Let Your Heart Race
From the world's most dangerous road to the highest bungee jump, adventure trip awaits those who want to feel their adrenaline pumping.
“Life is either a great adventure or nothing else” – Helen Keller.
Plunge from the World's Highest Bungee Jump, Macau
Why live on the edge when you can jump off? The World’s Highest Bungee Jump comes in at 764 feet, and the AJ Hackett Macau Tower sees over 100 jumpers per day. Many visitors to Hong Kong make the hour-long ferry ride over to the Macau free fall (with passports in order to gain entry). Word to the worried: AJ Hackett has never seen an accident. They even offer night jumps – do you dare?
Bike the World's Most Dangerous Road in La Paz, Bolivia
Just an hour out of La Paz, the Bolivian capital, exist a road so treacherous that it’s aptly named ‘The World’s Most Dangerous Road’…and thousands of people pay to bike it yearly. Tour company Gravity takes daredevils to La Cumbre (nearly 4,760 meters) where they start downhill on bikes equipped with double suspension and hydraulic disk brakes. About 300 people die each year while riding this road. Don’t make it 301!
Walk the world’s largest salt flat in Bolivia
Describing the world’s largest salt flat in one word is easy: heavenly. Covering 4,086 square miles and with an altitude of 11,995 feet, ‘Salar de Uyuni’ attracts worldly visitors who dare to make the rugged trek for the reward of the beautiful mirrored images. During the dry season, from May to October, the surface crust of sodium chloride – more than 10m deep in places – is parched and cracked and looks as though it belongs on another planet. But, come the rainy season (roughly stretching between November to April), it is often covered with a shallow layer of water, which makes it hard to tell where land ends and the sky begins.
Sandboard in north Chile’s Atacama Desert—the driest place on Earth
The sandboarding mecca of San Pedro de Atacama entices its visitors to climb up massive sand dunes, strap their feet into a sand board, stand up, lean back and fly forward. Sounds easy enough, right? Not entirely. It's as if snowboarding and surfing had a baby, but without snow or salt water in sight. Unlike snowboarding, there's no such thing as a sand-lift. The workout lies in climbing up the sand dune!
Volcano hiking: Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland
Hiking just isn't exciting enough anymore. The new thing now is to add the risk of volcanic eruption into the equation. One of the best places to embark on this one-of-a-kind adventure is on Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull, a famous volcano which last erupted in 2010, plunging the whole of Europe into darkness. As you climb from sea level all the way to the top you'll be surrounded at all times by sublime, multifaceted scenery, from ash to glaciers. And if you are in the mood for a little more adventure, from April to September it's even possible to ski back down.
From the September 2020 issue of FHM India.
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