Good Nature Travel Blog

  • Travel Tips

    The Travel Cycle

    May 25, 2010 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    If you’re planning a travel adventure, you’ll find that there’s a wealth of advice out there regarding how you should go about doing it.

  • Conservation

    Homage to a Small Eco-Warrior: the Mosquito

    May 11, 2010 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    “Unsung heroes of the environment.” The “green Nobel Prize.” Eco-Ocean Awards, ecoart competitions and ecoschool certifications.

  • Travel Tips

    What are YOUR Top Ten Travel Moments?

    May 6, 2010 · Wendy Redal

    I’m usually too busy to watch television, so it’s perhaps not surprising I didn’t know who Samantha Brown was, when a friend told me she had her dream job.

  • Travel Tales

    Wayfinders Wanted

    Apr 27, 2010 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Before you decided where you were going to go for your next travel adventure, you probably researched different locales online, picked up brochures from several travel agencies, read books on the areas from the library and carefully sorted through various itineraries from a few tour companies.

  • Conservation

    10 Tips for Travelers to Make Every Day Earth Day

    Apr 22, 2010 · Wendy Redal

    Happy 40th Birthday, Earth Day! As adventurers united in a passion for exploring the far recesses of our globe, we know how crucial it is to protect the natural environments we treasure. Most of us pay closer attention to treading lightly upon our precious planet when Earth Day circles around.

  • Travel Tales

    The Things You Carry

    Apr 13, 2010 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Spirit Airlines will become the first carrier in U.S. history to charge fliers for putting carry-on bags into its overhead storage bins when it institutes its new fee schedule on August 1, 2010.

  • Conservation

    100 Amazing Places to Protect

    Apr 12, 2010 · Wendy Redal

    Well, if you guessed that you could see them all with Natural Habitat Expeditions, you’d be right, but that’s ultimately not the most important trait they share. These wild animals, along with a host of geological and cultural features that comprise some of Earth’s most distinctive places, are facing dramatic impacts from climate change.

  • News & More

    Please Don’t Banish Bumpy Roads

    Mar 15, 2010 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    I like bumpy roads. Not the ones permeated with potholes big enough to break an axle or skew tires out of alignment, but the “washboard” ones that make your teeth rattle, your words vibrate and your backside tingle when you drive over them. I like bumpy roads because they force us to slow down.

  • Travel Tips

    Geotourism: Preserving the Wonder of Places and People

    Feb 18, 2010 · Wendy Redal

    The hallmark of Natural Habitat Expeditions is a passion for adventure. While there are few adventures on earth as exhilarating as a kayak expedition in remote Greenland or trekking to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro or encountering a polar bear in the wild, it’s an equally grand adventure to discover the world’s diverse cultures.

  • News & More

    Shackleton's Whiskey Found

    Feb 15, 2010 · James Dziezynski

    Natural Habitat Expeditions love of a good drink, we are very excited about this story coming straight from Antarctica. Members of the New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust began excavating a very important find beneath Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic hut: five crates of whiskey and brandy.

  • News & More

    The Age of Adventure

    Feb 9, 2010 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    If you were to believe much of what you read in newspapers, magazines and ads, or what you see and hear in electronic media today, you might conclude that adventure is mostly for those in their 20ss or younger.