Make your travel experiences really count: choose the places that will give you the best possible memories. Our suggestion: challenge the limits! Whether it’s your own limits that you test in freezing temperatures, or the limits of our world in a spacecraft, the satisfaction that comes with these experiences is tremendous. So pack your bags and choose you next extreme destination.
1. Deep Ocean Expeditions
There are two things you need for a trip like this: money (pots of money) and courage (outstanding courage). You don’t want to be thinking about accidents when you’re 12,500 feet (3,810 m) deep into the Atlantic Ocean. So after you’ve paid your prohibitively expensive ticket, just enjoy the amazing journey that science travel organization Deep Ocean Expeditions has prepared for you. The same craft that took James Cameron’s camera crew to the famed Titanic wreckage are now available to take you and other rich adventurers near the ship for an unparalleled experience.
2. Mount Kilimanjaro
Te world’s tallest freestanding mountain is an inactive volcano in Tanzania, Africa, known as Mount Kilimanjaro. What’s special about this renowned peak is the fact that ascending it doesn’t require special climbing equipment or advanced training. That however doesn’t mean training isn’t necessary at all. Climbing Kilimanjaro is not to be considered a child’s play, because this is an at least five-days adventure that involves a lot of dangers for the ill-prepared, plus altitude sickness and oftentimes extreme weather. However, conquering this mountain will change something inside you forever.
3. Finca Bellavista jungle tree house community
Jungles are never really safe, but the people in the Finca Bellavista community in Costa Rica have found a way to adapt to this environment and turn it into their home. The jungles of Costa Rica have not been affected by the invasive human industries and technologies and they offer a simple, natural lifestyle. Finca Bellavista is a community of tree houses in the jungle, with zip-lines, suspended paths and comfy homes. There are rentals available in this exotic community for travelers who want to live here for extended periods of time and enjoy the life of the jungle.
4. Antarctica, the kingdom of ice
Care to explore the coldest place on Earth? Well, Antarctica is not only the coldest continent on the globe, it’s also the driest and the windiest of all. Life here is almost impossible to sustain, but thanks to the advanced technologies that exist today, humans finally managed to conquer this wild land. It’s mostly governments’ representatives and scientists who come to explore this “kingdom of ice”, but if you have some $60,000 to spare, you too can enjoy an unforgettable trip to Antarctica and the South Pole. And we recommend that you also visit the Princess Elisabeth Station, Belgium’s zero emissions facility that operates solely on wind and solar energy.
5. Mammoth Cave National Park
Kentucky state holds the keys to the world below. The world’s longest cave system, known as the Mammoth Cave National Park, can be explored in central Kentucky. This is a Unesco World Heritage Site and numerous tourists visit the cave every year. But for those who simply don’t like the concept of “barriers”, the cave offers the possibility to explore its sinuous galleries off the beaten track. If you have no claustrophobia issues and the thought of squeezing through small openings of 9-inches by 24-inches doesn’t frighten you, then you should take the Wild Cave Tour. This will offer you the chance experience the depths of this world in a way that many others would find terrifying.
6. Space Tourism
Exploring the depths and the heights of our planet is not enough for you? Then space tourism is the answer! Virgin Galactic (and a few other space companies) are working hard on making space the new luxe destination of the century. Sir Richard Branson’s company has already got four hundred pre-paid customers that are now waiting for their turn to get closer to the stars. One space travel ticket is $200,000 at Virgin Galactic and SpaceShip Two’s maiden voyage will probably take place in 2013. Are you ready for this experience?
