5 Adventure Trips With Bragging Rights For 2022

There’s a lot of pent-up demand among travelers seeking amazing adventure trips and discoveries in 2022. We’re talking about something beyond the usual six-day soft adventure trip. If you want to take your travels to the next level and return home with amazing tales and bragging rights, here are five trips to consider.

Peru Cordillera Blanca Trek

MT Sobek created this trip for experienced hikers, a high-altitude trek in the Cordillera Blanca. This is the highest tropical mountain range in the world, which the company describes as “a glacial wilderness of translucent turquoise lakes, hidden waterfalls, and striking pinnacles.” Trekking through Huascarán National Park is a bragging rights experience, with more than 40 peaks over 19,000 feet high linked by isolated valleys. The trek requires crossing seven mountain passes and camping at altitudes of 12,000 to 14,800 feet. That’s why this experience is rated Level 5, a “very challenging trek.” The 13-day trip is priced from $4,995 and there are departures in May, June, July and August, 2022.

Trans-Caucasus: Baku to Istanbul

If you have 30 days to pedal from the Caspian Sea to the Bosporus Strait, this amazing journey called Trans-Caucasus: Baku to Istanbul from TDA Global Cycling might be for you. The Canada-based company is known for creating some of the most daring and dramatic long distance bike rides in the business. This one, which goes from Azerbaijan to Georgia and Turkey, is one of them. Starting in Baku, the route goes through the Greater Caucuses Mountain Range and includes riding through Georgia’s famed vineyards and a stay in the capital city of Tbilisi. The cost is $7,900, the distance is more than 1,600 miles, and there is one departure in August, 2022.

Secret Sarawak

Bicycling in Borneo is certainly off the beaten path, and this 14-day trip with Saddle Skedaddle, an England-based adventure travel company, will give you plenty to brag about when you get home. Beaches, jungle and lush tropical rainforests are the backdrop, with highlights that include a night at a traditional Sarawak Longhouse, a wildlife hike in Bako National Park, a chance to spot orangutan at Semenggoh Nature Reserve and an evening at Siniawan’s Night Market. The riding is mostly on paved roads, with modest climbs, and there’s also some snorkeling and kayaking. Priced from $3,680, with departures in April, May, August, September and October. The trip is rated moderate to active.

Uzbekistan Bike Adventure

Grasshopper Adventures, a Bangkok-based adventure travel company, is arguably the leading adventure bike company in Asia. Their Uzbekistan Bike Adventure is a 14 day is a mash-up of The Silk Route, former Soviet-era towns and some awe inspiring scenery. The trip includes Samarkand and Bukhara, a ride up and a fast decent down the Beldersoy ski resort, a trek in remote Zaamin National Park and exploring the 3000 year old Petroglyphs of Sarmysh. There’s 301 miles of mountain bike riding, on roads that range from well-maintained to donkey trails. Non riding activities include spending a night in a yurt camp and exploring a defunct Soviet-era space facility. From $4,950 per person, with departures in April, May, September and October, 2022.

Tatshenshini-Alsek River Expedition – BC/Alaska

ROAM Adventures created their Tatshenshini-Alsek River Expedition years ago and are acknowledged masters in the region. This 13-day river trip includes running Class III rapids and a good chance of sighting bear, moose, goats and possibly wolves and lynx. Campsites offer vistas of the Tatshenshini and Alsek river valleys, flanked by more than 50 different glaciers, and there’s paddling through the iceberg-filled waters of Alsek Lake. The trip also offers views of the St. Elias Mountains, the largest concentration of high peaks in North America. The cost is $6,995 and there are departures in June 2022.