Adventure Sports You Should Try

Are you an adrenaline junkie? Looking for something to get your blood pumping? Here I present to you a list of adventure sports you can try and also where you can find them.All the activities listed below have some amount of risk involved. Kindly take proper precautions before trying any of the below listed activities.

1. Para-Gliding

Paragliding is the recreational and competitive adventure sport of flying para gliders: lightweight, free-flying, foot-launched glider aircraft with no rigid primary structure.

Places where you can try paragliding

•  Wengen, Canton of Bern, Switzerland
• Queenstown, Otago, New Zealand
•  Julian Alps, Tolmin and Bohinj Regions, Slovenia

2. Zorbing

A sport in which one is secured inside a large transparent ball which is then rolled along the ground or down hills.

Places where you can try zorbing:

• Lonavala, Maharashtra , India
• Smoky Mountains, USA

3. Kiting

A surface water sport combining aspects of wakeboarding, snowboarding, windsurfing, surfing, paragliding, skateboarding and gymnastics into one extreme sport.

Places where you can try kiting:

• Tarifa, Spain
• Taveuni Island, Fiji
• Cumbuco, Brazil

4. White Water Rafting

Rafting and white water rafting are recreational outdoor activities which use an inflatable raft to navigate a river or other body of water. This is often done on whitewater or different degrees of rough water, and generally represents a new and challenging environment for participants.

Places where you can try white water rafting:

• Magpie River, Canada
• North Johnstone River, Australia
• Noce River, Italy

5. Skiing

Skiing is the action of travelling over snow on skis, especially as a sport or recreation. Competitive skiing falls into two categories: Nordic {cross-country racing and jumping} and Alpine {downhill or straight racing, and slalom racing round a series of markers}.

Places where you can try skiing:

•  The Alps {Western Europe}
• The Kullu Valley, India
• The Sierra Nevada, USA

6. Skydiving

Skydiving is the sport of jumping from an aircraft and performing acrobatic manoeuvres in the air under free fall before landing by parachute.

Places where you can try skydiving:

•  Swiss Alps in Interlaken, Switzerland
• Fox Glacier, New Zealand
• Mount Everest, Nepal

7. Kayaking

Kayaking is a recreational sport in which people paddle small, specialised boats.

Places where you can try kayaking:

• The Ottawa River, Canada
• The Alsek/Tatshenshini, Alaska
• The Pacuare, Costa Rica 

8. Surfing

Surfing is the sport or pastime of riding a wave towards the shore while standing or lying on a surfboard.

Places where you can try surfing:

• Manu Bay, Raglan, New Zealand
• Watergate Bay, Cornwall, England
• Tofino, Vancouver Island, Canada

9. Scuba Diving

Scuba diving is the sport or pastime of swimming underwater using a scuba.

Places where you can try scuba-diving:

• Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
• Papua New Guinea
• Punta Gorda, Costa Rica

10. Big Wave Body Boarding

Bodyboarding is a water sport in which the surfer rides a bodyboard on the crest, face, and curl of a wave which is carrying the surfer towards the shore.

Places where you can try big wave bodyboarding:

•  Pasquales, Mexico
•  Port Macquarie, Australia
•  Mundaka, Spain