{"id":4836,"date":"2020-04-28T00:44:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T00:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mircorp.com\/?p=4836"},"modified":"2021-08-02T17:06:19","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T17:06:19","slug":"active-adventure-through-europe-and-the-balkans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mircorp.com\/active-adventure-through-europe-and-the-balkans\/","title":{"rendered":"Traveling with Teens and Young Adults: An Active Adventure Through Europe and the Balkans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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What the caller wanted was a handcrafted trip to unusual places guaranteed to wear out his energetic early-20s grandsons. It had to be packed with continuous adventures, one after the other, with enough time in between for cold beers.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s what Private Journeys<\/a> Specialist Lisa Peterson heard when she answered the phone call. Could she do it? Of course she could.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lisa put together a wild and crazy 21-day trip through Czech Republic<\/a>, Slovakia<\/a>, Hungary<\/a>, Bosnia and Herzegovina<\/a>, and Croatia<\/a> that included golf, rafting, sea kayaking, hiking, zip-lining, river-boarding, cycling, swimming, and cliff-diving. Tired yet?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Budweiser beer was born here, at Budvar Brewery in Budejovice, Czech Republic. Photo credit: Renee Van Drent<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Czech Republic: Biking and Beer<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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They began at a resort in Liberec, Czech Republic, warming up with a little golf, volleyball, and swimming in the pool. Next up was exercising their biceps on a tour of the Budvar Brewery, where the original Czech Budweiser beer was born<\/strong>. Before leaving Czech Republic, they went rafting on the Vltava River and biked around Cesky Krumlov<\/strong>, a small, beautifully-preserved medieval town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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18-hole golf course in Liberec, Czech Republic. Photo credit: Czechtourism
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Slovakia: Hiking and Hydrospeeding<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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After a classy lunch in Vienna, the guys checked in to a hotel in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia on the Danube River, and set off on a hike into the foothills of the Little Carpathian Mountains.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Old Town Hall and the elegant Maximilian Fountain flank Hlavn\u00e9 N\u00e1mestie Square in Bratislava, Slovakia. Photo credit: Jan Lacika<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

To rest up from the hike the next day, they tried a new sport called hydrospeeding, or riverboarding, in the man-made white-water rapids at Cunovo Action Park in Bratislava.<\/strong> Donning wetsuits, helmets, and fins, they shot the rapids on their stomachs in little one-person water-sleds as sightseers strolled by on the riverbank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Croatia & Bosnia and Herzegovina: Canyoning, Rafting, and Sea-Kayaking<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Grandfather jubilantly sea-kayaks with his grandson in Croatia on a custom journey. Photo credit: Iris Adventures
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Hopping a train for Budapest, the group took a day off in Hungary\u2018s beautiful capital city before continuing on to the Dalmatian Coast of Croatia, where they settled in Split for three nights. Here, they did some \u201ccanyoning\u201d \u2013 walking, swimming, and climbing through the Cetina River canyon<\/strong>, stepping behind a spectacular 160-foot waterfall on the way down. They also sea-kayaked along the beaches, zip-lined from the karst hills around Omis over the green Cetina, and then drove to Bosnia and Herzegovina to raft on the Neretva River near Mostar.<\/p>\n\n\n

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