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Looking for a Few Good Guides
We’re hard at work on our annual Tours of a Lifetime issue, which lists the 50 best guided tours of the year. (See last year’s package here.) You can’t have a good tour without a good guide, so we’re...
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Galápagos with Teens: Weird Science
Senior editor Norie Quintos, who edits the annual Tours of a Lifetime package in the magazine, recently returned from a trip to the Galápagos Islands and mainland Ecuador with her teen sons. This is...
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Mainland Ecuador with Teens
Senior editor Norie Quintos, who edits the annual Tours of a Lifetime package in the magazine, recently returned from a trip to the Galapagos and mainland Ecuador with her teen sons. This is the last...
View Article10 Guides Who Could Transform Your Trip
Duncan in Scotland, Mauricio in Patagonia, Heath in Tasmania, Jay in Wyoming, Ibrahim in Iran, George in Kenya. As we were planning this year’s “Tours of a Lifetime” feature, knowledgeable and yes,...
View ArticleTips for Picking a Guided Trip
I recently took a guided tour of Morocco with the Vermont-based Country Walkers (Traveler named the company’s guided tour through Brazil as one of this year’s “Tours of a Lifetime“). Here are three...
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Whimbrels and Whimsy on Cape Charles
“There could be a substantial flight of the whimbrel the evening after you arrive. This is a globally important bird and not many people have seen the spectacle. Do you want to go?” read the email from...
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Just Back: Scotland’s Outer Hebrides
National Geographic Traveler Executive Editor Norie Quintos just got back from cycling the length of Scotland’s Outer Hebrides islands over four days on a small-group bicycle tour—and posting photos to...
View ArticleConfessions of an Airbnb Virgin
There is no better place to sample the peer-to-peer economy than where it sprouted, the fecund fields of northern California. Chief among the sharing-economy sites is the white-hot Airbnb, which...
View ArticleWhy National Parks Matter
I participate in a program at Nat Geo headquarters in which “seasoned” staffers like me nurture junior staffers. But I’m always astonished by how much mentors learn from the people they’re supposed to...
View ArticleIt’s a Small World After All
The 1964-65 New York World’s Fair opened in the midst of the atomic age, the space race, the Cold War, and growing civil rights unrest. A 12-story stainless steel model of Earth called the “Unisphere”...
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Victoria Falls For Dummies
Victoria Falls is on almost everyone’s bucket list, but few people quite know the best way to experience it. On a recent trip to southern Africa, I saw it from every which way, so you don’t have to....
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National Treasures: America’s Best Idea
More than 400 sites make up the U.S. National Park Service, which celebrates its 100th birthday in 2016 amid much expected hoopla befitting what has often been called “America’s best idea.” But here’s...
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Family Finds in the Philippines
Like everyone everywhere, the people of the Philippines read the paper, watch TV, and consult their smartphones for information. But in this Southeast Asian nation, where society is bound by a complex...
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