25th Wedding Anniversary Travel Destination Ideas

We have our 25th wedding anniversary coming up at the end of September, but we
still cant choose where to go, we have looked at Rio, Bali, Vietnam, India, Maldives and many
others but still cant choose.

Does anyone have any ideas please, Mrs Intel likes it warm, nice pool, beach, and site seeing
me....I do mind, but it's not everyday you celebrate your 25th so I want book somewhere
special, but time is running out :(

 

Maldives is good for couples. No children, nothing whatsoever to do except relax and enjoy the view, paddle in the lagoon, and go out snorkling / diving - assuming you choose an island that is a decent distance from the capital. You get there by small seaplane, so best avoided if you will hate being tossed around the air like a cork on the sea!

I loved Bali, but its a heck of a long time ago and some folk that I know who have been more recently said "too touristy" ... I went with a Backpack on US$10-a-day aged 20 so saw it from a different perspective

We went to Tanzania on safari for our 25th, to two camps off the beaten track (one of them way way off! and on game drives we only saw the other couple of couples who were staying in the same lodge). Happy to recommend them, but sounds like you would prefer to narrow your choices, rather than widen them! We've done African safari a few times, and for us that is the one that we could do every year and still get a buzz out of. There is beach that you can do too - either Tanzania or Zanzibar (although we found Zanzibar just typical of all inclusive beach resorts, and below our expectations; although there is siteseeing there too - where the Brits still conducted slavery sales after slavery had, to all intents and purposes, been abolished; depressing, but yet fascinating and the locals clearly see it as part of their history)

I would say Kenya too, as we have loved the game in the Masai Mara but the coast [Mombassa] is not without risk at present ... Masai Mara stretches into Tanzania too, but for example the Ngorongoro crater is now very touristy.

 

Maldives:


Taxi


View from the taxi


Jetty


The bar


Chez Nous


View from back of our hut, across the lagoon


Snorkling


Housekeeping

 

Thanks for the reply Kristen, we went to Bali in 98 and our Daughter is out there now doing
volunteer work as she is a English Teacher and she is loving it there.

Has anyone been Rio please, the only off-putting thing is that we like to spend a day on the beach, then a day by the pool and then a day sight seeing, it just breaks it up a bit, problem is that the pools are on the hotel roof tops (as your in a city) its somewhere to cool off but not to spend the day there.

The other appealing place is South Africa, I have been there twice now with work , but September is only Spring time there and can be cold in the evenings

Goa is also appealing but its the wrong time of year to go there and the same with Sri Lanka, we have already been to Cebu Philippines and also Thailand but I will say that Vietnam looks
very nice and maybe also be on the short list as well

 

I think @shiney has been there?