Protected territories, national parks and nature reserves are amongst the outstanding riches of a country. Bulgaria really is a rich country – high mountains, deep gorges and abysses, steep rocks and caves, springs gushing out, roaring waterfalls, cool climate, wild fruit and medical plants, rare and endangered species, and more.
Costa Rica is considered one of the most ecologically abundant areas in the hemisphere, writes Judy Wolf. It has distractions and attractions galore – beaches, surfing, nesting sea turtles, cloud forests, active volcanoes, rivers and more
Being the girliest of the girls, wading through swamp water up to her thighs was hard for Caroline Joyner.
Brandon Wilson learns a gorillas grunt, “HUH” means it’s time to leave.
Brittney Bush spent four months in New Zealand, but never told anyone about the night she spent in terror of an animal after her muesli.
A concise information package of all you need to know for a trip to Taman Negara.
Read Lena Zuniga profile of the both the Arenal Conservation Area and the Tenorio Volcano National Park.
Chris Allen guides you through the ropes of climbing Mt. Tutoko in New Zealand.
Thailand By Theresa Yiju Lin Thailand (Muang Thai) is divided into five different regions geographically, the North, the North-East, the East, the Central and the South. Thailand is a tropical country with numerous forests and waterfalls. Within the national borders, it provides a home to many rare plants, animals and insects. Botanists’ research showed there are 27,000 different plants grown [...]
There is day after day of cloudless skies in Tarangire National Park. The fierce sun sucks the moisture from the landscape, baking the earth a dusty red, the withered grass as brittle as straw. The Tarangire river has shrivelled to a shadow of its wet season self. But it is chocked with wildlife. Thirsty nomads have wandered hundreds of parched [...]
Game viewing starts the moment you arrive. A pair of giraffe race beside the airstrip, all legs and neck yet elegant in their awkwardness. A line of zebra parades across the fields in their wake while protective elephants guard their young under the shade of a fat baobab tree. Wildlife is concentrated along the cascading Great Ruaha River that is [...]
Cradled in the glory of its surroundings below the sheer majesty of the Rift valley wall, Lake Manyara lies serene, spreading in a heat haze backed by a thin green band of forest and the sheer 600 metre red and brown cliffs of the escarpment. A wedge of surprisingly varied vegetation sustains a wealth of wildlife, nourished by chattering strums [...]
The vast majority of Tanzania’s elephant herd live in one remote stretch of safari wilderness – the Selous Game Reserve. Stigler’s Gorge is one of the park’s most striking features. This gaping chasm channels the frothing confluence of the Great Ruaha and Rufiji Rivers. After this bottle neck, the Rufiji swells through the park down to the Indian Ocean forming [...]
Swirls of opaque mist hide from the advancing dawn at Mikumi National Park. The first shaft of sun colours the fluffy grass heads rippling across the plain in a russet halo. Confident is the camouflage of their stripes at this predatory hour, zebras pose for our pleasure, like ballerinas on stage, heads aligned, stripes merging, flowing motion. Forming the northern [...]
The Ngorongoro Conservation Area which lies between the Serengeti and the Lake Manyara National Parks boasts the largest unbroken, inactive, and unflooded caldera in the world. Perhaps having once been about the same size as Mount Kilimanjaro, when the volcanic activity subsided, it collapsed inward resulting in a crater 18 kilometers (11 miles) across. Surrounded by very steep walls 610 [...]
A million wildebeest, each driven by the same ancient rhythm, fulfilling their instinctive role in the inescapable cycle of life: a frenzied 3 week bout of territorial conquests and mating; survival of the fittest as 40 kilometer long columns plunge through crocodile infested waters on the annual exodus north, replenishing the species in a brief population explosion that produces more [...]
Arusha National Park is a secret jewel of Tanzania. It is not only the closest national park to Arusha town, but also one of the most undiscovered. This is a treasure, a rich tapestry of habitats, teeming with animal and birds. The park has three distinct zones that contribute to its variety and beauty: the lush swamps of Ngurdoto Crater; [...]