Travel Tales
The Highlight of a Botswana Safari
“It’s difficult to pick out a single highlight, as the entire Botswana safari was filled with highlights.
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Alaska
Finding Harmony with Alaskan Grizzly Bears
Last fall, I traveled to Alaska in search of the world’s largest coastal grizzly bears, which roam freely in the remote reaches of Katmai National Park.
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Nature Photography
Wildlife Photo of the Week: Oh I Wonder, Wonder…
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a brown bear in Alaska. Photographer Dan Schlotter was visiting Katmai National Park when he came across this brown bear sitting on the water’s edge.
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Videos
Videos: Golden Eagle Catch and Release
One of the largest birds in North America, a golden eagle is an expert hunter. It can dive on prey from tremendous heights and has been clocked flying close to 200 miles per hour. Golden eagles primarily hunt ground squirrels, jackrabbits, marmots and prairie dogs.
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Travel Tales
Eclipsing Expectations: Totality in Yellowstone
NHA Expedition Leader Aaron Bott recounts the magic of witnessing his first total solar eclipse while guiding a Nat Hab group of UCLA alumni in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks. I knew that it was going to be spectacular—even awesome, in the truest sense of the word.
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Travel Tips
Rules of the Butterfly Kingdom
The monarch butterfly has the most highly evolved migration pattern of any known species of butterfly. They travel between 1,200 and 2,800 miles from the United States and Canada to central Mexican forests.
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Antarctica & Arctic
On Land in Greenland: A Photo Essay
Because Greenland is the largest island in the world, it makes sense that many people’s travels there are boat-based, as mine were four years ago. There is little infrastructure: roads are rare, and places to stay are few. Now, however, there is a remote and beautiful place to stay on land.
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Nature Photography
Photos from a Winter Wildlife Safari in Yellowstone
Winter in Yellowstone offers excellent wildlife viewing and respite from the large crowds that visit the park in the summer months. The following images were captured by Nat Hab Adventure Specialist Simon Krejcik during a Yellowstone: Ultimate Wolf & Wildlife Safari.
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Travel Tales
Traveler Story: Abu Camp in Botswana
Deep within Botswana’s vast Okavango Delta, the 445,000-acre private Abu Concession shelters Abu Camp, a six-tent safari camp tucked into the unspoiled African wilderness. As the original elephant safari experience in Africa, Abu gives travelers the intimate opportunity to immerse themselves within the camp’s resident herd of rescued elephants.
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Travel Tales
Traveler Story: Madagascar Wildlife Adventure
In June 2017, Nat Hab traveler Ardelle Fellows encountered wild lemurs and more as she explored the wondrous biodiversity of Earth’s most unique island on a small-group Madagascar Wildlife Adventure. This African island is essentially living time capsule, a “lost world” that’s home some of the planet’s most unusual (and photogenic) species.
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Nature Photography
Wildlife Photo of the Week: Jaguar
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we selected a thirsty jaguar in Brazil. Photographer Marcelo Melo was traveling along a river when he came across this big cat on the riverbank. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?
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Travel Tales
Humans are Small (Creatures in a Big World)
There’s nothing quite as humbling as being just feet away from an African elephant, swallowing the nervous lump in your throat. “Gulp!” During our Great Kenya Migration Safari, we came across a young, bull elephant standing a few feet away from the road.