The best tours and travel experiences that immerse you in a destination in 2025
Travel awards: immersive
Would you like to go to a safari in Southern Australia? Are you a spiritual journey in Bali or a deep diving into the history of Washington DC? From an award -winning light show on a Queensland Island, our immersive category prizes are really celebrating the experiences that connect you to a place and the people. This curator list is for those who want a holiday at the depth of every moment for learning, growth and transformation. Continue to read the traveler awards in the immersive category for our 2025 winners.
Monarto Safari Resort, South Australia
After providing a place for the postponement of beloved captive animals for a long time, the zoos around the world finally wandered around for people and luxury. Opened earlier this year, one -hour driving distance from Adelaide, in the middle of Africa’s largest open -range Safari Park, there are better examples than Monarto Safari Park, a 78 -room hotel. One -day spa, restaurant and bar, not one, but two outdoor swimming pools. If this is not enough, a separate luxury lodge with glamping tents will be opened next year to another part of the facility. Everything can stay in Monarto for longer, and with a significant comfort, including a valuable wildlife, including a pachyderm flock that has been happy from traditional zoo in other parts of Australia and New Zealand. To see Monartosafariresort.com
Insight Cities Tours
Would you like to know what David Bowie is doing when he disappears to hide in Berlin? Have we been interested in Budapest under communism known as the “happiest barracks ında in the Soviet block? Do you like to hit Mozart and Beethoven’s high notes of Vienna? Insight Cities tours offer a different different groups and special tours-Hepsi, usually managed by expert guides with doctoral and main level qualifications. Presentations – Passion is full of passion, disrespect and good humor when walking, riding on buses or trams and trams. These are people in love with their cities and this enthusiasm is contagious. To see Insightcities.com
Anantara Ubud Bali Resort, Bali
In these five-star facilities, in a half-hour facility from Ubud, the lush environment is everywhere-it seems to be hung on the valley and tree hills with the glorious views of volcanoes. The facility is a major player in local protection projects and offers trips with settled natural scientists who discover the surrounding villages, agricultural areas and the forest on the Abang Volkan Mountain. A waterfall walk takes you to an unspoiled place. You can also be directed through water treatment rituals and other Hindu rituals in the temples that give a great idea about this important part of Bali culture. To see anantara.com
Nanuku Resort, Fiji
Fiji may be one of the most admired holiday places, but the All-Fiji staff holding the key to the real luxury in Nanuku Resort in Viti Levu: Culture, Family, Land and Sea. A secret they are willing to share offers an authentic journey to the Fiji lifestyle to guests staying in 37 sections, villas and residences. A warrior welcome, from the fiji culture to the Fiji culture Nanuku, from welcome to the farm trips to lunch. In the Children’s Club without a Cut, children can learn that they will play drums and island style like a warrior; Guests can participate in the restoration of reef and mangrv; In fact, the Wellness program is managed by a Fiji hero with a Fiji hero with Olympian and Commonwealth bronze medal twice in Judo, Sisilia Naisiga. Bulla vinakaPure and simple. To see nanukuresort.com
Black Broadway Tour, Washington DC
There is more than the White House and the National Shopping Center in the US capital. Jump to the Metro to the Shaw neighborhood of DC and take the gilded age of the late 19th century in an African-American. The writer and local historian Briana Thomas’s walking tour takes its participants on a journey through one of the most dynamic periods of African-American music and culture. The neighborhood, also known as Black Broadway, is home to the Howard Theater and Lincoln Theater, and hosting artists such as Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong. Learn how the black population of the region develops without discrimination laws. To seeBlackbroadwaytravel.com
Illumina, Kingfisher Mr. Resort, K’acari
The environmentally friendly Kingfisher Bay Resort on K’gari (Fraser Island) has been welcoming guests since 1992, and in the same year, the island went to the UNESCO World Heritage List. Since then, a series of new experiences, dining options and recently continued to develop with Illumina light show. Special for guests, Return to Sky It is a 20 -minute sound, light and laser show every evening. He tells the story of creation, renewal and renewal, designed by international light artist Bruce Ramus in consultation with the people of Butchulla. One minute wetlands seem to be red painted and cracking with fire, the rotating eye of the next blue cyclone. If you’ve visited before, but if you need a reason to return, that’s all. To see Kingfisherbay.com
Aurora Safari Camp, Sweden
Inspired by Kenya Bush camps, this all -inclusive Wilderless Lodge, who looks at the Rane River in Sweden Lapland, is an hour’s driving distance from the coastal city Lulea. A common dining room, three teepee -style cabin and two futuristic glass roofing capsules, the flashy charm of the facility is a floating camp. The detached pontoon anchoring in a quiet, forest-curved bay is asleep and has an open kitchen, a sauna, an open wood-fuel bath and a fire. Perfect for families or groups, all surrounded by striking forests and lakes, SAUNA Sessions and support shadows that end up with an immersive network. To see aurorasafaris.com
Aiguille du midi, France
Aiguille Du Midi is a physical challenge that carries from the summit of a 3842 -meter -high mountain in France’s magnificent Chamonix Valley. The complex reached by a cable car holding the world record for the highest vertical ascension, a few interesting exhibitions on mountaineering, and a nerve test called for a gap hanging on a 1000 -meter decline. On an open day, open -air observation decks provide panoramic views of some of the other 4000 -meter plus peaks of Mont Blanc and Massif. And if you’re lucky, you’ll be trained for the coat Blanc summit of climbers and climbers who scaled the surrounding cliffs. To see aigulilledumidi.montblancnaturalresort.com
Wollemi ridge retreats, nsw
Gulled by a passionate young couple with roots in the region, this Bilpin -based immersive withdrawal withdrawal is a excitement and technological connection for the senses and a spell of nature -based reconciliation spell. The package contains all dishes, all experiences and accommodation in a well-equipped tent fried with micro-fireplace. Everything comes about the region and night festival fires, evening trail, glowing, locally ground chestnuts using wooden ground beef workshops, adjacent permaculture operation, farm tours and a route focusing around the shrubs and cottons walking into the channel. You will be renewed, reign and ready to press a little smoother. wollemmiridgereTreats.com
Culture Island Discovery, Hamilton Island
The newest cultural tour of the Hamilton Island, which is special to the island guests, offers a deep personal perspective to Whitsundays’s rich indigenous history – a luxurious history lesson (including sofas and champagne). Passengers were first whipped to Hook Island on a 55 -meter luxury engine, where a trekk uphill, leads to the oldest and most remarkable rock paintings of Eastern Australia between the ages of 9000 and 12,000 years. Re -explaining Congoo’s deep knowledge of indigenous flora and fauna and his experiences of Queensland missions as members of the stolen generation of his own family, fascinating but sad. To see Hamiltonisland.com.au
Travel awards contributors: Kate Allman, Kate Armstrong, Flip Byrnes, Justine Costigan, Jim Darby, Anthony Dennis, Ben Ground Water, Jenny Hewett, Belinda Jackson, Kerry van der Jagt, Julietta Jameson, Trudi Jenkins, Brankins, Brian Johnston, Ute Junker, Ute Junker, Catrina Loblat McFarland, Justin Meneuzzi, Julie Miller, Jane Redy, Jane Richards, Katherine Scott, Craig Tansley, Lee Tulloch, Sue Williams, Riley Wilson.
