Need a New Vaction Idea? Hows about Submersible or Artic?

I'll go!

a few out of the ordinary not having to fly or dive vacations I would do...heck, any vacation is nice.
All these options...its very interesting.
Good to know Id have company

I'd love to do the deep sea dive.

I would love to do that too...I got that whole ear thing going against me though...you never know.

But aren't the submersibles pressurized? If not, I'm out too.

oh yeah! doh!

heres an article on msn about 25 wild trips:25 trips

Ill just put a few of the tidbits from some of the trips here but, the article has more information, cost, contact info, and difficulty scale. Great stuff from around the world for hiking, biking, kayaking, horsebacking, sailing, canoeing etc.

-Follow the route of doomed explorers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine from Lhasa to Rongbuk Monastery, the sacred gateway to Mount Everest.

-Retrace a portion of Lewis and Clark's historic route as you pedal 85 miles on the Forest Service roads of the Lolo Trail, which winds through Idaho's remote Bitterroot Mountains

-Your 22-day cruise won't involve a reenactment of Fletcher Christian's legendary 1789 mutiny, but you will meet his family. After three days exploring the mysterious stone ruins of Easter Island, you'll board a 168-passenger expedition cruise ship and motor 1,200 miles west to the tiny Pitcairn Islands, to which Christian eventually piloted the Bounty and where the 48 residents boast mutineer DNA.

-Last year, Colorado mountaineer Jon Meisler used a century-old map to rediscover a hidden rift valley in western China's Xinjiang province that provided access to some 30 nameless peaks in the Kax Tax range.

-Pioneer a route up a 10,000-foot peak on your 14-day expedition to eastern Greenland's Watson Range. A Twin Otter loaded with ropes, skis, and frozen chicken will fly you to base camp about 225 miles south of Ittoqqortoormiit, on the eastern fringes of Greenland's icecap.

-Spend ten to 13 days in northern Bolivia's Apolobamba range, tackling the unclimbed south face of 18,553-foot Cuchillo or a virgin peak in the Katantica group.

-In the 60 miles between your put-in and take-out in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, you'll find little more than a chain of pine-fringed lakes connected by muddy portages--so stopping to buy Advil is not an option. But the untouched land-scape on this ten-day canoe trip, which follows an 18th-century fur-trading route on the Canada/Minnesota border, from Saganaga Lake to Crane Lake, will keep your mind off your aching shoulders

-Paddle a four-man raft for 70 miles and ten days down the lonely Nigu, and it's likely you won't see another two-legged soul. A plane will drop you in the middle of the Brooks Range, where you'll paddle the Class II water through rolling carpets of rhododendrons and lupines.

-Step out of the daily grind and into the empty moonscape of Death Valley National Park. You'll hike four to ten miles a day through serpentine slot canyons and over 100-foot-high sand dunes and white borax-crystal flats, camping out under surprisingly serene skies.

-Micronesia's abundance of sea fans and staghorn corals makes for some of the world's best snorkeling, never mind the manta rays floating between giant Napoleon wrasses and downed WWII Zeros.

-Volcanic walls and 100-foot waterfalls provide the backdrop for paddling inflatable kayaks 75 miles on this exploratory 13-day mission around the Tufi Peninsula and Trobriand Islands of southeastern New Guinea.

-The Fijian high chiefs keep the Lau Islands closed to tourists to preserve their wild blue waters and secret coves. Lucky for you, your guides have family ties. Spend four days with 40 others aboard a 145-foot schooner, the Tui Tai, sailing north from Savusavu. You'll anchor off islands with newly built singletrack (bike rentals included), 900-foot cliffs to rappel, and a maze of waterways to explore by sea kayak.

-Go lens-to-snout with the wildest creatures on the wildest continent. On this eight-day safari you'll spend five days cantering with herds of zebras, milling among feeding elephants, and getting close to the lions, cheetahs, and leopards that roam the marshy plains of Botswana's Okavango Delta.

-Consider it a survival-of-the-fittest safari?-the fittest traveler, that is. On this 12-day romp through the Tanzanian outback, you'll paddle among the hippos in Lake Manyara, rappel down the Rift Valley's western escarpment, and mountain bike through the rolling foothills?-braking for giraffes, zebras, and tree-climbing lions?-to watch the sun set over the Ngorongoro Highlands. Next, hike the wildlife-filled Ngorongoro Crater (watch for rare black rhinos) and trek with buffalo, hyenas, and gazelles in the rainforested Empakai Crater.

-Timed to coincide with the great Serengeti migration, when millions of zebras and wildebeests move from Tanzania into southern Kenya, this 15-day hiking-and-driving safari puts you directly in the path of the Big Five (lions, leopards, elephants, cape buffalo, and rhino) in Nairobi and Lake Nakuru National Parks.

-On this eight-day trip, you'll raft more than 100 miles on the Great Bend section of the Yangtze River in China's Yunnan Province and discover canyon walls stretching upward for a mile, with the 17,000-foot Snow Dragon mountains towering overhead.

-Wondering why this six-day Ram River run was attempted by commercial rafters for the first time just last year? Consider what navigating the 60-mile menace, which flows through Alberta's Ram River Canyon just north of Banff, entails: You'll rappel down 100-foot waterfalls, maneuver around massive boulders, and shoot through rapids hemmed in by steep vertical ledges (beware Powerslide, a narrow, 35-foot drop).

-The Futaleufú is revered for its unforgiving hydraulics, which can suck paddlers under like a giant Hoover. But if you're of questionable sanity and want an even wilder experience, try riding sections of the turquoise maelstrom in an inflatable kayak.

-Pedal from the colorful markets of Marrakech to the loftiest peaks in North Africa, the High Atlas Range.

-Sandwiched between ice-capped peaks and jagged coastlines, you'll pump up to six hours a day from the Tasman Sea to Queenstown, through old-growth forests, over a 3,000-foot pass, and past geysers and glaciers.

-Starting on smooth mining trails near Tyax Lake, you'll crank up 6,500-foot ascents, into the heart of the Coast Range, before descending to the technical trails of British Columbia's western rainforests.

-Riding with the Eagle Hunters When Aralbai, your guide, honors you with a sheep's ear hors d'oeuvre, don't gag. You're in Mongolia for 11 days to learn traditions of the Kazakh eagle hunters, named for the hooded golden eagles they carry on their arms.

-So be sure to grab your map before the Cessna abandons your group and its 40-pound backpacks of food and gear near Melaleuca Lagoon. From there it's a ten-day, 55-mile hike along the South Coast Track, where you'll bask on deserted beaches, scramble up 3,000-foot passes, wade across tea-tree-stained lagoons, and weave through towering celery-top pines.

-The Yao of northern Mozambique have seldom seen foreigners and have certainly never seen your fancy fiberglass boat. This summer be the first to paddle kayaks down the Lugenda River. For two weeks and 700 miles you'll float the copper flatwater past the Yao's thatch-roofed huts, dense woodlands, iselbergs?-gnarled rock spires poking out of the flat land?-and around pods of hippos.