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You need a Hamilton Island holiday
Hamilton Island – No Leave No Life from Hamilton Island on Vimeo. If you’re seeing more of your Blackberry than you are of Australia, then congratulations, you’re probably one of the many Australian’s who’ve helped earn us the reputation as one of the world’s hardest working nations. But isn’t it about time you take a […]
U Rite There?
I simply detest bad service and I make no apologies for it. I’m just back from a couple of weeks in New Zealand where I toured the countryside sampling a variety of businesses, small and large, from Wellington to Christchurch. The experience drove home to me why our Kiwi cousins are sky-rocketing in the world […]
In Search of Exiled Emperors, Exquisite Pelagics and Forgotten Outposts.
Adventure Associates announces a rare and remarkable ocean voyage to places even we had to look up! Named for the fabled lost civilisation of Atlantis, the huge expanse of water separating the giant continents of the Americas and Africa and Europe is the embodiment of conquest, adventure and exploration. A path to discovery, riches and […]
Diamonds, Sand Castles and Curious Blooms
A new exciting expedition to Namibia, Namaqualand and South Africa’s Cape ProvinceThe vast continent of Africa has spawned some of the greatest adventure and exploration stories of all time. Here at Adventure Associates, we embrace lands and regions that don’t always appear on the cover of glossy travel magazines. Thirty-two years ago we pioneered group […]
Tracking History to Oodnadatta
The vast Australian landscape is strewn with four-wheel-drive adventure opportunities. The majority offer truly wilderness experiences where you and your modern motor can vanish into the scenery and leave the metropolitan crush behind. Read Full Story
South Georgia, South Atlantic, Antarctica, whaling
Travel about 2000 kilometres east from Tierra del Fuego, at the very tip of South America, and you might stumble on its precipitous and windswept shores. At 54 degrees S and 37 degrees W, South Georgia is about as remote as any place on earth could possibly be.
World’s Largest Iceberg No Obstacle
Passengers aboard Adventure Associates’ “Wonders of the Ross Sea” expedition can add another first to their list when they landed atop the world’s largest iceberg, B15a. The world record-holding* icebreaker, Kapitan Khlebnikov, forced a passage inside McMurdo Sound last week despite the dense pack ice corralled by the now-grounded B15a. The huge iceberg, the size […]
Fata Morgana and the Legend of Ultima Thule
Giant ice castles floating in mid-air, vast forests in the midst of ice floes and grotesque hairy dwarfs are among the many wonders to be found in the land of Ultima Thule – that is if you ask any of the 15th century explorers who returned with these fantastic tales. Ultima Thule is, of course, […]
