For Great Overseas Adventure Travel Try City Break Holidays

City break holidays are a good way of having any short, but very refreshing adventure. Overseas adventure travel does not always mean venturing out to the wilds or doing something exceptionally bold. City breaks can be fascinating adventure holidays too.

Everything depends upon the city, and certain cities are noticeably more thrilling than others. This article intends to provide you with a few ideas that will make you want to hop on the next airplane out of town. Because these are all small group tours they're perfect adventure holidays for singles. With ready-made friends from the word go there isn't any time wasting.

What about four nights in Istanbul? This is the largest city in Turkey and meeting place of Asia and Europe. This is the former capital of the Roman and the Ottoman Empires and so packed with history. It's an Asian city on the edge of Europe or a European city on the edge of Asia. In any case is part of both worlds and this makes it quite special.

On this break you will go to the former sultan's palace of Topkapi as well as take a boat trip on the Bosphorous. You will see the famous spice bazaar and wonder at the Blue Mosque. You'll have an evening tour of the city plus a delicious dinner and traditional floor show. You'll have spare time for some other visits and some shopping in the city's vibrant markets. It is an action packed five days and you will come home feeling you have had a real holiday somewhere very far from home.

For something quite different try a short cooking course in Marrakech in the centre of Morocco. You'll arrive in the city on day one and have free time to lose yourself in the narrow streets of the souk. Market day in Marrakech is not like anything you've ever seen before.

The next day you'll have an Arabic lesson and then it's off to the market to practise what you've learned by doing the shopping for the cooking class. You'll learn about spices and the way to prepare some delicious couscous and tajines. The tajine is the special earthenware cooking pot used for slow cooking. You won't want to go back home without one.

You'll fly out at the end of day three with your head filled with the sights and sounds of Marrakech, not to mention your stomach, and you'll feel like you have been away for weeks.

Multi city holidays: If you would like something a bit more modern then there's nowhere that can match New York and Las Vegas for fantastic city break holidays. If luxury city breaks are more your style then don't do the normal thing and just fly there and back. Enjoy the 24-hour exhilaration of Vegas and New York then after a few amazing days return in style on the Queen Mary 2 and have a lovely stress-free cruise to set you up for getting back to work.

Sailing on the Queen Mary is a fantastic experience. It is an enormous ship with all the comforts of a luxury hotel. You can relax, eat well enjoy the sea air and returen home thoroughly refreshed and rested. To keep your brain alert there are stimulating lectures, acting classes and good music on board.

City breaks can be surprisingly interesting and are worthy of any adventure traveller's consideration. My name is Robert Marriott and I am an experienced traveller. I have put together a website full of exciting, value for money trips, with reliable and responsible adventure travel companies. Visit my site the http://www.adventuretravelshop.co.uk now and find details of these holidays and information about fantastic overseas adventure travel.