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Where to See the Most Beautiful Places in Switzerland

With sky-soaring Swiss Alps that include such recognizable names at the Mattherhorn and the Jungfrau, and its high-country meadows dotted with grazing cows...

Natural Habitat Adventures

Top Places to Visit & Things to Do in the Cotswolds

If you have ever researched a holiday to the United Kingdom, it probably didn’t take too long before you discovered a place called the Cotswolds being...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Norway Video: Why a Foreign Place Can Seem Like Home

My maternal grandmother was born in Norway. She came to the United States when she was a small child and didn’t speak English. But she was smart and an avid...

Emily Goodheart

Adventures in Dining: Croatia & Slovenia

Natural Habitat Adventures’ tour of Croatia and Slovenia offers an intimate encounter with nature while exploring the cultural heritage and culinary...

Emily Goodheart

Zermatt to Murren: Enchanting Villages of the Swiss Alps

The Swiss Alps are a region of untamed beauty, dramatic peaks rising above pastoral villages. This fairytale realm is filled with sapphire lakes, wildflower...

Emily Goodheart

The Golden Eagle: A Luxury Train Trip Across the Arctic

As you prepare for your trip to the European Arctic by luxury train, harken back to the days of Imperial Russia on a city tour through the streets of St....

Cathy Brown

Slovenia: One of the World’s Greenest Countries

How Slovenia, a tiny unspoiled mountainous country nestled between Croatia, Austria and Italy, has managed to stay relatively under the radar for nature...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Greenland and the Culture of the Kayak

The first time I heard the expression “Eskimo roll,” I was standing on the deck of the M/V Sea Spirit, a small, polar-adapted, expedition ship that was my...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Feel Like Screaming? Iceland Wants to Help.

Shelter-in-place orders. Mask-wearing edicts. Quarantine guidelines. Social-distancing rules. Flatten-the-curve requirements. Temperature-taking regulations....

Natural Habitat Adventures

Watching Icebergs in Greenland

We were zipping across Sermilik Fjord on an impossibly blue-sky day. I had convinced myself that it was going to rain every day that I was in Greenland, so...

Natural Habitat Adventures

Culinary Wonders of Portugal: 7 Recipes to Try at Home

We know most of our guests don’t choose our nature adventures for the food, although it’s generally excellent. On our Portugal kayaking adventure, however,...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Norway Is the World’s First Nation to Ban Deforestation

Norway is the first country in the world to commit to no longer using any products that contribute to deforestation. That’s pretty remarkable, because while...

Natural Habitat Adventures

Why Visit the Cotswolds?

Why visit the Cotswolds? Well, I live here, so let me try and answer that question. I moved to the area when I was nine. My grandparents had raised their own...

Natural Habitat Adventures

Pubs, an Englishman’s Natural Habitat

If you want to meet an Englishman in his natural habitat, you go to a pub. Let's be honest; the great British pub is as much a defining symbol of the country...

Natural Habitat Adventures

Journey Through the Cotswolds with Nat Hab

Why join our journey through the Cotswolds? As a local, there is more than a little pride invested in this itinerary. I love the Cotswolds, and I want to show...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Iceland at Its Most Elemental

There's a myth that Iceland got its name because Viking settlers didn’t want people flocking to their verdant island. They wanted to make sure that their...

Jennie Lay

East Greenland: One Wild Ride

Big ice. Big mountains. Big whales. Everything about Greenland is enormous. On the ground in East Greenland, a sense of awe bowled us over with each...

Natural Habitat Adventures

Traveler Story: Greenland in Words & Photos

Ellen and I have been fortunate to travel widely and see a world beyond where we live. Our recent trip to Greenland certainly ranks high on our list of...

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