Canada & the North
Greenland draws adventurous travelers with its iceberg-filled fjords, glacier-covered mountains and opportunities to encounter Arctic wildlife. Humpback whales feed in coastal waters, the Greenland ice sheet covers most of the island and Inuit communities maintain traditions that have endured for centuries.
Latin America
Ready to get outside and explore? We’re here to help you expand your horizons, try new activities or enjoy more hours of the pursuits you’re already passionate about. We can point you toward fresh destinations or help you experience places you already love in a brand-new way.
Canada & the North
The first time I heard the expression “Eskimo roll,” I was standing on the deck of the M/V Sea Spirit, a small, polar-adapted, expedition ship that was my home for two weeks as I traveled around the southern coastline of Greenland, from Tasilaq on the west to Illuissat on the east.
Travel Tales
There is an interesting photograph hanging in our hallway that reminds me of a very special traveling companion named Fred. The wooden-framed picture shows a little Buddhist boy crouched on a stone window sill of a house in Kathmandu, Nepal, wearing his dirty flip flops and simple street clothes.
Travel Tales
If some wise old Gypsy woman ventured to read the cracked lines and hard blisters of my palm, she could clearly find that two activities have dominated my life—drinking good wine and paddling great waters!
Travel Tips
If you have never experienced an active Adriatic adventure, you have no idea what you’re missing. Having lived in Europe and as a relatively avid traveler with an appetite for new destinations and cultures, I have to admit my love for Croatia and Montenegro as two of my top travel destinations.
Travel Tales
Southeast Alaska has the greatest tidal differences I’ve ever paddled in, and the combination of traveling by ship and kayaking in Glacier Bay National Park is one of the best ways to experience this natural gem.
Travel Tales
During the spring of 1995, I joined a Natural Habitat Adventures kayaking trip in search of Pacific gray whales in Baja’s Sea of Cortez. We zigzagged from one end of the Baja peninsula to the other in hopes of sighting one of these magnificent whales.
Conservation
When President Woodrow Wilson signed the act creating the National Park Service on August 25, 1916, I doubt he anticipated that one of the statute’s words would cause a lot of controversy 100 years later.
Travel Tales
Myanmar’s tropical sun laughed from a happy blue sky, but the mood of our travel group was introverted to the point of being somber. This was fair enough, since we had just survived the worst tropical cyclone to plough through the Andaman Sea in years.
Travel Tales
The persistent nudge was annoying. A very large body was trying to push me off the camping mattress. Snugly wrapped in my sleeping bag, I drowsily realized that the firm pressure was not from a tent mate—I was in a single tent—but from something much bigger.
Travel Tips
Summer will be here before you know it. And the last thing you want to do is keep your nose to the grindstone, right? That’s why you need a summer nature break. These six adventures will provide the perfect opportunity to revel and recharge in the natural world this summer!
