If you travel to see rare wildlife, you may be an "extinction tourist." Are such trips more likely to help or harm the scarce animals you go to see?...
Pilgrimages add to travel the adventure of the quest; they turn the traveler into a seeker, an explorer of both inner and outer landscapes...
Millions of butterflies cluster; centuries of cultures congregate; snowmelt thunders to the coast; caribou dash through the tundra; wildebeest run for their lives. The jaw-dropping phenomenon of migration is around us — don’t miss it...
This UNESCO World Heritage site, comprising 30 rock-cut Buddhist prayer halls, meditation chambers, and monasteries that dated from the 2nd century BCE to the 5th century AD, had remained hidden by jungle, dirt, animals, and brush for more than 1,000 years...
In Botswana’s Okavango Delta, we were bumping along a dirt track through the Moremi Game Reserve when we heard them first. A shrill trumpet blasted through the mopane forest. Seconds later, we saw them, bursting through the trees at a fast trot. Our Land Cruiser...
In the dry sal forests of India’s Bandhavgarh National Park, a Jeep picks its way over a rough dirt road flanked by thickets of bamboo. Suddenly, the driver rolls to a halt. “Shhhh,” he whispers, his finger poised at his lips as he surveys the...
These legends left lasting legacies in their wake, from the first aerial film of Mt. Kilimanjaro to a fourteen-foot fiberglass kayak to the theory of evolution. Find the right expedition, and you too can venture to the territories that inspired them....