Petra and Wadi Rum, Jordan:
Built by the nomadic Nabateans two millennia ago, rose-red city of Petra, "lost" is really worth. The ancient commercial crossroads of rock hewn in the rock is located between the Red Sea and the Dead, which is about 100 miles north of King Hussein International Airport. Follow the 3300 meters in length, winding path through the input-sik, towering sandstone walls of the Al-Khazneh (Finance). Finely carved, 13-story tomb was the last home of the Holy Grail in 1989 film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. The empty caves, visit the archaeological museum and the Nabateans, and walk 800 steps to the top of El-chief (monastery). Peter, to the south of Wadi Rum ("Valley of the Moon"), setting of the desert valley of Lawrence of Arabia, where local Bedouin for climbing trips, canyon jeep tours and horseback riding on camels and horses. Highlights include the red sand dunes and spectacular rock formation Seven Pillars of Wisdom, TE Lawrence, the latter called his autobiography. End the day in the open air, to sleep in a Bedouin-style camp in the desert tour.
Lake Placid, New York:
Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics in two years, but online games are available for all ages and fitness at Olympic venues in New York, the famous Adirondack village. It took place in 1932 and 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid offers visitors the opportunity to run the postal bean ice with a professional driver and an inhibitor by mixing cross-country skiing and riflery skills in the shoe, "How biathlete" The speed of the lesson and the Olympic Oval, where the legendary Eric Hayden USA has won five Olympic gold medals for the first time in 1980. Parents and children can experience how it can be an Olympic athlete in the Gold Medal Edition Family Games. Friendly match starts with the torchlight procession and concludes with the awards ceremony. Activities include ski / snowboard race at Whiteface Mountain, curling and hockey slap shot contest at the Olympic Center and Olympic biathlon shooting range. February 18 to 26 looking for a quick athletes on the ice in 2012, Bob and Skeleton World Championships.
Cuba:
One is to change the travel policy of the Treasury in 2011 citizens of the U.S. government sanctioned the involvement of "people-people" tour group a chance to take a fresh look torcedores or a cigar factory Partagas cigar rollers in the legendary L "Havana, walking the boulevards of Paris in Cienfuegos and Cojimar , location on the sea Pulitzer Prize Ernest Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea visit. Only specially authorized operators, including National Geographic, could lead to a cultural exchange trip to Cuba from the United States. Previous visits to the communist nation of the island, the U.S. embargo is limited to relatives in Cuba to the People people travel does not require any family ties, but also the daily list of educational activities (not lounging by the pool at the luxury villa) as baroque cathedral tour of San Cristobal de La Habana, and examine the list of UNESCO World Heritage Old Havana Consequently, Trinidad and Valle De los-Ingenios environment with local residents. Journey are often tailored to specific areas of educational interest, such as Afro-Cuban culture and cuisine, photography, film or music and dance.
Coast of Namibia:
Dunes, eerie shipwrecks, and many migratory birds and sea birds attracts ornithologists and adventurers lasting 976 miles to the south of the Atlantic coast of Namibia. From November to April Summer is here where the ancient Namib Desert meets the cold Benguela current. Days of cool, damp and foggy, but mostly dry. The coastal town of Swakopmund, to fly-in. Safari through the sand-covered shipwrecks and skeletons of whales remote Skeleton Coast National Park View, or join the tour Sandwich Harbor lagoon, Marine Reserve unit stands dunes sandboarding trip protected dunes and a visit to Walvis Bay, the bay, where thousands of flamingos, large and small. From the bay, from canoes to dolphins seal colony at Pelican Point. Namibia recently and largely inaccessible part of the national park, Sperrgebiet ("exclusion zone") covers 5.4 million acres of southern coast including the famous De Beers diamond diamond mine lease. Limited License, manuals, is restricted to certain sites of the park, such as the dramatic, 180-meter stone arch in Arco Rock.
Chiapas, Mexico:
Hidden in the jungles of Mexico's southern state of hazy, volcanoes, lush indigenous communities, and spectacular Mayan ruins. Chiapas is home to the Pre-Hispanic City and National Park of Palenque, the Maya built between 200 and 600 AD. Glare of world cultural heritage huge palace complex and the great temple of Palenque Inscriptions pyramid crypt housing Pacal the Great. Culture in the capital of Chiapas, Spanish colonial waterfront of San Cristobal de las Casas, cobbled streets and book a tour of nearby villages Tzotzil Mayan language, including the San Juan Chamula and Zinacantan, famous traditional village clothing wool Backstrap looms . Sends the winter dry season and the annual harvest of coffee beans. Some organic coffee plantations along the Ruta del La Cafe, geotourism project in southwestern Chiapas, offer tours, workshops, accommodation and meals. Located in a registered family together Aargau Finca Resort, under the canopy of the jungle near the border with Guatemala.
Antarctic Peninsula:
Austral summer along the Antarctic Peninsula brings intense sun at noon the temperature range (20 ° C on average), and meets a rich flora and fauna, cold, windy world, high continent and dryer. From November to March, a group cruise for a few weeks of ice-free coastal areas, usually from Ushuaia, Argentina, the southernmost city in the world. Tours can also no longer young chicks seals and penguins in the Falkland Islands and sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia, where 30 million nesting birds, including the legendary wandering albatrosses show. There are no countries in Antarctica, which is managed by an international treaty in 1959. Residents of a small group of leading researchers in a friendly, Adelie, chinstrap and Gentoo, killer whales and killer whales and leopard seals and Weddell. Guided nature walks, as they offer onboard National Geographic Explorer kayaking around icebergs, hiking on the ground in the midst of thousands of penguins and ice-skating spectacular walks. The change of wind, weather, water conditions dictate and daily trips to be flexible and to dress in layers (protected by a waterproof, windproof outer) quickly adapt to any adventure.
Miami, Florida :
White sand beaches, warm restaurant and club scene and party non-stop complex Snowbirds moving to a "gateway to Latin America," South Florida each year in the winter. The population of Greater Miami-Dade County is 65 percent Latino, international art, fashion and entertainment, vibraphone and unique rich Latin culture. From January 13 to 15, in a retro-hip Miami Beach Art Deco Weekend, with lectures, visits, and a street party on Ocean Drive half the world's largest (800 buildings) collection of art deco architecture. February highlights include the Coconut Grove Arts Festival, to open February 18 to 20 represented more than 330 artists and craftsmen to laid-back beach community and the Food Network South Beach Wine and Food Festival February 23 to 26. Emeril Lagasse, Rachael Ray Duff Goldman and celebrity chefs among the headliners of the four days of lectures, cooking demonstrations, festivals and tastings. As from March 11 to 70 000 participants in the Miami International Film Festival, New International and Ibero-American directors, producers and talent in the city.
Fernie, British Columbia :
Fernie Alpine Resort is the area of Kootenay Rockies of British Columbia in the epicenter of the "Powder Highway", cycle 530 miles with more than 50 operators of ski and snowboard. New polar peak gives rise to the top of the Fernie greatest vertical in the Rockies at 3550 meters, the highest ski slopes at 140, and most of the alpine bowls to 2,550 hectares, more than five rounds. Resort and Old Town adjacent mountains are favorites with Hollywood producers, from the idea as a backdrop for the Disney movie Santa Baby, there is a plan in November 2012. Private slope side accommodations (including a cabin and a whirlpool in the cult of The Time Machine Hot in the Jacuzzi) provide a convenient ski-in ski access to the legendary powder of Fernie. Mountain Resort celebrates 50 years in 2012, and most winter weekends, special events, such as snow Kokanee Dreams Festival, January 28 to 29 to spend. Raw, party bridge, non-stop with a live DJ in the area of the glacier and the famous brewer Fernie Hula Competition Hoop. Save travel time of booking flights directly at the international airport in the Canadian Rockies Cranbrook, an hour's drive from the resort.
Palm Springs, Calif :
Coachella Valley is a desert landscape inspired 350-horsepower and more sunny days "Desert Modernism" Palm Springs "of steel and glass-on-block design aesthetic. The hotel is located 110 miles southeast of Los Angeles throughout the year, the art , culture and leisure destination, home to the nation's largest concentration of elegant, mid-century modern architecture. Limitations include the visionary architect Albert Frey, a Swiss film Colony Hotel, a favorite place of Hollywood celebrities, from 1930 to 1960. If you Twinpalms Frank Sinatra in the recession of 1947 and other homes in the cool retro-modern week February 16 to 26, the annual celebration of the city by mid-century modern design, history, culture and architecture. conferences, events, vintage Airstream trailer and a tour and show the public opening of the Annenberg collection in the sunny country. Located near Rancho Mirage, including the derivation of new 15-acre Sun Center of the Earth and gardens, as well as (km hidden behind high brick pink) historic 200-acre estate, where an American diplomat and philanthropist Walter Annenberg in the end, and his wife Leonora, which is located will Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, Bob Hope, and Queen Elizabeth II
Sledding, Frieda-Bergün, Switzerland :
Preda-Bergün 3,7 mile cross country sled sled work in Switzerland and Europe, first longest. Take the Rhaetian Railway in the small village of Prey (approximately 20 minutes from St. Moritz to three hours from Zurich), rent wooden sleds to the station, and hold on tight for travel on the road Albula Pass is closed intoxicating Prey (5900 meters above sea level) to finish in Bergün (4484 meters). The path winds through the tall pines of ice and orderly Swiss farms and villages of the past. Periodic increases the total darkness of adventure and danger. Wear a helmet and goggles ski safety, as well as get a foot in his sleigh winding drive. Snow guns contributes season filled with sledding, but the weather and the hours on the train to Preda. Combined rail-and-slide day pass includes unlimited number of trips back to the starting point to Preda, the size of the course and panoramic views of the surrounding mountain peaks, alpine glaciers during the first peak day.