Latest Stories in Travel - Page 7
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Rowers Convert Old Sailboat For Row From Cleveland to Key West
Tom Kotula and John Hauserman are nuts, plain and simple. But a lot of rowers are nuts; you have to be to get up at 4:30 in the morning to get out on often freezing water just to be screamed at by some 100 pound
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12 Hip Green Hostels in North America
Why stay in a hotel when you can mingle with like-minded travelers in an eco-friendly environment? From city centers to the great outdoors, we pick a dozen of the best places in North America for backpackers to lay their heads in sustainable style.
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Cape Farewell 2009: Artists Inspired by Trek Through Andes
We reported last year on TreeHugger founder Graham Hill's trip with Cape Farewell to the Arctic. This year you can feel like you're part of
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Carré-d'Etoiles Mini-Prefabs For Green Vacations
They call it "a new idea in "get away from it all" tourism. Carré d'Etoiles is a tiny vacation prefab that can be dropped anywhere, is designed to "protect the environment" with "designer bio-ethanol heating, recyclable wood, etc."
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The World's Top Five International Bike Tour Companies
There's no better way to soak up a country than by bike: It's quicker than walking, greener than just about every other form of transportation, and you get to see towns, scenery, and people that you'd never
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Los Amigos: Volunteers Vacationing with Scientists
This year, you've decided you want to do more on your vacation than lounge around like a beached whale, eh? Well why not volunteer, but not
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Beach Huts Go Green and Modern
Seaside towns in the UK have had a rough go of it in the last few years; the weather can often be described as "character building", while Spain and other places with better weather and warmer sand became so
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Mountain Lodges of Peru: A Green Alternative to Hiking Machu Picchu
Hiking the Inca Trail. Ahh, the mythical allure of getting in touch with a culture that is hundreds of years long gone. Walking in the same steps of these mighty people, for some, is something of a bucket list item. Yet,
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Musings on Sustainability in the Developing World
A few weeks ago I traveled down to Nicaragua with Power to the People and Green Empowerment to install solar on a school in a very remote village. While down there, I had the chance to see first hand how renewable energy
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Exclusive Interview: World Record Tandem Pair Mandy and Benny
Writing for TreeHugger is its own reward. But some days are just more rewarding than others. Yesterday was such a day. I met Mandy and Benny in person at the SPEZI specialized bikes convention in
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Tea Time: Health Care for a Work Force
In my last post about my trip to Kenya to visit the Lipton Tea plantation, I talked about the benefits to the workers of the education of their children, and how the treatment of workers is one of the cornerstones of
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7 Popular Tourist Destinations to See Before it's Too Late
There's a new kind of eco-tourist on the prowl, one who seeks out the places and experiences threatened by global warming: the climate tourist. The following seven popular tourist destinations may not be the world's most
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Cristalino Jungle Lodge: A Resort ACTUALLY Saving the Rainforest
When you see the Southern Cross for the first time....Actually, when you see the Southern Cross for the first time on a moonlit boat ride through the Amazon after a full days drive across Brazil, you'll know that you've
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Micro Macro Monde: A Center for Radically Rethinking Design
Designer Niels Peter Flint "has been working in the field of designing, implementing and promoting sustainable ways of living" for the last 25 years, working, lecturing and travelling around the world. But now he has put down serious roots in this nice
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My Brush with the Wildlife in Kenya (Slideshow)
There is nothing as exhilarating as seeing animals in the wild. I was incredibly lucky to see a huge number of animals on my visit to Kenya. In both Nakuru National Park and Nairobi National Park I saw lions, baboons, tons
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A View of Kenya by Air and By Car
Join me for a mini tour of Kenya, with photos taken on a flight from Nairobi to Kericho and then covering the trip by car returning three days later. It turns out that the images that interested me were reflective of some of the pressing issues that
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ITB Ideas: Give the Gift of Experience
Continuing our series on green ideas found at the International Tourism Convention (ITB) in Berlin, here is a fantastic tip: instead of giving material gifts, give the gift of experience. The company Smartbox does the
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ITB Ideas: TreeHouse Hotel
Wandering through the International Tourism Bourse, or ITB, in Berlin, looking for the eco angle amidst pushy vendors of exclusive golf courses and luxury hotels, one stand stands out. Behind a creatively lettered, found-wood framed
