Good Nature Travel Blog

  • Nature & Wildlife

    Asian Elephants Have Distinct Personalities Similar to Ours

    Jan 5, 2021 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Anyone who has ever adopted a cat or dog into the family knows that each pet is distinctive. One of your dogs, for example, may have loved to spend all day at your side, while another may have enjoyed some daytime hours to chill out by herself on her favorite couch.

  • African Safaris

    Botswana’s Changing Lands: Elephants Not to Blame

    Nov 10, 2020 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    The African nation of Botswana is believed to have the world’s largest population of wild elephants. While the exact number is hard to pinpoint, estimates are that there are between 118,000 to 130,000.

  • African Safaris

    Africa Through the Eyes of My Children

    Apr 23, 2020 · Natural Habitat Adventures

    Over my 20 years at Nat Hab, I’ve had the great luxury of traveling to a wide variety of our nature destinations around the world.

  • African Safaris

    Southern Africa Safari: An Intimate View of Predator and Prey

    Mar 19, 2020 · WWF

    Most people are thrilled to go on a safari in Africa, knowing they will see the iconic wildlife they have only seen in images or in zoos all their lives. Viewing zebras, giraffes, elephants, lions, and herds of beautiful creatures like impala and kudu in the bush is, no doubt, exhilarating.

  • Travel Tips

    Holidays 2019: Finding Quiet in a Noisy Season

    Dec 17, 2019 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    It’s the most wonderful time of the year. It’s the most stressful time of the year. No matter where you tend to fall on that spectrum during the week preceding the end-of-the-year holidays, almost all of us hope for a quiet and peaceful season. But how do you go about achieving that silence?

  • Nature & Wildlife

    Wildlife Photo of the Week: Chasing Cheetah

    Nov 22, 2019 · Steve Selden

    Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose cheetahs in Botswana. Photographer Paul Sasso captured these cheetahs chasing through the wooded grassland in Mashatu, Botswana! Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?

  • News & More

    New Rhino Discovery Itinerary on Secluded Botswana Safari

    Oct 26, 2019 · Emily Goodheart

    Are you wild about rhinos? Travelers who are passionate about these rare pachyderms will rejoice at Nat Hab’s new Rhino Discovery Itinerary on select Secluded Botswana Safaris. These special departures offer an inside look into protecting this critically endangered species.

  • Nature Photography

    Wildlife Photo of the Week: Lion Brothers

    Jun 21, 2019 · Steve Selden

    Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a photo of two male lions. Photographer Susan Topper watched these two lions relaxing in the Okavango Delta. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?

  • Travel Tales

    Traveler Story: Giraffes in Botswana

    Jun 13, 2019 · Natural Habitat Adventures

    “This was hands down the best trip of my life. It was my number one bucket list trip since I was younger, and it far exceeded any expectation I had just within the first two days! I loved the animals, scenery, staff and surprises along the way.

  • Travel Tips

    Traveling Small in the Big Outdoors

    Jan 22, 2019 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Being an inveterate introvert, I avoid large crowds—well, really, even groups of people numbering 15 or more—like the plague.

  • Travel Tales

    A Sneeze is Worth a Thousand Words

    Dec 26, 2018 · WWF

    An African safari has always made me imagine iconic species such as elephants, leopards, cheetahs, rhinos, zebra, giraffe… beautiful animals that represent the incredibly diversity of life on Earth, and their fragility.