In honor of the new year, when the whole curious, beautiful world seems to loom expectant with possibility, we asked 22 travel experts: “Where’s the best place you’ve ever been?”
Those we spoke to — among them, the founder of Tiny Atlas Quarterly magazine, the director of the world’s largest adventure travel company and an affordable travel pro — travel constantly and, like all frequent nomads, struggle with this deceptively simple question: How to choose just one?? But after a little hedging and some flip-flopping, they each landed on the one place most etched in their brains — destinations (and experiences) that range from visually astounding to physically challenging to, in some instances, utterly life-changing.