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15 Adventures For Winter's Discontents (PHOTOS)

Posted: 01/11/2012 7:30 am

January. Those four frosty syllables are enough to send a chill down the spine of even the greatest optimist. But it doesn't have to conjure thoughts of days spent indoors and gray skies. We here atBlack Tomato won't allow it.

Let us use January as a staging post for adventure and start filling in our 2012 calendar with adventurous itineraries. These trips included the spectacular, the overlooked and the spectacularly overlooked. From Bhutan to Iceland to Belize, there are incredibly things to be done in 2012. Here is a tasting menu of the journeys this new year has to offer.

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Bhutan is officially the happiest place on earth. The mysterious country refreshingly holds Gross National Happiness more important than Gross National Product; get spiritual by heading to Tigers Nest to meditate with the monks.
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January. Those four frosty syllables are enough to send a chill down the spine of even the greatest optimist. But it doesn't have to conjure thoughts of days spent indoors and gray skies. We here atBl...
January. Those four frosty syllables are enough to send a chill down the spine of even the greatest optimist. But it doesn't have to conjure thoughts of days spent indoors and gray skies. We here atBl...
 
 
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12:35 AM on 01/13/2012
though these all seem like amazing once-in-a-lifetime experiences..they also seem kind of disruptive to that particular environment to be honest..

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IndyGuy
Et tu, Brute?
07:00 PM on 01/11/2012
Yeah, I'll get right on to those destinations---not! Do these people who write such articles know most people can't even afford a vacation?!
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Bogey907
Mongo only pawn... in game of life
05:21 PM on 01/11/2012
Good call on the PI. Mabuhay!