Travel

Virtually any municipality on Earth can get involved with the National Park City Foundation, though only cities can receive the formal designation. That London was the first city to receive the status certainly confused some people, as it’s often seen as the concrete sort of urban jungle. The city is remarkably green, however, as roughly […]

Coral restoration has the potential to be a valuable tool in certain circumstances: when it promotes community engagement and addresses local needs. But it is not yet—and might never be—feasible to scale up sufficiently to have meaningful long-term positive effects on coral reef ecosystems. This reality check should stimulate constructive debate about when and where

The Jeep Avenger won ‘Best Family SUV’ and ‘European Car of the Year’, but does the the iconic car maker’s first all-electric offering live up to the hype? We took it to Tasmania for a week to find out. Not all EVs are created equal. Some of them are incredibly expensive. Some of them look

That’s the case for Claire Ramsdell who runs the The Detour Effect blog which offers tips, itineraries, and stories on self-guided hiking, solo backpacking, car-living, road trips and location independence. She’s been traveling solo for years, but since turning 30, she’s been straying from her usual style: “I’ve been intrigued to find out about some

And still in Jupiter, North Jupiter Flatwoods is the first natural area in the state of Florida to be certified as an ‘Autism-friendly’ site by FAU Center for Autism and Related Disabilities. The natural area features a half-mile of accessible paved nature trails, a boardwalk, and a fishing pier. There’s also a mile-and-a-half sandy hiking

Travel has also become a teaching tool, one that allows Tenley to impart lessons of bravery, independence and open-mindedness. She takes pride in how travel has taught her children to problem-solve, manage stress and adapt to the unfamiliar. Even simple acts, like navigating an airport, have become learning moments. “I make sure they know how

You know what they say about amateur mountaineers? About how for each one that has scaled Mount Everest, there are a dozen hardy sherpas who have led, guided, cut paths, fixed ropes, and (literally) done all the heavy lifting? The same is true for snow leopard-trackers, as I learn first-hand during my visit to the

As with any coastal city, seafood here is king; the typical Ilonggo style is to season only with salt, preserving the essence of native species. The best seafood restaurants are near Villa Beach, where colorful sailboats converge for the Paraw Regatta sailing festival every February. Breakthrough is possibly Iloilo’s ‘fanciest’ restaurant, though still unbelievably cheap.

More broadly, my research disappointingly concludes that over 100 years on, women explorers and scientific fieldworkers are still represented as unusual or out of place in the wild. These media narratives are dangerous as they feed into social attitudes that put women at risk and cause them to change their behavior outdoors by avoiding isolated

As we whizz south towards Jeddah on Saudi Arabia’s high-speed train, covering 420 kilometers in under two hours, it feels we are simultaneously speeding up, while slowing down as our journey nears its end. It’s a fitting end as we arrive at the Shada Hotel, a boutique family-run hotel, with sisters Reem Garrash its CEO