The best travel company’s adventure of the world

The adventure travel is a serious matter. There who does and who is to say, instead, rely on the industry. Both in the first case in the second that it is important to have clear ideas and choose the destinations, activities, timing, assess possible risks. The National Geographic has conducted careful research from 200 professionals travel-adventure, enjoy to fly mig USA evaluating their services according specific parameters such as the cultural level, the environmental and social sustainability, quality and comfort, the spirit of adventure, the impressions of customers. Read the rest of this entry »

Caverns by kayak

“Don’t get speared by the shark’s tooth,” my kayaking guide warns. “Stay low.” Then his neon green boat disappears through a small gap that separates the Pacific from a towering cliff. I follow, hesitantly. Daylight streams in from an opening, illuminating the triangular shape of the “shark’s tooth.” We haven’t paddled into Jaws. We’re exploring one of many sea caves that cut into the coastal bluffs of California’s Santa Cruz Island. Our predator? A jagged rock formation hanging from the ceiling.
Santa Cruz sits 19 miles off the harbor of Ventura, California, in the Channel Islands National Park. Like the park’s other four islands, it shares a steep, rugged topography defined by sharp spines jutting from the ocean. The easiest of these islands to reach, Santa Cruz is a one-hour, $48 round-trip ferry ride away. Its attractions fulfill any nature lover’s wish list: sea kayak trips, scenic hikes, and full-blown camping expeditions with plenty of free time to explore.

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Nowhere in Europe there are so many off-roader as in Switzerland

Countless SUVs roll by the Zurich city traffic. Nowhere in Europe there are so many off-roader as in Switzerland. Despite the densest road network in the world, the 4×4-share now at a record 25 Prozent.Philipp Wuthrich annoyed about this: “Zurich reminds me increasingly to Moscow, where only one traffic rule will be respected: the law of the jungle.” The 36-year-old geographer and ex-bike messenger just shakes his head when someone again a three-ton SUV on the bike trail parked.Millionaire Republic Switzerland: According to a UN study is the wealth in the world’s ungleichsten Switzerland. Ten percent of the population has more than 71 percent of private assets. Read the rest of this entry »

U.S. billionaire on shopping tour

Private investors have family business a bad image. Many have serious reservations about minority stakes held by private equity companies. This is the result of a recent study by the Technical University (TU) Munich, the Foundation on behalf of the family business erfolgte.Demnach fear both 29 percent of the firms surveyed for their independence, 29 percent also cares to look for supposedly high profit expectations of the investor. 24 percent admit to remember the commitment from the outside might not be long-term.But the study also shows that the family business, which is an investor brought to the house, mostly satisfied. Read the rest of this entry »