Slovakia is leading the way when it comes to health and wellness travel with a huge focus on spa breaks, fitness and adventure and even medical tourism, so when I got the chance to supplement the physical sports and adventure activities Slovakia was offering me with a range of activities focused on mental and physical wellbeing I jumped at the chance! The only problem is no one told me I would be spending a significant portion of it naked!
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The Ultimate Guide To Hiking And Adventure Trekking On Your Gap Year.
No matter where you travel to on your gap year, odds are at some point you will end up doing some form of hiking or trekking, either as a day trek activity or a multi day adventure. This expert guide…
Tagged with: adventure gap year, Adventure Travel, desert trekking, gap year fitness, health and fitness travel, health and wellbeing, hiking, jungle trekking, mountain trekking, travel fitness, travel fitness and health, travel fitness tips, trekking, trekking with elephants in Thailand, volcano trekking
Posted in Travel Advice, Travel Health
Posted in Travel Advice, Travel Health
The Importance Of Rest And Flexibility When You Travel.
After a ton of delays and cancelled flights I arrived in my latest destination almost 36 hours late, which was a timely reminder of just how important it is to be flexible with your backpacking itinerary and even more so to include some rest days in that time too.
Tagged with: flexible travel, health and wellbeing, travel, travel itinerary, travel slowly
Posted in Travel Video
Posted in Travel Video
How To Deal With Anxiety And Fear Before Travelling.
Backpacking around the world can be an exciting and genuinely awesome experience, but for many it can also be extremely daunting, and for some – even though a gap year may be a dream – it can actually cause a lot of fear, worry and anxiety. Here are a few expert tips to dealing with that fear and following your gap year dreams anyway!
Tagged with: anxiety about traveling alone, anxiety and travel, backpacking, can I get over my anxiety, gap year, health and wellbeing, healthy lifestyle, how do I get over my fear of traveling, how not to let anxiety stop you from travelling, how to travel with anxiety, mental health awareness, pre travel anxiety, travel anxiety, travel health, travel health advice, vacation anxiety, what is travel anxiety
Posted in Travel Health
Posted in Travel Health
Travelling For Treatment, Everything You Need To Know About Medical Tourism.
Medical tourism is an increasingly growing trend amongst travellers on a gap year. If you are considering having any treatment done as part of your travels, then here is everything you need to know before you go.
Tagged with: destinations for medical and health tourism, gap year, gap year medical emergency, health and wellbeing, health tourism, medical tourism, medical tourism countries, medical tourism industry, medical tourism on a gap year, medical tourism statistics, medical tourism when backpacking, medical tourism when travelling, travel, travel health, travel health clinic
Posted in Travel Health
Posted in Travel Health
Dropping Out And Living The Yoga Life In Sri Lanka.
Ulpotha appears to be the ultimate yoga retreat, a health and wellness getaway in the middle of Sri Lanka. Is it all it is cracked up to be?
Tagged with: ayurveda, backpacking, destination tourism, gap year, health and fitness travel, health and wellbeing, health and wellness, healthy lifestyle, Sri Lanka, travel, ulpotha, what to expect on a yoga retreat, yoga, yoga in sri lanka, yoga retreat, yoga retreat in sri lanka
Posted in Travel Health
Posted in Travel Health
Real Mountain Biking And Cultural Awakenings In Tirol.
Adventure travel gets a visual boost as I mountain bike down the Kaiser mountain range in Tirol, Austria.
Tagged with: #ASW15, adventure sports in Austria, Adventure Travel, adventure travel in Austria, Alpine Sports Week 2015, Alpine Sports Week 2016, Austria, benefits of adventure travel, benefits of travel, canyoning, e Bike, e Biking in Austria, Elllmau, Gap Year adventure, Going, health and fitness travel, health and wellbeing, healthy lifestyle, Hexen Wasser, mental health awareness, mountain biking in Austria, mountain climbing in the Alps, mountaineering, Tirol, travel health, via ferratta, what can I do in Austria in the off season, what can I do in Austria in the summer, Wilder Kaiser, Wilder Kaiser Alpine Sports Week, work life balance
Posted in Destinations
Posted in Destinations
Revitalising My Health And Wellbeing In Tirol, Austria.
I needed to revitalize my health and wellbeing after getting burnt out, and some time in the mountains of Tirol, Austria gave me just what I needed.
Tagged with: #ASW15, Adventure Travel, Alpine Sports Week 2015, Alpine Sports Week 2016, Austria, benefits of adventure travel, benefits of travel, canyoning, e Bike, e Biking in Austria, Elllmau, Gap Year adventure, Going, health and fitness travel, health and wellbeing, healthy lifestyle, how can I go e biking in Austria, how can I go mountain climbing in Austria, mental health awareness, mountain biking in Austria, mountain climbing in the Alps, mountaineering, Tirol, travel health, via ferratta, what can I do in Austria in the off season, what is there to do in Austria besides skiing, what is there to do in Austria in the summer, Wilder Kaiser, Wilder Kaiser Alpine Sports Week, work life balance
Posted in Travel Health
Posted in Travel Health
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