10 dream holidays to give you an adrenaline rush – extreme skiing, a safari on foot, abseiling down the world’s highest waterfall

If your appetite for adventure is as big as your pockets are deep, after months cooped up because of Covid-19, we have just the experiences for you

How about eight days on camels through Oman’s Empty Quarter, two days abseiling down Venezuela’s Angel Falls, skiing down some volcanoes or to the South Pole?

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Tourists get ready to kayak on the shore of a fiord in Hordaland, Norway. After months of inactivity, adventurous holidaymakers will be eager to get the adrenaline pumping on trips like this. Photo: Shutterstock

Published: 8:15pm, 6 Sep 2020Updated: 4:47pm, 9 Sep 2020

Rest. Recharge. Relive past trips and maybe make a photo book of your travels. All good advice to fill time at home, but what about your next trip? When travel restrictions are lifted and the borders open, where will you go, and what kind of traveller will you become?

After an extended period of isolation many of us are going to want to do something active. Any of the following suggestions should get the blood pumping again.

1. Go e-mountain biking around Namibia

After a few months indoors even some of the most accomplished cyclists would need a little help when ascending sand dunes.

H+I Adventures participants heading deep into the Namib Desert. Photo: H+I Adventures

Cue electric mountain bikes, which on this 12-day tour from H&I Adventures is how you’d explore some of Namibia’s less travelled red dirt roads.

These range from the Skeleton Coast to the Huab River, and pass through indigenous communities and beneath star-filled skies, with sightings of wild giraffe, zebra, oryx and river elephants guaranteed. The tour costs US$5,075 per person for 11 nights’ accommodation, most meals, guided tours, transfers and support vehicle (flights are extra). The next trips will run on August 8 and October 3, 2021.