If you feel it's time for something a bit more adventurous this year, men's website askmen.com has come up with a list of the top 10 exhilarating activities for 2008:

1. Trekking to Everest's South Base Camp in Nepal: It's the adventure of a lifetime. Start at Kathmandu before making your way to the Khumbu Valley towards the South Base Camp.

You'll take in the Khumbu Icefall, Sherpa villages, the Namche Bazaar, and a number of Buddhist monasteries.

2. Walking the Great Wall in China: The world's longest man-made structure stretches over 10,000 kilometres from Shanhaiguan in the east to Lop Nur in the west.

It's a great way to soak up the country's history, culture and breathtaking scenery but you'll need stamina to keep up -- not for the weak.

3. Hiking the Inca trails in Peru: Hiking 45 km in the Peruvian Andes, you'll come across the stunning ruins of the long-forgotten Inca city of Machu Picchu. Like Indiana Jones, you will cut away foliage with a machete, cross deep ravines, scale flights of stairs, and pass through the crumbling passageways built by the Incas thousands of years ago.

4. Camel trekking in Morocco: Embark on the adventure of a lifetime in the Sahara Desert, on camel. Starting in Marrakech, follow the ancient camel caravan routes through the desert to Jebel Saghro and up towards the dunes of Erg Chebbi, camping each night beside a crackling fire at small, palm-fringed oases.

5.Tandem skydiving in England: It involves being strapped to an instructor as you leap out of a plane.

6. Cage diving in South Africa: Forget the movie Jaws. You'll be in a robust cage as the king of the deep approaches, with its gleaming white teeth, dead black eyes and torpedo-like body.

7. Bungee jumping in Zimbabwe: You could just appreciate the beauty of Zimbabwe's Victoria Falls with a walking tour -- or, for the more daring, bungee-jump from Victoria Falls Bridge.

8. Motorcycle trip up Highway 1: There are few road trips that manage to pack in the best of both the natural and the man-made worlds, but a motorcycle trip up the road linking Los Angeles and San Francisco does just that.

9. Running with the bulls in Spain: Running away from a bull during the nine-day San Fermin festival in Pamplona, Spain, is one of the most exhilarating activities an outsider can do.

10. Ice fishing in Ontario: If you've ever wanted to catch your own fish straight from a hole in the ice, try Lake Superior. Travel to Algoma Country, then bait up, cast your line and wait for something juicy to bite which can then be cooked over a crackling fire.