Pure Adventures (1 testimonials)

In business since 1994

Pure Adventures is an outgrowth of the success we have had with Discover France, now in its 13th year in 2007. We wanted to take our tour format and bring new destinations to our clients and new travelers. The name indicates something unique. It is our mission to provide exceptional self-guided cycling and hiking services that allow our clients to experience their destination in their own unique way. We offer more of a pure adventure in low risk activities like bicycle tours and hiking/walking tours while servicing experienced travelers. We say it is more pure because our tours offer independence that requires some initiative and cultural interaction. Equally important is the fact that every tour in every destination has been built and is supported by LOCALS. We rely on this expertise to help us develop the best tour experience for our clients. As well, we provide lodging that is, of course, very comfortable, but more typical and representative of a region/destination because of the family run, charm atmosphere we want our clients to know. These facts coupled with our tour format helps keep costs down - leaving you more to do in a vacation! Our self-guided tours offer great amounts of freedom to choose a date, customize the itinerary, modify hotels, and cycle/walk as much as you want. We do offer the guided small group tour as well. Though they are guided, there is still a great deal of independence and flexibility. For example, many of the guided trips can be for as few as 2 persons and some even go any date you choose. Our guides are local professionals, and so they know language, culture, and all the must see sites as well as some not known by others.

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Prominent affiliations & awards

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Our commitment to sustainable travel

In 2008, LRB Flagship, which owns the brands Pure Adventures, Discover France, and Cycling Classics is continuing its commitment to the environment and to conservation. We joined Sustainable Travel International (STI) in 2006 and starting purchasing the carbon offsets to make tours carbon neutral for all tours in 2007. We are continuing again in 2008. Some may ask, "What does this mean, exactly?"

We are pleased to say that because we buying offsets through STI, we have verifiable projects that are making measurable differences. Our program in 2008 is the purchase of Green-e Certified Green Tags; they are USA Renewable Energy projects. Specifically: Bonneville Environmental Foundation (BEF) Green Tags are also known as renewable energy certificates (REC) which are market based commodities representing 1,000 kilowatt hours (1 Megawatt hour) of electicity generation from renewables such as solar, wind, hydro, and biomass. The tags meet strict criteria including Green-e certification. (www.green-e.org) The following projects are receiving support from the dollars we contribute when you purchase a tour:

White Creek Wind Project - 205 MW wind farm in Roosevelt, WA. USA

Condon Wind Project - 49.8 MW wind farm near Condon, OR. USA

Foote Creek Wind Project - multi-phase wind farm in Carbon County, WY. USA

A host of other wind projects located in the USA are also recipients; for a full list and details, please visit the STI website on this link.

What else does LRB Flagship do to minimize environmental impact?

1. We eliminated brochures in 2003; all of our tour listings and details are online, among these pages, and we make every effort to be available quickly by email and phone to answer questions so as to make brochures unnecessary for booking a trip.

2. Our travel documentation is sent electronically cutting down on huge amounts of paper and shipping.

3. Our tours are mostly self-guided which means that support vehicles are not in service most of the time.

4. In the host country, we do our best to work with suppliers and properties that also adhere to ecological, low impact ways of doing business. It certainly isn't always available, but where it is, we try to reward those businesses with your patronage.

5. Our staff and owners do their part to live lightly and conserve. We are not eco-warriors, just concerned citizens of the planet doing what we can to rethink how we get things done. We believe that a little contribution by everyone will make a big impact and doing so doesn't require an unreasonable sacrifice.

We are putting money behind our convictions. Certainly, carbon contributions from a cycling and hiking tour are very small by comparison to other forms of travel. Nonetheless, we are pledging $9000US worth of offsets to make our trips carbon neutral, and we don't see this as negligible and something to be considered when comparing our tours to the competition.

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Germany Elbe River Trail; Prague To Dresden Cycling	Germany Elbe River Trail; Prague To Dresden Cycling Prague Airport, Czech Republic for 7 Days • from €1,090* per person Provider: Pure Adventures (1 testimonial) On this riverside bicycle tour, connecting the Czech Republic and Germany, you cycle between two European centers of cultural importance, following the Vltava and Elbe Rivers. Marked cycling paths and paved backroads make this route easy. Start by cycling to Melnik, the center of winemaking in Bohemia. Continue by biking through fertile countryside, through Litomerice with its Gothic houses. The most impressive part of the tour is the region called Czech and Saxon Switzerland where you bike along a steep-sided… more	Offered June, September Exertion level: 4 Comfort accommodations Max group size: 16 people Must form your own group? Yes (custom departure). Price based on group size.
Italy Cycling Sardinia	Italy Cycling Sardinia Airport near Cagliari, Italy for 7 Days • from €1,385* per person Provider: Pure Adventures (1 testimonial) Sardinia - you've heard of it no doubt, but where is it again?? Located in the Mediterranean Sea, just south of the French island of Corsica is where we find Sardinia, and at times you may think you are in the Caribbean as you look through the clear blue waters of this historical island's coastline. There are more than 300 days of sunshine per year on this island and the terrain while not flat does offer a slightly less challenging… more	Offered March-November Exertion level: 4 Comfort accommodations Max group size: 16 people Must form your own group? Yes (custom departure). Price based on group size.
Best Of Slovenia Self Guided Cycling	Best Of Slovenia Self Guided Cycling Ljubljana airport, Slovenia for 8 Days • from €1,490* per person Provider: Pure Adventures (1 testimonial) What country, of the former Yugoslavian states, is the only member of the European Union currently? And, what country of the former Yugoslavia did not engage in the Balkan War at any measurable level? The answer is the same - Slovenia! Look on Wikipedia and what stands out among the many interesting traits of this small and relatively unknown country is the 'nature' or natural beauty and diversity of geography. Known as being "green", this mostly refers to the various… more	Offered April-October Exertion level: 4 Comfort accommodations Max group size: 16 people Must form your own group? Yes (custom departure). Price based on group size.

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