You can still save 10% off the entry fees of The Global Scavenger Hunt, the 8th edition of the Amazing Race-like around the world travel adventure competition, until December 19th.

The 2011 champions, and current holders of The World’s Greatest Travelers™ trophy,Rainey Booth of Pensacola, FL, and his intrepid partner, Zoe Littlepage of Houston, TX, are ready to take on all travelers in defending their title in the 2012 travel adventure competition. Teams from Canada, USA, Australia and New Zealand are already aboard, making the event truly international!

Frommer's 500 Best Adrenaline Adventures, lists The Global Scavenger Hunt as one of the best adventures around; Peter Greenberg has said that, “Unlike The Amazing Race, this challenge is more about your ability to connect with cultures than speed and agility.” Outside magazine bills it as, “One of the most amazing trips in the world!” And National Geographic says that the event is, “like Survivor, The Amazing Race and the Eco-Challenge all rolled into one except with much more cultural interaction."

All adventurous travelers who want to swim with baby elephants, learn to cook from a Michelin-starred chef, be a part of an authentic archeological dig, or get backstage at an internationally famous opening night event, visit a spellbinding collection of World Heritage Sites, or even lend a hand helping out at a Tibetan refugee camp, and are willing to trust strangers in strange places, should be interested.

But the Early Bird entry fee 10% off discount for the 8th annual around-the-world travel adventure competition is quickly approaching with December 19th being the last date to take advantage of the US$1,000 savings—and maybe buy the best Christmas present any traveler could ever get—a ticket into an around the world travel adventure! The exclusive event is limited to 25 two-person teams.

Participating global-travelers will be also be taking A Blind Date With The World™—a blind date because the 10 countries the competing travelers will be conducting scavenges in is a secret to them!—and only know that the 8th edition of the event kicks off somewhere on the West Coast on April 13th and concludes three-weeks later somewhere on the East Coast with the crowning of The World’s Greatest Travelers™ May 5th.

Because this unique travel adventure has it all, whether you are: an Indian-Jones like adventurer, an arm-chair anthropologist, art lover, a serious foodie, a rabid sports fan, a historian, a frustrated architect, a wildlife addict, a culture vulture, a competitive game player or philanthropist. Today’s travelers thirst for unique personal experiences when they travel, they want authentic, behind-the-scene access to unique events and places, and this travel adventure is all about being global, being authentic and having active up-close personal hands-on cultural experiences—called sight-doing!

“The Global Scavenger Hunt is all about real travelers competing in a real travel adventure doing extraordinary things for all the right reasons—the love of travel, trusting strangers in strange lands, and even giving something back to the planet,” says William Chalmers, the Event Director and travel book author of On the Origin of the Species homo touristicus, “Some have called our event the ‘Olympics of Travel’, and one writer called it a ‘Magical Mystery Tour’.  I liked that one!”