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by Richard Mann

Where the rich will be going during the financial Armageddon

Got $2,565 (Canadian) for a three-day escape from the conflagration? Its money well spent for those who have an awfully lot of it. Let a helicopter whisk you away and deposit you on a beautiful mountaintop in the wilds of the Canadian Rockies. You can avoid that irksome exercise of slogging for miles up a trail to get above tree-line. Instead, Canadian Mountain Holidays can drop you right in the midst of nature’s grand splendor , the Munchkin wildflowers and elderberries, with a cool wind playing at your sweatless back.

Not to be out done, the originator of the heli-hiking concept, White River Helicopters, loads you off to your Sound of Music stage setting, located quite near the famed Trapp family chalet-inn where you can dine and sleep with the moose, the elk, the deer and the marmots, and fly out to do some fishing the next day.  And not to worry, the grizzlies have all been quietly drugged moved killed “sequestered”. It costs a mere $10,000 for two weeks. At a price like that, you can’t afford not to go.

Have you considered Bhutan? If you really want to escape the glowing financial embers of the world, this little haven tucked away in the Himalayas might just be your answer. For a mere $500 a night, you can stay in any of the luxurious hotels while gazing upon the pristine mountains and valleys. Bhutan maintains a very disciplined view of tourism, discouraging ruffians with backpacks and enacting laws to preserve the cleanliness and orderliness of the many Buddhist shrines in the area.

If you’re really in a hurry to burn through your worthless dollar reserves as the fiat system implodes, here are but a few possibilities for getting rid of your paper before it becomes entirely worthless:

The Hotel Du Cap Eden-Rock in Antibes: $30K per day for all you can snorkel and eat

Musha Cay in the Bahamas: $50K per day for 24 guests. Nice mansion, a fleet of yachts, boats and jet skis. It’s owned by illusionist David Copperfield, by the way. He really knows how to make your dollars disappear. Only 32K for 12 or fewer.  Couple it with a wedding and you’re out some serious cash.

Isla de sa Ferradura (a private horseshoe-shaped island in the Mediterranean): 32K for 14 although minimum stay of one week runs $212,700 plus tips. Beats a paper shredder though, doesn’t it?

Then of course there is the possibility that Richard Branson’s plan to send guests into space for $200,000 a pop may be up and running before the dollar tanks, but I wouldn’t bet on it.

So there you have it. If you have a ton of cash to get rid of quick before all of the world’s fiat currency becomes worthless, there are a few very enjoyable ways to spend your time, far from the riots, the looting, and the mob scenes in most major metropolitan areas around the globe.

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