Get Lost Under Supervision: American Company Offers 'Survival Vacation'

Many people travel to get away from all their problems or just to relax. But there is a separate type of travel that will give you an unforgettable experience and will definitely tickle your nerves. What is Get Lost and how you can get lost while being watched, the publication said. The Washington Post.

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The adventure challenge Get Lost takes travelers to a mysterious place, where they are left alone in a remote place. Depending on the terrain and the duration of the hike (under remote supervision), its cost can start from $ 10 and go up to six figures.

Travel company Black Tomato introduced the concept of a kind of blind vacation for a vacation with elements of survival in 2017. But with an emphasis on isolation, Get Lost appears to be built specifically for travel in the COVID-19 era.

“During the various lockdowns, unable to travel, I craved adventure,” wrote New Yorker Ed Keysar.

Black Tomato co-founder Tom Marchant said the company has produced several of these dressages in the past year. This was mainly the time when people in isolation contacted them to plan their post-pandemic adventures.

“This idea has received a huge response over the last 18 months,” he said.

Marchant, who came up with the idea of ​​"losing" customers, was thinking about this when he considered ways to help people truly relax in the digital age.

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There are many leisure and even survival options for travelers looking to cheer themselves up. In recent years, more and more companies have started offering blind rides such as Magical Mystery Tours and Pack Up + Go.

“But that combination of not knowing where you're going, the challenge and the incredible experience is still unique,” ​​Marchant noted.

At Black Tomato, travelers can choose how lost they want to feel and how much they are prepared to be surprised by their temporary habitat. The company's website features a wide variety of locations (polar regions, jungles, coastal areas, desert or mountainous areas). You can even surprise yourself and let someone else choose for you.

Destinations include Iceland, Namibia, Morocco and even the United States. In most cases, travelers do not know where they are going until they receive flight information. Marchant said that if they fly in a private jet, they may get off the plane and not know exactly where they are.

For Esther Spengler, 33, a housekeeper for a military family, the only demands she had were to go somewhere warm and away from the United States.

Spengler discovered the service while looking for a custom anniversary event. When her husband offered to stay with their two children so that she could rest alone, Esther realized that this was a chance to revive her long-dormant thirst for adventure.

In about 18 months, Spengler saved up money for a 10-day trip to Morocco, which she said cost about $ 13.

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In October, she flew to Marrakech and continued her journey by car into the mountains. Esther described the journey as "a very enjoyable abduction with coffee breaks." After a couple of days of training (lessons in navigation, lighting a fire, the ability to build their own shelter) Spengler was left alone for three days. She was as "on her own" as possible.

“There was a moment when the attendant really lost me, and I was very proud of that,” Esther said of a situation where she took the wrong path and actually got lost. “He said that he almost had a heart attack because of me.”

Despite the blisters, Spengler was delighted with her adventure.

“It turned out to be truly incredible and much more than I could have imagined,” Esther noted.

Back in Mississippi, she applied her newfound skills to lighting a backyard fire in showing her daughters how to do it right. Esther now hopes to turn her navigational skills into a career as she joins the Army's National Guard.

That is, according to her, she would like to do the work that her guide did during the trip.

Marchant noticed that many travelers who book such trips go on an adventure with a sense of accomplishment.

“We make people feel abandoned,” he explained. “And at the end of the extreme, they know that they have achieved something, they have a feeling that they have been rewarded.”

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