Some adventure travellers like to distinguish between ‘soft’ and ‘hard’ experiences. Hard adventure tours are a little more extreme and often involve a heightened sense of risk and danger, with adrenaline as a necessary and obviously exciting part of the ride. Here is our pick of five tours guaranteed to give you your fix. Travellers beware – adrenaline is known to be highly addictive!
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Travel Tales from Uganda’s Far Horizon
Every month, we delve into the travel experiences of people in the extended WHL Group network. This month we talk to Nicola Swann, a self-confessed globetrotter with a passion for all things travel, who works as Marketing Manager and general whiz for The Far Horizon, the whl.travel local connection based in Uganda.
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Terrorists Strike Kampala, the Heart of Uganda
On the night of 11 July, three bombs exploded within 75 minutes of each other in two locations in Kampala city, Uganda, killing more than 75 people gathered to enjoy the World Cup final. The first bomb exploded at the the Ethiopian Village restaurant in Kabalaga, but news did not travel fast enough to the Kyadondo rugby club in Lugogo, on the Jinja Road out of town, where two bombs tore through spectators seated in hundreds of white plastic chairs set up on the green before a giant screen.
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