If you are going on vacation, you can study the rating of hotels in Turkey or choose a sightseeing tour in Europe. This is what hundreds of tourists do every year. But there are those who prefer relaxation, radically different from the usual.
It is for such travelers that they are intended the most unusual destinations in tourismpresented in our today's Top 7.
7. Polar tourism
The sun, palm trees and sand have long become boring? Welcome to the kingdom of eternal snows and polar night! Tours to the Arctic or Antarctic are becoming increasingly popular with fans of extreme tourism. By the way, visiting at least the south, at least the north pole is not a cheap pleasure. After all, the road, equipment, and even spending the night in an insulated tent made of especially durable tarpaulin are expensive.
6. Tours to the sunken ships
It can be both ancient sailing ships, and warships of the Second World War, and the legendary Titanic. Someone wants to feel like a treasure hunter, someone wants to feel like a brave explorer. Such tours are the best places for diving, for people who are tired of exploring exclusively the flora and fauna under water. By the way, this year the place where the notorious Costa Concordia cruise ship sank was especially popular.
5. Ecological tourism
Visiting corners of the planet untouched by civilization has been gaining popularity since the 1980s. This ecological tour involves the rejection of all the benefits of civilization and complete unity with nature. Down with cars, smartphones, hair dryers and even mosquito sprays! A loyal follower of eco-tourism will never bring along anything that could disrupt the ecology of the chosen place. Kenya, Laos, Tanzania, Nepal, New Zealand and South Africa are the leading eco-tourists.
4. Gastronomic tourism
National cuisine can tell about the culture and other features of a country no less than museums and other attractions. You can just try dishes from different countries, or you can choose a more highly specialized tour - cheese in France or a beer in Germany. True, in the countries of Asia and Africa, fans of gastronomic tourism should still restrain their own appetites so as not to shock the organism pampered by European cuisine.
3. Cinematographic tourism
Traveling to the places of shooting your favorite movie attracts many lovers of unusual holidays. For example, Tolkien fans literally in droves travel to New Zealand, where the Lord of the Rings starred. No less popular with movie tourists and Malta, where they shot "Troy", "Gladiator" and "Game of Thrones." Fans of Soviet cinema often choose a route to the locations of the shooting of “17 Moments of Spring”, which took place in Latvia, Georgia, Russia
2. Jailoo-tourism
This direction has much in common with ecological tourism, but is even more extreme. Jailoo-tourism involves living together with the tribes that have preserved the primitive communal system. In addition to abandoning all the benefits of civilization, a tourist will be immersed in an unusual and sometimes shocking atmosphere. Most often we are talking about the tribes of Oceania or Central Africa. But Russians can choose, for example, tribal tourism on the high mountain pastures of Kyrgyzstan.
1. House Exchange Tours
This unusual type of tourism is becoming increasingly developed in Europe. Its essence is simple - going to rest in another country, you should find a person planning a vacation at the same time. Tourists simply change houses and for a week or even a month go sightseeing and get acquainted with the culture of the state without spending money on paying for hotels. For those who want to temporarily exchange houses, there are many specialized sites on the Internet. So the owners of the house in the Ural village have every chance to change for a week or two with the owner of the villa on the Spanish coast.
