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Where to go for a serious adventure: 10 of the world's wildest places
21.07.2023 - 08:25 / roughguides.com / Greg Dickinson
In last week’s #RGchat, we asked our Twitter followers to tell us what ‘wild’ meant to them. We didn't expect to get such a beautiful response.
After much discussion on Twitter and Facebook, we've shortlisted ten destinations that offer a taste of true wilderness or, perhaps, just the chance to go wild yourself. Read on for the final list, and a few of your best definitions. For more inspiration about where to go for high-octane experiences, discover the world’s best adventure holidays for 2022.
<p lang=«en» dir=«ltr» xml:lang=«en»>@RoughGuides A1: wild to me is out of my comfort zone. It can be as simple as an over the top party to going to the top of the Burj #RGchat<p lang=«en» dir=«ltr» xml:lang=«en»>A1. To me, a wild place is a place where anything can happen & you never know what to expect. #RGChat https://t.co/ayoK036y2aScotland has some famously wild and remote places. After a recent trip to update the Rough Guide to Scotland, our author Greg Dickinson said: «the Scottish Highlands stir the imagination. From the snow-specked munros of Wester Ross, to the vast blanket bogs of the Flow Country (and not to forget the resident loch-dwelling dragons) this is Britain at its most fantastically wild.»
As @eatlivetraveldr tweeted: it doesn't have to be nature that makes a place wild. There might not be much wilderness visible on the surface of Dubai, but Friday brunch in the city is bound to get a little wild. Craving something different? The Arabian desert, a wilderness of enormous proportions, is right on the doorstep.
When you think wildlife, you probably think of Africa. Whether it's South Africa's Kruger or Kenya's Maasai Mara, there are a wealth of places to see hundreds of species living in their natural habitat. But there are few areas where the landscape teems with life like in the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania. Lions, leopards, giraffes and rhinos living alongside one another makes this crater – the largest caldera in the world – one of the best places in the world to see the big five.
After time spent photographing icebergs and penguins in Antarctica, photographer Nori Jemil described it as a «hostile and pristine wilderness.» We've been sea kayaking and mountaineering in this harsh environment and can confirm: it's an adventure not to be missed.
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One of the hottest places in the world, the Danakil is a curious land where little thrives, apart from the Afar people who live there. Described by Rough Guides author Anton Jackson as "one of the most desolate and inhospitable places on Earth," it's a striking wilderness that's difficult to reach but worth the effort.
If you needed convincing that the seemingly endless sands of the Sahara are worth exploring, look to Wilfred Thesiger, who
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