Adventure Travel Show 2014

 

ATSLondon-2014

Visit the UK’s only event dedicated to offbeat travel experiences and uncover your journey of a lifetime

 25-26 January 2014, Olympia, London

 The Adventure Travel Show returns to London’s Olympia on 25-26 January 2014. This is your chance to revive the true spirit of adventurous travel and discover a wonderful world of travel experiences with the biggest collection of specialist travel operators under one roof.

 

The biggest collection of specialist travel operators

The biggest collection of specialist travel operators will be on hand to offer advice on everything from walking and trekking, epic journeys, exploratory travels and exclusive expeditions to safaris, overland trips, life-changing volunteering projects and much more. You will even find providers not available on the high-street so get ready to be spoilt for choice!

 Over 100 FREE Talks

The Adventure Travel Show is packed with inspirational travel advice from experts, explorers, industry insiders and expedition leaders who will help you uncover your perfect adventure. The show is famed for its incredible talk line-ups, and next year’s will be the biggest and best yet.

 Travel Writing and Travel Photography Seminars

As well as meeting with the wealth of exciting exhibitors, visitors can also take part in the Travel Writing and Travel Photography Seminars* in conjunction with Wanderlust Travel Magazine. If you would like to learn how to fund your passion for adventure by exploring routes into the travel media, or simply brush up on your skills – with expertise from the magazine’s founder Lyn Hughes and editor Phoebe Smith, the seminars are perfect for both beginners and professionals looking to make their work as powerful as possible.

 Adventure Planning Seminar – NEW

Thinking of undertaking the ultimate travel challenge of a self-supported trip? New for 2014 is the Adventure Planning Seminar* – plan your own adventure with the help of a panel of world-renowned expedition planners. On hand to offer essential advice and guidance at this specialist seminar, the experts can ensure you make the most out of a self-organised trip with preparation and logistics. Whether it be by vehicle, motorbike, cycle, horseback, walking or flying, on your own or part of a small group – this is not to be missed.

Discover Africa

Visitors can also explore the ‘Discover Africa’ feature – dedicated to one of the world most beguiling continent, this feature is designed to provide you with the information you need to plan the African adventure of a lifetime.

As the UK’s foremost travel event for people who like something a little different from their trips, The Adventure Travel Show is an essential date in every traveller’s diary – it’s where your adventure begins…

 The Adventure Travel Show takes place in London’s Olympia on 25-26January 2014. General show tickets cost £8 in advance or £10 on the door, under 16s are free. Weekend tickets are also available for £12 in advance or £15 on the door. For full details, talk timetables and to book tickets please visit www.adventureshow.com or call 0871 230 7159.

*Seminar tickets are individually priced, please see www.adventureshow.com for more details.

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We can arrange interviews with speakers, special ticket discounts and competitions to win tickets and holidays. A selection of photographs and logos are available for press use.

Press passes are also available for this event. For further information please contact Madeleine Herridge on 01795 844400, email: madeleine@escapeevents.co.uk.

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Australia PM Abbott Wants To Destroy The Great Barrier Reef.

Please share this everywhere..

Abbot - Great Barrier Reef

…. And so it has begun. After only 24 hours as prime minister, Tony Abbott has put the Marine Park Suspension into play, with dredging construction already underway to create Australia’s newest shipping highway, Abbott point, better known as the Great Barrier Reef.

Completely disregarding the World Heritage Classification or UNESCO protection, Rinehart is removing 3 MILLION cubic meters of the worlds most diverse largest living organism and ecosystem only to build the largest coal export terminal. We are going to lose one of the worlds most truly precious gems to a temporary and damaging “solution”.

The Great Barrier Reef will no longer exist because of Abbotts desire for CSG export income.
So please reblog and share this to show your support for saving natures gift to the world. Wake UP Australia, and spread the word.

#greatbarrierreef  #marineconservation #savethegreatbarrierreef
#SAVETHEREEF 

Please share this on your blogs, on Facebook & Twitter and everywhere else you can.
We’ve got to stop this stupid man from destroying a World Heritage Site.

And doesn’t he realise the tourism dollars Australia will lose? Is he really that thick?

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Cliff Chapman
www.traveljunkies.com
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Ugly Animals

Britain’s Ugly Animal Preservation Society In Search Of … The World’s Ugliest Animal

Ugly fish
Monkfish on Ice at Fish Market (Preview) © Kai Hendry

Dolphins, pandas, sea turtles. It’s easy to save the cute animals. But what of the world’s ugliest critters?
That’s the very question the Ugly Animal Preservation Society (yes, there is such a thing) is asking. They argue that all of the world’s creatures – from large to small, adorable to heinous – are important to the health of the environment.
The British group, sounding like something that’s just funny-walked out of a Monty Python film, is, it says, dedicated “to raising the profile of some of Mother Nature’s more aesthetically challenged children.”
To the end of saving ugly endangered creatures, reports Wanderlust travel magazine, the Society is in search of a mascot — something nice and slimy, like the jumping slug, or just malformed-looking and squat, like the New Zealand kakapo parrot.
They’re now in the nomination phase for a new mascot, with current frontrunners including the hagfish, the purple pig-nosed frog and the giant Palouse earthworm.

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Cliff Chapman
www.traveljunkies.com
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Packing to Travel

Three great articles about packing when you travel …

Thanks to these guys I have a whole new approach to packing (or not packing)

Packing to travel

Packing for a long term round the world trip.
http://www.bootsnall.com/articles/11-10/how-to-pack-for-a-rtw-trip.html

Travel lightly – you don’t need all that stuff
http://www.bootsnall.com/articles/10-12/how-to-travel-very-lightly.html

Why you don’t need to pack anything at all when you travel
http://www.rtwblog.com/2010/08/how-to-pack-for-a-journey-with-no-luggage/

What are you going to do now?

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Cliff Chapman
www.traveljunkies.com
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Worlds Biggest Sand Island …

FRASER ISLAND, 200km north of Brisbane along Queensland’s east coast, is the world’s largest sand island at 122km long and up to 25km wide.

Its 400,000 acres are home to eight separate ecosystems.

The mangrove, wallum, and banksia forests of the west, the subtropical rainforest of the interior, freshwater lakes and  and the coastal dunes and great beaches to the east, this is a trip through time.

Fraser Island Contrast

Courtesy of Cody Forest Doucette

Disparate environments

The desolation and stark beauty of Fraser’s eastern dunes exist only a short walk from subtropical rainforest that is teeming with life of every shade of green. One of the reasons such disparate environments exist so close to one another is the vast amount of fresh water hidden beneath the sands. Estimates vary, but it’s believed that the aquifer beneath Fraser contains around 15 million megalitres of fresh water…to put that number in perspective, the iconic Sydney Harbor, in its entirety, contains only 500,000 megalitres.

See more about this great Heritage site

http://blog.queensland.com/2013/06/17/ever-shifting-the-sands-and-landscapes-of-queenslands-fraser-island-gallery/

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Cliff Chapman
www.traveljunkies.com
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