone with a passion for adventure, that is interested in competing, should visit www.landroverG4Challenge.com and register using the online form.

Labels: 2008, 2009, adventure racing, Asia, Land Rover G4 Challenge

South East Asia's first mountaineering training center has been established on Mount Kinabalu, Malaysia. It is located in Mt Kinabalu National Park, which is a UNESCO world heritage site, renowned for its rich plant and animal diversity.

Adventure seekers will enjoy the new 'via ferrata', or 'iron road', a mountain route equipped with fixed rungs, rails, cables, stemples (crossbars and supports), ladders and bridges, that makes an otherwise difficult terrain accessible to people with a wide range of climbing abilities.

Mount Kinabalu's via ferrata is the highest in the world, starting at 3,200 metres and ending at 3,800m above sea level. The next highest is in Italy, ending at 3,600m.

Read more.

Labels: adventure, Asia, climbing, Malaysia, Mount Kinabalu, mountaineering

There is a small but growing band of bird watchers in India and South Asia. With over 1250 species of birds, the region is a birders paradise and anyone interested in the birds of India and South Asia will find www.birding.in a quite exceptional resource.
I really cannot speak to highly of this site; much of the information, including bird identification, is of value to beginners and advanced bird watchers alike, wherever they happen to be in the world.

The picture is of a Painted Stork, photographed in Hyderabad sanctuary, India, by Asif Akbar

Labels: Asia, birds, Birdwatching, India