Wildlife and Nature

Mar 22, 2019 • 5 min read

As major world cities go, Cape Town is pretty affordable. Eating out is fairly cheap by European or North American standards, and many of the museums and…

Mar 20, 2019 • 5 min read

New Zealand is the land of Lord of the Rings, home of the All Blacks, and, according to the writer Rudyard Kipling, the eighth Wonder of the World …

Mar 18, 2019 • 5 min read

Tremblant, a bilingual pedestrian village in Quebec’s Laurentian mountains, is known as one of the best ski resorts in Eastern North America and welcomes…

Mar 18, 2019 • 5 min read

Recently discovered and still largely unknown, Kazumura Cave on the Big Island of Hawai’i isn’t just the longest lava tube in the world – it’s also a…

Mar 14, 2019 • 6 min read

For many, the name Mandalay evokes a mythical Kiplingesque idyll. In reality, Myanmar’s second city is a buzzing, fast-developing metropolis, its streets…

Mar 13, 2019 • 4 min read

St David’s Day, the annual celebration of Wales’ patron saint, falls on 1 March and tends to denote the start of spring. As if like clockwork, carpets of…

Mar 12, 2019 • 5 min read

A green emerald in South Asia’s trove of tourist treasures, Bangladesh amply rewards intrepid travellers who are plucky enough to dive into its whirlpool…

Mar 12, 2019 • 4 min read

Draped on the lower slopes of towering granite mountains, and spilling into the waters of its bustling port, Victoria – the diminutive capital of the…

Mar 8, 2019 • 5 min read

Mexico, according to André Breton, is 'the most surrealist country in the world.' As a founding contributor to the artistic movement, Breton would know…

Feb 28, 2019 • 7 min read

After a tumultuous two decades of political instability and civil war, calm has returned to Sri Lanka, and visitors are flooding back. This Indian Ocean…

Feb 27, 2019 • 7 min read

Spring in Japan means sakura (cherry) blossoms. And that's just one of the reasons to visit Tokyo at this time of year: there are also traditional…

Feb 27, 2019 • 8 min read

Great literature can bring places to life, stirring our wanderlust as it fires our imagination. Whether it’s the story of a search for buried treasure, a…

Feb 25, 2019 • 5 min read

Between the rugged summits of the Rockies and the swooping crests of the Appalachians, the Ozarks seem to barely spring out of the ground. But these…

Feb 18, 2019 • 11 min read

Few places in Hawaii are as untouched as the sibling islands of Moloka'i and Lana‘i. Rare are the high-rises, shopping centers and shoulder-to-shoulder…

Feb 12, 2019 • 5 min read

Bolivia is a land of superlatives that holds within its borders earth’s largest salt flat, highest navigable lake and most biodiverse national park. These…

Feb 11, 2019 • 5 min read

Anyone who has spotted the tagline for this upstate New York city on its classic green bumper sticker already knows: Ithaca is ‘gorges.’ Its landscape is…

Feb 10, 2019 • 4 min read

Deep in the Balkans, this grandiosely named nature reserve might just be the best-kept secret among Europe’s national parks. Home to the rare Balkan…

Feb 7, 2019 • 6 min read

There’s something about the simplicity and flow of a river that transcends time and space. A river always has a beginning and an end. But what happens in…

Feb 7, 2019 • 7 min read

Wales’ history is packed full of legends, both fictional and factual, and despite the years that have passed, they are not out of reach for modern…

Feb 1, 2019 • 5 min read

The hills are alive with the… sight of wildflowers! And not just the hills: deserts, prairies, canyons, sand dunes, bogs, forest floors and more are…

Jan 30, 2019 • 6 min read

Famed for its tropical rainforests, soaring mountain peaks and palm-fringed beaches, South America has a dazzling array of natural treasures. Yet the…

Jan 30, 2019 • 6 min read

Croeso (welcome) to Wales: a land of epoch-defining history, castles galore, ravishing beaches and mountains of myth. The country may appear small,…