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Travel with a Twist

Travel with a Twist

Although the tours included in the Geo Saison ranking are the most unusual, they cannot be called extremely expensive. An almost month-long round-the-world trip from Frankfurt visiting three continents costs Germans €9,000. Slightly more – €10,000 – is a week-long trip to India with a visit to a "Bollywood-style" wedding. So that the dear guests from Europe do not feel like strangers at the celebration of life, they are provided with traditional wedding dresses and suits, and during the ceremony they can sing, dance, and shed tears along with everyone else.

A trip to Thailand can be diversified with seven-day courses on elephant riding, which will cost €650. For tourists who prefer traditional modes of transport and more familiar countries, there is an offer to spend a week behind the wheel on US roads, traversing America from Santa Fe to Los Angeles. The rally's end can be celebrated at the winter carnival in Rio de Janeiro for €6,000.

You can give yourself a fairy tale without leaving Europe. A banal trip to Rome becomes unforgettable if you rent for one day... the Sistine Chapel. Real exoticism is offered by the Berlin Zoo if you go there not during the day like everyone else, but closer to midnight. Especially for late guests, the zoo has a house next to the hippopotamus enclosure. In the company of these clumsy, friendly hosts, those interested can spend the whole night for €500. More refined entertainments have been devised in France. There, anyone interested can be taught painting for eight days for €900. But not just anywhere – in Giverny near Paris, where the garden of Impressionist painter Claude Monet is located.

One of the most expensive trips on the list is a trip to Russia. It comes to a whopping €14,000. However, for that money, tourists will not be unpacking matryoshka dolls or dancing with bears, but riding supersonic fighter jets. More expensive than Russian extreme for Europeans is only diving to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. For €30,000, those interested are taken by submarine to see the remains of the Titanic.