• Get the cogs turning.

Sometimes the best part of an adventure is finding the checkpoints, lookouts and finish line by yourself. Try out one of these activities to get both your brain and feet in gear and explore the local landscape in a new way.

– Orienteering: Go alone or in a team and navigate your way from point to point on foot using a compass and a specially drawn orienteering map. Make your way around a series of controls and race the clock to see how you fare.
– Geocaching: A little bit like orienteering but with a modern twist. This is more of a modern treasure hunt, where an item or container holding a number of items, is hidden at a particular location and can only be found using GPS and coordinates provided online. It’s a great team-bonding exercise too as it needs planning and communication.
– Bushcraft course: Learn the key skills you’d need to survive in the wilderness including identifying edible plants, starting a fire, building a shelter and keeping warm.

• Adventures in the air

If you’re ready to see the world from above then why not try out one of these. Soar like a bird and see the UK like you’ve never seen it before.

– Motor gliding: This fixed-wing aircraft can be flown with or without engine power but allows passengers to experience longer sustained flight than in other gliding craft.
– Paragliding: Run or leap off the side of a hill or mountain and then enjoy the relaxing ride over the city or natural landscape below.
– Vintage plane flight: Climb aboard an old set of wings and experience a trip of pure nostalgia. Many of them will even provide a hands-on experience part way through your trip!
– Parasailing: The same sort of relaxing trip as paragliding, but the difference is that your parachute (and you) are being towed behind a vehicle of some sort, typically a boat. This one is a great summer option because you can go for a plunge afterwards.

• Got a taste for heights?

If getting up high doesn’t leave your knees feeling weak, then take your adventure to the next level and try out one of these activities.

– Tyrolean traverse: In this activity you use an aerial runway or rope bridge to cross a gorge. Our advice? Don’t look down!
– High ropes course: Test your skills and team communication far above the ground, and see if you can overcome your fears.
– Ziplining: Clip yourself into a harness and whizz down a metal cable, soaring over the treetops or fields below. Most of the time zip wires and high ropes courses will be combined, so you can kill two birds with one stone.

• Take to the water

Need to cool off? Want to get your feet off solid ground? Then start your river or sea adventure.

– Rafting: Get a group together and take on the white water rapids as you surf your way downstream in an inflatable boat. Just try not to fall out!
– River bugs: This is another type of whitewater sport where a single person navigates a given stretch of river in their own inflatable craft.
– Sailing school: Don your sailor’s hat and call yourself Popeye, because after a day at sea, learning how to tack, gybe and tie ropes, you’re going to feel like a professional.
– Yacht charter: Enjoy a more laid back approach to sailing, where you get some hands on experience but can also just relax on deck and take in your surroundings at sea.