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Start A New Adventure, Whatever Your Age!

<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">As we approach the summer months&comma; many are dreaming of sunnier climates and relaxing breaks away&comma; but what if you decided to extend your two-week summer holiday and go on a real adventure&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Once seen as the domain of just the young&comma; gap years and traveling adventures are increasingly appealing to people of all ages&period; Many in their thirties&comma; forties&comma; fifties and beyond are choosing to take career breaks or sabbaticals&comma; some are even planning to make the most of new pension accessibility rules to cash in their hard-earned pension savings to fulfil lifelong traveling ambitions&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Perhaps you want to travel the world before settling down to start a family&comma; or your children have grown up and you want to make the most of having a little extra expendable income&quest; Maybe you’ve recently been through a divorce or relationship breakdown&comma; or have recently been bereaved and want to spend some time exploring the world and reflecting on your life goals and aspirations&quest; Whatever your motivation&comma; there are many advantages to traveling later on in life&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-570" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;incrediblemag&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;03&sol;Start-a-new-adventure&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Start A New Adventure&comma; Whatever Your Age&excl;" width&equals;"500" height&equals;"334" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">As an older traveller your life experience may well mean you’re more sure of what you want to experience and where you want to visit&comma; rather than just following the crowd and visiting the &OpenCurlyQuote;usual’ traveller destinations&period; You’re also likely to experience significantly less financial pressure&comma; offering you the opportunity to explore each location to its fullest&comma; without worrying about a shoestring budget&comma; bedbugs or overcrowded hostels&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Later on in life&comma; your options for funding your travels are also likely to be more varied&period; Years of working mean you’re perhaps more likely to have savings that you can dip in to&comma; you may well have a pension pot that you’re able to access&comma; or you may have significant equity in a property that you can choose to access&period; Recent research from a UK finance company suggested that downsizing a property can raise as much as £85&comma;000&comma; which is prompting more than 20 per cent of soon-to-be retired people to move to smaller properties&comma; with many of them using the equity released to fund big ticket items such as holiday properties&comma; &OpenCurlyQuote;once in a lifetime’ trips and other dream purchases&period; Whereas traveling was once considered a &OpenCurlyQuote;luxury’&comma; a recent LA Times article found that many people aged 50-plus now consider traveling more important than leaving an inheritance for their families&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">So&comma; where should intrepid explorers be heading this year&quest; According to Lonely Planet&comma; these are the top 10 travel destinations for 2016&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<ol style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">&NewLine;<li>Botswana<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Japan<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>USA<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Palau<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Latvia<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Australia<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Poland<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Uruguay<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Greenland<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Fiji<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ol>&NewLine;

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