Travel experts’ top experiences on the road
Earlier this year we asked for your ultimate travel experiences – you responded in your thousands. Here, travel experts and celebrities share their top moments
Earlier this year we asked readers of Wanderlust travel magazine and users of the Wanderlust website to share their top travel experiences… Ever! Check out the final top 100 list here. How many have you tried?
We want to know what has been your top travel experience of 2011… Post yours below.
Steve Backshall, adventurer, author and TV presenter
1. See the Himalayas
The Himalayas are the most overpowering place on the planet, the place that makes you feel most insignificant. I’ve spent a lot of time in the Himalayas. There’s nowhere else like it.
2. Explore the Amazon rainforest
Swim with pink river dolphins. See giant bird-eating tarantulas. It’s the most vital place on the planet and it’s disappearing at a frightening rate.
3. Dive with sharks
Somewhere, anywhere around the world. Whether it’s great whites or reef sharks – it doesn’t matter. Put your fears aside and see these extraordinary fish in the wild. They are nowhere near as dangerous to us as most people think.
4. Find bubble-netting humpback whales in Alaska
Watch pods of humpback whales catching vast shoals of herring. They work cooperatively – 15 whales each over 30 tonnes in weight, crashing to the surface and swallowing tonnes and tonnes of herring. It’s probably the most impressive wildlife spectacle on earth.
5. Spend a night out in the desert
Deep desert, miles from anywhere. The sky just seems to have been rinsed clear. You can see every single star. It’s so silent it seems to roar in your ears. It has a beauty, a desolation and wonder about it that is very spiritual.
