Every plant you've ever nurtured on a warm windowsill grows here in wild profusion - yuccas and ficus form dense hedges, monstera, philodendron and diffenbachia string along in jungle proportions. Busy Lizzies coat roadside banks, dense blankets of black-eyed Susans clamber over posts. Trees are hanging...

15 days

Based in comfortable hotels, we explore this fascinating Caribbean island. We tour the capital Havana and travel to the spectacular landscape of ‘mogotes' in Vinales. We also drive into the Sierra Maestra Mountains to walk through the jungle to Fidel Castro's revolutionary headquarters at...

7 days

One morning in the rainforests of Costa Rica, we spotted 22 bird species, 3 kind of iguanas and a family of white-faced monkeys...before we finished breakfast! You can read the numbers - 9,000 plants, 208 species of mammals, 850 kinds of birds - but the statistic that matters most is that 100%...

9 days

Costa Rica may be a small country wedged between two continents, but few locales in the world are bigger on nature and adventure travel. Flanked by miles of beaches on the Pacific and the Caribbean, Costa Rica's interior is a lush tangle of rainforest, mist-veiled mountains, active volcanoes and natural...

14 days

The stunning national parks of Costa Rica are endowed with some of the greatest diversity of flora and fauna in the world. Tortuguero on the northern Caribbean shore is the nesting ground of the rare green turtle, whilst the lush maze of deltas host a seemingly endless array of tropical birds and...

6 days

The Pacific gray whale spring migration from Alaska's Bering Sea to the warm waters of Mexico's Baja lagoons is the longest mammal migration on earth. Nearly hunted to extinction in the past, these gentle leviathans have made a dramatic comeback and today show little fear of humans. Every spring,...

8 days

Explore lush rainforests, snorkel along pristine beaches, and cruise through the lengendary Panama Canal. There are few places in the world where nature is as exuberant, colourful or diverse as in the tropics of Costa Rica. It is home to an amazing blend of flora and fauna. But this journey takes us...