My mission is to inspire and empower YOU to lead a bigger life through adventure travel! – Kit Parks
It’s is all about making it easier for YOU, the fit and active traveler, to find the perfect adventure for your next vacation.
My name is Kit Parks, and I comb the planet to find the best multi-day active travel experiences for fit folks like yourself. I share my findings with you on this website, in my monthly email newsletter, and in my podcasts: Active Travel Adventures showcases amazing adventure holidays you can take, and the companion podcast, Adventure Travel Show podcast, which teaches you the skills you need to take on these cool adventures.
I’m not talking climbing Mount Everest here — or anything crazy or dangerous. Think more along the lines of a cycling tour through the stiletto heel of Italy, or a week long hike from one medieval village to the next through the lochs and moors of Scotland. On a scale of 1 – 5 with five being extremely difficult, most will be around a 3.
I’m a widow in my 60’s who discovered adventure travel AFTER I turned fifty. All of the adventures are something that I can do, and so can YOU if you are reasonably fit, especially if you do a little pre-trip training.
The common denominator is that on all of these adventure vacations, you have to MOVE! You’re going to have to hike, bike, paddle, horseback ride, or somehow self-propel yourself from one place to the next – sometimes in combination! Often these trips have a cultural component, such as a regional cooking class or wine tasting, or some other immersion with the locals.
My recommended active holiday vacations nearly always require that you get a little (sometimes a lot) sweaty and dirty. Sometimes the accommodations are basic or you may need to camp because there simply aren’t hotels available.
But all trips will be epic and worth it!
You can download a FREE printer friendly Travel Planner for each adventure (links are on each individual adventure’s episode page (see Directory), or sign up for the monthly newsletter to get them automatically. The Travel Planners include important details on the trip, the country, travel planning info, recommended tour companies plus helpful tips for the self planner. Some of the tours are guided while others are self-guided (the company makes the arrangements and plans the itinerary, but you do the adventure with your own travel group or solo).
You automatically get the each month’s Travel Planners if you sign up for the monthly newsletter. Sign up here.
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Ice cave in Franz Joseph glacier
Kaituna Falls New Zealand – 21′ high!!!
Camel Trek Jordan
If I can do it…YOU CAN DO IT, TOO!!!
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“I’ve been listening to ATA for a few years, finding it while I was considering taking a trip with the Active Adventures tour company she often mentions in the podcasts. It has given insight into a few destinations I might not otherwise have considered. I truly enjoy listening to others who prefer to see the world on their feet (or on a bike or paddling) vs touring on a bus checking off boxes of destinations. Kit and I even got to travel together on a trip in 2019 and will be doing so again this year, if travel gets to resume by the fall. Or whenever it resumes!”
Active Travel Adventures podcasts have inspired me so much and my “bucket” list has significantly increased to include all sorts of destinations and adventures I had never imagined or even knew about before a couple of years ago. After listening to Kit’s podcasts and her interviews with her guests, I was able at age 63 to gather the confidence to book my very first multi-day hike in my life! I’m so excited to start this new way of travel and I hope will be the first of many of this type of trip for me.
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