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Wildlife: Destinations & Places

Wildlife travel guides covering safaris, whale-watching seasons, primate treks, and responsible viewing operators across Africa, the Arctic, the Galápagos, and Southeast Asia.

  • Old Faithful Area

    Old Faithful Area

    Yellowstone’s most visited hub, built around Old Faithful — the predictable geyser, the historic Old Faithful Inn, and the largest concentration of geysers on Earth in the Upper Geyser Basin.

  • Laganas Zakynthos

    Laganas Zakynthos

    Zakynthos’s busiest beach resort — a long sandy bay on the island’s south coast, lively nightlife, and a gateway to the loggerhead turtle nesting grounds of Marathonisi and the Bay of Laganas.

  • Whistler Village Whistler

    Whistler Village Whistler

    Whistler’s car-free, alpine-style Village Stroll — a cobblestone pedestrian core of 100+ shops and restaurants at the base of Whistler and Blackcomb mountains.

  • Downtown Tucson Tucson

    Downtown Tucson Tucson

    Tucson’s walkable downtown — a Sonoran-desert city center of adobe and Art Deco architecture, a celebrated Mexican-rooted food scene, and the Hotel Congress music venue.

  • Tamarindo Beach Tamarindo

    Tamarindo Beach Tamarindo

    Costa Rica’s most popular Pacific surf town on the Guanacaste coast — a long golden beach, reliable waves for all levels, and a lively beachfront dining and nightlife strip.

  • Downtown St John S

    Downtown St John S

    The walkable core of St. John’s, Newfoundland — famously colorful ‘Jellybean Row’ houses, the pubs of George Street, and a working harbor beneath Signal Hill.

  • Uptown Sedona Sedona

    Uptown Sedona Sedona

    The walkable shopping and dining heart of Sedona along Highway 89A — gift shops, art galleries, and red-rock views, with the Sedona Trolley departing from its center.

  • Gaslamp Quarter San Diego

    Gaslamp Quarter San Diego

    San Diego’s 16-block Victorian historic district — gas-lamp-lined streets of restored 19th-century buildings now packed with restaurants, rooftop bars, and nightlife.

  • Rocky Mountain National Park

    Rocky Mountain National Park

    Colorado’s high-alpine national park above Estes Park — crossed by Trail Ridge Road, the highest continuous paved road in the US, with glacier-carved valleys, elk, and the Continental Divide.

  • Manuel Antonio Quepos

    Manuel Antonio Quepos

    Costa Rica’s most popular national park near Quepos — white-sand beaches backed by rainforest, home to sloths and the endangered Central American squirrel monkey.

  • Downtown Reykjavik

    Downtown Reykjavik

    The compact heart of Iceland’s capital — the shopping and nightlife of Laugavegur, the basalt-inspired Hallgrímskirkja church, and whale-watching boats at the Old Harbour.

  • Downtown Quepos

    Downtown Quepos

    The working-town gateway to Manuel Antonio National Park — a Costa Rican Pacific port with the Marina Pez Vela, a seafront Malecón, fresh seafood, and budget-friendly Tico eats.

  • Lake Eola Heights Orlando

    Lake Eola Heights Orlando

    Orlando’s first designated historic district (1989), a leafy residential neighborhood just north of Lake Eola Park with craftsman bungalows and revival-style homes built mostly 1905-1925 on brick streets.

  • Waikiki Honolulu

    Waikiki Honolulu

    Honolulu’s famed beachfront neighborhood on Oahu’s south shore, birthplace of modern surfing, lined with historic resorts along Kalakaua Avenue beneath the Diamond Head crater.

  • Geirangerfjord Geiranger

    Geirangerfjord Geiranger

    A UNESCO World Heritage fjord in western Norway, framed by sheer cliffs and the 410-metre Seven Sisters waterfall, with the small village of Geiranger at its head.

  • Tribschen

    Tribschen

    A lakeside district of Lucerne on a peninsula in Lake Lucerne, home to the villa where Richard Wagner lived from 1866 to 1872, now the Richard Wagner Museum.

  • Karen Kenya

    Karen Kenya

    Karen is an upscale low-density suburb in southwest Nairobi, Kenya, known for the Karen Blixen Museum, Ngong Hills views, and spacious colonial-era estates.

  • Thamel Kathmandu

    Thamel Kathmandu

    Thamel is Kathmandu’s primary tourist district in the city’s north, packed with trekking outfitters, budget guesthouses, Newari restaurants, and live-music bars along its dense medieval-street grid.

  • Hanalei Kauai

    Hanalei Kauai

    Hanalei is a small North Shore town on Kauai fronting a half-mile crescent bay backed by Na Pali cliffs, taro fields, and a National Wildlife Refuge.

  • Riverside Jacksonville

    Riverside Jacksonville

    Riverside is a historic neighborhood in Jacksonville, Florida, known for its early-20th-century architecture, the boutique shops and restaurants of Five Points, and proximity to the St. Johns River.

  • Maboneng Precinct Johannesburg

    Maboneng Precinct Johannesburg

    Maboneng Precinct is a post-industrial creative district in eastern Johannesburg anchoring Arts on Main, the Market on Main street market, and a dense strip of galleries, studios, and cafés along Fox Street.