Nat Geo Travel Staff’s 2014 Bucket List
Nat Geo Travel Staff’s 2014 Bucket List
Nat Geo Travel Staff’s 2014 Bucket List
The staff at National Geographic Travel is always criss-crossing the globe to uncover the best and the brightest places, but we have travel wish lists just like everyone else. Here’s where we want to go in 2014 and why.
The Radar: Travel Lately
The Radar: Travel Lately
The Radar: Travel Lately
The Radar: The top travel news, stories, trends, and ideas from across the web. Got Radar? Follow us on Twitter @NatGeoTravel and tag your favorite travel stories with #NGTRadar. Check back on the blog each Wednesday for our Travel Lately roundup.
Kate’s Christchurch
Kate’s Christchurch
Kate’s Christchurch
When travel blogger Kate Voyage isn’t scouring the globe for adventure, this Kiwi turns her attention to the home front. “Christchurch has all the big city conveniences,” she says, “but with fewer traffic jams.” After suffering devastating earthquakes over the past few years, Christchurch is finally on the rebound and it’s easy to see why. Here are a few of Kate’s favorite things about her home town.
The Place: Christchurch, New Zealand
The Place: Christchurch, New Zealand
The Place: Christchurch, New Zealand
Two years ago, a series of massive earthquakes shook Christchurch, New Zealand, to its spine, folding its central business district into a cordoned-off red zone. But even as the historic gateway to the South Island readies for a years-long rebuild, a spirit of innovation is rising out of the rubble to shake things up for good.
#FriFotos: Sit Down
#FriFotos: Sit Down
#FriFotos: Sit Down
Want to see one of your photos featured on our website or blog? Make it happen by uploading your favorite travel pics (don’t forget to add a caption!) to ngm.com/yourshot. Tag all your submissions #travelshot – then look for your photos in one of our My Shot galleries or on the Intelligent Travel blog.
Send Your Teen to Peru
Send Your Teen to Peru
Send Your Teen to Peru
Or New Zealand, China, Greece, the Galápagos, India, Iceland, Costa Rica, or Tanzania, among other destinations. Not on their own, of course, but with National Geographic Student Expeditions. Each participant picks an assignment: (photography, marine biology, filmmaking, community service, creative writing, wildlife conservation are some of the choices), and are guided over the 10-day to…
Where’s Andrew? Video: Great Ocean Road
Where’s Andrew? Video: Great Ocean Road
Where’s Andrew? Video: Great Ocean Road
My first week in Australia has been busy, busy. Trying to throw all of you off my trail had me bouncing from Melbourne out to the historic Goldfields, up to the stunning high country of the Victorian Alps and then back to the stormy southern coast. I am still quite amazed by the diversity of…
Your New Zealand Photos
Your New Zealand Photos
Your New Zealand Photos
Enjoy photos from New Zealand submitted to National Geographic by readers like you.
Fiji: A Tale of Two Cities
Fiji: A Tale of Two Cities
Fiji: A Tale of Two Cities
Journalist Jeff Fleischer spent 2008 in New Zealand and the South Pacific on a fellowship studying climate change. He sends us this stark look at the state of affairs in Fiji since the 2006 coup. To those who don’t follow current affairs in Oceania, the idea of Fiji usually evokes images of idyllic beaches full…
Feathered Fridays: New Zealand’s Penguathalon
Feathered Fridays: New Zealand’s Penguathalon
Feathered Fridays: New Zealand’s Penguathalon
What do you do when you live in a country home to nine of the world’s 16 species of penguins? Host a Penguathalon, of course! At Kelly Tarlton’s Antarctic Encounter (looks something like our SeaWorld) in Orakei, New Zealand, some 80 penguins partook in the world’s first Penguathalon, an event that allowed king and gentoo…
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