Backroads: Argentina - Biking the Andean Northwest

Backroads' new ‘Insider Trips’ shift the focus from physical activity to in-depth cultural explorations. In 2008, Backroads will slow down the pace in Provence, Tuscany, Dalmatian Coast & Sarajevo, Czech Republic & Austria, Costa Rica, Peru & Machu Picchu, China, Indochina, South Africa & Botswana, Canadian Rockies, California Wine Country and Santa Fe & Taos.
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Canadian Mountain Holidays: Back-Country New Years

Celebrate in style with a CMH Heli-Skiing escape to a luxurious backcountry lodge for a week long getaway that you will remember forever. Days are filled skiing in glorious powder snow while evenings are spent revelling with new friends.
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Lindblad Expeditions: Golden Age Tall Ship Sailing

The Sea Cloud II is an exhilarating journey back to the golden age of sea travel. She measures 384 feet, boasts a 20-story main mast, and flies 26 sails, nearly 30,000 feet of canvas, hand-rigged by a crew of nimble sailors. If you’ve ever dreamed of sailing on a tall ship through tropical waters, plan this winter for an unforgettable experience.
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Natural Habitat Adventures: Africa’s Migrations

Throughout Africa’s great wilderness areas, migrations abound. The Great Wildebeest Migration pounds Tanzania’s Serengeti plains where their Great Migration safari allows small groups a front row seat to witness the calving season on the short grass plains. Or head south to Botswana on their Kalahari & Okavango Delta safari, where the rarely-witnessed Kalahari ungulate migration follows spring rains to the parched landscape of the Kalahari Desert.
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Bushtracks: Namibia Photo Safari

Travel with world-class photographers Rikki and Jack Swenson. Visit Windhoek, Swakopmund, Walvis Bay, Serra Cafema, Etosha National Park, Onguma Reserve, Soussusvlei and the Namib Desert. "Namibia is exquisitely unique from other destinations in Africa. It is stark and vast, yet richly alive, a place where majestic oryx wander the immense dunes,” said Rikki Swenson.
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Geographic Expeditions: The Real Kilimanjaro

This is called the Real Kilimanjaro for a couple of reasons. First, we aim for the peak’s true summit, 19,340-foot Uhuru Point Second, by slowly climbing the nontechnical, but far less hiked Barafu–Crater Camp Route, we avoid the masses of climbers on the mountain’s other side giving us a deeper appreciation of Kilimanjaro’s personality.

We take seven days, hiking at a wise pace, up through montane and heath forests to the otherworldly alpine zone. Our last camp, at a near-Himalayan 18,000-plus feet, is set next to the imposing Furtwangler Glacier. Another thing: rather than jumping off a plane right onto the mountain, we’ve prefaced our climb with a four-night stay at southern Kenya’s wonderful Campi ya Kanzi, where we’ll gaze up at the big prize just to the south, and do some lovely unwinding, game viewing, cloud-forest walking, all while enjoying one of the world’s finest and most family-oriented lodges.
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Micato Safaris: Livingstone Wing Safari

Imagine a destination that enjoys a glorious climate year-round. In Kenya, a blissful 70 degrees fahrenheit greets most every day, and rarely does the temperature vary throughout the year. In addition, travellers on Micato Safaris’ Livingstone Wing Safari enjoy exhilarating game drives, luxurious accommodations and unparalleled personal service. Those are just a few of the reasons readers of Travel+Leisure magazine have voted Micato the ‘World’s Best Tour Operator and Safari Outfitter’ for an unprecedented fifth year in a row.
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NOLS: Baja Coastal Sailing

Escape winter’s grip and grab hold of the rigging on your yawl-rigged Drascombe Longboat. You will find your self on a NOLS Baja Coastal Sailing course exploring the coastline of the Baja California Peninsula where you can discover what the shallow coves have to offer or find yourself hauling onto the desert beaches to set up camp.

On this boat, you’ll learn coastal navigation on waters rich with marine life, from intricate sea fans and colorful reef fish to raucous sea lions and blowing whales, accessing places unreachable by larger boats. This course follows nature’s rhythms so you may find yourself up before dawn or sailing until dusk to take advantage of a favorable breeze. There are bound to be some long, challenging days on the water, but there should also be time to wonder at the night sky or at the sea stars in a tidal pool. You’ll learn to read winds and waves with confidence, work as a crew with your course mates, and, on windless days, practice rowing and towing.
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