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By Wendy Klausner Anyone who knows me well — including the many Nat Hab clients I’ve served as an Adventure Specialist over my 16 years with the company — know that Africa is my very favorite place to travel.
The lands that we come from are certainly a big part of who we are. When people ask at first meeting, “Where are you from?,” they’re trying to get a sense of who you are in a shorthand way—what influences have shaped your thinking and which issues are important to you.
In January of this year, a British woman, Felicity Aston, accomplished an incredible feat for adventure annals: she skied solo and unassisted across Antarctica. She is the first woman—and first human—to do so.
Yeah, I know. You think this is Photoshopped. It’s not. Wildlife in the Galapagos really is nonchalant about human presence, like this sea lion at Gardner Bay on Espanola. And you really can get this close, like Jennifer Bravo did during her recent visit to the islands. Jennifer is Nat Hab’s Galapagos Destination Manager.
By Ted Martens It goes without saying that the NHA staff is crazy about wild animals – after all, it’s our job to introduce our guests to the world’s most amazing wildlife encounters!
If you’re a parent, brother, sister, aunt, uncle, grandparent or friend, you probably know someone who was part of Graduation 2012. And at this time of year, young, degree-holding students are being bombarded with tips and advice during countless graduation speeches across the country.
73-year-old Tamae Watanabe broke her own 2002 record to become the oldest woman to summit Mount Everest on Saturday, May 19, 2012.
By Mark Hickey NHA Creative Director If you’ve ever been on safari in Africa, you know how impressive it is to watch wildlife from an open 4X4 vehicle on a game drive. But watching it on foot is even more amazing.
By Christy Lavoie Destination Manager, Natural Habitat Adventures Panama’s Bocas del Toro is a little-known collection of rocky islands in the far northwest of the country on the Caribbean Sea, esteemed for its lush tropical vegetation and rich biodiversity, including fauna found nowhere else in the world.
By Rick Guthke General Manager, Natural Habitat Adventures Sitting on the roof-mounted seat atop our Land Rover, we found the first rhino in less than five minutes. Within a few hours, we’d found at least 30 individuals during our game drive across the Solio Conservancy, a private sanctuary for endangered rhinos in Kenya’s Rift Valley.
In a yoga class last week, I had a mini-lesson on the power of myth to shape our point of view and the enriched understanding to be gained from studying world cultures.
Big dreams of exploration were not uncommon in the late 1800s and early 1900s. But one explorer may have taken such aspirations to the next level: in 1895, at a London conference on polar exploration, a Swedish engineer named Salomon August Andree declared his intention to reach the North Pole via hot-air balloon.
