If you're a teacher in the U.S. or Canada and you care about the environment, you may be in luck. Broadway Books, an imprint of Random House, is offering to send one teacher on a free tour of Antarctica led by Robert Swan, the author of the upcoming book 2041: My Quest to ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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If you're a teacher in the U.S. or Canada and you care about the environment, you may be in luck. Broadway Books, an imprint of Random House, is offering to send one teacher on a free tour of Antarctica led by Robert Swan, the author of the upcoming book 2041: My Quest to ...DreamTours makes your cycling adventures a reality
Have you ever wanted to go on an epic cycling expedition? Perhaps explore the Serengeti by mountain bike or maybe ride the Silk Road? Perhaps you've always wanted to go on a cycling adventure to some remote place, but just weren't sure how to prepare or handle the logistics. ...Write a blog, go to Antarctica!
Ever had the urge to visit the Antarctic? Do you have a knack for writing interesting, inspiring, blog posts? Then check out the latest contest from Quark Expeditions, an adventure travel company that specializes in journeys to both polar icecaps. Quark has launched the ...Epic round-the-world cruise follows in the wake of famous explorers
In March of 2010, an adventure cruise of epic proportions will get underway from Singapore that will send travelers on a round the world expedition, following in the footsteps of some of history's most revered explorers. Cruise West's Voyages of the Great Explorers will send ...American summits Everest for record 11th time
Last week we mentioned that Apa Sherpa, the legendary mountain guide, reached the summit of Mt. Everest, extending his record to an impressive 19th time on top of the world. A few days later, we noted that British explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes also reached the summit, on his ...How global warming could change travel
We heard it from Al Gore in "An Inconvenient Truth," and we're hearing it again -- this time from the World Ocean Conference 2009 that is in its third of a five-day conference, taking place in Manado, Indonesia: rising sea levels will likely displace millions of island ...Discovery Channel Gets Into The Travel Business
The Discovery Channel has announced that it is getting into the travel industry by launching "Discovery Adventures" later this year. The intent is to offer adventure travelers the chance to visit the places that often are depicted on the channel's many outdoor related ...Round the world tickets for two up for grabs
Who ever said free round the world tickets and 49 other great travel-related prizes weren't easy to win? HostelBookers.com has organized a fantastically simple contest to spread the word that its website offers booking prices at 4.2% below its top competitors. That research ...Visiting Every Country On Earth
Most travelers have a "life list". That is to say, a list of travel destinations that are amongst their "must see", such as the Great Pyramids or Machu Picchu. Others set goals to visit certain countries, selecting ones that appeal to them on some level. That's exactly what ...U.S. Calls for Limits on Antarctic Tourism
Following in the wake of the report released earlier this week that an "inexperienced and over confident" captain caused an Antarctic cruise ship to sink, the U.S. is calling for tighter restrictions on tourism to the Southern Ocean, and the continent itself. According to ...Inexperinced Captain Blamed for Antarctic Cruise Ship Sinking
Back in November of 2007 a cruise ship, called the Explorer, owned and operated by GAP Adventures, a well known and respected adventure travel operator, went down in the Southern Ocean. Fortunately, none of the 154 people on board were killed, or even injured for that ...Chimu Adventures revenue pops 300% for South America, Antarctica tours
Chimu Adventures, which operates tours in South America and Antarctica, seems to have found a winning formula for these trying economic times. For the first quarter of 2009, revenue shot 310 percent higher relative to the same quarter last year. These types of excursion ...Earth Hour on March 28
World Water Day 2009: Events around the globe on March 22
How cool is this photo, entitled "water fireworks" by Gadling photo contributor jonrawlinson? If you look at the enlarged photo, the light creates star-shaped, firework-like reflections on the water. Beautiful. World Water Day was conceived over ten years ago by a United ...Bowermaster's Antarctica -- Grytviken, South Georgia
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In the whaling museum here the most fascinating thing to me – after the touch-me-feel-me penguin skin – are the trophies and sports uniforms worn by the different South Georgia whaling station teams which competed against each other in rugby, track and field, ...Bowermaster's Antarctica -- In the Footsteps of Shackleton
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Fortuna Bay, South Georgia Ernest Shackleton had an intimate relationship with South Georgia. He stopped here for a month in 1914 before sailing the "Endurance" to its crushing fate in Antarctica; a year and a half later with five others he sailed the gerry-rigged lifeboat ...Bowermaster's Antarctica -- St Andrews Bay, South Georgia
I miswrote. The other day I suggested that South Georgia was like some kind of Magic Kingdom envisioned by Disney. Today I'm revising that; it's more like something old Walt might have created after a visit while ingesting heavily of magic mushrooms. Late this afternoon I ...Antarctic Cruise Ship Freed by High Tides
The Antarctic cruise ship M/V Ocean Nova, the ship that ran aground yesterday, has been freed from the rocks by the high tide, and is now steaming back to Ushuaia, Argentina for inspection. High winds and pushed the vessel, which was carrying 106 passengers and crew, onto ...Bowermaster's Antarctica -- Cooper Bay, South Georgia Island
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I saw South Georgia Island for the first time from about ten miles out, on a gusty, windy, blue-sky morning. Though we'd just sailed eight hundred miles east and north from the tip of Antarctica, giant tabular icebergs greeted us, nearly blocking the entryway to Cooper ...Antarctic Cruise Ship Runs Aground
The Antarctic cruise ship the M/V Ocean Nova has run aground in Marguerite Bay, near the Antarctic Peninsula, with 106 passengers and crew aboard. According to this story, from The Guardian, there is no immediate threat to anyone on board the vessel. Quark Expeditions, the ...
