Travel Tales
Travel Traditions
Some travel traditions wind up being big and grand, such as when a couple goes on an African safari for a honeymoon and then decides to celebrate each wedding anniversary with the same kind of expedition.
Good Nature Travel Blog
-
-
Videos
Bullfrog Father Knows Best
It’s not easy being green, as Kermit the Frog often reminds us. And that statement is particularly apropos if you’re an African bullfrog (Pyxicephalus adspersus).
-
Videos
Video: From a Lion’s Point of View
Recent new technology has allowed us to get a glimpse into other creatures’ lives like never before. It seems that every day, we’re learning more about the incredible feats—and the normal days—of the beings who share the planet with us.
-
Conservation
It’s Raining Birds
Instead of waking to falling snow as many of us did on New Year’s Day 2011, people in Beebe, Arkansas, rose to find thousands of birds—grackles, starlings and red-winged blackbirds—falling from the sky, dead. An aerial photo revealed that the carcasses fell within a one-mile stretch of Beebe.
-
News & More
Top Adventure Job of 2010
Winter, along with the start of a brand-new year, tends to put us in a reflective mood. I guess that’s why the January issues of many magazines are now full of “best of” lists for last year.
-
News & More
Happy Travelers
Smiling sightseers in Uganda, Africa. Big grins on the faces of tourists to Costa Rica. An enthusiastically clapping audience for the whales off the Mexican Baja Peninsula. Come to think of it, have you ever seen a solemn or even remotely grumpy person in a travel photo?
-
Nature & Wildlife
Adventure in the Ellipses: Elk
Ever since elk were reintroduced to Wisconsin’s Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest in 1995, I’ve wanted to see them roaming freely in my home state. Last month, my dream was realized—twice.
-
Travel Tales
In the Unplanned Moments, Travel Happens
There are probably just as many “types” of travelers as there are travelers.
-
Conservation
Kenya's Zebra and Wildebeest Relocation Program
Kenya’s Amboseli National Park will be receiving a few thousand new animals in 2010. The park located in southern Kenya on the border with Tanzania suffered a major setback in 2009 with droughts that caused over 60% of the zebra and wildebeest population to perish.
-
Nature Photography
Cheetah Chase Captures AC Photo Prize
The winner of Adventure Collection’s August 2009 Photo Contest has been announced, and the prize is a trip on Natural Habitat Adventures’ Classic Polar Bear Tour!