Get More Than Just A Tan!

New travel company brings together a whole world of experiences

Launching on 2 October 2006, http://www.whydontyou.com/ is bringing the world’s widest collection of unusual holidays together for the first time.  With activities as diverse as marathon training in Austria, photographic encounters with polar bears in Canada and learning the secrets of Vietnamese cuisine on the Perfume River, holiday memories are set to be a lot more exciting from now on.  Prices range from £345 per person for a two-night Champagne and Salsa break in Barcelona to a unique opportunity to join the Saami people of Norway on the annual reindeer migration costing from £3285.

Aimed at travellers with a lust for life, the site is grouped into eight core areas;

Get Active – invigorating experiences on snow, land and water

History & The Arts – discover ancient civilisations or become a culture vulture

Food & Wine – walk through wine lands or taste the flavours of the world

Learn to – become a dab hand at activities as varied as dog sledging or the tango

Shopping & Fashion – release your inner shopaholic in the world’s most cosmopolitan cities

Body & Mind – address the work-life balance with some serious ‘me-time’

Natural World – experience nature in the raw whether chasing butterflies or tornados

Sports & Pastimes – indulge in your hobbies as either player or spectator

With ideas to inspire all travellers whatever their age, http://www.whydontyou.com/ is a mine of information for anyone who wants to do more than just fly and flop.  Being organised by interest rather than destination means that the easy to use site will tempt those with a passion in the UK to try it further afield.   Holidays vary from low-key activities such as lolling in a Vinotherapy spa to gently tempt holiday makers off their sun loungers, to the ultimate exotic adventure of a 15 day rafting expedition down the mighty Brahmaputra river in India for die hard adrenalin junkies.