4 min read • Apr 1, 2013
‘Over there!’ someone shouts, pointing to the water a few boat lengths away. You hear a ‘whoosh’, see a spout of mist, and suddenly the barnacled behemoth…
4 min read • Apr 1, 2013
‘Over there!’ someone shouts, pointing to the water a few boat lengths away. You hear a ‘whoosh’, see a spout of mist, and suddenly the barnacled behemoth…
5 min read • Feb 27, 2013
A trip to majestic, remote Antarctica is truly the journey of a lifetime. Calving icebergs, breaching whales, deep-diving seals and cavorting penguins are…
4 min read • Aug 22, 2012
Croatia’s coast is speckled with dozens of magnificent islands that range from tiny, verdant and unpopulated to massive, arid and sporting ancient towns…
4 min read • Aug 13, 2012
Arriving in the Galápagos is thrilling – partly because the introduction to the archipelago is unsettling, even spooky, like setting foot on an…
3 min read • Jul 31, 2012
Spotting Africa’s ‘Big Five’ – elephant, rhino, cape buffalo, lion and leopard – has become something of a Holy Grail for wildlife watchers. While Africa…
3 min read • Jun 20, 2012
You want to book an ecofriendly holiday, but so many travel brochures literally gloss over those thorny issues of environmental impact and 'giving…
4 min read • Jun 15, 2012
You want to go bush but don't want to damage the beautiful surrounds, or maybe you don't even want to rough it. You've come to the right place. In this…
3 min read • May 22, 2012
Humans have long been fascinated by whales - think Moby Dick, Free Willy and Whale Rider. It's not surprising that this curiosity has led to a tourist…
4 min read • May 5, 2012
There are three golden rules of the road less travelled: always carry a stash of toilet paper, learn a handful of phrases in the local lingo and don't…
4 min read • Jan 4, 2012
Welcome to the new Seville, a cleaner, greener and more breathable metropolis, where bikes, pedestrians and streamlined electric trams roam. This Spanish…
2 min read • Oct 26, 2011
Everybody knows you go to Honduras' Bay Islands to swim with whale sharks. Well at least everybody who loves the ocean, loves diving and has the complete…
4 min read • Oct 19, 2011
Leave Rome its Colosseum, Venice its canals. Let Tuscany have its masterpieces, along with its long lines. Umbria is the slow food, slow travel capital of…
3 min read • Jul 12, 2011
Ask the long-term expats working in Timor-Leste (East Timor) what they do on the weekends and you'll be amazed by the answer. It usually involves packing…
3 min read • May 16, 2011
On 22 February 2011, the New Zealand city of Christchurch was ripped apart, almost literally, during a 6.3 magnitude 'vertical' earthquake. It followed a…
2 min read • May 9, 2011
Every country in the world displays some diversity, but South Africa takes some beating.
3 min read • May 1, 2011
Thinking about how we might be travelling in 10, 20 or even 500 years is enough to make the mind melt. Will we still even be using planes (perhaps we'll…
3 min read • Jan 28, 2011
Dramatic desert scenery and towering red rock cliffs are icons of America’s wild west, but some of the wildest times can be had on the region’s waterways.
3 min read • Jan 21, 2011
With the highest concentration of plant and animal life of any region on the planet, the Amazon rainforest stretches through nine countries as a gigantic…
4 min read • Jan 13, 2011
In Patagonia, there are little towns with very big bones. The fossilized skeleton of the biggest dinosaur ever to roam the planet was discovered near…
4 min read • Dec 6, 2010
The Masai Mara National Reserve is 1510 sq km of open rolling grasslands that extend northward from Tanzania's Serengeti. It reaches its pinnacle every…
4 min read • Nov 30, 2010
In Swahili, safari means 'journey', a fitting translation for what is arguably one of the most evocative words to infiltrate the English language. But…
6 min read • Nov 11, 2010
It's almost 40 years since Birute Galdikas established her study site for primates, deep in the heart of Tanjung Puting National Park in Kalimantan,…