Travel Secrets May-June 2015 | Page 30

BLACK BOOK Our pick of the most useful travel websites, bloggers, books, movies & more... PULSE-POUNDING LANDINGS Princess Juliana International Airport, Saint Martin Ladies and gentlemen, fasten your seatbelts and wave to the sunbathers. Don’t be surprised if you hear this announcement as you land. The Saint Martin island offers a unique low-altitude landing exceptionally close to the Maho Beach. Flying just a few feet above cool blue waters and cheery tourists in swimsuits—fun or frightening? You decide! Ice Runway, Antarctica It’s like landing a plane inside the movie “Frozen.”But this is no fantasy—your very real airplane will fly over glistening wintry landscape and touch down on a sea-ice runway strip called “Blue Ice.” This one of kind flight can be experienced only during the short summer when the sea-ice breaks out. 30  Travel Secrets May-June 2015