4 of the world’s most thrilling travel experiences

Get a taste for adventure travel with these four exhilarating stories.

Powder hunting in Hokkaido

Meet Julie Nieuwenhuys, a recruitment team lead at Booking.com and Dutch ski journalist, spending her free time chasing feather-light, hip-deep powder around the world.

Together with a ski buddy and photographer Caroline, she has been traveling the world to ski the best powder for several years. The pair met five years ago on a Dutch avalanche course and quickly realized they had the same dream: to ski powder preferably every day. At that time, they put their serious corporate careers on hold and started redefining their lives by becoming ‘ski journalists’, a self-created title. Their stories have since been published in over 15 countries and their pictures have been used in international marketing campaigns in Japan, Canada and the Netherlands.

Recently, they both headed to Japan to carve fresh, deep and dry snow, skiing through dense birch forests on the island of Hokkaido. On this remarkable snow odyssey, Julie skied through areas with no ski patrol (with a local guide, though), down the sides of a smoking volcano, and fully explored the Hokkaido Powder Belt.

Breaking world records in Namibia

In May 2018 three men attempted to run 450km across the oldest desert in the world. The Namib desert had never before been crossed on foot, unaided. Yet a team of ambitious adventurers geared up to complete this monumental challenge in 15 days or less.

These men form a trio of world-class athletes, known as Latitude 35, of which team member Jason Caldwell was the only man to complete the journey and break the world record. Follow them on their journey – exclusively sponsored by Booking.com – as they made human history attempting to cross the Namib Desert.

Scaling mighty Kilimanjaro in Tanzania

Traveller Adam Wilson used to seek travel locations that simply looked different, but now gravitates towards things that you can do that are different. To that end, in 2017 he set out to scale Kilimanjaro, the world’s tallest freestanding mountain at 19,341 feet above sea level.

Climbing this mighty dormant volcano takes you through several climate zones, from desert to arctic, and guarantees an immensely rewarding, unforgettable travel adventure. Not for the faint-hearted.

Running 100 Marathons around the world

When Nicole Mills started to combine her passion for running with her love of travel, she decided to attempt to run a marathon in every state of the USA. One thing led to another and soon 50 marathons became 100, in various countries all around the world. Having run her 100th marathon in Valencia on 19/11/2017, she says each marathon has a different story; watch the video to see her adventure unfold.