Hot answers tagged nature-and-wildlife
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If you and your girlfriend are willing to go for a hot summer hike and cold swim, there is Upper Little Stoney Falls in the Jefferson National Forest - Hanging Rock Day Use Area, near Dungannon, Virginia.
Waterfall photos: http://www.waterfall-picture-guide.com/upper-little-stoney-falls.html
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San Diego is located in a desert region, which means that unless it has rained recently (it is expected to rain from time to time from November through March), there will be flowers only in irrigated parks.
If you have the opportunity to go look for flowers in January through March (or later if it rained a lot), then parks like the Mission Trails Regional ...
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Would you believe, Wikipedia has a list of dolphinariums!
I won't list them all, but basically there are several in Germany (Allwetter Zoo Münster, Duisburg Zoo, Tiergarten Nürnberg) and Lithuania is also pretty close, depending where in Poland you are (Lithuanian Sea Museum, Klaipėda) - but I'll leave it to you to check out the list.
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There are a lot of possible day trips from Reykjavik to explore the surrounding area. If you only have the chance to do one I would suggest the Golden Circle, the tour will pick you up from your hotel and return you to it at the end of the day. During the day you will see geysir - the water spout that others are named after. Whilst geysir doesn't erupt ...
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It depends on what you do. The park has a variety of "safaris" that you can take, some of which are included in admission and some of which are extra. The caravan safari gets up close and personal, but the tram safari is pretty well separated from the wildlife.
There are also walking paths, which are more like a traditional zoo; you'll be between 3 and 20 ...
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The best way is to go with a tour as the trip requires crossing Lake Manapouri and there's an hour long coach trip to Deep Cove. For more information see the NZ Fiordland webpage.
There are a couple of tour options, including overnight stays on a boat, a couple of companies:
Real Journeys
Doubtful Sound Cruise
As far as I remember the overnight stay ...
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The most northerly Australian animals I've personally come across were at the Copenhagen zoo.
In addition to the not-so-unexpected Kangaroos they also have a few Tasmanian Devils, and at least one Kookaburra! According to my GPS, it's at about 55.672° N, 12.523° E.
Heading even further north, the Helsinki Zoo in Finland has both Emu and Red-necked ...
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In Germany, the Zoos of Nürnberg and Duisburg have Dolphin exhibits/shows (another one in [Münster] will be shut down this fall). The one in Nürnberg is probably closest to you and also seems to be the largest. But note that there's considerable controversity about whether keeping Dolphins in indoor pools constitutes animal abuse, given that even the largest ...
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This page says that Tallinn zoo has kangaroos. Tallin is at 59 degrees 26 mins north. A review on this page backs it up. So does this picture.
I found a newspaper report of a ship taking a kangaroo back to Leningrad Zoo (59 degrees 57 mins N) after their only one was killed in the war, but that was in 1950 and I can find nothing to say they still have one.
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Observing polar bears in Churchill is kind of like going on safari - the odds of seeing the animals aren't guaranteed, so your best bet is to catch them during periods of migration. While I've never been during April, I hear because it's between mating and hibernation tour guides try not to disturb them in Wapusk.
Just so you do know, Wapusk is 2.5 hours ...
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The nearest one from Barcelona is Sant Lloren ( 30 minutes by car ). There is a monastery on the top of the mountain.
Alternatively you can go to Parc Natural del Montseny. ( 1 hour by car ).
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This will be too late for the original poster but here is a map. Apparently, in many places the flowers are already gone by the end of July.
I would say that the best period is the beginning of July. It's also the time when lavender honey is collected. I never attended one of the late August festivals but my understanding is that they take place around the ...
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I have been to both Panama and Costa Rica last year, and I enjoyed Panama a lot more - even though I haven't been to the most interesting parts! In general almost everything in Costa Rica is packaged - so if you go to a cloud forest, you have nice trails, prepared for all level hikers (including small children and the elderly). You get the map from the ...
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If you want to know, just do it.
I don't mean exploring the world, but just leave your home during 24h without money. Learn from that experience: what was missing? how far did you go? did you succeed? How did you manage to eat, sleep and move?
Then try it during 48h, one week, one month...
By the way, travel and (lack of) money are not directly linked. ...
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Since you stated your areas of interest clearly I can tell you what you can find in CR: Isla de Coco is one of the best diving spots in the world (a week "all inclusive" boat ride is $4000-$5000). The caribean side is wonderful for surfing and so are on the pacific, Jaco and the north.
More than half the country is reserves so nature is everywhere.
People ...
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We ended up watching the leatherback turtles on the Gandoca beach. This was organized through an agency in Puero Viejo de Talamanca (I can't remember the name of the agency). I can certainly recommend this option, and after reading more about turtle watching I think it is actually get by far the highest probability of success in April.
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None of this suggests where you should go, but hopefully help your chances once you have picked somewhere.
So earlier this year I was in Tromsø, and I got talking to a professionalism northern lights photographer who lives up there, on the flight from Oslo. He had some useful tips for trying to view them.
Obviously going at short notice is best so you can ...
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