How to visit: Embrace Vietnam’s gorgeous coastal city of Danang on our Treasures of Vietnamtrip or our Vietnam Discoverytrip. Thanks to its airport proximity, Danang is also the gateway to one of the country’s loveliest cities, Hoi An. Danang is also a rising star in Vietnam’s food scene, and is the perfect spot to eat your body weight in just-caught seafood, fragrant noodle soups and fresh rice paper rolls. READ MORE: 5 GREAT DESTINATIONS FOR SOLO TRAVEL IN INDIA Danang, Vietnamĭanang is one of the fastest-growing cities in Vietnam what was once a low-key coastal strip is now an esplanade of high-rise hotels, fancy restaurants, and boutique shops. Or if you’re between the ages of 18 and 29, check out this 13-day Real South India trip! How to visit: For a 16-day adventure through the highlights of South India, check out this trip. But don’t forget to relax either – the laid-back temple town is also a hit with backpackers, rock-climbers, students and more. Magnificently studded with ancient ruins and rock carvings (yes, there’s over 1,600 monuments!), you could explore it for days. Once the seat of the mighty Vijayanagara Empire, this destination straddles both the past and present. We love that this UNESCO world heritage town was included on the New York Times list. READ MORE: WHY YOU SHOULD VISIT THE AZORES, EUROPE’S SECRET ADVENTURE PARADISE Hampi, India How to visit: Check out our new 7-day Highlights of the Azores trip, for a whale-watching tour, fresh Azore cuisine, and hikes aplenty on lava-formed landscapes. The coffee and pineapple plantations also make the trip well worthwhile! It’s located slap bang in the middle of the Atlantic, so you could arguably call this short haul for East Coast US. The New York Times article mentions accessibility and that’s one of the reasons we’ve introduced it. Why Intrepid decided to launch a new trip there, according to Intrepid’s Europe Product Manager, Steph Millington: Consider finding out before the crowds do. So whether you like to sail, surf, bike ride, bird-watch, or swim, Europe’s answer to Hawaii might well be for you. Think volcanic hikes, crater lakes, cascading waterfalls, black-sand beaches, and more. But this spellbinding region of Portugalhas oh so much going for it. The fact the Azores are one of the best places in the world for whale watching is, in all honesty, reason enough to visit. READ MORE: 5 UNIQUE EXPERIENCES YOU SHOULDN’T MISS IN IRAN The Azores, Portugal How to visit: Check out our New York Times-approved Women’s Expeditions, or consider a cycle trip, a food trip, a two-week adventure, or an express trip. And we are all more alike than we may think. That regardless of where you’re from, we are all human. That really is the underlying sentiment of these trips.
They go to the gym, do yoga, get their nails done, keep up with the latest fashion, and are career driven. They are fully integrated into the workforce, young, modern, independent, and highly educated. Our local Iranian female leaders are representative of a large percentage of Iranian women. Why we launched our Iran Women’s Expeditions, from Jenny Gray, the brains behind them:
One trip that we’re most excited about is our 12-day Women’s Expeditions (did we mention they’re featured in the New York Times’ 52 Places to Go in 2019 list?), which we launched in 2018 to give female travellers a firsthand insight into the daily lives of local women.
Iran is still a relatively undiscovered destination, making now the perfect time to visit (particularly for US travellers, who can only visit as part of an organised tour). It’s also one of the most sensory, with its mosaic-covered mosques, calls to prayer echoing across the country, and fragrant scents emanating from spice markets and roadside falafel stands. Is Iran the most welcoming country on earth? All signs point to yes. To celebrate, here are our top 10 picks from their list – and exactly how YOU can travel to each of them. But also because this year’s recently-released list features Intrepid’s very own Women’s Expeditions in Iran. Mostly because it features a whopping 52 (!) places to visit. Their annual list puts all other lists to shame. There are bucket lists and then there’s the New York Times bucket list.
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