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A Different Way to Travel At Gap Adventures, we encourage you to step off the beaten path, embrace the unexpected and immerse yourself in the extraordinary. Our award-winning trips embrace authentic accommodation and local transportation to bring you face to face with the world’s most fascinating cultures, customs and awe-inspiring wildlife.

Return to Top Alaska Wildlife Adventure Alaska Wildlife Adventure North America Adventure Travel 9 Days Age Restriction: Minimum age 12 years Next Available Departure: Sat, Jun. 18, 2011 Highlights: Hiking through Denali and Kenai Fjords National Parks, visiting a Native American Indian tribe, breathtaking views of mountains and glaciers. Trip style: Discovery Adventures... Bring to life the awe-inspiring destinations featured on the Discovery Channel. Engage colourful cultures, wildlife and landscapes through exhilarating, educational and immersive activities and arrive at a greater understanding of our incredible planet. Service level: Comfort... On our Comfort trips, you won’t have to give up the spirit of adventure to enjoy a little more comfort. Depending on your itinerary, you’ll get around via upgraded transportation—using private vehicles, trains and planes. As a result, you’ll spend more time exploring. While this service level offers a greater number of inclusions—transfers and breakfasts are generally provided—it still offers the flexibility to do your own thing. Expect accommodations handpicked for their great locations, upgraded amenities, facilities and service. Ideal for travellers looking for great value and a softer landing. Physical grading: "2" Light walking and hiking that is suitable for most fitness levels. Alaska Wildlife Adventure From pristine national parks abundant with wildlife to coastal towns rich in culture and heritage, you knew Alaska was a must-see. Now youre here in the middle of Americas final frontierone of the most remarkable wilderness destinations in the world. Join our experts and discover the immensity of the continents largest mountain and breathtaking fjords. Track grizzlies, wolves and other reclusive wildlife. Hop aboard the rails and cut through glacier-sculpted valleys. Watch the rugged men of the sea haul in their catch and embrace the Native American culture that has lasted millennia. Want adventure? Youll love Alaska. Return to Top Arctic Wildlife Adventure Arctic Wildlife Adventure North America Adventure Travel 8 Days Age Restriction: Minimum age 12 years Next Available Departure: Mon, Jun. 6, 2011 Highlights: Snowmobile and Komatik sled journey to the Floe-Edge, Arctic wildlife observation, comfortable winter camping surrounded by stunning arctic scenery. Trip style: Canada Goose... When the snow starts to fall, Canada Goose adventures take off! These flexible winter tours feature cold weather activities and a focus on learning through doing. Keep warm in your included Canada Goose parka while on reindeer safari, tracking wildlife along the edge of an ice floe or building igloos. Service level: Basic... Our Basic service level offers excellent value for those who prefer flexibility along with the security and convenience of small group travel. Our basic, accommodation is clean and well kept. When it comes to getting around, public transport is often the best and most colourful way to go. Alternatively, travel is by private van or coach. Ideal for travellers looking to combine the convenience of small group travel at a competitive price. Physical grading: "3" May include moderate hiking, biking, rafting, kayaking and other activities that require only an average/moderate level of fitness to enjoy. Back To Index Arctic Wildlife Adventure Walk to the edge of Arctic sheet ice and explore waters teeming with seals and narwhal. Every spring, as the ice retreats, its possible to venture right to the floe-edge. Join up with other active, outdoor enthusiasts and journey by snowmobile and komatik sled to your base camp on the edge. Watch the Arctic come alive in springs embrace as polar bears hunt and walrus bask in the returning sun. Experience the spring thaw of Canada's far north and one of the world's great natural events on this awe-inspiring eight-day adventure. Return to Top Historic Parks of the American Southwest Historic Parks of the American Southwest North America Adventure Travel 12 Days Age Restriction: Minimum age 11 years Next Available Departure: Wed, Jun. 22, 2011 Highlights: Hikes through breathtaking scenery including Zion and Bryce Canyon National Parks, Glimpsing sunset over the Grand Canyon, Visit to Navajo reservation Trip style: Discovery Adventures... Bring to life the awe-inspiring destinations featured on the Discovery Channel. Engage colourful cultures, wildlife and landscapes through exhilarating, educational and immersive activities and arrive at a greater understanding of our incredible planet. Service level: Comfort... On our Comfort trips, you won’t have to give up the spirit of adventure to enjoy a little more comfort. Depending on your itinerary, you’ll get around via upgraded transportation—using private vehicles, trains and planes. As a result, you’ll spend more time exploring. While this service level offers a greater number of inclusions—transfers and breakfasts are generally provided—it still offers the flexibility to do your own thing. Expect accommodations handpicked for their great locations, upgraded amenities, facilities and service. Ideal for travellers looking for great value and a softer landing. Physical grading: "2" Light walking and hiking that is suitable for most fitness levels. Historic Parks of the American Southwest Youre always looking to get to the bottom of thingsand theres no better way to see the Grand Canyon than by staring up at it from deep within its heart. Welcome to a place where everythings larger than lifebig sky, big ruins and grand canyons. Whether by 4x4 or on foot, our handpicked tour guides will connect you to the vast expanses of the American Southwest. From cliff-top panoramas to the culture and legacy of Native American traditions, this region is sure to leave a sizeable impression. Back to Top

Alaska Travel Guide Alaska serves it up big - volcanoes, glaciers, caribou, bald eagles and the tallest mountain in the USA. Get a taste of its grand scale as you kayak through a sea of icebergs and seals or hold your breath as a 40-ton humpback whale erupts from the sea. Alaska - History, Culture & Cruising (Chapter) This chapter gives a great overview of Alaska's 50-year history (plus the other 28,000 years) as well as its utterly unique environment, and its utterly unique culture and cuisine. We also cover the utterly comfortable and convenient 'cruise life'. Alaska - Anchorage & Around (Chapter) This chapter presents an unusual mix of hiking trails and traffic jams, small art galleries and Big Oil. Anchorage may be the only major city where you can watch urban moose munch on neighborhood shrubs and fisherman pull salmon from a downtown creek. Grand Canyon National Parks guide Mother Nature pulled out all the stops to create the Grand Canyon, slicing through Arizona with 277 miles of red-rock spires, stomach-churning drops and wide open spaces. It's the ideal destination for hikers, geology nuts and connoisseurs of the widest sunsets. Southwest USA travel guide If you're hungry for some A-grade road-tripping, this guide to Southwest USA can tick that box. Sure you can cruise the famed Route 66, but we'll also show you how to aim your wheels at the pot-holed detours, dinosaur sites, ghost towns and cultural hotspots of the wild Southwest. Southwest USA - History, Outdoors & the Native American Southwest (Chapter) Trace the Southwest's history back 25,000 years, wrap your head around its unique cultural melding of Anglo, Hispanic and Native American tribes, get a taste for homemade tamales, and breathe in the mind-blowing scenery. Southwest USA - Las Vegas & Nevada (Chapter) You know you're in Nevada when even gas stations have slot machines. When you tire of Sin City deciding your fate with the spin of a roulette wheel, seize your destiny and explore the state's windblown deserts, its snowy sierras and its blue-hued lakes.   Southwest USA - Utah (Chapter) This oft-overlooked state is one of nature's most perfect playgrounds, with over 65 percent of its land taken up by public parks and forests. Rafting, rock-climbing, hiking, skiing, it's all here, along with ancient dinosaur digs and rock art sites. Southwest USA - New Mexico (Chapter) New Mexico's ethereal backdrop of mesas, mountains and desert, and its unique light, has inspired DH Lawrence, Georgia O'Keeffe and countless others. Strewn with earthy adobes and smelling of sage and pinon, this is a place like no other. Southwest USA - Arizona (Chapter) Home of the blockbuster Grand Canyon and the rock towers of Monument Valley, this state is also full of hidden treasures. Take the byroads and encounter tiny desert outposts among the cacti, rivers in ravines, and remote Native American communities.