Travelling responsibly is the tourists’ way of ensuring that they support sustainable tourism – tourism that accounts for and manages its economic, social and environmental impacts. In simple terms it implies that travellers are willing to go the extra mile to protect people’s sources of livelihoods (including landscapes and wildlife), which is one of tourism’s…
Thick undergrowth obscures our path. We step over huge tree roots and duck under low hanging vines. Up ahead, our guide stops and stares into what looks to us as an impenetrable wall of foliage. Then, he points. We follow the line of his finger and there, through the understory, a glimpse of black hair.…
My favorite place in the entire world is Amboseli National Park, Kenya. I didn’t even know places like this were real until I visited in 2003. As a child, I flipped through my dad’s National Geographic and watched nature documentaries on TV. I saw images of large assemblages of wildlife: zebras, elephants, and lions, but…
I believe that if you have been exposed to nature as a child, the awe and wonder of it can be readily reawakened within you as an adult. Despite eight consecutive years of city living, this is exactly what happened to me when I started a new job in the winter of 2015. A meaningful…
I was 11 years old when my family and I set off on the greatest adventure that I have ever had. It was there, in Tanzania, where one of the world’s most wonderful spectacles would unfold right under my eyes – the Great Wildebeest migration. That day I woke up to a glowing ember sun…