Travel Intelligence isn’t just about hotels, hotels, hotels; it’s also packed with some of the finest travel writing on the web. To see a selection of top-class travel writing about ecology & wildlife, have a look through the articles listed below...
Articles in Ecology & Wildlife
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Biggest, Driest, Best: A Tour of the Southern Australian Outback
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Yvonne Van Dongen
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Australia
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South Australia
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Adelaide
"Adelaide can tell its own story..."
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Get a Yala of this: A Visit to a Sri Lankan National Park
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Nabeel Shariff
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Sri Lanka
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South Coast
"5.15 a.m., I hear a thud on the front of my cabana, with a slither of sunlight peeping through my batik curtain. Unaware of my surroundings I open the door to be greeted by a wild boar rummaging in the dust a few metres away..."
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A Guide to Estonian Bogs
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Catherine Cooper
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Estonia
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Tallinn Region
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Tallinn
"Tallinn is usually what comes to mind when people think of Estonia, but with 50% of the country’s surface covered by forests and nearly a quarter of its land (22.3%) by swampland, I thought it might be an interesting place to go walking."
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Wild Side of Life: A Trek Around the Slovakian Wilderness
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Clive Tully
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Slovakia
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other regions of Slovakia
"Clive Tully goes in search of chamois in Slovakia with award-winning volunteering organisation Biosphere Expeditions."
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A Walking Tour in Costa Rica
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Mary Novakovich
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Costa Rica
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Pacific Coast
"It was hard to avoid a slight sense of panic in the arrivals lounge at San Jose airport. Scores of taxi touts swarmed round us, making it difficult to find our guide who was to look after us during our walking holiday. I know it’s a typical scene in..."
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On the Banks of the Kowie River: South Africa's Eastern Cape
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Rosanne Turner
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South Africa
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Eastern Cape
"“At last you're here” the sign on the wall said as we pulled into the parking lot of My Pond Hotel. Well that about summed it up. Eight hours in a car with young children can leave you rather frazzled, and in need of some R..."
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Paradise Found or Paradise Lost? A Trip to the Andaman Islands
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Fiona Dunlop
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Thailand
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Southern Thailand: The Andaman Coast
"Ptolemy, the Roman geographer, may have charted them way back in the 2nd century, but until recently the Andaman’s were pretty much off the radar. Scattered seductively over the turquoise depths of the Bay of Bengal, the 204 islands are a two-hour..."
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Wandering the Wetlands: Bog Walking In Estonia
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Catherine Cooper
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Estonia
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Tallinn Region
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Tallinn
"Tallinn is usually what comes to mind when people think of Estonia, but with 50% of the country’s surface covered by forests and nearly a quarter of its land by swampland, I thought it might be an interesting place to go walking. There are around 7,..."
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Top Ten: Things to Do In Thailand
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Mark Eveleigh
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Thailand
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Southern Thailand: The Andaman Coast
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Phuket
"With 1,700 miles of coastline in two blissfully tropical (and usually tranquil) seas Thailand has the perfect beach to match your tastes; Pattaya, Phuket and Ko Samui are all-time favourites with the party crowd; Ko Pha Ngan and Ko Lanta are the..."
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Family Follies: Holiday For All Ages In Port Douglas
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Yvonne Van Dongen
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Australia
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Queensland
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Port Douglas
"The key thing about organising a 10-day family holiday where the participants range in age from 8 to 85 is activity levels. Like Goldilocks, you want ‘not too little’ (for the young) and ‘not too much’ (for the old). You want ‘just right’. For..."