Best adventure destinations

The ski and alpine benchmark — every other mountain range is measured against this.

A handful of islands where the landscapes and the ocean genuinely earn the flight.

Fjords, volcanoes, glaciers, beaches — in one country.

Wilderness on a continental scale — Rockies, coast, and the cities between.

Surfing, rainforest, volcanoes, and wildlife in extraordinary density.

Fjords, northern lights, midnight sun — utterly unlike anywhere else.

Machu Picchu, the Sacred Valley, Lima's food scene, and the Amazon.

The winter trip — aurora, huskies, and snow — with saunas the whole year round.

Seventeen thousand islands of volcanoes, reefs, and temples — the most varied country in Southeast Asia.

The most dramatic landscapes on earth.

Serengeti, a volcanic crater full of animals, Kilimanjaro, and Zanzibar — in one country.

The complete package for warm-climate travel.

A continent pretending to be a country — cities, deserts, and the best national parks anywhere.

The largest sheet of falling water on Earth, with a town on either side.

Vast, varied, relaxed. Reef, Sydney, and proper wilderness in one.

Warm, affordable, endlessly deep — beach, wellness, and culture in one place.

Geysers, glaciers, northern lights, hot springs.

The most concentrated mountain scenery in Europe — and you'll pay for it.

Dubai and Abu Dhabi: superlatives, desert, and a stopover worth a few days of its own.

Green volcanic islands in the mid-Atlantic, half-empty and gloriously weird.

A reef-and-jungle two-parter where everyone speaks English.

The most exclusive safari in Africa, built around a flooded desert.

The sailing capital of the Caribbean — sixty islands, short hops, and a bar you swim to.

A steep, green volcanic island in the Atlantic — spring-like all year and built for walkers.

A self-drive epic through some of the emptiest country on Earth.

The Himalayas. Trekking that changes how you see scale.

The calm, scenic alternative to the Gulf — wadis, mountains, and empty desert.

One hour, face-to-face with a gorilla family, in the easiest and safest place to do it.

The Alps done properly — skiing, hiking, and Vienna for the culture.

A continent of a country. Pick two or three things and commit.

Overwhelming, beautiful, and utterly unlike anywhere else.

Medinas, desert, mountains, and coast — sensory and varied.

Island-strewn cities in summer, aurora and snow in the far north.

Seven hundred islands of impossibly clear water, from cruise-port Nassau to the empty Out Islands.

The cheapest serious travel on the continent — and the highest.

A mountain range in the sea — France’s wildest island, where the Alps meet Caribbean-clear water.

Cheap flights, warm sea, and a lot more country than the resort brochure admits.

The pyramids and Luxor — unmatched ancient sites.

Reef diving, island-hopping, and a country that takes hospitality seriously.

Two islands in one — a rainforest volcano on the left wing, beaches on the right.

The most characterful island in the Caribbean — and the one that asks a little more of you.

Petra alone justifies the trip.

The original safari, plus an Indian Ocean coast to land on afterward.

The Arctic winter fantasy made real — northern lights, huskies, snow, and the original Santa.

Bali’s quieter neighbour — the same warm sea and volcano drama, with a fraction of the crowds.

A big-distance island epic where nine-tenths of the wildlife lives nowhere else.

An expedition across the empty steppe to one of the last nomadic cultures on Earth.

Over 7,000 islands and the best beaches in Asia.

The Caribbean with a US plug socket — old-city romance, rainforest, and a bioluminescent bay.

Newly open, and the most surprising trip in the region right now.

Cape Town, safari, and wine country in one self-drive trip.

Beaches, ancient ruins, tea country, and wildlife in one compact island.

Three islands, one national park, and no passport needed if you hold a US one.

The dry, breezy Caribbean island that sits below the hurricane belt — sunshine you can actually bank on.

The last intact Himalayan Buddhist kingdom, on its own terms.

East meets West in one small, absurdly cheap country layered with living history.

Seven Mile Beach, world-class diving, and the smoothest logistics in the Caribbean — at a price.

A 4,000km country of deserts, wine valleys, lakes, and southern fjords.

Andes, Amazon, Galápagos, and colonial Quito — packed into a small country.

Maya ruins, volcano hikes, and a lake ringed by villages — cheap and intense.

Far more than package beaches — turquoise coves, a UNESCO mountain range, and one of the Med’s best cities.

A canal, a real skyline, Caribbean islands, and cloud forest — all inside one small country.

The most atmospheric, least touristed corner of Europe — at a fraction of the price.

The Mediterranean’s best beaches, wrapped around a wild, ancient interior most visitors never see.

The most dramatic-looking island in the Caribbean — two green volcanic spires rising straight out of the sea.

One of the great beaches on earth, and not a lot else — which is exactly the appeal.

The best shore diving on earth, outside the hurricane belt, with flamingos in the salt pans.

The Nature Island — a volcanic rainforest with a boiling lake and almost no beaches.

Central America’s comeback story — world-class surf, volcanoes, and prices nobody has caught up to yet.

Eighteen green, cliff-walled islands in the North Atlantic — grass-roofed hamlets, waterfalls off the edge of the world.

The Arctic at its most overwhelming — city-sized icebergs, silent fjords, and almost no one there.

Costa Rica’s wilder, cheaper neighbour — volcanoes, colonial cities, and empty surf, for a fraction of the price.

The Indian Ocean’s answer to Hawaii — an active volcano, roadless canyons, and world-class hiking, on French soil.

The place to look a mountain gorilla in the eye — plus the classic savanna safari, on far quieter ground.

Pink-sand coves and a very British subtropical island — a two-hour hop off the US coast, not the Caribbean.

The lagoon of your dreams, at a fraction of Bora Bora money.

The most characterful of the Dutch ABC islands — a candy-coloured capital, below the hurricane belt, over great diving.

The Spice Island — nutmeg, a genuinely lovely harbour capital, and no crowds.

France in the tropics — rum distilleries, a volcano, and food that takes itself seriously.

Rome-grade ruins, real Sahara, and blue-and-white coast — a cheap hop from Europe.

The most accessible corner of nomad Central Asia — high alpine lakes, yurts, and horses, for almost nothing.

A UNESCO fortress, a sugar-train railway, and a two-mile channel to a much quieter island.