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What could be better for the jet-lagged, stressed-out traveler than a spa visit? When you are finally prone on the massage table and your face is nestled into the cradle, you know you can safely “turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream,” as John Lennon sang.

If the treatment happens to be a massage at Kupu Kupu Barong Villas and Tree Spa in Ubud, Bali, your last vision before drifting into semi-consciousness is a perfect bowl of rose petals in water that is placed beneath the face cradle. Not bad after flying 8,000 miles.

The world has a delicious menu of spa treatments. In a new slide show on Bing Travel, we explore the classics. Blue Lagoon Spa in Iceland encourages you to soak in geothermal brine. Les Bains de Marrakech in Morocco is the place to experience the hammam, a particularly vigorous massage that will leave your skin as soft as a slow-cooked tagine. Tanjung Aru resort in Borneo serves up a green tea scrub and volcanic mud wrap along with your massage and facial.

Relaxation is a beautiful thing, but you can also visit a spa to get your life back on track. Places like Canyon Ranch in Tucson, The Ashram near Malibu, Calif., and The Ananda Spa in the Himalayas focus on wellness and lifestyle changes. Visit them, and you might take home the best souvenir of all: a new you.

Have you enjoyed a classic spa treatment in an exotic locale? Share your blissful experiences with other spa aficionados in the comments section.

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What could be better for the jet-lagged, stressed-out traveler than a spa visit? When you are finally prone on the massage table and your face is nestled into the cradle, you know you can safely “turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream,” as John Lennon sang.

If the treatment happens to be a massage at Kupu Kupu Barong Villas and Tree Spa in Ubud, Bali, your last vision before drifting into semi-consciousness is a perfect bowl of rose petals in water that is placed beneath the face cradle. Not bad after flying 8,000 miles.

The world has a delicious menu of spa treatments. In a new slide show on Bing Travel, we explore the classics. Blue Lagoon Spa in Iceland encourages you to soak in geothermal brine. Les Bains de Marrakech in Morocco is the place to experience the hammam, a particularly vigorous massage that will leave your skin as soft as a slow-cooked tagine. Tanjung Aru resort in Borneo serves up a green tea scrub and volcanic mud wrap along with your massage and facial.

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When I was little, my idea of cruises was shaped by the TV series “The Love Boat”: I saw cruise trips as happy but staid experiences, where you had quite a bit of sedate fun but did little out of the ordinary. To put it mildly, I was wrong.

The new Bing Travel slide show, Wackiness on the Waves, illustrates that point beyond a doubt. This gallery presents just a few of the activities that will help you get silly at sea — perhaps flinging yourself into the air on a bungee cord, sipping a martini in a bar that's also a certified elevator, riding a zip line from one end of the boat to the other, or getting slimed on a Nickelodeon-themed cruise. I’ve always found that it’s the out-of-the-ordinary moments that I remember best and enjoy most on my vacations — that’s why you call them extraordinary, after all — and these activities definitely qualify.

What are the wackiest things you’ve participated in on a cruise? What oddball activities would you like to see? Share your ideas with your fellow fun-loving travelers in the comments section.