Outdoors activities for a day when having a short visit to a big city:
You are on a business trip or a family short vacation to a big city and would like to make the best of it outdoors perspective.
Here is a guide with some ideas you can use around the globe, for half or full day tours packed with fun and adrenaline. All, with easy access from the bustling city.
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With just a short taxi drive or subway you are up to the rocky hills surrounding Hong-Kong island.
With a very short walk from here and only 30min from your downtown hotel, you can find yourself on the Crag for a great experience of rock climbing. From beginner’s level to advance level, the rocks offer all options and the views are astonishing.
Likely you will not have the required gear with you when it comes to a short business trip or family vacation. No worries, as of course you can have it guided with all required gear. Just bring a pack of smiles with you.
Gordon Ho, HK Rock Climbing adventures, (http://www.hkrca.com/) can take care of you. Adventuring the rocks as well as other daily activities like Canyoning or Zip-line. You can also be picked up from your hotel so no you don’t need to wonder yourself around.
What I liked about climbing in Hong-Kong is that you have several locations to choose from. All within a reaching distance for daily activity, from mountains side to rocky slopes by the sea.
So in next visits, it is possible to enjoy other locations for climbing with different views.
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Surrounded by the beauty of hills, sea and the great Corcovado of “Parque Nacional da Tijuca” with the enormous statue Art Deco “Christ the Redeemer” Rio can offer a spectacular views-adrenaline mix.
You can experience downhill fully in nature of the city or going downhill throughs city stairs.
There are several tour operators that run Tijuca rainforest cycling organized trips in which you can easily and peacefully ride the rainforest and get closer to nature and wildlife.
The Rhythm of Rio will capture you though, be careful when you plan your extreme day as most chances you will be dragged into the rhythm of drums, beach, and bikinis.
Prefer something else? How about paragliding or hang-gliding to the beautiful scenery of Copacabana?
http://rioxtreme.com/tours/adventure-tours/hang-gliding-paragliding-in-rio-de-janeiro
Hiking in the Tijuca National Park can be rewarding enough even without the two wheels and there are some points of interest inside the park that will make you forget you are just behind the bushes that hide the samba city.
Would you like to experience the city and forest differently? Fly like a bird over this built and natural beauty.
Hang-gliding in RIO, from mountains to the beach can boost your energy enough for some time.
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Within 1h drive, you will get the access to your thrill and noise
Here, in Sylvenstein river you can enjoy thrilled canyoning and there are some other canyoning alternatives ranging from lower to higher heights of challenges.
The highlight of this canyoning tour is the 30-meter-high waterfall, which lets your adrenaline rush up.
You will surely remember this canyoning tour for a long time.
If you are looking for something more tranquil and driving in nature for visiting castles is something that suits you so you have a wonderful opportunity here.
Visiting Neuschwanstein castle is within 2 hours drive from central Munich and the road is just green and amazing while reaching fairytale castle which gave Disney the inspiration for Disney’s own known castle architecture.
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Bay area aerial great views can be seen from up above. With great scenery and accessibility, no wonder this become a valid option for few hours of adrenaline.
Located just around 30min drive from downtown San Francisco and you are calming down just before your heart beat about to go up the sky.
After the adrenaline fades out you can calm down in the wineries you just saw from high above.
would you prefer to experience something else? You can try Zipline Through the Redwoods or cage dive with Sharks!
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Famous mountain Fuji is within reach from Tokyo even for a single day visit although it will consume some access and return times. Around 2.5 hours per direction and you can hike on (2 hours train ride) and you can access one of Mount Fuji trails.
Nearby the mountain there are lakes and flora and you can get access to more outdoors activities if you can afford the time.
Inside the city, you can find Kiyosomi garden with nature and green just the building of Tokyo.
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Here worth to mention also outdoors activity that will consume more than a half or a single day. SAFARI!
Cape Town is an access gate to the wildlife! The thrill of Safari, getting closer to animals is really a unique activity you can’t find in such way in most of the world.
So if you have a business visit to Cape-Town and you have a free weekend to spend, you can make it enjoy South African amazing wildlife.
The table mountain is almost a unique phenomenon, exist in the same glory only in Venezuela.
Can be accessed by Cable car and offering great views and beautiful hike possibility in one of the very few locations that can offer such mountains.
The cable car has an official website you can access to https://www.tablemountain.net/.
Another option for you, which is even suitable for kids age 10 and above is having abseiling from the top of table mountain.
As the mountain towers around 1000 meters above the city and more than 110 meters to abseil, you can imagine the thrill you can get from an hour of abseiling activity.
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1.5 hours from NYC and you are in Bear Mountain state park in which you can hike, fish, cycle, and ski.
The mountains here are beautiful, accessible and convenient even for short hike or day camp.
More information can be found on the official park website:
https://parks.ny.gov/parks/13/details.aspx
From Barcelona, you can reach many highlights and great outdoor places in the Pyrenees and other great places. But usually, the Pyrenees is a destination to cover in a few days of a visit and this mountain range worth more than a day. The Via ferrata Les Baumes Corcades, can be traveled as a spot destination by itself, is within an hour drive from Barcelona and can offer great adrenaline day.
This route offers incredible views with 800m equipped paths with many obstacles for your adventure story. It takes 4 to 5 hours to complete.
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