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January. Those four frosty syllables, that one single word. It doesn’t have to conjure thoughts of self-imposed abstinence and grey skies. Oh no, no, no. Not at Black Tomato. Let us hail in January with a trumpet fanfare by unveiling our ultimate ‘out of office’ list to inspire you this year. We like to think of it as our ‘bucket’ list of the most exhilarating travel experiences we can find, but instead of ‘doing it before you die’, just do it before 2013, when a whole new list will be coming your way.
So if you need some help putting that fresh new wodge of holiday days to good use, then get ready to ink in some of those new 2012 diary pages. Take a look at our dose of inspiration below. On your marks, get set, go….
- Discover Venezuela’s ’Lost World’ the setting of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famed novel. NEW for 2012.
- Make a date with the happiest place on earth: Bhutan, where Gross National Happiness measures the standard of living.
- See the ethereal Aurora Borealis in the remote Lyngen Alps in Arctic Norway.
- Be humbled by the planet’s wildest polar region – Antarctica
- Prepare and eat the world’s deadliest fish – the Fugu puffer – in Japan. NEW for 2012
- Come face to face with the incredibly endangered snow leopard in India. NEW for 2012
- See in the ‘end of the world’ in Guatemala as the Mayan Calendar closes after nearly 52,000 years. NEW for 2012.
- Gain private access to the Sistine Chapel; one of the world’s greatest works of art.
- Hold the world apart scuba diving between tectonic plates in Iceland.
- Celebrate New Year’s Eve twice in one day with a flying visit to Guam and Hawaii.
- Witness a dying art at the west Mongolian eagle hunting festival.
- See Polar Bears in their fragile icy habitat in northern Canada.
- Get an aerial view of the world’s most challenging stretch of coastline; Namibia’s Skeleton Coast.
- Witness one of the natural world’s most breathtaking sights, The Great Migration in Tanzania.
- Watch critically endangered turtles lay their eggs in Tortuguero National Park, Costa Rica
- Witness ancient jungle customs in West Papua at the Mount Hagen Tribal festival.`
- Kick back on your own private island in the Philippines, Robinson Crusoe style. New for 2012
costa rica, west papua, or the phillippines
- Kayak along Belize’s pristine coral reef; the longest in the western hemisphere. New for 2012
- Take a flying safari, travelling the length of Africa from Cairo to Cape Town on a 9 seater light aircraft. New for 2012.
- Dazzle the ears and eyes on the iconic ‘Blues Highway’ following the Mississippi River.
africa, belize or mississippi
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