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2008 trends in adventure travel include volunteer work and destinations with natural beauty.

Travelers want to go on a walking tour, climb a mountain and kayak down a river - adventures that can make a vacation more meaningful.Canoeists Jason Chamberlain (left) and Andrew Martin, both of Fort Kent, Maine, paddle through whitewater after portaging the 40-foot Allagash Falls (background) in 1999 on the Allagash Wilderness Waterway in northern Maine.

Baby Olive Ridley sea turtle emerge from their nest at Ostional beach on the northern Pacific coast of Costa Rica in 2007.

Passengers aboard Royal Caribbean's "Radiance of the Seas" cruise ship watch as the ship passes by Alaska's Hubbard Glacier.

A herd of elephants walk in front of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Amboseli game park in Kenya in this 2006 photo. While the Kenya Tourist Board says the sporadic and isolated violence has calmed and tourists were never in danger; there has been a downturn in tourism in Kenya and some spillover to other countries in East Africa.

Mount Kilimanjaro rises above the clouds as a Gazelle graze at the foot of the mountain in the Amboseli National Park located 250 km south of Nairobi, Kenya.

Blake Brady (right), 16, volunteers with children while on her vacation in the Cook Islands. Global Volunteers saw a 30 percent increase in people wanting to take volunteering vacations.

Maria Haley (right), from Brantford, Ontario, volunteers with children while on her vacation in India.

Kana Maeji (center) volunteers with children on her vacation in Ghana.

Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman preparing to skydive in a scene from 'The Bucket List.'

Jack Nicholson skydives in a scene from the film 'The Bucket List.' Ultimate 5 Lifetime Adventures packs five of what it calls the world's greatest adventures into one week: a military-developed Ropes Challenge Course, skydiving, Indy car racing, rappelling and piloting a primary combat trainer aircraft.

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Travelers want to go on a walking tour, climb a mountain and kayak down a river - adventures that can make a vacation more meaningful.Canoeists Jason Chamberlain (left) and Andrew Martin, both of Fort Kent, Maine, paddle through whitewater after portaging the 40-foot Allagash Falls (background) in 1999 on the Allagash Wilderness Waterway in northern Maine.

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