Right now, hundreds of hot-air balloons are lifting off over Albuquerque for the International Balloon Fiesta, which wraps up tomorrow, Oct. 11.

If you can’t make it there this weekend, there are still plenty of places to see the world from above. From Mexico to Turkey, these seven spots swap helicopter noise for a wicker basket and a slow drift over some of the most jaw-dropping landscapes on the planet.

Iceland’s Laugavegur Trail runs roughly 34 miles from the steaming, rainbow-streaked hills of Landmannalaugar to the glacier-ringed valley of Þórsmörk, with black-sand deserts and icy river crossings in between.

Paul Sullivan spent five days on the trail, and his photos might have you pricing flights to Reykjavík.

Glacier-carved coastlines, desert canyons, tropical rainforest: the US has range, and the view from your tent flap depends entirely on where you pitch it.

Here are 60 of the prettiest, picked with help from the camping app The Dyrt, Matador staffers across the country, and local parks and tourism boards.

Forest bathing, the Japanese practice of slowing down and taking in the woods with all five senses, doesn’t require a flight across the Pacific. Jackson County, around Sylva, North Carolina, is the only place in the US with two certified forest therapy trails, including the country’s first fully accessible one: a paved path along the Tuckasegee River.

Wild horses still roam across North America, from desert basins and Wild West mountain ranges to the beaches of Assateague Island and the remote sandbar of Nova Scotia’s Sable Island.

Here are eight places to find them, and how to see them responsibly, whether by kayak, by Jeep, or on foot behind the dunes.

Five minutes from Yosemite’s south entrance, in the stoplight-free hamlet of Fish Camp, Waybound Yosemite puts the park’s giant sequoias within easy reach without making you rough it after a day on the trail. Expect porch-side cabins, creekside hammocks, s’mores by the fire, and some of the darkest Milky Way skies in the Sierra.

The Matador Editorial Team

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