Travel Tales
Nat Hab’s Maine Coastal Explorer highlights the maritime gems of this easternmost state, and travelers will have ample opportunity to explore Maine’s rugged coast and quiet coves on private boat excursions. Passing picturesque harbors and scenic lighthouses, our chartered vessels set out to sea.
Conservation
The Colorado River carves its way through a mile-deep chasm in northwestern Arizona. Its erosive action has exposed 40 different sedimentary layers, including rocks that are a mind-bending 1.8 billion years old. This is the Grand Canyon.
Latin America
A wonder of pre-Columbian architecture and a UNESCO World Heritage site, Peru’s breathtaking Machu Picchu draws hundreds of thousands of visitors every year.
News & More
The most renowned day to celebrate the Earth falls on April 22nd each year, otherwise known as Earth Day. This annual holiday brings people together from all over the planet to celebrate the beauty of mother nature and join in protecting our planet for years to come.
Europe
Why visit the Cotswolds? Well, I live here, so let me try and answer that question. I moved to the area when I was nine. My grandparents had raised their own children on the very edge of the Cotswolds in Oxfordshire, attracted by the open spaces and rural pace of life.
Antarctica & Arctic
My guide was dead serious—or, at least, he seemed to be. He told me that there are elves in Iceland.
Europe
Sparsely populated, with several rugged mountain ranges that are speckled with forests of Scots pines, the Highlands of Scotland are the only areas in the British Isles that lie within the taiga biome. The Highlands are often portrayed as the romantic part of Scotland.
Galapagos Islands
When most people think of the Galapagos Islands, natural, rather than human, history understandably comes to mind. Still, people have done some pretty interesting things here since Tomas de Berlanga, the Bishop of Panama, first landed on these volcanic shores in 1535.
Galapagos Islands
The Galapagos Islands will always be associated, first and foremost, with Darwin’s theory of natural selection and the unique creatures that inspired it. But certain chapters of the islands’ often-overlooked human history are nearly as fascinating.
Videos
Remember printed newsletters—those antiquated publications that used to inform you about all the current happenings and long-ago history from a place or an organization? In the past, many of our national parks had weekly or monthly newsletters. In the case of Yosemite, the publication was titled Nature Notes, and it ran from 1922 to 1961.
