Canada
Bay of Fundy
The world's highest tides drain whole bays twice daily, uncovering sea caves and flowerpot rocks.
At low water you walk the ocean floor between towering sandstone stacks. Six hours later, boats float where you stood.
Fundy's tidal range rewrites the coast twice a day, from Hopewell's flowerpot rocks to the cliffs and coves of Fundy National Park. Fishing wharves at Alma sell the bay's lobster and scallops between tides, while Grand Manan has wild-harvested dulse from Dark Harbour since 1875. The schedule of the sea sets every itinerary.
Family
Walking the sea floor between the flowerpot rocks is nature's best physics lesson.
Couple
Pair a low-tide beach walk with a high-tide paddle and a wharf-side lobster stop.
Solo
Tide tables and coastal trails give a solo day structure with drama built in.
- Fundy's tides, the world's highest, remake the coast twice daily.
- Hopewell's flowerpot rocks and Fundy park's coves bracket the drama.
- Alma's wharves and Grand Manan's 1875 dulse harvest feed the tidal day.
Dark Harbour on Grand Manan has wild-harvested dulse since 1875.
Alma's lobster wharves sell the bay's catch straight off the boats: scallops, smoked fish, lobster sandwiches.
Tanji Fishing Village
Gambia
The beach erupts each afternoon: pirogues through surf, silver bonga by the basket, woodsmoke everywhere.
Howick Falls and Mandela Capture Site
South Africa
Fifty steel columns resolve into Mandela's face near the road where police arrested him.
Nämforsen
Sweden
Thousands of carvings chiselled into river granite across four millennia of belief.
Durness
Scotland
A triple-chambered sea cave swallows a waterfall whole in Britain's wildest north-west corner.
Québec City
Canada
North America's only walled city folds four centuries of French life into cliff-top stone lanes.
Churchill
Canada
Polar bears walk into town so often it runs a 24-hour bear hotline.
Val-Jalbert Ghost Town
Canada
A seventy-metre waterfall thunders over a mill village stopped in 1927 and carefully woken again.
Dinosaur Provincial Park
Canada
One river bend has yielded dinosaurs by the species, the richest Cretaceous ground on Earth.