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When you finally land in the Galapagos Islands, your eye is immediately drawn up and out. Up to the sky, to see the many birds soaring and whizzing past—was that a Nazca boobie? Was it a rare lava gull? And out, to scan the ocean’s horizon for a whale’s spout or surfacing sea turtle.
“This was our fifth trip with Nat Hab. The first one was amazingly awesome and each one has gotten even better. THANK YOU, Nat Hab!!!!!!!” – Tom and Lindsay Bell | Discover Greenland: The Natural Habitat Experience | 2017 All photos and videos © Tom and Lindsay Bell.
We talk about it at the office regularly: polar bears are an umbrella species that needs ice to survive. I’ve talked about it, I’ve studied it, I’m confident I know what it all means. Then my perspective changed.
By Natural Habitat Adventures Director of Travel Industry Relations Don Martinson I recently had the privilege of traveling to Tanzania with my wife and teenage daughter, and while we had so many highlights, the one we all agree was truly special happened on our second day in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
Jonathan Cass, Manager of Peer to Peer Funding at WWF, joined a group of travelers on the Natural Jewels of Costa Rica trip. Here are the five biggest highlights from his nature escape to Costa Rica.
“Each day was an adventure, really. I do think the days we spent on Handa Island, and boating out to Little Bernera made the deepest impression.
“Pandas have been my passion since I first saw them at the Toledo Zoo at the age of 10, so this was my idea of the trip of a lifetime and it didn’t disappoint!
Few tourists have ever ventured here. It is a place famous for whale bones, lions, fur seals, and ship wrecks. The Skeleton Coast is unusually beautiful and getting there is the adventure of a lifetime. Namibia is one of the least populated countries in the world and is home to the world’s oldest desert.
A black-footed kittiwake swooped in from the Arctic Ocean and landed on the bald head of Lenin, the Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist.
“We had guides who would make everything ‘come alive’ for us as we gazed upon it, whether it be plants or animals or lakes or waterfalls or stunning sunsets or mountains with Native American stories regarding their names—so that the appreciation we had for nature, and especially for the Native American presence in what…
—By Nat Hab Traveler Jo Ostrov | Beluga Whales & Arctic Wildlife of Churchill We bump along the surface of the water. Hundreds of beluga whales are at the mouth of the Churchill River, which empties into the enormous Hudson Bay. There are many pairs of mothers and babies in the water.
“From whale watching in the Westfjords, to an early morning Zodiac cruise in a glacier lagoon, to puffin photos on the rocks near Reynisdrangar Rocks, our journey ‘Round Iceland was an amazing collection of all the different natural wonders that the country offers. Waterfalls, geothermal features, lava fields and columnar basalt formations filled our days.
