After a year of being locked up indoors, it’s about time to go out and explore! For active travellers with plenty of energy to burn and a long list of places to explore, adventure vacations are the way to go. They offer a fantastic way of discovering a destination while also challenging your physical limits. Whether you’re going jungle trekking or island hopping, your adventure vacation will leave you with a rich repertoire of stories to share with your friends.

Are you ready for some adventures? Here are some unique getaway ideas for adventurers.

• Horseback Expeditions

Horse riding is a forgotten nature activity, but it can be as inspiring and fun as hiking or cycling. But horse riding is a popular transportation method back in the day. Whether riding horses or pulling carriages, horses are essential for transportation in the olden times. But horses are still important even if we now use vehicles for travelling.

Horseback expeditions are not only about having fun. It’s also about experiencing nature at its best. They offer a unique opportunity to connect with nature and soak up the picturesque landscapes of towering rock formations, rolling grasslands, and clear rivers. Horse riding also connects you to the history of the beautiful landscapes you will explore. It allows you to experience how people travel in the early days before modern transportation came.

Horseback expeditions offer a perfect balance of physical activity and never-ending fun. You can explore interesting places with your friends while also getting much-needed exercise. In addition, some destinations that offer horseback expeditions offer the option to combine your expedition with other fun adventures, such as zip-line, rafting, and canyoning.

• Jungle Trekking

Jungle trekking is a thrilling and adventurous experience, where you’ll be exploring the lush green forest and discovering the mystery surrounding the jungles. For instance, booking a jungle trekking in Burma/Myanmar will take you through remote bamboo forests, raging river valleys, and local villages before reaching the summit of Mount Saramati.

Many benefits come with jungle trekking, such as immensely improving your physical health. Walking long hours on the trail will give you a full body workout and improve your agility, strength, and cardio fitness. In fact, jungle trekking is a fantastic way to shed excess pounds, especially if you also carry a full pack. Besides, it’s much better than spending time indoors at the gym. In addition, spending time in the jungle, where exotic flora and fauna abound, is a great way to free your mind from the stress and worries of your everyday life. Jungle trekking requires you to stay focused on the activity, where the only distractions are panoramic vistas and dramatic scenery.

Jungle trekking with friends or other people is a fun way to create lifelong friendships. When trekking, you’d be able to spend time bonding with the group as you motivate and encourage each other to keep going and persevere when you encounter obstacles along the trail.

• Mountaineering Expeditions

If you’re fond of climbing mountains, you should go on a mountaineering expedition. Regardless of how long the trek will last, which can range from only a few hours to several days, mountaineering is more challenging and physically demanding than hiking, which means more thrill and excitement.

Depending on the expedition, mountaineering can involve using technical equipment and combining several activities like rock climbing, ice climbing, or glacier exploration. Aside from reaching the summit or completing a ridge traverse, the real success of mountaineering lies in overcoming every hazard along the journey. A mountaineering expedition may not come easy, but it’s all worth it. Aside from the thrill it brings, it can help improve your physical and cardiovascular fitness levels while reducing body fats.

If you ask many mountaineers why they pursue such a challenging sport, they cannot give a logical answer as to why they will devote several hours, days, and even months to climbing a mountain. But everyone will agree that mountains provide fascination to most people for various reasons. Mountaineering is a spiritual pursuit and also a physical one. You could experience joy, sadness, triumph and defeat.

• Island Hopping

One of the unique getaway ideas for adventurers is island hopping. The world is home to thousands of different islands that are worth discovering. Each island is unique and has something great to offer for everyone. The best way to explore as many islands as possible is to go on an island-hopping adventure.

One of the benefits of island hopping is that you’ll be closer to nature. Some islands have unique natural features, like being home to wild plants and animal species. You’ll have a chance to see them up close during your island-hopping excursion. You will also have the opportunity to take up fun activities since some organisers would lure people by including activities like scuba diving, snorkelling, and hiking. For instance, many choose to head to the Galapagos Islands for luxury cruising around the islands, as there are exclusive opportunities for several fun activities, including snorkelling.

Island hopping is a relaxing way of discovering nature. You’ll be far from the hustle and bustle of the city, and you’ll enjoy nature at its finest without getting distracted. If you have been too busy with work the past few months, an island-hopping cruise is the best way to relax.

• Interrailing

Interrailing is one of the most unique holiday options and exciting way to discover places, in which you ride a train as you hop from one country to another and discover different cultures in one adventure. This activity is popular in Europe since the region is well-connected by train.

If you’re interested in interrailing in Europe, you can purchase the Interrail Pass, a train ticket allowing you to travel on almost all European trains. With this pass, you can take 40 different railways and visit as many as 33 countries. Using the Interrail Pass is easy – you simply present it to the train staff when you board the train.

Whether you are travelling solo or as a group, interrailing is the best and most comfortable way to discover the gorgeous sceneries of Europe. Some places you can visit in your interrail adventure include Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Bulgaria, Denmark, Germany, and France.