Good Nature Travel Blog

  • Asia & The Pacific

    Magical Encounters in New Zealand’s Lake Moeraki: Kea, Penguins, Glowworms and More

    May 19, 2026 · Samantha Miller

    Visit Lake Moeraki, and witness the movements of some of the world’s rarest species. This is a destination for nature lovers, active travelers and anyone seeking wild New Zealand! The mountain range that runs the length of New Zealand’s South Island marks the contact zone of the Indo-Australian and Pacific continental plates.

  • Antarctica & Arctic

    Penguins and Their Original Homelands

    Aug 13, 2025 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Part of the reason that I’m so enthralled with Antarctica is because it’s one of the rare places on Earth that has never had an Indigenous population; in other words, there are no native human Antarcticans. Of course, animals other than us have lived there for eons. Perhaps, the best known and most abundant are penguins.

  • African Safaris

    8 Rainforest Ecotourism Adventures

    May 20, 2025 · Cathy Brown

    A trip to the rainforest is filled with interesting possibilities for adventure, whether through cultural exchange, photography, fishing, hiking, birding or wildlife spotting. But not all rainforests are the same! Some are hot and humid and filled with colorful orchids, while others are cool and misty and packed with prehistoric ferns.

  • Antarctica & Arctic

    10 Fascinating Facts About Penguins

    Apr 10, 2025 · Madison Mitchell

    Imagine a vast expanse of ice and snow, windswept shores, and rugged volcanic islands. Now picture penguins, some waddling clumsily on land, others gliding gracefully underwater, thriving in some of the harshest yet most breathtaking habitats on Earth.

  • African Safaris

    Top 5 Places in the World to See Penguins

    Apr 4, 2025 · Madison Mitchell

    They slide on their bellies across the snow, congregate on icebergs and seem to fly through freezing water in search of fish. That’s how most people picture penguins: playing among icebergs in Antarctica.

  • Antarctica & Arctic

    Sailing South: Five Famous Antarctic Expeditions

    Feb 1, 2025 · Laura Kiniry

    The first time I saw Antarctica, I cried. It’d been a couple of days aboard ship cruising the notoriously rough waters of the Drake Passage, but when I raised my cabin’s blackout curtain that February morning, I knew that every step I’d taken to get there had been worth it.

  • Antarctica & Arctic

    The New, Surprising Reasons Travelers Visit Antarctica

    Aug 22, 2024 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    American environmentalist, historian and novelist Wallace Stegner called our national parks “the best idea we ever had.” In 1983, he wrote: “National parks are … absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.”

  • African Safaris

    The 9 Best Dads of the Animal Kingdom

    Jun 2, 2024 · Emily Deemer

    We wanted to wish a happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there, both human and animal fathers alike! As a tribute to hardworking dads, we made a list of some of the animal kingdom’s most dedicated dads.

  • Antarctica & Arctic

    Where Antarctica Penguins “Go,” Biodiversity Follows

    Feb 23, 2024 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    On first impression, Antarctica may look barren and less biodiverse than most other places on Earth. But in recent years, we’ve learned that the White Continent is actually overflowing with life; that is, if you include the microscopic kind.

  • Nature & Wildlife

    Crisis Couple: Biodiversity Loss and Climate Change

    May 16, 2023 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Highly social and very vocal, African penguins are native to the waters of South Africa. But these endangered birds are now struggling to survive the human impacts and the unfolding climate crisis of the Anthropocene. However, their climate story goes back much further than our modern epoch.

  • African Safaris

    Where in the World You Can See Penguins

    Mar 14, 2022 · WWF

    They slide on their bellies across the snow, congregate on icebergs and seem to fly through freezing water in search of fish. That’s how most people picture penguins: playing among the icebergs in Antarctica.