Western Mongolia’s Bayan-Ulgii province is home to the annual Golden Eagle Festival—but now it’s also the site of a new cultural center, where raptor conservationists, Kazakh eagle hunters, and curious travelers can meet, learn, sha
Antarctica! An incredible couple weeks sailing in an architecture of ice. The S-shaped soar of an albatross, the wailing cry of fur seals, the glassy black water over surfacing orcas, and the magnetic, yolk-yellow hue on king penguins. Many thanks to
Northern Tanzania, December 2024: Lake Eyasi, learning from the Hadzabe, sucking honey from waxy honeycomb. Floating in stillness above the behhhh calls of wildebeest seeking water, seeing the brown fuzz of a weeks-old zebra. Spotting, just barely, t
There is so much potential in Indigenous tourism, and folks in Canada are leading by example. Respect, inclusivity, and incredible natural landscapes — it’s a hard combination to beat as a thoughtful model with global scale. I spent a wee