Are sports and activities covered on backpacker insurance policies?

If you are off on your gap year to wild and exotic destinations and want to broaden your horizon's trying some adrenaline filled activities, do not forget to check what activities are covered when considering your gap year travel insurance policy.

When purchasing any type of backpacker insurance you must insure that the adrenaline filled fun you have planned will be covered and you are not left high and dry, possibly literally.

Activities such as bungee jumping , jet skiing and paragliding are unlikely to be covered as standard under many travel insurance policies.

It is likely that most backpackers travel insurance will only cover you for more standard activities, but if you really want to put your nerves to the test holidaysafe.co.uk has a hazardous activity option available that will cover you for things like paragliding, scuba diving to 30 metres and sky diving. All of the backpacker and longstay travel insurance policies that we do include a number of activities free of charge.

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