Exciting travel destinations nowadays are sought more and more by both adventure seekers and simple travelers. Wherever these exciting travel destinations are in the world, people seek them for a want of more adrenaline-pumped experiences and sometimes just out of sheer boredom.

Below is a new list of extreme and exciting travel destinations that include bungee jumping into the belly of an active volcano in Chile and swimming with the sharks, a feat once upon a time only possible for biologists.

With YOLO being a current trend and mantra amongst travelers, these exciting travel destinations that are sure to get people's hearts racing are certainly worth going to.

These exciting travel destinations are amongst a host of travel ideas for 2014 proposed by Cheapflights, and this is just the beginning if you know where to look.

 

Top 1 Exciting Travel Destination: Chile

Exciting Travel Experience: volcano bungee jumping

What's more adrenaline-pumping than jumping into the mouth of an active volcano? If you are to experience this, you will be jumping in the volcano from a helicopter that's within 700 feet, around 213 meters, of the molten lava of the active volcano. The jumper stays suspended upside down after the jump, traveling 130 km above the simmering crater. Certainly not for the weak, and surely deserves a spot on the top of this list.

 

Top 2 Exciting Travel Destination: Fiji

Exciting Travel Experience: swimming with the sharks

If you thought only biologists from NatGeo, Animal Planet or Discovery can swim with the sharks, think again. Now this exciting adventure can be experienced by you too. In Fiji, there is a place called Beqa Island where divers plunge into the ocean and get to see the sharks up close. Unlike marine theme parks offering the same experience with the sharks through a cage, this experience in Fiji is without barriers. The divers can actually get personal with the sharks without any protection. If you're too worried and you don't exactly have a death wish, don't fret as only largely harmless species like the Tawny Nurse Shark and Blacktip Reef Shark can be met by the divers.

But of course, as a catch, the dive description includes: "The Bull Sharks and the Tiger Sharks however are clearly a class in their own. They are Apex Predators who grow to an impressive size and have a notorious reputation for attacking humans." Well, this truly isn't for the fainthearted.

 

Top 3 Exciting Travel Destination: Mexico

Exciting Travel Experience: base jumping

In Mexico, there's a cave called 'Cave of the Swallows'. Its cavernous insides can take in a high-rise building. Over the years, this has inspired kamikaze adrenaline junkies  to jump inside its belly, with a parachute of course. If you want to experience this, just head on to this cave in Mexico and finally say that you're going to shoot inside the belly of the earth.

 

Top 4 Exciting Travel Destination: La Paz, Bolivia

Exciting Travel Experience: Cycling the Death Road

In La Paz, Bolivia, there's a place dubbed as the world's most dangerous road, hence named 'Death Road'. This treacherous downhill road stretches 64 kilometers. It starts on snow-covered plains and eventually descends to the Amazonian jungle. Not to mention a 3.6-km drop down a sheer cliff face. This sounds more like a video game than real life doesn't it?

 

Top 5 Exciting Travel Destination: Oman

Exciting Travel Experience: Sandboarding

Last but not least in the list is Oman. Sandboarding on its desert sand dunes is popular amongst travellers as the dunes can run up to hieghts of 100 meters. If you're up for a totally different experience, hit Oman's desert slopes with boards, toboggans, or quad bikes.


Exciting travel destinations are listed above to give a little or, let's say a lot, of spice to a traveler's life. So what are you waiting for? Pack your bags. But don't forget that they aren't for the fainthearted.