Travel Tales

Natural Habitat Adventures

A Wild Gorilla Trek in Uganda

The ascent starts immediately. You stare up at the mountainside and know that the next few hours will be a strain and exertion on your legs and chest. The...

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Emily Goodheart

Sigiriya: Sri Lanka’s ‘Lion Rock’

Natural Habitat Adventures’ Sri Lanka Wildlife Safari explores the pristine natural areas and cultural highlights of this island country. Travelers will have...

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Emily Goodheart

Adventures in Dining: Croatia & Slovenia

Natural Habitat Adventures’ tour of Croatia and Slovenia offers an intimate encounter with nature while exploring the cultural heritage and culinary...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Taking on the Tolt on an Icelandic Horse

Small but strong, with a thick tail and a gorgeous, flowing mane, an Icelandic horse always inspires dreams of gracefully galloping over an ice- and...

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Emily Goodheart

The Ahwahnee: Yosemite’s Iconic National Park Lodge

A Yosemite nature tour would not be complete without a stay at The Ahwahnee, a gem among national park lodges with a historical legacy. Travelers on An...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Post-Pandemic, Learning to Trust Again from a Gray Whale

The longest recorded migration by a mammal was made by a gray whale. In 2015, a female made a journey of nearly 14,000 miles from Russia to Mexico and back....

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Paring Down: Patagonia in 10 Photos

For the past year, now, your travels have probably been small ones, perhaps no farther than your own backyard or local park. So, if you’re like me—until it...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Utah’s Canyons: Structures, Spectacles and Straight-Up Lands

A strange, three-sided, metallic monolith was discovered in an undisclosed spot somewhere in Utah’s canyons during a helicopter survey of bighorn sheep on...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Memorable Travels, Where Part of You Remains

On a windy, cold, late October afternoon, I walked the streets of the little, sub-Arctic town of Churchill, Manitoba, Canada, alone. I had just arrived there...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Our Needs to Walk and to Talk Are Satisfied by Travel

The human body was designed to walk. In fact, humans walk better than any other species on Earth. And very few things in our lives boost health, instill...

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Natural Habitat Adventures

Rare Moments with Monarch Butterflies in Mexico

By Nat Hab Adventure Specialist Joey Sudmeier. As we navigate through a since-COVID-world these days, I’m constantly reminded of the merits and necessity of...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Greenland and the Culture of the Kayak

The first time I heard the expression “Eskimo roll,” I was standing on the deck of the M/V Sea Spirit, a small, polar-adapted, expedition ship that was my...

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Natural Habitat Adventures

Watching Icebergs in Greenland

We were zipping across Sermilik Fjord on an impossibly blue-sky day. I had convinced myself that it was going to rain every day that I was in Greenland, so...

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Natural Habitat Adventures

Gray Whales and Family Bonds in Baja

After 20 years at Natural Habitat Adventures, I had the opportunity to do something new…share the experience of a Nat Hab trip with one of my children! My...

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WWF

Watch: Sunset on Hallo Bay

It has been a little less than a year since WWF's Mac Mirabile journeyed to Alaska's Katmai National Park to witness the world's greatest brown bear habitat....

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Natural Habitat Adventures

Home on the Natural Habitat Ursus

Home is a funny word. Most of us have a home we wake up in every morning; we might linger in the warm sheets on those frosty mornings, relish the smell of...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Five Sensory Travel Journeys for the Coronavirus Age

The world that I look out upon from the window in my home office, here in Wisconsin, is pretty quiet right now. In other times, the interstate just beyond the...

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WWF

Adventure & Inspiration in Patagonia

This year I had the wonderful opportunity to visit Patagonia in Argentina and Chile. Both countries have stunning landscapes and beautiful wildlife. The many...

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