Adventure Sports – India and Abroad

Adventure Sports

Is trekking and normal sightseeing not enough for you on your vacation? Need some excitement in your life? Then adventure sports is the answer for you! These sports are extreme and definitely dangerous but the exhilarating experience and the rush of adrenaline is worth it! Adventure sports is available in every plane – in the sky, on land and under water.

Land based

  • So you’ve climbed rocks before and lost the excitement of it? Then pack your bags and head out to Half Dome, Yosemite Valley, California. Here, you can still climb mountains but without any harnessing or safety gear. Yes, you heard it. Even one slip can prove fatal. If that is too extreme, you can still have new experience in the world’s hardest ice climbing site at Helmcken Falls Spray Cave, British Columbia, Canada where you can climb frozen waterfalls and ice capped mountains. The Himalaya in Uttarakhand provide for a scenic yet a trying landscape for climbing.

rock climbing mountain

Bhrigu Lake

  • A new form has skiing has arrived. Heli-skiing is almost the same as skiing but the only difference is that you will be skiing in an untouched, natural site and you do not have to hike because you will be dropped at the site by a helicopter. The Monashees in British Colombia is the place to go if you’re up for this thrill as the drop is a whooping 100,00 from the helicopter and is a vast area of snow with the fear of getting lost. Gulmarg, with its heavy snow, is the perfect place to heli-ski in India.
READ  What should you know about Trekking in the Himalayas?

heli skiing

Air based

  • If you want to stand on top of a plane flying at 200mph and thousands of feet above the ground as the plane does frightening stunts, then wing walking is made for you. Sequim, Washington has the world’s only wing walking school so you can train with professionals and then fulfill your childhood dream of being a superhero. Goa and Munnar, Kerala are beautiful places to go paragliding.

paragliding

Friendship Peak Trek

  • Flying Fox is another sport that can get your excitement levels up where you are harnessed to a cable wire and slide down through a zipline. Kikar, Chandigarh offers a 2 hour zipline tour and other places to go are Rishikesh and Kerala with breathtaking scenes of the city.

flying fox kerala

Water based

  • Cave diving is an extreme form of scuba diving where you jump into underwater caves and discover a whole new world. The Blue Hole in Belize is an underwater cave, which is thousand feet in diameter and a must if you are up for this.

cave diving

  • White water rafting Deschutes River, Oregon is made for the strongest of us. With 63 rapids and huge rocks in the way, it is a dangerous sport. Goa and Andaman Islands are the places to go in India for any water related sport.

water rafting

So what are you waiting for? Get packing your gear and get the much needed adrenaline rush.

Tags:

About Author

client-photo-1
Arjan Kripal
Arjan comes from a family of professional cricketers. His grandfather, father and uncle have all represented India. Arjan himself captained the Indian Under 19 Team, and has played first class cricket for Tamil Nadu. He is a qualified coach, a BCCI match referee and even holds a world record in cricket! Arjan’s cricket career saw him travel extensively across the world. He has since discovered that he has an insatiable wander lust and a flair for planning itineraries for family and friends – a love and skill that has naturally progressed into setting up Get Up and Go. Arjan is a certified scuba diver and has bungee jumped, sky dived and paraglided several times. He has been to every continent and corner of the world, reveling in exotic foods and myriad photo ops; from walking the Inca Trail in Peru, to swimming with Whale sharks in Mexico… Arjan has even come face to face with a Great White Shark in South Africa! “I want to share all my varied journeys with fellow travellers so they can experience, first hand, something that has been so rewarding for me.”