Wildlife & safari
Among a quarter-million king penguins at South Georgia's Gold Harbour
Nothing prepares you for Gold Harbour — a beach on South Georgia so densely packed with king penguins that the shoreline itself seems to move.
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Blue feet and no fear: wildlife encounters in the Galápagos
The Galápagos is the rare place where wild animals simply ignore you, letting you sit an arm's length from a blue-footed booby without it so much as breaking st
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Tundra buggies and polar bears on the shores of Hudson Bay
Every October, polar bears converge on the shoreline near Churchill, Manitoba, to wait out the days until Hudson Bay freezes solid enough to hunt seals again.
Wildlife & safari
Drifting past orangutans on the Kinabatangan River
A slow boat along Sabah's Kinabatangan River turns up more wild orangutans in an afternoon than most people see in a lifetime of nature documentaries.
Wildlife & safari
Watching the wildebeest brave the Mara River
Nothing in East Africa matches the noise and nerve of a wildebeest column throwing itself into the crocodile-thick Mara River at the height of the migration.
Wildlife & safari
Tracking jaguars by boat in the Brazilian Pantanal
The Pantanal's flooded rivers hold the best odds on Earth of watching a wild jaguar hunt in daylight, from the low seat of a skiff.
Wildlife & safari
Gliding by mokoro through the Okavango Delta
The Okavango Delta is a rare inland river that never reaches the sea, and the quietest way to experience it is from a hand-poled mokoro sliding silently between
Wildlife & safari
Leopard spotting in the scrub of Yala National Park
Yala holds one of the highest densities of leopards anywhere on the planet, and unlike most big-cat destinations, here the odds of a sighting genuinely favour y
Wildlife & safari
Chasing the resplendent quetzal above San Gerardo de Dota
The resplendent quetzal's iridescent tail and improbable colouring have drawn birders to Costa Rica's high cloud forest for decades, and the valley of San Gerar
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