Dec 9th, 2012 at 8:00AM: The calendar may still say 2012, and I know we all have a busy holiday season to navigate yet, but it is never too early to start planning our trips for the new year ahead. To help us out with that process, Discovery Adventures has announced a host of new tours and destinations, adding even more depth to an existing line-up of stellar itineraries.
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Discovery Adventures Announces New Tours For 2013
Dec 9th, 2012 at 8:00AM: The calendar may still say 2012, and I know we all have a busy holiday season to navigate yet, but it is never too early to start planning our trips for the new year ahead. To help us out with that process, Discovery Adventures has announced a host of new tours and destinations, adding even more depth to an existing line-up of stellar itineraries.
For 2013, Discovery has unveiled 13 new tours ...Shark Week 2012 Comes To South Africa
Aug 10th, 2012 at 8:00AM: The Discovery Channel's Shark Week is always amongst the most highly anticipated annual events on cable television. For one week out of the year, the network is pretty much all sharks all the time. This year's edition of Shark Week, which is now in its 25th year, begins on Sunday (August 12) and takes viewers to South Africa where they'll get an up close and personal look at these awesome ...Search For Amelia Earhart Turns Up Few Clues
Jul 27th, 2012 at 8:00AM: A much vaunted and highly publicized search for the remains of Amelia Earhart has apparently turned up little in the way of new evidence to help solve the puzzle of the famous aviator's ultimate fate. A team of researchers, armed with an array of high-tech gear, spent the past week searching a remote island in the South Pacific, but appear to have come up short in their quest to solve one of the ...US Government Denies Existence Of Mermaids
Jul 4th, 2012 at 2:00PM:
The U.S. National Ocean Service has released a statement confirming there is no scientific evidence for mermaids.
Interesting – I didn't realize this was a subject of debate.
Apparently it wasn't until Discovery Channel's Animal Planet network ran a spoof documentary titled "Mermaids: The Body Found." The channel's own press release labels the show "science fiction." This wasn't ...Discovery Adventures announces 8 new tours for 2012
Jan 28th, 2012 at 9:00AM: Discovery Adventures, the travel arm of the Discovery Channel, has announced that it is expanding its line-up of for 2012, adding eight new options to their already impressive catalog. These new tours include several new destinations, as well as revamped itineraries to Tanzania and Southern Africa.
Amongst the highlights of the new trips is an eight day journey through Jordan that includes ...Survivorman Les Stroud returning to televison
Nov 24th, 2011 at 8:00AM: One of the Discovery Channel's most popular programs, Survivorman, is returning to television after being on hiatus for more than three years. The show, which features host Les Stroud demonstrating survival techniques in extreme settings, such as the Kalahari Desert or Alaskan wilderness, will relaunch with a series of special episodes sometime in 2012.
While Stroud's list of destinations is ...Watch Shark Week on Discovery Channel, have a shark encounter of your own
Jul 29th, 2011 at 8:00AM: This Sunday marks the return of Shark Week on the Discovery Channel, one of the most popular annual events on any cable network. Now in its 24th year, Shark Week manages to pull in millions of viewers who are both fascinated by, and terrified of, the notorious predators from the deep. And after watching sharks on television all week, if you should happen to find yourself inspired to see them in ...Discovery Adventures travel company debuts 2011's Discovery Channel-inspired trips
Mar 3rd, 2011 at 2:30PM: Armchair traveler red alert! Discovery Adventures is offering eight new Discovery Channel-inspired cultural trips for 2011, including Greece, Turkey, Italy, France, Japan, and East Africa. Explore archaeological sites near Athens, visit wineries in Tuscany, safari in Kenya, or soak in hot springs in the Japanese Alps. Trips are limited to 16 people, and run from eight to 15 days. Accommodations ...Cockpit Chronicles: Alaska flying - then and now
Mar 1st, 2011 at 12:00PM: Last week I found myself flying to London with a captain who had started his career in pretty much the same way I did-he too had worked for a couple of airlines in Alaska, albeit more than a decade before me.
As we headed out to dinner, we happened to run into another pilot I knew who, coincidentally, flew for Era Alaska just as I had. Even more surprising was that his co-pilot flew for an ...25th Anniversary World Punkin Chunkin Championships take place in Delaware
Nov 7th, 2010 at 10:00PM:
What happens when you combine leftover Halloween pumpkins and big ol' farm boys with too much time on their hands and extra equipment? A Punkin' Chunkin' contest, of course. Held this past weekend in Delaware, the 25th Anniversary of the World Championship Punkin Chunkin Association brought teams from up and down the East Cost to see how far their punkins could fly.
"We had a great, great ...Discovery Adventures announces new trips for 2011
Oct 21st, 2010 at 8:00AM: Discovery Adventures, the Discovery Channel's foray into the travel industry, announced a number of new destinations last week, offering travelers several new adventurous options for 2011. Sticking to the themes of their previous excursions, these new itineraries offer cultural and historical immersion in some of the most exotic and spectacular places on the planet.
The company has partnered ..."I just wanna dig into that eyeball": Will Ferrell guest stars on Man vs. Wild
Jun 4th, 2009 at 6:30PM:
A couple nights ago, Will Ferrell made his much-anticipated debut on an episode of Bear Grylls' survival show Man vs. Wild. The pair spent several frigid nights in the north of Sweden, and like everything WIll Ferrell does (okay, Blades of Glory excepted) there were plenty of laughs. Check out the Discovery Channel promo for the show above.
The whole episode has already been uploaded by some ...
Discovery Channel Gets Into The Travel Business
May 12th, 2009 at 8:30AM: 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 television shows. Discovery has joined forces with established adventure travel operator G.A.P. Adventures and will soon be ...Survivorman Calls it Quits
Nov 8th, 2008 at 11:00AM: Filmmaker and Discovery and Science Channel star Les Stroud, known for his show, Survivorman, is calling it quits after three seasons. The 47 year-old Canadian earned street cred amongst survivalists by filming himself completing various week-long survival challenges. Unlike Man Versus Wild's Bear Grylls, Stroud traveled without a camera crew and survival experts. I, for one, found his solo ...Gadling Take FIVE July 25-- August 1
Aug 1st, 2008 at 4:00PM: Since I missed last week's Gadling Take FIVE, I am including posts from before last Friday and including more than five. As usual, it's hard to pick.
Start off with Iva's post about her trip to the Community Baboon Sanctuary in Belize. Like she said, don't let the mosquitoes stop you.
Scott personally tested Travelon toiletry sheets. After reading what he wrote, I think these would work ...Is Discovery's Man vs. Wild a Hoax?
Jul 24th, 2007 at 4:46PM: Just the other day, my girlfriend and I were watching Bear Grylls on the Discovery Channel's Man vs. Wild and commenting on how crazy he was -- eating spiders, sleeping with snakes, and climbing up and down waterfalls while battling a massive case of diarrhea. Maybe he's not so crazy? The New York Post is running an article that questions the reality of Man vs. Wild, saying, "On the program, ...Jesus' Bones Tour
Feb 28th, 2007 at 11:24AM: If you missed the press conference at the New York Public Library, where filmmaker James Cameron announced his new Discovery Channel movie, you might want to read up and do a little digging yourself.
If you hadn't heard the hype, Cameron's movie The Lost Tomb of Jesus, airs this Sunday. In it, he apparently argues that a couple of caskets, ossuaries actually, once contained the bones of Jesus and ...
