Nature

Every year, millions of monarch butterflies start heading south for the winter, migrating like birds and ending up at El Rosario Butterfly Sanctuary in the state of Michoacan. There are several other places they land where you can visit and see them in their natural habitat, but El Rosario is the biggest one and has …

When you think about summer travel in the USA, what do you picture? Huge crowds, theme parks, and packed beaches? Or a mountain trail, a lake, and forests? There are ways to find space and nature if you plan carefully. When I first put up this post, most everyone in the world had been sheltering …

After taking a break from new material last month in Perceptive Travel and doing a Dark Tourism issue, we’re back to our usual monthly online magazine schedule. This time we have four new narrative travel stories from wandering book authors and reviews of three books that came out recently. Sometimes we end up with a …

Imagine riding a couple hours from tourist-packed Prague and hiking in a landscape that looks like it came right out of The Chronicles of Narnia. It’s not a dream: you can easily do it by heading north to Bohemian Switzerland in the Czech Republic. There’s a good reason this region of rock towers and cliffs …

Most people have a pretty clear vision in their mind of what Mexico is like, despite this being a very large country that stretches from the Atlantic to the Pacific and would take days to drive across. There’s a much wider diversity of climates and altitudes than people expect. I just spent some time in …