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- OK, it might not be the most glamorous honeymoon, but if you're really looking for adventure, it doesn't get much better than the Inca Trail in Peru, leading to the awe-inspiring city of Machu Picchu. The trek itself â where you'll take in amazing Andean views and Inca ruins â takes about four days, and does not require any special expertise or training. While there, you can also canoe in the Amazonian jungle, enjoy the bustling old Inca capital Cusco, and take in the Sacred Valley. A shouldn't-be-missed experience of a lifetime. Check out this holiday from Explore.
- The Red Sea is world-renowned as being one of the most rich and fascinating places to go scuba diving. Why? For it's coral gardens, deep blue canyons and famous shipwrecks like the Thistlegorm and the Dunraven. Sharm el Sheikh offers huge schools of fish and coral-covered walls at the Ras Mohammed and Tiran Island dive sites, while Giftun Island in Hurghada and the stunning Canyon and Blue Hole sites near the romantic resort of Dahab also offer unparalleled diving opportunities and a host of luxury hotels. And you won't be bored on dry land either, what with the blazing sunshine and desert activities on offer, like quad biking and camel trekking. Check out this holiday from Longwood Holidays.
- The ultimate adrenalin junkie's holiday? New Zealand's Queenstown. Here you can go bungee jumping in the place that invented the sport, plus a host of hair-raising antics, including jet boating, white water rafting, diving, mountain climbing, aerobatic flying, luge riding, parapenting, hang-gliding, and swinging through a canyon on the world's largest rope swing. Phew! We're worn out just writing it. Check out this from New Zealand Holidays.
- There's a host of companies that organise fabulous safaris and a myriad of places you can visit in Africa for a magical wildlife-spotting experience, but Kuoni is offering an exclusive trip to the newly-opened Serengeti Bushtops in Tanzania. Located in the breathtaking UNESCO World Heritage Serengeti National Park, it's in the middle of the wildebeest migration corridor, (June to November), and offers a mix of luxury with raw, stunning landscape rich in game. You'll stay in one of the 12 plush, contemporary tents, which include a hot tub, 24-hour butler service and views over the Serengeti. And twice a day you'll enjoy game drives with exceptional guides giving you the chance to track the big five.
Kuoni (01306 747008) offers 4 nights on full board basis at Serengeti Bushtops, Tanzania in a tent, including flights from Heathrow, all meals, house soft drinks, beers, massages, twice daily game drives, airstrip transfers and park fees. Prices for 2011 from £2665 per person, based on two sharing. Check out this holiday from Kuoni. - With over 1000 islands earning it the nickname 'nautical paradise', Croatia in the Adriatic Sea is the perfect place for a sailing sojourn. Whether you want to charter a yacht with a skipper, or take a sailing course, there's hundreds of options – from basic sailboats to gourmet luxury – for taking in its beauiful islands, like Vis, Brac and Hvar. Check out this holiday from Visit Croatia.
- Whether you choose Aspen or Vail, Colorado offers some of the best skiing slopes and scenery in the world. In Aspen, not only can you spend your days swooshing down mountains, you can also splash the cash at a number of high-end shops (think Gucci, Prada, Dior), while keeping one eye open for famous fans of the glitzy resort, like Victoria Beckham and Kate Moss. Star-spotting, shopping and skiing? Sounds like the perfect combination! Check out this holiday from Aspen Snow Mass.
- Forget the beach, how about staying in a cool (sorry!) ice hotel for a honeymoon with a difference? There are a number of ice hotels (in Alaska, Greenland, Finland), but Sweden's Ice Hotel was the first and is still the largest. Here, you'll sleep on a bed of ice in thermal sleeping bags on reindeer skins; take a tour of the Lapland wilderness by dogsled; go on the northern lights snowmobile tour; create an ice sculpture with a professional; indulge in winter activities like cross country skiing or even drive your own reindeer sleigh. And when you're ready to relax, sip vodka in the ice bar, or warm up in the Swedish sauna.
- Stay in an underground hotel, yes that's right, underground, for a really unusual honeymoon getaway. The Desert Cave Hotel in the Australian Outback offers a unique experience, where you can sleep, eat and shop under the surface in the mining town of Coober Pedy. What's more, you can try noodling (mining) your own opal, a well as taking a tour of the rugged Australian outback landscape.
- Saddle up! A horseback adventure can be seriously romantic, especially with the Montana wilderness as your backdrop. Stay in a log cabin at one of the many beautiful guest ranches, where you can go on morning, evening or all-day trail rides, or even camp under starry skies on trips into the countryside, where you might see elk, moose and black bears. When you're not in the saddle, you can go fly-fishing, tell tales around a camp fire, catch a nearby rodeo, or visit the Sun River Canyon. The Triple Creek Ranch offers a five-night honeymoon package, including a luxury cabin, Champagne and chocolates on arrival, massages, candlelit dinners, and even a private hot tub on the cabin deck. Yay or neigh? Check out more holidays at top50ranches.com.
- Imagine a treehouse and you might conjure up images of a makeshift hut from your childhood. But luxury treetop accommodations are springing up all over the world, and Brazil's Ariau Amazon Towers Hotel even has its own honeymoon suite. It's built entirely at the level of the rainforest canopy, which you can tour through four miles of wooden bridges 70 feet off the ground. The hotel also offers bioligical and cultural explorations of the surrounding rainforest. Time to pack your trunk...