CROSSING TIME ZONES
From the monthly archives: March 2011
It’s hard to beat the view from La Cusinga Lodge. Nestled on a hillside on Costa Rica’s still-wild southwest coast, the lodge occupies its own private nature reserve just south of the village of Uvita. Seen from the lodge buildings, the vista takes in a dense expanse of verdant rainforest [...]
When you arrive in Torres del Paine National Park in the far south of Chile, chances are some of the first animals you’ll see are the guanacos that roam the plains and lower hills of this Patagonian wilderness.
A member of the camelidae family, guanacos are one of the two wild relatives of the [...]
There’s a lot of coverage in the media about threats to different ecosystems around the world – not to mention the planet-wide threat of global warming – but except on rare occasions, the threats facing irreplaceable cultural heritage sites tend to garner much less attention.
“Coral reefs, the Amazon, and polar bears are getting a [...]
There are few waterfalls as majestic as Iguazu – or Iguaçu, if you prefer the Portuguese spelling – Falls along the border of Argentina and Brazil. The falls are actually anywhere from 160 to 275 separate cascades (depending on the water level) with heights of roughly 263 feet (80 meters).
Sometimes also spelled Iguassu, the [...]
Of all the castles I saw on my October 2010 trip to Scotland, one of the most evocative was Kilchurn Castle in Argyll. Part of that was due to castle itself, a picturesque ruin situated on a marshy tongue of land jutting into Loch Awe. Part of it was due to the weather, [...]
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