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Adventure Travel Wedding Registry

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By Susan Breslow Sardone

If your wedding hasn't been adventure enough, or you long for an exciting outdoor travel experience, the Bridal Registry Program from global adventure tour operator Mountain Travel Sobek may be the perfect wedding present.

Mountain Travel Sobek's Bridal Registry Program lets soon-to-wed couples choose a memorable wedding present from the company that wrote the book on adventure travel. It's an ideal gift for active newlyweds who want to do something more fulfilling than spend their honeymoon lazily sipping drinks on a beach.

Future brides and grooms who register with Mountain Travel Sobek are assigned a sales specialist to whom they can direct their wedding guests. Guests then phone an 800 number to speak with the specialist and make cash gifts toward the honeymoon adventure. The couple redeems the total, and applies it toward any of Mountain Travel Sobek's 104 adventures in 65 countries around the world.

Get information on the Mountain Travel Sobek Bridal Registry Program online or call 1-888-MTSOBEK (687-6235).

Trips couples can choose from presents that include climbing lofty peaks, cruising historical coastlines, trekking ancient trails, and traipsing across romantic countrysides. These are some of the most exciting honeymoon itineraries:

o Climbing Kilimanjaro: An incredible and rigorous feat for newlyweds to enjoy together. Whether they choose the Rongai Route (18 days) or the Machame Route (16 days), this strenuous trek up Africa's highest mountain (19,340 feet) would be a peak experience to be savored for a lifetime.

o Cruising the Galapagos Islands: Mountain Travel Sobek has been operating small boat adventures in the Galapagos Islands for over 30 years. Honeymooners get swimming, snorkeling, sea kayaking and nature watching in the paradise that Charles Darwin called "a little world within itself." The shipReina Silvia has a master suite with a king-size bed and its own private level at the top of the boat - makes a perfect love nest.

o Hiking the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu: An extraordinary trek through history, high altitudes, and some of the most spectacular scenery in South America. Snuggle in tents along the trail and first-rate hotels in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, including the Monasterio and Machu Picchu Pueblo.

o Hill towns of Tuscany and Cinque Terre: A relaxing and romantic hike over vineyard-covered hills, down pretty country lanes, through age-old fortified hilltops with the warmth and charm of the Italian countryside. Plenty of gourmet stops with requisite vino are important part of this itinerary.

o Ultimate Botswana Safari: Elephant spotting on the floodplains of the Chobe River, canoeing through the meandering waterways and lagoons of the Okavango Delta, game viewing on Delta islands, and bedding down in exclusive and deluxe tented campsites.

o Hiking the Haciendas of Ecuador: With its beautiful countryside of snowcapped volcanoes, emerald valleys, sparkling lakes, and cool cloud forests, Ecuador is worth a gander. Add comfortable lodging in exquisite 16th-century haciendas for a lovebird-worthy honeymoon.

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