Bucket-list trips: expeditions, polar voyages, safaris, treks and the places at the edge of the map.
Basel’s new Christmas village, a lantern trail in Crans-Montana, Stoos’s bathtub race and a skating path in the Engadin: Switzerland’s new winter, with dates.
Oku Japan's new four-day self-guided walk in Chichibu, about two hours from Tokyo, gives clients a rural shrine-and-forest add-on without a domestic flight.
Alicia Loveday · Oct 22, 2026Ilulissat's new airport opens on 29 October. The ice it puts within reach moves 19 metres a day, and sounds like nothing else.
Andrew Lovesey · Oct 22, 2026Jasper National Park is a Dark-Sky Preserve of more than 11,000 km², and two years after the 2024 wildfire most of the park is open for winter stargazing.
Andrew Lovesey · Oct 21, 2026Brazil's dune-and-lagoon park is one of its most-shared landscapes, and since April 2025 Canadian, US and Australian visitors need an e-visa. Timing is everything.
Jessie Isberg · Oct 20, 2026From mid-November to March, hundreds of manatees retreat into Florida's 22°C (72°F) springs. Here is where to see them, and the rules for getting in the water.
Catherine Crowe · Oct 20, 2026Peru now sells Machu Picchu as fixed, timed routes with hard daily caps, so the order you book things in matters more than ever.
Alicia Loveday · Oct 15, 2026Whirlpool Jet Boat Tours runs 45-minute rides into the Niagara Gorge's Devil's Hole Rapids from Queenston, Ont., and Lewiston, N.Y. Here's how to plan the ride, whichever season you go.
Andrew Lovesey · Oct 15, 2026Ponant's 2028–29 Antarctic season has 12 itineraries, from 10-night Peninsula trips to a 59-night circumnavigation that leaves Ushuaia on 11 January 2029. Here's when to go, what documents Americans need and how to choose.
A 17-day centenary voyage follows the RCMP schooner St. Roch from Kugluktuk to Greenland in September 2028. Here's what it costs, how you get there, and how to see the ship in Vancouver first.
Andrew Lovesey · Oct 14, 2026More than 3,500 km of groomed trail, reliable snow and hotels that open onto the network. How to plan a snowmobile trip in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, and why to buy your trail pass in October.
Antarctica21's 2028-29 season has 47 fly-the-Drake air-cruises from Punta Arenas, with up to US$5,000 per person off Classic…
The second Art Basel Qatar runs 28 to 30 January 2027 with 82 galleries and 80 solo shows…
Ilulissat's new airport opens on 29 October. The ice it puts within reach moves 19 metres a day,…
CERVO opens an eight-seat Edomae counter and a village coffee bar in Zermatt this December, giving Virtuoso advisors…
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