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Dec 1st 2006 5:04PM Eric...thought you and your readers and travelers may be interested in this...and we'll pay a finders fee for all folks that participate who come from your site!

4th Annual Around-the-World Travel Adventure Competition Looking

For 50 Globetrotters & Adventurers To Take A Blind Date With The World



Ever sit on the couch watching The Amazing Race, and say: "I could do that!"…Well, now you can! The 4th annual around-the-world travel competition is looking for fifty globetrotting adventurers to take A Blind Date With The World™ and compete for the title of The World’s Greatest Travelers™.



A recent travel poll conducted by National Geographic Traveler/Yahoo!, found that for 2 of 3 travelers, the circumnavigation of the globe is the greatest journey left and called it the “ultimate travel experience.” GreatEscape2007 offers real travelers that chance…A real adventure for real people…but only 50 savvy travelers will be allowed to compete in this 4th annual travel adventure competition and international charity event that takes place between April 14 and May 5, 2007. The winning Team will be crowned The World’s Greatest Travelers in this remarkable one-of-a-kind travel event.



Outside magazine calls The Global Scavenger Hunt, “…one of the most amazing trips in the world.” A former participant said, “It is like Survivor, The Amazing Race and the Eco-Challenge all rolled into one except with MUCH more cultural interaction!"



“GreatEscape is all about allowing real travelers to compete in a real travel adventure competition, for all the right reasons—the love of travel, trusting strangers in strange lands and giving something back to the planet,” says Event Director William Chalmers, “Some have called our annual event the ‘Olympics of Travel’, some refer to it as A Blind Date with the World because our travelers won’t have any foreknowledge as to what countries they’re going to until they’re onboard a 747 bound for parts unknown, and some have even called it a ‘Magical Mystery Tour’. I like that one!”



For three magical weeks, 25 Teams of two will travel the globe visiting at least 10 countries scattered across 4 continents like Indiana Jones’ (and Jane’s) hot on the path of the Holy Grail. Teams earn points by completing a series of cultural-oriented scavenges (finding Buddha’s tooth in Sri Lanka; explaining Thai cooking flavors; visiting King Tut) and challenges (take a photo of a wild orangutan in Indonesia; enter a camel race in India; learn to belly dance in Turkey) in exotic destinations. A cultural immersion at its best, the event is designed to be a rally rather than a flat out race. The object is to test each Team’s ability to combat not only the inevitable jetlag, but language difficulties, cultural differences, their appetite for strange foods, logistical snafus and Team dynamics in the milieu of a well organized competition.



Teams and single travelers alike, looking to participate are asked to visit The Global Scavenger Hunt’s official website GlobalScavengerHunt.com and enter online or call 310.281.7809. Travelers will be interviewed for suitability and asked to help in the events fundraising goal of raising a million dollars for charities like: CARE, Doctors Without Borders, UNICEF, Partners in Health and International Special Olympics, among others. Travelers will raise or pay a $9,900 entry fee that includes all international airfare and hotels over the 23-day event. Portions of which can be tax-deductible—please consult with your tax advisor. Winners of the event will defend their The World’s Greatest Travelers™ title in the next event for free.


Press Contact: Pamela L. Finmark - 310.281.7809 OR MediaContact@GlobalScavengerHunt.com.

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