We love Wanderlust Magazine and are very excited to see the destinations they have chosen for their 2016 HOT LIST. Jordan, Chile and the Balkans have always been some of our favourites, so it's great to see that Wanderlust agree. Check out what they say about each destination.

JORDAN

“With no visa free and just 4.5hours from the UK you get a surfeit of exotic. The country has surprising diversity and of course the the world’s most astonishing historic sites. It’s safe-as-houses but due to its proximity to troubled neighbours visitor number are down.”

USA NATIONAL PARKS

“Created by an act signed by President Woodrow Wilson in Aug 1916 the Parks are about celebrate their centenary. Parks will be running a range of inspiring events throughout 2016.”

CHILE

“Prices are falling and conservation is on the up. No country can boast the same longitudinal variety as skinny Chile, so stretched it has desert in the north to icy cape horn in the south.”

INDONESIA

It’s cheap and celestially spectacular. From the main getaway you can fly or float off to explore the sprawling archipelago’s ancient spice groves as well as experience village culture, and volcanoes”

COSTA RICA

“Gloriously green Costa Rica has is compact, has a well developed infrastructure and a pleasing leaning towards the eco tourism. The country suits itself to surfers, volcanologists, wildlife spotters and trekkers”.

BALKANS

“It wasn’t so long ago that a trek through the Balkans would have been utterly unthinkable. Albania was all-but closed off from the world until the 1980s. Those dark days had one travel positive: the mountains here remain some of the least explored and most untouched on the continent.”