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Travel Tips
On my first visit to Africa in 2012, I spent a few days safariing through Kenya’s breathtaking Maasai Mara. The sheer breadth of wildlife blew me away. There were hyenas wandering along the roadsides, elephants nourishing themselves around watering holes, and even a trio of playful cheetahs meandering among the grasslands.
African Safaris
If eating better is one of your goals for the New Year, you’re probably considering adopting guidelines from the popular Mediterranean diet, becoming a vegetarian or, perhaps, following Paleo diet recommendations. But, here’s something you’ve likely never thought about: modeling your eating on a traditional, rural Tanzanian diet.
Asia & The Pacific
The snow leopard has captured the interest of wildlife biologists, conservationists and the communities around northern and central Asia’s high mountains for centuries. This big cat has adapted to thrive in one of the world’s tallest mountainous regions, the Himalayas. The shy and solitary snow leopard is an elusive creature.
Videos
By Ben Bressler, President & Founder of Natural Habitat Adventures “Are we there yet?” That seemed to me almost a catchphrase my brother and I would whine from the back seat of my father’s Plymouth Valiant in the 1960s, en route from our New Jersey home to Pennsylvania Dutch Country or Niagara Falls.
Videos
Nature and the end-of-the-year holidays. If you ask me, they go together, traveling across Earth hand in hand at this special time. Maybe that’s because of all the evergreens, holly, mistletoe and poinsettias that we see everywhere we go. Or it could be that this is traditionally the time for awe, contentment, joy and peace.
Conservation
I have often used terms like “natural treasure” or “ecological gem” in my writing when talking about the value of our planet’s rivers, oceans, grasslands, forests and other critical ecosystems.
Alaska
Delve into Dana Cama’s bio, and it seems her life path was destined to lead to her role as social media manager for Natural Habitat Adventures. After committing to conservation at an early age, Cama went on to study environmental science before graduating with an arts degree at Parsons School of Design.
African Safaris
South Africa’s Cape Town is a place unlike any other. Perched along the waters of the continent’s southwest coast, this port city is a multicultural metropolis with a wealth of biodiversity that extends eastward, from its flat-topped Table Mountain to natural areas like the Cape of Good Hope — where the mountains meet the sea.
Nature & Wildlife
Throughout time, reindeer have been used for economic purposes by various circumpolar peoples, including the Chukchi, Evenks, Khants, Nenets and Sami. Long heralded for their dependable and docile natures and their dexterity in a range of tasks, reindeer were even widely used during World War II by the Soviet forces to help transport injured soldiers.
Nature & Wildlife
In 1960, English primatologist Jane Goodall made her first trek into what was then the little-known world of wild chimpanzees.
Conservation
Maple syrup, the sweet delicacy known best for being smothered on top of our favorite breakfast treats: pancakes, waffles, and French toast. Its infamous origin, the sugar maple tree is one of America’s most-loved trees with it ringing in as the highest claimed state tree compared to all other single species.
News & More
When you’re in search of the world’s best marine wilderness encounters, you need a ship-based platform for exploring.
