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A visit to Sichuan, Qinghai and Shaanxi provinces of China in autumn reveals amazing sights, including incredible encounters with wild golden snub-nosed monkeys that have lost their fear of people.
There is an interesting photograph hanging in our hallway that reminds me of a very special traveling companion named Fred. The wooden-framed picture shows a little Buddhist boy crouched on a stone window sill of a house in Kathmandu, Nepal, wearing his dirty flip flops and simple street clothes.
When I first found out that I was going to make the trip to the subarctic tundra of Manitoba, Canada, I didn’t know what to think. I didn’t know what to expect.
“What is your favorite trip?” Well, I get asked that quite a bit after 22 years of planning trips for Natural Habitat Adventures, and I have done most of them. My answer was always our Uganda safari to see the mountain gorillas, chimpanzees and some lesser-knows primates such as the black-and-white colobus monkey.
“Loved seeing the polar bear cubs with mama bear, especially when the cub was playing with the frozen kelp.
On a big rock above a crystal-blue and iceberg-filled bay in wild East Greenland, I realized that travel sometimes can mean not moving at all.
“Our trip to Churchill was beyond unbelievable. One of the most memorable moments was on Halloween. Drew Hamilton, our guide, became a Viking warrior. Besides dazzling us with his endless bear knowledge, Drew was so much fun. We were so fortunate to encounter this young female polar bear. She was afraid at first.
By Nat Hab Traveler Mary Glaser | The Great Alaskan Grizzly Encounter I had so many fond memories from our trip to Katmai National Park, but one of my favorite stories was when we went ashore in Kukak Bay and watched a dramatic soap opera unfold between five brown bears—four male and one female.
“Thoroughly enjoyed the trip with John Mittan. Found the heights challenging but the thrill of being up there in the wild to view the ibex, gelada monkeys, Ethiopian wolves, and more made it a very great experience and one of the best trips we have done.
“I recently returned from Nat Hab’s Swimming with Mexico’s Whale Sharks excursion. Until I visited this Caribbean paradise, I had no idea that sea and sky could simultaneously produce so many shades of blue! It is my time with the whale sharks, however, that will be forever etched in both my memory and heart.
The Cordillera Andina is arguably the most impressive contiguous mountain range in the world, stretching 4,500 miles from the coastal plains of the Venezuelan Caribbean through Patagonia down to Cape Horn at the southern edge of the continent. The Andes is also the world’s highest-altitude mountain range outside of Asia.
How do I describe Botswana? It’s important that I am very honest with you here. Southern Africa is a magical place, and you can only truly understand its beauty if you experience it firsthand. It is almost impossible to describe Botswana and paint a proper picture for you, but I’ll try my best.
