Luxury is in the experience, as these three travel highlights prove. From super fast to miles high. Every year we collect the ultimate bucket list trips you must have experienced once. This time: 3 winter highlights.Text: Bart-Jan Brouwer and Susan Poeder
Image: John van Helvert and Jeff Bartlett
Through the hamlet of Kangerlussuaq, on Greenland's southwest coast, a bumpy road leads directly to the ice sheet: a landscape of white dunes, glistening in the sun, with playfully winding streams and bright blue mini lakes. Walking there, you imagine yourself a dot on a big white sheet. You feel tiny and grand at the same time. It is an extraordinary experience to walk around in this ice world. Something you have to experience, and now you can experience.
Fifteen years ago, the road reached the ice. Now you have to slog through three hundred meters of debris to reach the ice cap. That's how much has melted away in recent years. If all the ice on Greenland melts, according to scientific research, the seawater will rise by seven meters. Dikes and dunes are no match for that. You cannot imagine the extent of the ice sheet: the cap is nearly 2,400 kilometers long from north to south, 1,100 kilometers wide at its widest, and 2,135 meters thick on average. You get a better understanding of the vastness of this ice mass when you take an Air Zafari plane on a sightseeing flight over the area. Everywhere you look: ice. An immeasurable white plain. So long as it lasts.
Ever skied on black diamond and double black diamond slopes? These colors can be found at Marmot Basin ski resort in Canada. Hidden between the peaks of the Rocky Mountains and close to the authentic village of Jasper in the province of Alberta you will find this versatile ski resort. The biggest difference compared to Europe is the quality of the snow. The chance of ending up in slush here at the end of the day is virtually zero. The climate is subarctic, the air is dry, it never rains: logical that you have real powder snow here. Which also lends itself well to fat-tire biking, one of the fastest growing winter activities in Canada, for which special trails have been established. Top off this unique experience with a stay at the prestigious Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge located on Lac Beauvert, with views of the Rockies from every room.Image: Jeff Bartlett
In the middle of winter, McLaren is hosting the Pure McLaren Arctic Experience. At 320 kilometers above the Arctic Circle, you can test your driving skills on ice and snow in a McLaren. For this purpose, more than one hundred kilometers of frozen tracks have been prepared, good for one of the most varied ice experiences in the world. In addition to drifting on the ice, there is time for a dog sled trek, madcap snowmobile rides and spotting the Northern Lights.
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