How do you like your adventure? Are you a derring-do prone devil-may-care type who’ll do anything once? Or would you prefer to push your boundaries while still remaining well within reach of help? A fire from flint guy or a man who prefers smores-and-stories? Adventures come in many forms, and that’s what we’ve rounded up this week on The Vault: a menu of trips that will range from nudging you beyond the comfort zone to edge-of-your-seat-style peril. The only thing that’s up to you is, well, which you’ll choose.
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Survival School in the Brazilian Rainforest with TV Explorer Ed Stafford
Image Credit: Courtesy of Wilderness Folk School Can you make fire using nothing but the sun and the bottom of a Coke can? What does piranha taste like? How does the chance to learn all that and more sound? If you answered, respectively, “Nope,” “No idea,” and “Like the best weekend ever,” this exclusive Vault experience is tailor-made for you. TV adventurer Ed Stafford has set aside a window in his jam-packed schedule to personally escort you on the ultimate survival adventure to the Amazonian rain forest, which starts by being dropped into the jungle from a helicopter and ends, thankfully, with a hot shower at a five-star hotel three nights later. Want to know what happens in between? Read on to find out more.
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A Week Exploring Ted Turner’s Vermejo Reserve
Image Credit: Courtesy of EXP Journeys You don’t have to roam the world to find the ultimate outdoorsy adventure, somewhere that humdrum nine-to-five concerns seem an inconsequential concern. Pause and consider, for a moment, the sheer scale of the Vermejo Reserve. The 920-square-mile backcountry wilderness straddles the New Mexico-Colorado border, it’s a rugged, isolated swathe of land right here in America, a place so vast that it’s like a private national park. Now imagine that you’re able to explore its 1,000 or more miles of roads all by yourself, on bike, horseback, and more, while crashing every night in your own luxurious tented camp. If a week of adventure like that is your dream vacation, we’ve got you covered.
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Explore Tanzania’s Wild Southern Reaches Via Helicopter with Guide Lorenzo Rossi
Image Credit: Courtesy of Go2Africa Whisper it: Not all safari feels, well, that wild. It’s easy to find yourself in what’s more like a 4×4 traffic jam in hot spots like the Mara, so animal-packed it more resembles a zoo than the bush with dozens of vehicles clustering round as one lion tears through the last morsel of its prey. There’s no risk of that via this extraordinary, adventure-focused package from Go2Africa, which focuses on a lesser-visited tranche of land in southern Tanzania where the wildlife is still truly wild. Even better, thanks to the deft use of helicopters, you’ll never run the risk of getting stuck in that ad hoc traffic jam again.
