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  • What's in Your Daypack: Churchill Edition

    Feb 12, 2014 · Tania Curry

    WWF’s Tania Segura recently traveled through Churchill on our Classic Polar Bear Adventure. She shares with us eight of the most important items she packed for her Canadian adventure: Jacket Layers Expecting cold weather is no-brainer; understanding exactly how cold is a different story.

  • East Africa vs. Southern Africa: How to Choose for your Safari

    Jan 25, 2014 · Ted Martens

    Guest Post by Ted Martens, reprinted with permission from Oh, The Places We’ll Go. By the end of our time in Southern Africa, we thought we were African safari gurus. I mean, what first-time Africa travelers go on more than 40 safari drives in one visit?

  • Ten Things You Didn’t Know about Mt. Kilimanjaro

    Jan 23, 2014 · WWF

    This post was originally published on the WWF Travel Blog Rising majestically above the African plains, the 20,000-foot Mt. Kilimanjaro has beckoned to climbers since the first recorded summit in 1889. Here are 10 interesting facts to help inspire your own future summit: 10.

  • Kenya or Tanzania: Which to Choose?

    Jan 1, 2014 · Elissa Poma

    By Elissa Poma, Director of Internal Communications, WWF Natural Habitat Adventures and WWF offer migration-oriented tours to both Tanzania and Kenya. While wildlife sightings can never be guaranteed, both locales have generally offered thundering masses of wildebeest, zebras racing across the savanna and the drama that unfolds when predator encounters prey. But which to choose?

  • A New New Year’s Resolution

    Dec 31, 2013 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    It’s December 31, the eve of a brand-new year. Time for reflection on the past 12 months and dreams of how we’ll make 2014 even better. And that puts us into the territory of New Year’s resolutions.

  • Top 5 Places for Nature in Europe

    Dec 22, 2013 · Maddi Higgins

    Europe was once teeming with wildlife, from the snow-capped tops of mountains to the warm beaches of the Mediterranean. The arrival of humans, agricultural production, exploitation of habitats and the introduction of invasive species have caused major losses in biodiversity.

  • What's in my daypack: Amazon edition

    Dec 5, 2013 · Elissa Poma

    I recently traveled through the Peruvian Amazon on our Great Amazon Voyage, and I was grateful for every single item I had stashed in my daypack.

  • Printed Guidebooks: Can Frommer’s Be Successful Again?

    Dec 3, 2013 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    There’s no doubt that the print publishing world is rapidly changing, and perhaps nowhere is the revolving nature of the industry being played out more visibly than in the travel guidebook genre.

  • Submit Reviews on iSafari.com for the Chance to Win a Patagonia Jacket!

    Oct 16, 2013 · Emily Deemer

    We’re just about to launch a new interactive website to help travelers research and plan African safaris. It’s called iSafari.com, and it’s the most comprehensive Africa safari-planning tool, from Amboseli to Zanzibar! Imagine TripAdvisor™ for African safaris, and you have iSafari.com. iSafari.com is simply the best safari-planning resource available… and we need your help to make it even better!

  • The Secret to Having a Life Well-Lived

    Jun 29, 2013 · Emily Deemer

    We at Nat Hab call ourselves The Nature People because we are nature travel and ecotourism experts. Watch this truly inspiring video about one of the ultimate Nature People, Jim Whittaker, the first American to summit Mt. Everest 50 years ago.