Good Nature Travel Blog

  • Nature Photography

    Yellowstone Photography Tour: Taking on What’s Tough

    Feb 4, 2014 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    There are probably as many different reasons to travel as there are people traveling, but some common motives include getting away for a while from a normal routine, to relax, or to see a place you’ve always felt a connection to or dreamed about.

  • Travel Tales

    Inside Antarctica: Rare Video of a Leopard Seal

    Jan 30, 2014 · Nate Small

    One of my favorite things about Antarctica cruises is always the zodiac excursions. I’ve done hundreds of these zodiac trips now, and the wildlife encounters never fail to surprise and amaze me. Today’s excursion was no exception. As we pull into the bay, I can see some unusual splashing near the shore.

  • Travel Tales

    The Achuars’ Amazon – Time to Pray? | Olaf's Corner

    Jan 7, 2014 · Olaf Malver

    Our lanky teenage-looking pilot closed his eyes and prayed quietly before takeoff into the immense, emerald-green void of the Ecuadorian Amazon. His murmurs were indecipherable through the roar of the old rattling Cessna operated by Aerotsentsak, the airline owned by the Achuar indigenous nation.

  • Travel Tips

    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.

  • Videos

    A Dolphin Caught in Fishing Line Asks for Human Help

    Dec 26, 2013 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    It’s not often that stressed wild animals trust us humans enough to ask for our help, but that’s exactly what one bottlenose dolphin did earlier this year. Watch!

  • Conservation

    We Need More Snow Days

    Dec 10, 2013 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    I think part of the reason that I love snow and ice is because I think winter is an endangered species. Have you ever chosen to travel to a particular place because you miss the colder winters of the past?

  • Travel Tips

    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.

  • Nature Photography

    A Shifting Landscape: Images of Greenland’s Ice

    Oct 1, 2013 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    With hundreds of staggeringly beautiful, ice-choked fjords, snowcapped summits, rushing waterfalls and flowing glaciers, Greenland is a paradise for cold-place fans, such as myself. And, if you seek remote and unpopulated corners, Greenland satisfies on that count, too.

  • News & More

    Coming to Mailbox Near You: Our Greenest Catalog Yet

    Aug 29, 2013 · Natural Habitat Adventures

    Natural Habitat Adventures has wrapped up design on our 2014-15 Catalog of the World’s Greatest Nature Journeys, and we wanted to give our Good Nature readers the first look.

  • Travel Tales

    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.

  • Travel Tales

    Shutting Up in the Dolomites with a World-Class Adventurer | Ben's Musings

    Mar 11, 2013 · Ben Bressler

    I fancy myself an adventure traveler, but the truth is that compared to those serious adventure guys – the fellas who shave at 6 am and have full beards by noon – I don’t know *%$# about how to get from point A to point B. What a bummer to find this out after…