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HIDDEN SECRETS: NATUUR
Being in nature is good for the body and mind. Do you want to get away and find yourself? These are a few places where you can do just that.
Spending time in nature is good for body and mind. Do you just want to get away for a while and relax? These are a number of places where you are one with nature.Online editor: Natasha Hendriks
Tree Hotel
Really want to get away completely? Then go to low-stress Sweden. Here in the northern forests you will find the Treehotel. Named Best Themed Hotel in the World by World Travel Awards in 2020. You will not soon forget this unique experience. How to get there: from Stockholm you fly to Lulea Airport and from there you drive to the virgin nature of the Treehotel. In a Bob Ross landscape you will find the coolest 'rooms' high in the trees in genuine Swedish design: Mirror Cube, Cabin, Birds Nest, UFO, Blue Cone, Dragon Fly or the Seventh Room. Each one is a gem of private buildings with an uber-cool look & feel. Climb up to your own sanctuary and enter a world where time has stood still. Experience what peace, space and silence can do for you. And yes: comfort everywhere, including underfloor heating. Quite nice when it's freezing 20 degrees outside. With the occasional wild animal foraging below. Britta and Kent are ready to give you a warm welcome in the restaurant. And to point out the Northern Lights that set the night sky ablaze especially for you.
Expedition cruise
The ice is melting. And without ice, no more bears. So go see them now! ExperienceTravel offers a ten-day small-scale expedition cruise that takes you along pack ice and through drift ice along the beautiful nature and glaciers of Spitsbergen. In addition to seals, walruses, whales, arctic foxes, reindeer and all kinds of seabirds, the binoculars are of course aimed at spotting polar bears. As photographer Stephen Wilkes (represented in the Netherlands by ARTITLEDcontemporary) spotted and captured this couple.
Greenland
The Greenland ice sheet is an immense white desert: almost 2.400 kilometers long from north to south, 1.100 kilometers at its widest and an average of 2.135 meters thick. It is a special experience to walk around this landscape of white dunes. Or to fly over it. A bucket list wish par excellence. Something you have to experience and can still experience now. Because in the future Greenland could really be green. The ice is melting rapidly: worldwide temperatures have risen by one degree in the last ten years, and in Greenland by as much as seven degrees.
