Glasgow, Scotland ( Prfriend ) October 14, 2009 – Macs Adventures, long known for its innovative walking, biking, and adventure tours, has announced its newest adventure holiday, the Camino de Santiago. Guests will begin their journey at the traditional starting point of St Jean Pied de Port in France, and travel westward across northern Spain to the Santiago de Compostela, stopping at various hotels and rural inns along the way. The walking tour can be split into five separate adventures, each lasting about a week. For those seeking the complete Camino de Santiago experience, the entire journey takes about 31 days and covers almost 780 km.

The Camino de Santiago offers a spiritual experience for travellers along its path. Also known as the Path of Saint James, it retraces the route of a Christian pilgrimage over one thousand years old, ending with a visit to the tomb of the apostle Saint James. This pilgrimage tradition has continued uninterrupted to the present day. 2010 is expected to be an especially busy time for the historic and scenic route, as it has been designated a Holy Year for the Santiago pilgrimage by church officials. These Holy Years, or Jubilee Years, generally occur when July 25th, Saint James Day, coincides with a Sunday. Macs Adventures will provide each traveller with a passport issued by the Church of Saint James; by collecting stamps at churches, hotels, and restaurants along the path, guests who walk the final 100 km of this historic journey can receive a Compostela Certificate authenticating their achievement.

This ancient trail offers gorgeous scenery and a long history as well; it is said that the earliest residents of this area walked the same route as part of a pagan fertility rite. Others claim that the Camino de Santiago retraces the death journey of the ancient Celts who travelled from the eastern inlands to the End of the Earth, or Finisterra, said to lie on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. Travellers looking for a challenging experience and a historic achievement will enjoy the natural surroundings and picturesque local villages along the journey.

Macs Adventure arranges every detail of the itinerary, including accommodations at three-star hotels, rustic rural hotels, and private rooms in hostels, ensuring convenience and comfort for their guests. Breakfasts are included in the standard cost; dinners can be arranged for an additional fee. These tours fill quickly, so booking well in advance is recommended.

Macs Adventures offers world-class walking, biking, and adventure tours. Located in Scotland, they specialise in unforgettable holiday experiences throughout Western Europe, and offer a wide range of destinations and arrangements for the discerning traveller. The experts at Macs Adventures provide first-hand experience and knowledge of their walking holidays; because they’ve been there themselves, they can give their customers the best advice possible.

Contact: http://www.macsadventure.com/macs_adventure_contact.php

Neil Lapping
Macs Adventure Limited
Unit 24a
1103 Argyle Street
Glasgow, Scotland G3 8ND
Tel: 0845 527 7871
Fax: 0845 527 5688

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Lotussia Travel has just launched a new multisport adventure tour to the Northern area of Vietnam. The 11-day tour packages will include the two most important travel highlights of Vietnam are trekking through colorful local hill tribe villages of Lao Cai province and kayak paddling in the middle of Halong Bay world wonder.

Start the journey first with a full day sightseeing tour of the capital, Hanoi before taking the night train to Laocai. The train will arrive Laocai Railway station early the next morning. Guests will be picked up by local guide, driver and transferred to Lung Khau Nhin and Khau Vang where they begin their real fun adventure trekking tour.

The next days, travelers will trek on the single track and dirt roads through forest and remote villages, guide will point out rare points of interest, traditional customs. They will continue the active journey with mixture of ups and downs, challenging climbs, exceptional views of Thang Sin mountain, distant H’mong villages before reaching Bac Ha on the 7th day. There travelers will visit the Ba Ha market,  the most colorful market in North Vietnam. Every Sunday, the different and colorful authentic minority come all here to sell their handmade products to buy something for family. They are H’mong, Phu La, Black dao, Tay, Nung minorities. At the market, you have chance to enjoy BacHa people’s simple but unique kinds of food with special wines made from rice, cassavas, corn and different sorts of fruits such as plumps, apples, peaches…

The other highlight of the trip will be the kayaking trip in Halong Bay with a two-day cruise package. Travelers will take a big wooden boat to sail to the middle of the Bay, through thousand of islets, rocks of karst emerging from the emerald water. They can stop wherever they want for swimming or paddling.

“This is the best opportunity for active adventure lovers to experience the most important travel highlights of Vietnam. The trip route has been newly put on travel packages giving travelers a real authentic experience of the life of the local people” – Said Khuong Nguyen, the Business Development Manager of Lotussia Travel.

Lotussia Travel is a local tour operator based in Hanoi Vietnam. The company is specialized in providing value-for-money customized adventure tours in Vietnam such as trekking, hiking, cycling, biking, kayaking and more. All the company tour packages are private and personalized insuring any traveler a unforgettable holiday experience.

For more information, visit http://www.lotussiatravel.com

Vietnam has been known for the war. And now, this country is also known for a great place for trekking, kayaking and for some other adventure travel activities. Lotussia Travel are pleased to launch this summer one more multi activity adventure tour package which has been specially customized out for family.

This 18-day package includes all the Vietnam essential travel highlights such as trekking in Sapa, kayaking in Halong bay world wonder, then cycling around Mekong delta and finally enjoying leisure holidays on the Vietnam most charming beach, Mui Ne, Phan Thiet.

This is a good chance for foreign tourists to discover the real Vietnam, the country and its people in another way, active and different!

Halong bay, the most impressive highlight of world heritage sites covering 1,500 square km, with thousands of stony islands, which have got variety of different shapes, for instance: a sail, a fighting cock, a tortoise and tower and so on… Some are very high and others are only tens of meters higher than the surface of sea. Nothing is more excellent than self-kayaking across interstices and seeing the natural magic creation.

Another highlight is Sapa, the most impressive trekking destination in Vietnam, an incredibly picturesque village lying on the mountain chain Hoang Lien Son near the Chinese border in Northern West of Vietnam. Sapa is also the starting point for many climbers and scientists who would like to reach the top of Fansipan Mountain, the highest in Vietnam with the height of 3,143m as an interesting adventure or an extreme sport.

You can enjoy in the fresh air exploring narrow channels, floating markets, daily life, orchards in the Mekong Delta region throughout our interesting cycling trip with your family.

To put an end for this impressive discovery, it very nice for you to sunbath and leisure in the fresh beach of Phan Thiet with sparkling blue water in the bright summer sunlight.

For further information about departure & price, please email to info at lotussiatravel.com or visit the company website here.

Trek-fit has been launched by Jim Day to provide endurance based training and advice for people seeking to begin, improve, or maximise their walking and trekking abilities. Having completed the Atacama Crossing in Chile, the Everest Marathon in Nepal and numerous other walking, trekking and running events; Jim is well placed to help people go that extra mile.

For the guidance of an experienced trekking and walking coach who can enable you to achieve more than you would think possible, take a look at www.trek-fit.co.uk.

This is the place to start if you would like to explore new frontiers and test your own abilities with the guidance of someone who can support your progress every step of the way.