Adventure travel


MOAB, UTAH Dubbed the ‘adventure


capital of the West’, Moab is a small city with a big name in extreme sports. Situated on the doorstep of the otherworldly Arches National Park — and just over half an hour’s drive from Canyonlands and Dead Horse Point — this tiny municipality hosts thousands of adrenaline junkies every year. Teir objective? To use Moab as a gateway to first-class hiking, horseback riding, rafting, canyoneering, rock-climbing and mountain biking. It’s the latter that’s perhaps


best known for getting visitors’ blood pumping. Home to the world-famous Slickrock Bike Trail — a 10.6-mile, white- knuckle loop with narrow ledges and abrupt drop-offs that take three or four hours to traverse — there are also well over 100 other routes to choose from, with varying degrees of difficulty. Outside of biking, not-to-be-


missed attractions include the Fisher Towers section of the Colorado River — a great taster for families trying white-water rafting for the first time — plus Cataract or Westwater Canyons for the more experienced rafter. More sedate activities, meanwhile, come in the form of paddle boarding, jet-boat tours and easy drives along Moab’s three State Scenic Byways, each affording breathtaking views over the region’s sandstone massifs. discovermoab.com


From left: Mountain biker, Moab, Utah; Koutoubia Mosque with Atlas mountains in the background, Marrakech, Morocco; Food stall in the Jemaa el-Fnaa, Marrakech, Morocco


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