Adventure travel pushes you outside of your comfort zone. It puts you in unfamiliar situations and challenges you to test your mettle.
Today, adventure travel combines physical exertion with mixing with the locals and fellow global adventure travelers. You savor unique foods and customs so very different from home. You see that other cultures do things differently and their way may be good, too, just different. Adventure travel attracts people from all walks of life so you meet people you might not ordinarily encounter at home, with opinions and experiences vastly different from your own, and may see that their ways are valid as well. You return home from an adventure travel trip slightly altered from the start: a new and improved YOU!