New Zealand Beyond the Ring Route

Seeing “Lord of the Rings” has inspired your family to visit New Zealand. But you don’t want to restrict yourselves to the Ring Route – and there’s so much variety in the country, it’s overwhelming. What should you do? Here are five excellent ways to make your own noble quest. Read more…

Bookshelf: Yellowstone and Grand Teton -- Grandeur and Challenge Yellowstone and Grand Teton

For the casual traveler, these words evoke the wild, wide-open grandeur of the Old West. For the better informed traveler, these words also evoke a complicated interconnection of wilderness and civilization: an iconic exemplar of the potentials and problems of sustaining wilderness in the 21st century. A new and extraordinarily beautiful and informative book, “Spectacular Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks,” poignantly portrays the inspiring splendors of these two national parks and the daunting array of challenges confronting them. Read more…

Fighting Africa’s True Crisis

In an eloquent, impassioned essay, the managing director of Micato Safaris argues that in focusing on isolated incidents of violence following Kenya’s recent elections, journalists and others continue to overlook the real news in Africa – to the detriment of all.  Read more…