Bahir dar, Ethiopia, is allegedly a great place to relax after traveling Ethiopia for a while. I don’t find it that way for several reasons and last night gave me another. As I lay awake at midnight listening to the dogs howling and barking (where are they in the daytime?), I noticed some movement. The … Continue reading
I loved this image as we crossed France today… and this one as above the Mediterranean before entering Libyan airspace? Did we? I just ate some pilau. Lots more coming soon. I’m going to sleep now. In Nairobi. Cheers!!
Time to see the mega fauna. In my life plan was to visit Africa before I was 40. With 50+ countries that is a broad goal. I’m gonna start with a safari in Kenya, then head to Zanzibar. Tracking gorillas sounds pretty cool too. We’ll see what happens. I’m leaving Alaska behind until February. Stay … Continue reading
Complete birding tour of Ecuador With your guide, Sandra, you are going to experience some excellent birding. Sandra knows her birds as well as their habitats. She has an incredible sense for the timing of their appearance and patiently waits. Here she is calling in the ochre-breasted antpitta aka “Shakira” for her incredible shaking moves. … Continue reading
This post was originally titled “Colombia: Travel is safer now than ever” and… I was going to say kidnappings were a tool of the 1980’s and 1990’s but a quick Google search revealed that 18 foreigners have been kidnapped as of now in 2013. Still a tool. I was going to say that generally rebel … Continue reading
I went to Panama to see the jungle but discovered new interests and great new places to take guests. I am going to tell you my personal highlights as reason for you to travel to Panama…. Panama Canal– I know it seems funny to come first but it is the last thing I ever … Continue reading
The sea lions in the photo below were hauled out before we flushed them… …into the water. I was working as a biological technician on an Exxon-Valdez oil spill recovery project in Prince William Sound and the Gulf of Alaska. I won’t get in to the gloom and doom of the spill itself,rather, the inspiration … Continue reading
Any Malbec fanatics out there? This is your tour… Let’s get straight to it. Once you are settled into the Andean setting at Mendoza you will set out for the Luján de Cuyo department, where there are a plethora of vineyards to choose from. At the vineyards professional guides will lead you through Malbecs of … Continue reading
Borneo is the perfect place for a family travel adventure in my opinion and here’s why… As a traveler I was awestruck by the diversity of animals and more so by their abundance. Traveling in Borneo is a complete jungle safari experience coupling the exotic, foreign sounds and rumble of the jungle with its inhabitants. … Continue reading
This is a video clip of two bull moose settling a territory dispute. It gives you an idea of how close to nature we really are in Alaska. It is clearly a different setting than the cow moose photo from above. This cow moose is standing in front of Denali in Denali National Park in … Continue reading
The “lights”, as we call the aurora borealis locally, have been very active the last few nights. Fairbanks, the city we are based in, is one of the best places to see the lights given our geographic location and the number of clear nights we have. September-October and then March are usually the best months … Continue reading
Here is a nice photo of an Alaskan brown bear eating red salmon posted in the NY Times.
At Barrow, Alaska polar bear’s will congregate on a a whale carcass occasionally. Bowhead whales are hunted for subsistence by Inupiaq hunters. Many of the bowhead’s are caught in spring on the ice. Sometimes a carcass will makes it way on shore because the ice sheet the remains were on melts on land. Within a … Continue reading
Travel to Brazil’s Pantanal region offers one of the best opportunities to see jaguars in the world. With your guide Marcello you will cruise the rivers and cross the country side in search of these elusive cats. Go in August or September because Marcello says so. That leaves you just about one year to get … Continue reading
Happy World Tourism day from ExploreDreamDiscover! We draw from personal experience. The destinations we offer are picked from among many locations where we have personal travel experience. This means we bring you the best possible options for an exclusive cultural or wildlife experience. The pictures in this website…I took them. We know the countries we … Continue reading
This is small compilation of videos I shot in our way South from the North Slope of Alaska after our hunting adventure. If you have never been to Alaska or on this highway his gives you a pretty good sample of the landscape and gives you a pretty good feel for Northern Alaska in the … Continue reading
We are all about oil in Alaska. Whether you are pro- or anti-development, taxes from oil revenues provide 90% of Alaska’s state budget. Driving North on the Dalton Hwy, or “Haul Road” as it is locally called the trans-Alaska oil pipeline is ubiquitous. The road was/is used to supply the oil fields all over the … Continue reading
Myanmar? Burma? Where? What? With little doubt the name(s) evoke some sort wonder and mystery in your mind. That was my reaction after I spun my globe back in 2006 wondering where I might wander next and stopped on Burma. There were some travel guides available but they would never begin to explain the amazing … Continue reading
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” -Mark Twain Thanks for visiting. Share our posts with your friends! Don’t … Continue reading
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