Posted in Featured tours on Jan 17th, 2012 No Comments »
Imagine a huge soup plate that slowly fills up with water and overflows in the rainy season, gradually empties during the dry season and then starts to fill up all over again. That image gives a good idea of what the Pantanal is like; a unique, rich, but threatened ecosystem located in Brazil, Bolivia and [...]
Posted in Special offers on Jan 9th, 2012 No Comments »
Just announced: Join WWF’s spring voyage to the Peruvian Amazon, scheduled for March 16-25, 2012, and receive free roundtrip airfare between Lima and Iquitos; a $368 value. Cruise down the Amazon River on one of WWF’s most popular tours, in search of primates, monkeys, pink river dolphins and myriad bird species. You’ll also have the [...]
Posted in WWF news on Jan 6th, 2012 No Comments »
The Galapagos Islands continue to call to increasing numbers of visitors — from a few thousand annually in the 1960s to more than 170,000 today. The purpose of the Galapagos National Park authority’s new regulations that will go into effect on February 1, 2012, is to enhance those travelers’ experiences while protecting the fragile ecosystems [...]
Posted in Special offers on Dec 15th, 2011 No Comments »
Just announced: Take $1,000 per person off our March 30 Galapagos voyage! We’re making it easier to travel to one of the world’s most fascinating wildlife destinations with this new special offer. Travel March 30-April 9, 2012, aboard a 20-person yacht, and interact with nature like nowhere else on the planet. With the best guide-to-traveler [...]
Posted in Featured tours on Dec 9th, 2011 No Comments »
Where: In the central Mexican highlands state of Michoacán, a steep climb up from the mountain town of Angangueo. What’s there: Mexico’s only public Monarch butterfly sanctuary, which becomes carpeted, wallpapered and otherwise drenched in orange and black butterflies each winter. Why it’s notable: El Rosario is the most accessible of Mexico’s five protected wintering [...]
Posted in Wildlife on Nov 29th, 2011 1 Comment »
Part II in a series. The flightless cormorant is one of the world’s rarest bird species, with fewer than 1,000 individuals remaining in the Galapagos. During a morning playing tourist on Fernandina Island, travel conservation blogger Bret Love of Global Green Travel shot this video of flightless cormorants doing their mating dance and shared it [...]
Posted in Featured tours on Nov 21st, 2011 No Comments »
Where: Deep, deep, deep in the rain forest of central Guyana, in South America. What’s there: A 741-foot, high-volume single-drop waterfall sitting atop an ancient plateau that’s considered the oldest layer of rock in the world (more than 2 billion years). Why it’s notable: Sure there are taller waterfalls in the world. But the combination [...]
Posted in Wildlife on Nov 4th, 2011 1 Comment »
Our conservation travel friend Bret Love over at Global Green Travel recently cruised through the Galapagos and spent a lot of time in the water, snorkeling to observe various species. The water may have been brisk, but the animals were active, and Love, of Atlanta, was able to capture their antics. With a waterproof video [...]
Posted in Photography, Q-and-A, Snorkeling on Sep 5th, 2011 No Comments »
Professional marine photojournalist Mauricio Handler has been capturing wildlife images for decades. It wasn’t until 2007, however, while leading a scuba diving outing in the Galapagos, that Handler, saw his first whale shark. Several years later he began photographing the world’s largest fish off the coast of Cancun, Mexico, where he sometimes finds schools by [...]
Posted in Featured tours on Aug 17th, 2011 3 Comments »
The next in an occasional series examining the most unusual accommodations on WWF tours. Exploring Torres del Paine National Park in southern Chile is certainly a highlight of any trip to Patagonia. Its famous “horns and towers” – igneous rock spires millions of years old – dominate the horizon. For many travelers, camping is the [...]