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You have been watching it. You could be standing in it.
Sixteen trips, each one grown out of a camera in this app. Every one says when the light is genuinely best, computed from five years of real weather at that exact spot, and separately when the thing you are going for actually happens. Those two answers often disagree, and the disagreement is the useful part.
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Animals
6Places where the reason to go is alive and does not know you are coming.
4 nightsUSThe salmon run at Brooks Falls
Katmai National Park
The most watched wild animals on the internet, in front of you.
from $6,800 per person, worth about $275 to us if booked
5 nightsCAPolar bears waiting for the ice
Churchill, Manitoba
Six hundred bears in one town, and the aurora directly overhead.
from $8,200 per person, worth about $332 to us if booked
6 nightsNAThe waterhole at Okaukuejo
Etosha National Park
You do not look for the animals. You sit still and they arrive.
from $4,600 per person, worth about $186 to us if booked
6 nightsKEThe crossing in the Mara
Maasai Mara
Two million animals moving, and the light to match.
from $6,200 per person, worth about $251 to us if booked
5 nightsZALeopards in the Sabi Sand
Sabi Sand, Greater Kruger
The best place in the world to see a leopard, and it is not close.
from $5,400 per person, worth about $219 to us if booked
6 nightsCRScarlet macaws on the Nicoya
Punta Islita, Nicoya
Wild macaws that were put back, and a coast almost nobody reaches.
from $2,900 per person, worth about $117 to us if booked
Water
4Reefs, swells and fjords. Half of these are best watched from dry land.
6 nightsBZThe barrier reef off Placencia
Placencia, Stann Creek
The second largest reef on earth, ten minutes off a wooden dock.
from $3,200 per person, worth about $130 to us if booked
4 nightsPTThe winter swell at Nazare
Nazare
The largest waves ever surfed, from a clifftop fort above them.
from $1,900 per person, worth about $77 to us if booked
6 nightsUSThe North Shore in winter
North Shore, Oahu
Seven miles of the best surf on the planet, watched from the sand.
from $3,400 per person, worth about $138 to us if booked
5 nightsNOThe Sunnmore Alps
Hjorundfjorden, Sunnmore
Mountains straight out of black water, and no cruise ships.
from $3,000 per person, worth about $122 to us if booked
Light
4Trips where the sky itself is the thing you have come to see.
5 nightsISThe aurora over the Golden Circle
Selfoss and the south
The easiest aurora on earth to reach, and a waterfall every hour.
from $3,100 per person, worth about $126 to us if booked
4 nightsUSCondors over Big Sur
Big Sur, California
Ninety miles of cliff road, and the largest bird in North America.
from $2,400 per person, worth about $97 to us if booked
IDThe cliffs at Uluwatu
Jimbaran and the Bukit, Bali
A temple on a cliff, and the sun going into the Indian Ocean behind it.
from $2,600 per person, worth about $105 to us if booked
4 nightsGBThe Pembrokeshire cliffs
Pembrokeshire
The only coastal national park in Britain, and puffins on an island.
from $1,500 per person, worth about $61 to us if booked
Pilgrimage
2Built for groups. Forty people is a normal booking in both of these.
6 nightsBAMedjugorje, on foot
Medjugorje
A million people a year walk up these two hills barefoot.
from $2,100 per person, worth about $85 to us if booked
7 nightsILJerusalem, and the light on the stone
Jerusalem
The stone turns gold twice a day and has done for three thousand years.
from $3,300 per person, worth about $134 to us if booked