Making life a holiday with interesting vacation and adventure ideas.

Gore-Tex is running a treasure hunt for Gore-Tex tokens, hidden in Australia, Brazil, British Columbia, California, France, Madagascar, Nepal, New York, Norway and Switzerland. The competition runs through September 1, 2008 and the first people to find the tokens get $500 in branded Gore-Tex gear. Clues have been published on the website for the location of each token. Visitors to the Gore-Tex website can also participate in a write-in contest for a chance to win a free pair of travel shoes.

Entrants in the treasure hunt competition must be legal residents of the 50 United States or the District of Columbia, and there are other conditions listed in the competition rules.

Labels: 2008, adventure, competition, Gore-Tex, Treasure

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

Between now and December 31, 2007 Trusted Tours and Attractions, a division of Historic Tours of America, is running a promotion and giving away an iPod Nano to one subscriber of their online travel newsletter. All you have to do is to subscribe to the Trusted Tours and Attractions monthly newsletter from the company's homepage at http://www.trustedtours.com/newsletter.aspx. The travel newsletter offers interesting stories, travel tips, travel articles, and money saving deals on sightseeing tours and other attractions.

Historic Tours of America, owns and operates numerous sightseeing tours, museums and attractions in 6 different U.S. cities.

Labels: 2007, competition, iPod Nano, tours, USA

Harry Potter fans are being offered the chance to appear in 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince™', the next movie in the series of wizardly goings on at Hogwarts.

Marking the launch of 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix™' on DVD, MSN and Warner Home Video are running a competition that will provide one lucky, lucky fan, the once in a lifetime opportunity to be a part of motion picture history, with a walk on part.

Enter the competition here, it runs until 20 December, 2007.

Labels: 2007, competition, film, Harry Potter, Hogwarts, MSN

You could win a trip to space. Just imagine yourself 100 kilometres (62 miles) above the Earth's surface taking holiday snaps like this; awesome.

This astonishing prize is being offered by New Scientist and Audi to the person, who in the opinion of the judges, is most original in their choice of the world's best patented invention of all time and their 250 word description of why they think it is the best. Current entries include sliced bread, the toilet plunger, bubble wrap and condoms but I once attended a lecture where it was pointed out that none of the preceding would exist without the invention of the vacuum pump; winning this competition is going to require incredible imagination.

The lucky winner will undergo 4 days of extensive training culminating in a sub-orbital flight. You have until April 30, 2007, to get your entries in and the winning entry will be published in the June 2 issue of New Scientist.

Labels: Audi, competition, New Scientist, patent, space