The power of nature is undisputable. All you need do lately is pick up any newspaper to see her destructive forces. Man's assault on nature has also had serious repercussions and a balance needs to be drawn between the desires of Man and the world's natural resources.
Luckily today's travelers and tour companies alike have embraced the delicate relationship between tourism and local cultural ne...
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Talk about “critters”! The Academy of Natural Sciences, in Philadelphia, is America’s oldest scientific museum and research institute and an astounding repository of the diversity of life on the planet. Founded in 1812 when Philadelphia was at the heart of all scientific research in the United States, the Academy maintains a world-class collection of 17 million specim...
Ningaloo...it’s exotic. It’s Australian. And it offers one of the most unique wildlife encounters in the world.
Ningaloo (which means promontory in the local indigenous language) is located 1200 km from Perth in the remote Pilbara region of Western Australia. The marine park includes the entire Ningaloo Reef which stretches for 300km along the...
After a hectic year of intense research and development in the DIY medical home test field my sister Michelle and I have taken a much needed vacation. We planned a break from our sight-seeing in Vancouver and visiting indigenous aboriginal villages in the Queen Charlotte Islands to spend the next three nights in the Kutzeymateen Grizzly Bear Sanctuary, on Sun Chaser a 40...
Kamchatka is fire and ice, Kamchatka is bears and Steller sea eagles and salmon. This grand wilderness peninsula juts from the mainland between the stormy Sea of Okhotsk and Bering Sea in Russia’s Far East. Kamchatka’s people are resilient northerners: the Itelmen, Koryak, Even, Chukchi, and Russians. Kamchatka is a naturalists’ paradise with one of...
Who hasn’t got a soft spot for elephants? For some reason, these lumbering gentle, giants of the jungle with their intelligent eyes and almost hand-like tusks seem to hold a special place in the hearts of many of us…
For thousands of years, elephants have worked alongside human beings – often helping to carry or move heavy loads as well as...
Siringitu: ‘the place where the land moves on forever’. Now known as Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park, this vast and beautiful expanse of 5,700 square miles is the world’s most famous wildlife sanctuary. A World Heritage Site and Biosphere Reserve, the Serengeti supports the largest concentration of plains game in the world. ...
The night before the ride we met our fellow riders and Pat Kearney, our trail guide, at the Capitol Reef Inn in Torrey. Seven of us had traveled from Ohio, two riders were from England, and one rider came from Seattle. Some of us were experienced riders, while some were novices. We were given saddlebags and two waterproof duffels to put all our clothes and gear into, not an...
Although China has been a village society for millennia, few Chinese villages can trace their origins to the 11th and 12th centuries, and still fewer can prove their ancient origins not only with written records, but also by existing structures from that distant past.
In the scenic land of Yixian County in southern Anhui, near the spectacular Yellow...
Geographically Peru is divided into three regions: The Coast, which features deserts, beautiful beaches and fertile valleys. The Highlands, a mountainous area dominated by the Andes. The Jungle, a vast region of tropical vegetation that contribute to the Amazon River Basin. These regions create an extraordinary variety of ecosystems that shelter a wide diversity of animals...
Many of the tour operators in the southern half of the Baja peninsula, in the state of Baja California Sur, Mexico base out of Loreto or La Paz; coastal communities on the Sea of Cortez side of the peninsula. Most of the tours visit uninhabited islands and coastlines near those two starting points. (The reason no multi-day tours go out of Cabo San Lucas is because there...
Karst tiankeng is a large, steep-walled, pit-like, negative, karst landform that opened from beneath towards surface, with both its depth and its diameter more than 100 m to several hundred meters, developed in a great thickness of continuous soluble rocks within the aquifer vadose zone above deeply buried water table and connecting with an active cave river at its...
Eastern Russia by far offers the largest, least visited nature domain in the world. Far away from the beaten path this part of Russia has been off and on, the stage upon which politics were played by high ranking people in the political system.Riding either the Trans Siberian train or the BAM through vast areas of both the Russian Far East and Siberia, one is absolutely stunned by the...
Siringitu: ‘the place where the land moves on forever’. Now known as Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park, this vast and beautiful expanse of 5,700 square miles is the world’s most famous wildlife sanctuary. A World Heritage Site and Biosphere Reserve, the Serengeti supports the largest concentration of plains game in the world.
Water carries sound better than air. So you would think that I’d remember the sounds made by the shark that was the size of a school bus swimming slowly towards me. The only sound I remember is silence.
Whale sharks are the worlds largest shark, they are also the worlds largest fish, however they are not a true whale. Growing up to 15 meters, or 50 feet in length it is an experience...
Some folks say the colours in the Australian Outback are monotonous, but look closer and you’ll discover a rainbow of nature’s hues, particularly if you visit Rudall River National Park.
There’s the ochre of the harsh desert landscape, the terracotta of the ancient hills and the hardy green of native plants. Add the dusty beige of feral camels and wild dingos, the...
Many of the tour operators in the southern half of the Baja peninsula, in the state of Baja California Sur, Mexico base out of Loreto or La Paz; coastal communities on the Sea of Cortez side of the peninsula. Most of the tours visit uninhabited islands and coastlines near those two starting points. (The reason no multi-day tours go out of Cabo San Lucas is because there are no nearby islands to...
