10 MOST BEAUTIFUL TRAVEL GIFTS NOW
We’ve got the most beautiful gifts for people you love who love to travel, whether it be by uber-cool train, plane, or supercar! Maybe you can be their beautiful traveling companion??? Check them out below!
1. PORSCHES ON ICE: SWEDISH ICE DRIVING ADVENTURE
If you love a car freak, this gift will definitely make that clear: A Porsches on Ice Swedish Driving Adventure!
This is quite a joy ride -- a drive in a rally-winning 300 horsepower Porsche 911 with studded tires over a slick, frozen lake in the shadow of Mount Åre, in western Sweden. It comes with personal instruction from a world-class rally driving professional.
Ice driving is a technique used by F1 drivers and car manufacturers to test cars to their limits. And it’s super-fun! Drivers are encouraged to push the car to its limit.
Below Zero offers a wonderful experience, with world class instructors.
2. MORGAN LAND’S END TRIALS SPECIAL 3 WHEELER
This gift is bound to get hearts racing. The Land's End Trials Special New 2016 3 Wheeler sports a polished alloy body, and Aero racing Full Morgan windshield, and an interior of quilted Yarwood black leather with burgundy stitching.
Ride on to glory with a 115 hp 2-liter S&S V-twin engine and 5-speed transmission.
Available at Morgan West.
3. MOUNTAIN BIKING THE WORLD’S MOST DANGEROUS ROAD
Want to thrill a thrill seeker? A mountain biking gift package from Gravity can send them zipping down the “World’s Most Most Dangerous Road (aka “The Death Road”). It starts with an amazing view at La Cumbre, 4,700m/15,400 feet high in Bolivia.
The descent twists and turns down the mountain, sometimes with dramatic drops, through low clouds, passing stunning waterfalls. Llamas and alpacas graze without a care. Tiny villages punctuate here and there.
The ride ends at Yolosa, at 1,100m/3,600 feet. For an extra thrill, add on a side trip to the Bolivian Amazon jungle.
Available at Gravity.
4. MUKUL RESORT
Mukul Resort, on the Emerald Coast of Nicaragua, offers a wonderful escape. With an expansive private beach, a David McLay Kidd–designed course, ocean surfing packages, a world-class spa, and more. And for something extra-special, it offers ash-boarding down the side of the Cerro Negro, an extinct volcano.
Add a helicopter excursion to the Flor de Caña rum distillery for a private tour and exceptional rum tastings.
Available via DMS Travel Group.
5. ELEPHANT ADVENTURE: ANANTARA GOLDEN TRIANGLE RESORT
Your nature loving loved one will love getting a travel gift experience at the uber-luxury elephant resort, Anantara Golden Triangle. It sits amidst a lush jungle, perched atop a ridge overlooking undulating hills of Thailand, Myanmar, and Laos.
The resort features an on-site elephant camp where you live among the magnificent elephant families. The babies are so beautiful as they enjoy life in the bamboo forest. The sunset elephant treks are incredible.
Dine on excellent spicy Thai cuisine, washed down by highly aromatic Black Ivory, the world’s most rare and expensive coffee. Indulge in famed Thai massages. Check out the Chiang Rai Opium Museum.
Available via DMS Travel Group.
6. TOP GEAR'S STELVIO PASS ADVENTURE
Thrills make great gifts! Top Gear’s Stelvio Pass Adventure is sure to thrill any racecar love you might love. It’s an adrenaline-fueled journey, in some of the world’s fastest supercars, through the Swiss Alps, along the world’s most thrilling roads.
Truly Experiences offers a perfect adventure-for-two gift package.
It begins nice and easy, with a stay in a top luxury health resort in Davos. Then it kicks into top gear as you get behind the wheel of a supercar and race across the stunning Flüela mountain pass.
Then you cross the border into Italy to drive the Stelvio Pass. Named by Top Gear as the world's greatest driving route, it includes 48 hairpin turns and wonderful mountain views and drives through the heart of the picturesque Stelvio National Park.
You will then head back to Switzerland, passing through the Swiss National Park. Once back in Davos, relax and relive the thrill!
Cars include the Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4, Aston Martin DB9 Volante and V8 Vantage Roadster, Ferrari F430 Spider, and Bentley Continental GTC.
Available at Truly Experiences.
7. GOLDEN EAGLE’S TRANS-SIBERIAN EXPRESS
A journey on Golden Eagle’s Trans-Siberian Express is a beautiful adventure gift. Travel on a ultra-luxury train, on a 12-day tour that spans 1/4 of the planet’s circumference, through 8 time zones between Moscow & Vladivostok.
The trip includes private admission to the Kremlin, a swim in Lake Baikal, the world’s deepest lake, a visit to the Gandan Monastery in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, and more.
Available via DMS Travel Group.
8. BELMOND’S VENICE SIMPLON-ORIENT-EXPRESS
A trip on Belmond’s Venice Simplon-Orient-Express makes a beautiful adventure gift for nostalgia lovers. This glamorous train evokes the roaring 20’s as it journeys from London, to Paris, Venice, and Istanbul. Agatha Christie’s detective Hercule Poirot used to be a frequent traveler.
Available via DMS Travel Group.
9. PANTANAL JUNGLE LOVE
Discover jaguars in South America’s foremost wildlife sanctuary: Pantanal. It’s a UNESCO World Heritage Site and Biosphere Reserve.
Truly Experiences offers a wonderful gift package including 5 nights in remote eco-friendly lodges.
The Pantanal is a biogeographic mixing bowl, including the Amazon Forest, the Caatinga, the Brazilian Savannah, the Atlantic Rainforest and the Paraguayan Chaco. The natural reserve is home to 698 species of bird, 260 of fish, 80 of mammals and 50 of reptiles.
You’ll be guided by local peõa (cowboy) Julinho Andre Monteiro, a native Brazilian with over 20 years’ experience exploring the region and tracking the elusive wild jaguar. All this while helping to protect the endangered jaguar by tracking their movements .
Available via Truly Experiences.
10. THE NEW 7 WONDERS: AROUND-THE-WORLD ADVENTURE FOR TWO PEOPLE
Does someone in your life fill you with wonder? Give the a trip of a lifetime -- a tour of the official New 7 Wonders of the World, as voted for by more than 100 million travelers.
Fly first class, across 3 continents, touching down at each cultural landmark: The Colosseum, Petra (Jordan), Taj Mahal, The Great Wall of China, Chichén Itzá (Yucatan, Mexico), Machu Picchu Christ the Redeemer (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).
The adventure includes 3 days at a 5-star luxury hotel at each of the 7 locations.
Available via DMS Travel Group.
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IMAGE CREDITS:
- Image: Courtesy of Martin Rowe & Below Zero. “Porches on Ice: Swedish Driving Adventure.” Sweden.
- Image: Courtesy of Martin Rowe & Below Zero. “Porches on Ice: Swedish Driving Adventure.” Sweden.
- Image: Courtesy of Morgan West. “Morgan Land’s End Trials Special 3-Wheeler.”
- Image: Courtesy of Gravity Bolivia. Mountain Biking the World’s Most Dangerous Road. Bolivia.
- Image: Courtesy of Mukul Resort. Nicaragua.
- Image: Courtesy of Anantara Golden Triangle Elephant Camp & Resort. Elephant Adventure: Anantara Golden Triangle Elephant Camp & Resort. Thailand.
- Image: Courtesy of Anantara Golden Triangle Elephant Camp & Resort. Thailand.
- Image: by Justin LaBerge. “Stelvio pass.” Switzerland.
- Image: by Franco Vannini. “Passo Flüela.” Switzerland.
- Image: by absoluteczech. “Stelvio Pass Panorama.” Switzerland.
- Image: by Chad Horwedel. “Ferrari F430 Spider.”
- Image: by resakse “Back View.”
- Image: Courtesy of Golden Eagle Luxury Trains. “Golden Eagle’s Trans-Siberian Express.”
- Image: Courtesy of Belmond. “Belmond’s Venice Simplon-Orient-Express.”
- Image: by Paul Williams “Toothy yawn of a Pantanal Jaguar.” Pantanal, Brazil.
- Image: by Rosanetur. “Pantanal.” Pantanal, Brazil.
- Image: by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen. “The Castle (El Castillo) at the World Heritage Site Chichen Itza.” Yucatan, Mexico.
- Image: by Ib Aarmo “The Great Wall - China.”
- Image: Courtesy of Belmond. “Belmond’s Venice Simplon-Orient-Express.”
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- Image: Courtesy of Golden Eagle Luxury Trains. “Golden Eagle’s Trans-Siberian Express.”