Travel Intelligence isn’t just about hotels, hotels, hotels; it’s also packed with some of the finest travel writing on the web. To see a selection of top-class travel writing about airborne sports, have a look through the articles listed below...
Articles in Airborne Sports
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A Lourie's View of KZN - Karlkloof Canopy Tours
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Rosanne Turner
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South Africa
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KwaZulu-Natal
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Drakensberg
"It was my husband's birthday, and we were visiting his family in Howick. We awoke to be informed that they were giving us a special birthday 'treat', and that we should get dressed quickly, as the 'surprise' was a little drive away."
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Kings Creek Station
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Cameron Wilson
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Australia
"Nicko gave me the word on picking the best riders. "Surest way is to look at their socks", he reckoned. "No-one wearing white socks is ever any good. Seen a few decent riders in blue socks and one or two in brown, but we always keep an eye on anyone..."
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Heliski in the Land of Fire and Ice
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Alf Alderson
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Russia
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Kamtchatka
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Kuriles
"It’s impossible not to notice the distinctly minimalist interior of the craft, which makes Ryanair’s offerings seem luxurious. One of the helicopters we used was literally held together in places by string"
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Outback Pub Crawl
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Graham Reid
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Australia
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South Australia
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Adelaide
"There are offers you can’t refuse. And a pub crawl through the Australian Outback - most of it by small plane flying low over this magnificent, scorched landscape - is one of them"
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Flight of the Reindeer
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Jasper Winn
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Finland
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other areas of Finland
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Levi
""You know about animals...you drive," Senja suggested. Then voiced an underlying fear: "How do we stop the thing if it takes off?""
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Last Exit to Whipsnade
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AA Gill
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United Kingdom
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South East England
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Whipsnade
"Other men dream of traversing deserts on mopeds, circumnavigating in balloons, punting up the Orinoco or just walking to some pole. But me, I’ve always yearned to visit every brown sign on the M1"
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Don’t try this at home
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Sally Howard
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France
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Ile-de-France
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Paris
"Forget sky-diving, for a new generation of extreme urban sportsmen the kicks are big and the stakes are high, well at least as high as your roof"
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Before You Die: Skydive over South Island
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Sally Howard
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New Zealand
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South Island
"Twenty seconds of gut-quaking noise, confusion and chaos - then 90 of pure serenity"
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One Heli of a Day: Heli-skiing in British Columbia
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Arnie Wilson
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Canada
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British Columbia
"When you go heliskiing, a hell of a day is what you expect and what you pay for: run after run of fresh tracks in deep, sometimes steep powder, with the helicopter on call to whisk you back up again like a jet-powered skilift"
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Heli-Skiing in India
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Arnie Wilson
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India
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Himachal Pradesh
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Manali
"Here, high on the Rohtang Pass, the only sound which interrupts the silent reign of the great banks of snow beneath massive peaks in a hauntingly beautiful mountain kingdom is the intrusive clatter of your helicopter"