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Gay Travel: An Ethereal Adventure On The Colorado River



Sometimes travel is better served with a guide. Someone who speaks a foreign language, knows the regional cuisine A standard definition of a regional cuisine would be “a coherent tradition of food preparation that rises from the daily lives and kitchens of a people over an extended period of time.”[1] References

1. ^ winebrats
 or where locals hang out. But when white water rafting raft 1  
n.
1. A flat structure, typically made of planks, logs, or barrels, that floats on water and is used for transport or as a platform for swimmers.

2.
 in the Grand Canyon Grand Canyon, great gorge of the Colorado River, one of the natural wonders of the world; c.1 mi (1.6 km) deep, from 4 to 18 mi (6.4–29 km) wide, and 217 mi (349 km) long, NW Ariz.  a guide is almost a requirement.

Spirit Journeys has just announced availability of their Going Deep grand canyon rafting vacation. It's eight days and seven nights on the Colorado river Colorado River

River, south-central Argentina. Its major headstreams, the Grande and Barrancas rivers, flow southward from the Andes Mountains and meet to form the Colorado near the Chilean border. It flows southeastward across northern Patagonia and the southern Pampas.
 exploring the majestic Grand Canyon.

It's a total vacation that feeds your adventurous spirit and energizes the mind and body.

Most of the time is spent in a raft, but the trip begins and ends in Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. , where daredevils have an opportunity to go for broke before and after taking on the canyon.

The all-gay or -bi package for men offers a unique spiritual element not found in most adventure travel. Spiritual guide Howie Holben helps participants bond with the surrounding nature with meditation, Heart Circles and group movement rituals.

“It is our intention to actively engage the Canyon and the River so that we come to know them on a more intimate level,” Holben writes about the adventure package.

On the Colorado river, the raft stops several times a day to explore the wonder of the canyon. Arduous hiking and swimming by day is juxtaposed jux·ta·pose  
tr.v. jux·ta·posed, jux·ta·pos·ing, jux·ta·pos·es
To place side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.
 with near luxurious camping accommodations by night.

Spirit Adventures charges $3095 per person for the Going Deep adventure package. The odyssey begins July 1. Book your adventure at www.spiritjourneys.com.

 
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