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For people desiring an unusual holiday: Travel to Antarctica!
By: jacklyn Darnell

An up-and-coming trend in America today for the traveler who's seen it all involves trekking to exotic locations. Monte Carlo and Mexico? These bored adventurers have "been there, done that." Even the sparkling Caribbean waters and lush, green isles make these experienced explorers yawn. Adventure in a fascinating location, is what draws seasoned vacations these days. For people like this, it's hard to imagine them excited by almost any usual holiday package, but probably an adventure-filled trip to Antarctica would get their juices flowing and their cameras snapping.

Travel to Antarctica is amazingly easy these days. Your flight from New York to Ushuaia will take twenty-four hours. Then you'll be on the water for thee days. The US Navy has a presence in Antarctica. Some tourists will feel more safe knowing this fact. The US, and several other countries, has had active bases on Antarctica since 1957. It is rumored that some of the Navy men are a little disconcerted by the influx of tourism, but nonetheless it is nice to know the Navy is on the job in case your cruise ship founders in the ice or you slide down a crevasse.

What can a person do in Antarctica? You can study the wildlife, as well as photograph them. Expect to see whales, penguins, seals and many sea birds. They may also observe long plumes of white smoke billowing out of the 12,000 foot high, ice covered, active volcano, which provides quite an extraordinary experience. Seeing this volcano is far better than seeing any other volcano on the planet.

So what kind of people shell out five-thousand bucks for travel to see Antarctica? Doctors and scientists seem to dominate the field. You'll also see normal married couples on holiday. Several of the trips have hosted grandmothers. According to travel industry insiders, there has lately been considerable interest in Antarctica as a tourist vacation destination. Experiencing the continent is now possible for almost anyone, he went on to say, as opposed to times past, when only a few brave and daring explorers could actually see the continent.

The spokesperson for the US Navy states that the US government only asks that Antarctic tourists meet certain safety standards, rely on themselves and follow the international agreements for conservation and preservation of the continent. Scientists and conservationists are worried about this. They can all too easily foresee Antarctica as tourist trap, with troops of unruly "Ugly American" tourists running roughshod over the terrain, terrifying the indigenous wildlife, littering everywhere and even leaving graffiti on the few monuments of historical interest that exist in Antarctica.

The hut at Cape Royds is one example of Antarctica's historically significant sites, as it appears today as it did in 1907, when a well known explorer and his team made this their home for the winter. There are shelves stocked with canned food in it's original condition, cupboards filled with hung clothes, and King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra seen in framed portraits on the walls. And on one table rests an edition of a newspaper published in a notable European city.

Vacationers may scale the hill regularly to capture the Antarctic mountains in pictures. While they are nine hundred miles in the distance they are still clearly visible standing guard over the South Pole thanks to the perfectly clear, unspoiled air of the Antarctic. At the time that the explorers and other adventurers arrived at the pole there was little to observe other than miles of flat, crusted ice. Today you will find a shiny silver ball, atop an eight foot tall pole striped in blue and orange, which truly is a South Pole.

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