Adventures with kids

A week in the northern Serengeti timed to the migration, watching a million wildebeest decide to cross.

The single most photographed viewpoint in Norway.

The most reliable place in Europe to see free-ranging bison.

The visual shorthand for the entire Alps.

The birthplace of alpinism, and the highest cable car in Western Europe.

Croatia's oldest and most photographed national park, UNESCO-listed since 1979.

Continuously erupting, permanently in the news, and visible from most of eastern Sicily.

A point break town with a wave and a school for every level.

The 'blue hole of Abisko' — a rain-shadow microclimate with unusually clear winter skies.

A thousand-year-old pilgrimage route and the most walked long-distance path in the world.

Five days on Australia's west coast timed to the coral spawn, when the largest fish on earth arrive to feed.

Four days through Fiordland to Milford Sound, on a track with fifty walkers a day and no more.

A UNESCO site that looks structurally impossible in every photograph ever taken of it.

Five days on the Nakahechi route through cedar forest to the three grand shrines of Kumano.

The most ridden long-distance cycle route in Europe and the template every other one copies.

The only lift-linked circumnavigation of its kind, and the anchor of the Dolomiti Superski network.

Europe's first World Surfing Reserve.

The Soča's colour is genuinely unlike any other river in Europe — it's the reason people come.

Five days down the Krutynia — a hundred kilometres of clear shallow river linking lake after lake.

A UNESCO biosphere reserve holding the continent's biggest pelican colonies and over 300 bird species.

Poland's most visited mountain destination and the country's default postcard.

The archetypal Adriatic island seascape, minus the crowds on the main island.

The best realistic odds of seeing wild wolves in Central Europe.

The largest interconnected lake system in Central Europe and a rite of passage in Polish summer culture.

One of the only places left where you can realistically track wild pumas.

Hundreds of short bolted routes within a day trip of Kraków.

A sandstone plateau cracked into corridors narrow enough to turn sideways for.

A desert of sand advancing several metres a year on the Baltic coast, which has already buried one village.

A working market hall, not a tourist food court.

Poland's best-decorated cave, opened by a quarry blast in 1966 and full of cave bear bones.

A wooden raft poled through a limestone gorge by men in embroidered waistcoats, then the climb up Trzy Korony above it.

Both an easy show cave and real wild systems, five minutes apart.

Flat, easy forest running for recovery days between harder trips.