Sustainable Travel

• wildlife and nature

• activities

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…

• wildlife and nature

• activities

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…

• beaches

• activities

3 min read • Sep 7, 2012

World-class diving awaits you in the underwater realms of the Solomon Islands. The marine biodiversity is exceptional, incredibly healthy reefs look like…

• wildlife and nature

• activities

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…

• wildlife and nature

• activities

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…

• wildlife and nature

• activities

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…

• sustainable travel

• connections

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…

• sustainable travel

• connections

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…

• wildlife and nature

• activities

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…

• sustainable travel

• connections

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…

• sustainable travel

• connections

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…

• wildlife and nature

• activities

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…

• food

• food and drink

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…

• sustainable travel

• connections

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…

• sustainable travel

• connections

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…

• road trips

• destination practicalities

2 min read • May 9, 2011

Every country in the world displays some diversity, but South Africa takes some beating.

• sustainable travel

• connections

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…

• sustainable travel

• connections

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.

• wildlife and nature

• activities

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…

• sustainable travel

• connections

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…

• wildlife and nature

• activities

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…

• wildlife and nature

• activities

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…