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Head out to a whale a lookout on the cliff has already found
Day 2 · Ponta Delgada

The trips you’ll never shut up about.
Built around the things you want to cross off.
Our picks
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Azores: Whales and Volcanoes
8 daysFrom $2,389
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Scotland, by Steam and Sea
8 daysFrom $2,499
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Ireland, Both Sides
8 daysFrom $2,659
8 days
Ponta Delgada → Sete Cidades → Furnas → Povoação → Nordeste
Azores: Whales and Volcanoes
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Edinburgh → Glencoe → Fort William → Mallaig → Armadale
Scotland, by Steam and Sea
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$2,499
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Dublin → Killarney → Dingle → Tarbert → Killimer
Ireland, Both Sides
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See all trips →Which of these would you actually do?
12 things, yes or no. The ones you’d do add up to a trip.
12 to go
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Head out to a whale a lookout on the cliff has already found
Day 2 · Ponta Delgada
02 / 12
Stand under two steel horse heads thirty meters tall
Day 2 · The Kelpies
03 / 12
Ride a horse along the lakes of Killarney
Day 2 · Killarney National Park
04 / 12
Walk up a meadow that stops at a sheer drop
Day 2 · Seceda
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Walk the rim of a crater with a village at the bottom
Day 3 · Sete Cidades
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Ride a steam train over the Glenfinnan Viaduct
Day 3 · Glenfinnan Viaduct
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Go ashore by dinghy on an island everybody had to leave
Day 3 · Great Blasket Island
08 / 12
Sleep in a mountain hut at the end of the road
Day 5 · Tre Cime di Lavaredo
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Taste tea from the oldest plantation still working in Europe
Day 4 · Gorreana
10 / 12
Climb to the foot of the Old Man of Storr
Day 4 · Old Man of Storr
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Hike along the top of the Cliffs of Moher
Day 4 · Cliffs of Moher
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Walk around the Tre Cime at first light
Day 6 · Tre Cime di Lavaredo
None of those 12? There are 73 things worth going for.
One of these becomes the story you tell first. It’s rarely the one you booked the trip for.
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Paddle out at first light to an island built one stone at a time
02
Climb a ski slope built on the roof of a working incinerator
03
Float in the gap between two continents
04
Climb a rock in the middle of a waterfall
05
Sleep in a mountain village snow cuts off most winters
06
Sleep in a fisherman's cabin on stilts over the sea
07
Look down on a needle of chalk a novelist swore was hollow
08
Walk the rim of the crater that gave the world the word volcano
09
Climb a tunnel inside a mountain to a tomb on its summit
10
Climb the steps to a hermitage on a rock in the sea
11
Walk through a gorge of green water on wooden boardwalks
12
Ride every hairpin of the Transfăgărășan to the top
Fine, we’ll just show you the trips.
You’ll arrive knowing nobody, or close enough. That lasts about a day.
8 days
Ponta Delgada → Sete Cidades → Furnas → Povoação → Nordeste
Azores: Whales and Volcanoes
From
$2,389
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5 to cross off
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8 days
Edinburgh → Glencoe → Fort William → Mallaig → Armadale
Scotland, by Steam and Sea
From
$2,499
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5 to cross off
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8 days
Dublin → Killarney → Dingle → Tarbert → Killimer
Ireland, Both Sides
From
$2,659
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5 to cross off
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7 days
Bolzano → Ortisei → Cortina d'Ampezzo → Misurina → Venice
Dolomites: A Night Under the Tre Cime
From
$2,229
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4 to cross off
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6 days
Bilbao → Bermeo → Elantxobe → Lekeitio → Zumaia
Basque Country: Gaztelugatxe, a Gastronomic Society and a Ball Game in France
From
$1,809
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2 to cross off
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8 days
Catania → Milazzo → Lipari → Santa Marina Salina → Lingua
The Aeolian Islands: Stromboli After Dark
From
$2,129
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2 to cross off
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7 days
Kotor → Njeguši → Cetinje → Rijeka Crnojevića → Virpazar
Montenegro: the Bay of Kotor and the Black Mountains
From
$1,749
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4 to cross off
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7 days
Sibiu → Zărnești → Viscri → Sighișoara → Biertan
Transylvania: Wild Bears, the Transfăgărășan and the Merry Cemetery
From
$1,489
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5 to cross off
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6 days
Ljubljana → Kranjska Gora → Bovec → Idrija
Slovenia, Into the Soča
From
$1,589
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2 to cross off
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6 days
Palma → Sóller → Port de Sóller → Sa Calobra → Pollença
Mallorca: Sóller, Sa Calobra and the North Coast
From
$1,749
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6 to cross off
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6 days
Marseille → Valensole → Moustiers-Sainte-Marie → Les Salles-sur-Verdon → La Palud-sur-Verdon
Provence, In Bloom
From
$1,749
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4 to cross off
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8 days
Tirana → Shkodër → Theth → Koman → Fierzë
Albania: Lake Koman, the Alps and the South
From
$1,649
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4 to cross off
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8 days
Heraklion → Elounda → Anogeia → Rethymno → Chania
Crete: Spinalonga, Knossos and Balos
From
$2,069
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3 to cross off
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6 days
Zurich → Lucerne → Brienz → Interlaken → Grindelwald
Switzerland, Through the Eiger
From
$2,439
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2 to cross off
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4 days
Leiden → Amsterdam → Rotterdam → Kinderdijk
The Bulb Fields by Bike
From
$1,059
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2 to cross off
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7 days
Bodø → Å → Reine → Nusfjord → Leknes
Lofoten, Where the Sun Stays Up
From
$2,979
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2 to cross off
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