March 2008 Adventure News from Incredible Adventures

Incredible News - March 2008

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Singer Natasha Bedingfield Backs Everest Skydive Team

Natash Bedingfield, Global Angels A top UK stunt man and the youngest man to ski solo to the North Pole join the list of people preparing to be the first to Skydive Everest. Gary Connery and Ben Saunders will be jumping to raise money for Global Angels, an international children's charity led by the popular singer's mother, Molly Bedingfield.

Natasha will be personally overseeing Gary and Ben's trip preparations and hopes to be there on the drop zone in Nepal when the two land. While Gary is an experienced skydiver and base jumper, Ben will be making his first skydive ever at Mt Everest.

A goal has been set to raise at least $1 million to help children in Nepal, Northern India and Pakistan through website contributions and mechandise sales. Visit Global Angels for more information on the charity or to make a contribution.

It's not too late to start planning your own Everest Skydive. Be part of the first group to ever embark on this incredible adventure. No prior skydiving experience is required. We offer both solo and tandem skydives. For more information, call 800-644-7382 or click here.

If You Can't Get to Nepal...Think Memphis

If a skydive in front of Everest doesn't fit into your budget or schedule, consider our cheaper, closer alternative. Tandem HALO jumps are offered all year long near Memphis, TN. (We say that, but jumping in the winter is only for the really adventurous.)

No skydive experience is necessary. The cost is $3495 and includes skydive video. For more information about our US skydive adventures, visit our website.

Maggi Sends Malaysians to Moscow

This month, four lucky contest winners from Malaysia enjoyed a VIP, hands-on tour of Star City. They met a cosmonaut, sampled space foods and discovered what it's like inside a Sokol space suit. Other stops on their tour of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center included a visit to the Star City Museum and Mission Control Center.

If you'd like to train like a cosmonaut or simply take a behind the scenes tour of legendary Star City, call or email Greg. Lots of options are available, from underwater spacewalk training in the hydrolab to a high-g adventure in the centrifuge.

Adventures in Using a Company Credit Card

Recently, the good folks at Master Card decided to implement new card security procedures designed to make it tougher for people to make fraudulent charges to credit cards. Basically, they've made it harder for someone in another country to run a charge on your account.

We know they mean well, but the new procedures have now made using our company credit card in Moscow a lot like playing a game of Russian roulette. Sometimes the card works fine...other times it doesn't.

We'd like to offer a word of advice: Call your credit card company and/or bank before you leave your home country. Let them know you may be using your card outside the country and the dates you'll be gone. That way you can minimize the risk of having your card denied at a local ATM or restaurant and the hassle of calling your bank from outside the country to sort out the problem.

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Celebrate Space April 12

Celebrate Yuri's Night 2008! On April 12, 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space. And on April 12, 1981, the US Space Shuttle made its maiden voyage.

That's why a group of space fans thinks April 12th is a great day to host a space party. They've created an annual event known as Yuri's Night and celebrated around the planet.

For more information about Yuri's Night, visit the Yuri's Night website. And, if you'd like to train like a cosmonaut at the training center named in his honor, remember...Incredible Adventures can make it happen.

DC-3 To Appear at Sun 'n Fun

Pilot Dan Gryder will be flying his Herpa DC-3 to Lakeland, Florida for this year's Sun 'n Fun Fly-In. The annual aviation event draws thousands from all over the world.

This year's show takes place April 8-13 and the USAF Thunderbirds are among those scheduled to perform. If you find yourself wandering around Sun 'n Fun looking at planes and exhibits, be sure to look for Dan and the big red DC-3.

If you'd like to schedule a flight in the DC-3 when it's back home near Atlanta, let us know. An introductory flight is $2150.

Dive Tiger Beach in May

Our next Bahamas Tiger Shark Adventure is set for May 17th. Space is still available if you'd like to come face to face with some very big sharks. We'll depart from Old Bahama Bay Marina, located on Grand Bahama Island's West End and depart for an area 20 miles offshore known as Tiger Beach. No dive experience is required. We use a surface shark cage and a hookah system. That means you'll be just below the surface of the water and breathe from an air hose on the boat.

The cost to cage dive is $875. If you'd like to see big sharks but prefer the view from the boat, the cost is $375. For more information, call or email today.

Just One Place in the World

There is only one place in the entire world where you can fly the legendary MiG-29. That's in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia's third largest city, at the Sokol Aircraft Building Plant.

Incredible Adventures is proud to be the only non-Russian company authorized to sell flights.

Our most popular MiG-29 adventure sells for $23,000 and includes just about everything but your airfare to Moscow.

For more information, click here or contact MiGManGreg.

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