Aug 7th, 2011 at 10:30AM: Earlier this week, adventure travel company Gap Adventures and non-profit organization Planeterra joined forces in an effort to raise funds for drought relief in Kenya. The two organizations challenged the adventure travel community to raise $25,000, and that community responded en masse, raising the funds in just six hours.
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Gap Adventures, Planterra raise funds for Kenya drought relief
Aug 7th, 2011 at 10:30AM: Earlier this week, adventure travel company Gap Adventures and non-profit organization Planeterra joined forces in an effort to raise funds for drought relief in Kenya. The two organizations challenged the adventure travel community to raise $25,000, and that community responded en masse, raising the funds in just six hours.
The severe drought that has hit East Africa has created significant ...Gap Adventures introduces new trips for 2011
Dec 20th, 2010 at 8:30AM: As the final days of 2010 rapidly slip away, it is time to look to the new year for new opportunities and adventures. With that in mind, travel company Gap Adventures announced a host of outstanding new trips last week, offering up fantastic options for travelers looking for unique experiences.
Gap Adventures is amongst the top adventure travel companies in the world, offering hundreds of ...Discovery Adventures announces new trips for 2011
Oct 21st, 2010 at 8:00AM: Discovery Adventures, the Discovery Channel's foray into the travel industry, announced a number of new destinations last week, offering travelers several new adventurous options for 2011. Sticking to the themes of their previous excursions, these new itineraries offer cultural and historical immersion in some of the most exotic and spectacular places on the planet.
The company has partnered ...Win a travel documentary scholarship to the Amazon
May 18th, 2010 at 8:00AM: Gap Adventures and National Geographic are teaming up to give one aspiring filmmaker the chance of a lifetime. The two organizations are giving away a film scholarship that will allow the recipient to work with veteran film producer Trent O'Donnell, who will mentor the budding documentarian in the art of making a film, while exploring the depths of the Amazon Rainforest. And once the project is ...Create your own adventure with Gap!
Feb 9th, 2010 at 8:00AM: Do you have a destination that you've always wanted to visit, but just couldn't quite find the right way to get there? if so, you're in luck, as Gap Adventures, one of the top adventure travel companies in the world, is inviting you to Create Your Own Adventure as part of a new contest that could send you, and two of your friends, off on your dream trip.
tweetmeme_url = ...Win a free trip to Costa Rica from Nomadic Matt and Gap Adventures
Jan 7th, 2010 at 12:30PM: Globetrotting blogger Nomadic Matt took his very first international trip to Costa Rica with Gap Adventures back in 2003. Ever since then, he's been traveling the world, blogging about his adventures and teaching others how to make money from their own blogs. Now he's paying his success forward, and awarding one of his lucky readers a free two-week trip to Costa Rica with Gap Adventures.
...More travel deals for Black Friday and Cyber Monday
Nov 27th, 2009 at 2:30PM: The folks over at the LA Times have rounded up a few more great travel deals for Black Friday and Cyber Monday. And what better way to recoup from this most hellish of shopping weekends than by looking forward to a discounted vacation?
Shell's Vacation Hospitality's Black Friday Sale runs today with discounts of up to 50% off at 26 of its resorts located in Arizona, Hawaii, Nevada, New ...Monarch Migration: A Collaboration
Aug 28th, 2007 at 10:45AM: Before I headed out with my son this past Saturday on our own excursion to experience the life of a monarch butterfly firsthand, I was writing a post with about where to go to see monarchs in action and monarch migration. This is the time of year that they are starting to gear up for their journey south. As Sarah, the director of the Blendon Woods MetroPark in Columbus, Ohio, and an expert on ...
