National Geographic Top 25 inspiring places for 2021

You probably miss the opportunity to be able to reach amazing places. But the good news is that after the 2020 break traveling might give you even more impressions. Hopefully, you prepare and start planning to treat yourself to some truly special spots. Here are some ideas! National Geographics suggested the 25 most inspiring travel destinations to visit in 2021. So let's see the list:

1. Katmai National Park, Alaska, is a National Park in southern Alaska, which includes 18 volcanos and is known for its brown bears.

2. Dominica is the youngest island in the Lesser Antilles, which continues to be formed by the geothermal-volcanic activity of Boiling Lake. With the leafy rainforests, xeric areas, nine active volcanoes, waterfalls, black sand beaches, 365 rivers Dominica has become a home for many rare animals, birds, and plants.

3. Los Glaciares National Park, Argentina, is the 1,722-square mile park near the border with Chile. Is a mountainous area with 300 glaciers and subantarctic forests. Hikes among the waterfalls, ice caves, and underground rivers are like in no other place on the Earth.

4. Svaneti Region is a historic Georgian province inhabited by an ethnic subgroup Svans. Four of the highest Caucasus peaks are in this region. Deep gorges covered by the forests separate the mountains.

5. Tulsa, Oklahoma, is the place for one of the most severe incidents of racial violence in the US. In 2021, Tusla opens a hub for discussions on race planning to host special speakers, concerts, and events.

6. Pueblo Nations, New Mexico, is a location to support Native Americans in the American Southwest with the monuments to oppressors as Don Diego de Vargas and Po’pay.

7. Guam, in 2021, has the 500th anniversary of Magellan’s first circumnavigation of the globe, actually a tragic event when a lot of Indigenous Chamoru people were killed.

8. Gyeongju, the Republic of Korea, is a city in the southeast of the Korean peninsula with numerous archaeological sites from 57BC to 935 AD. Gyeongju National Museum represents gold, silver, and bronze jewelry and artifacts excavated from tombs.

9. Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spain, being the historically commercial and cultural center of medieval Castile, now hosts legendary jazz artists during Vitoria-Gasteiz Jazz Festival organized each July.

10. Tonglu, China. Painting of Tongu “Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains” from 1350 by Huang Gongwang is the first in traditional Chinese shanshui painting. It brought the world’s fame to the location and inspired a new art festival to be organized here in 2021.

11. Isle Royale, Michigan, is an island of the Great Lakes with 450 surrounding islands make up Isle Royale National Park. The park has 18 mammal species, wolves, and moose. Isle Royale has about 170 miles of hiking trails with different difficulty levels.

12. Cerrado, Brazil, is a tropical savanna ecoregion with a high level of endemism, including over 10,000 species of plants and giant animals like 650-pounds boardlike tapirs, armadillos, and anteaters.

13. Lord Howe Island, Australia, is a volcanic island in the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand, allowing only up to 400 tourists at the same time to protect the isolated ecosystems. The tiny island is often compared to paradise.

14. Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, is the capital of Canada’s Northwest Territories south to the Arctic Circle on the northern shore of Great Slave Lake. Yellowknife had been known for years as a mining location and closed the last one in 2004. One of the world’s richest diamond deposits was found here as well. Probably the biggest treasure here is the northern lights lasting about 240 nights a year.

15. Indigenous British Columbia, Canada, being a homeland for over 200 distinct Nations, is a perfect place to get familiar with Indigenous culture.

16. Space Coast, Florida, is a 72-mile shore with the launch facilities at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Here is the place to walk among the huge rockets admiring Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge.

17. England Coast Path, United Kingdom, is the longest walking trail at the seafront in the world. You may enjoy 2,800-miles of coastal hiking with a fantastic view here.

18. Hortobágy, Hungary, is a 200,000 acres national park and the largest protected territory in the country. Because of the poor soil for farming Hortobágy preserved marshes, meadows, and pasture being the largest semi-grassland in Europe.

19. Transylvania, Romania, known as the homeland of Dracula, is a region rich in mountains, forests, medieval villages, and warm hospitality.

20. Denver, Colorado, is an American city aiming to achieve 100% renewable electricity by 2030 and the results already could be seen

21. Alonissos, Greece, is an island in the Aegean Sea. The area is a true paradise for the divers known as the “Pantheon of shipwrecks” with the first underwater museum in Greece.

22. Gabon is a country on the Atlantic coast of Central Africa on the equator with three distinct regions: the coastal plains, the mountains, and the savanna. About 11% of the country is the territory of the national parks.

23. New Caledonia is the archipelago in the southwest Pacific Ocean with the 500,000-square-mile Coral Sea Natural Park. New Caledonia has the greatest diversity of birds and plants in the world per square kilometer.

24. Copenhagen, Denmark, the capital city of the country, is working persistently to achieve sustainable development goals: green transformation, economical development, and a higher quality of life. There is a lot to see and learn here.

25. Freiburg, Germany, is a university town with the best school on the green practices, which logically makes the area itself very green and innovative.

No matter what the situation is in the world, it keeps moving forward and developing. So plan and explore its values!