The world’s an endlessly vast place for exploration. And the more you travel, the more ground you realize you have yet to cover. With that in mind, here are a baker’s dozen of places—close, far, known, and relatively obscure—that you should visit in the coming year.
We’ve included everything from islands to icecaps, so check off a resolution for 2013 and book a ticket to one of these hot destinations across the globe.
4. Kenya
Kenya is one of the best places for Safari year round. The big five (lion, elephant, buffalo, leopard, and rhinoceros) roam freely and frequently through the large expanse of the Maasai Mara in the south and the lesser known Aberdere National Park in central Kenya. Stay in the park at The Ark, a wooden building with long walkway fashioned after Noah’s that’s equal parts kitsch and hunting lodge. A feeding trough outside the main dining and gathering areas draws animals around the clock. Expect everything from warthogs chasing away leopards looking for lunch to elephant sex shows. (Really.) Or try the mara at the ultra-luxe Kicheche camp, where three-course meals and bottomless cocktails are de rigueur—as is the mandatory armed guard escort back to your tent at night.
When to go: June—the beginning of Kenya’s winter—which is one of the best times for Safari.
--Chris Kompanek
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