Travel Tips

Wendy Redal

8 Affordable Gifts for Avid Adventurers

Looking for a holiday gift for the adventure traveler in your life, or need some ideas for your own wish list to share with Santa? Start with these — innovative gadgets and gear that will enhance any explorer’s experience without breaking your bank.

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Wendy Redal

5 Reasons to Make Your Next Trip a Nature Vacation

Traveling in natural settings — whether forests, mountains, beaches or canyons — isn’t just beautiful, it actually benefits your mind, body and spirit. Discover more about why travel among nature and wildlife is good therapy, as well as grand adventure.

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Wendy Redal

Where Adventure Lives: Outside the Routine

I’m writing this week from a place not many would associate with exciting destinations for adventure travel: Greater Los Angeles. My family and I are here to...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Advanced Medicine: A Prescription for Adventure

You’ve probably got one in the bathroom, bedroom or basement or perhaps tucked away in a closet. It’s that piece of exercise equipment, such as a treadmill or...

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Wendy Redal

Enjoy a Slothful Sojourn in Costa Rica!

Ever heard of a sloth wrangler? That’s what caretakers of these cuddly, laid-back rainforest dwellers are called at the Sloth Sanctuary in Costa Rica. They...

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Wendy Redal

Georgia On My Mind

Northern Georgia, where the Appalachian Trail terminates, is adventure country for hikers, mountain bikers and waterfall-watchers. But if you’re looking for a wilder Georgia adventure, check out two more Georgias you may never even have heard of!

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

A Traveling Collection

The boxes were probably no bigger than six inches by six inches by six inches, and I remember they were wrapped with white, sticky tape. One arrived in the...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Voluntourism: Mixing Vacations with Work

On my last travel vacation, I didn’t plant a tree, dig a well or paint a fence. I simply walked, observed and “absorbed.” I’m wondering now if my lack of...

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Wendy Redal

Care About Greener Travel? Make Your Views Heard!

If you're familiar with Natural Habitat Adventures, you know we are a global leader in ecotourism. World Wildlife Fund has designated us as their exclusive...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Exactitude of Maps

If the caves near Lascaux, France, are any indication, it seems that our kind has been interested in depicting the directions for how to get from here to...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

There’s an App for That

A quick count of the field guides lined up on the bookshelves in my office currently numbers about 25 tomes. Some are quite hefty at several hundred pages,...

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Wendy Redal

What are YOUR Top Ten Travel Moments?

I’m usually too busy to watch television, so it’s perhaps not surprising I didn’t know who Samantha Brown was, when a friend told me she had her dream job. I...

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Wendy Redal

Put a National Park Atop Your Travel List

Filmmaker Ken Burns calls our national parks “America’s Best Idea.” I enthusiastically agree. To preserve our country’s most spectacular landscapes for all...

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Wendy Redal

Geotourism: Preserving the Wonder of Places and People

The hallmark of Natural Habitat Expeditions is a passion for adventure. While there are few adventures on earth as exhilarating as a kayak expedition in...

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Elissa Poma

Behind the Lens: Preparing to Take Photos on a Wildlife Tour

This is the first in an occasional series about nature and wildlife photography. One of the biggest shames that professional photographer Steven Morello sees...

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Megan Koelemay

How to Avoid Buying Illegal Souvenirs

Every year, millions of tourists in the Caribbean and Mexico buy wildlife curios as souvenirs – often without any inkling that they are supporting unsustainable and illegal wildlife. Check out www.worldwildlife.org/goodbuy to learn more.

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Elissa Poma

Behind the Lens: Shooting Underwater

The third in an occasional series about nature and wildlife photography. All photos © Thomas & Natalya Baechtold/Raw Perspectives Of the wide-ranging...

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Elissa Poma

Behind the Lens: Preparing to Take Photos on a Wildlife Tour

The second in an occasional series about nature and wildlife photography. All photos © Martin Harvey. The subjects of Martin Harvey’s photography are as...

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