AllWays Traveller Features

How do hummingbirds manage to stay in place? The answer is they hover in mid-air by flapping their wings at a rate of 50 to 80 beats per second, writes Adam Jacot de Boino. They also visit between 2000 and 5000 flowers a day. All this I now know from being immersed in Costa Rica's nature. I arrived late at night at my first place to stay at Ar...

Luxury resorts Port Ferdinand and Saint Peter's Bay in the north west of Barbados are offering an optional Water Adventure Package for guests to experience all the best water sports the island has to offer. This includes : a four hour deep sea fishing trip on Wicked Wahoo (shared charter)a two hour surfing or SUP lessona four hour luxury coastal cr...

South America specialist, Swoop Patagonia is offering a five-day trek, which crosses Argentina's rugged Cordon del Bosque mountain range, to reach the tranquil shores of Lago del Desierto. The 'El Condor to Lago del Desierto' trek requires participants to ford rivers, cross rugged terrain and negotiate beech forests. They also descend in to valleys...

Expedition cruise specialist, One Ocean Expeditions (OOE) is expanding its photography programme to non-polar destinations in spring 2019, starting with Costa Rica. Costa Rica is home to 6% of the entire world's biodiversity and OOE's Photographer-in-Residence, Jeff Topham, compares the sheer volume of Costa Rica's stunning backdrop of wildlife and...

Located outside the hurricane belt, eighty-six miles east of Aruba, the Dutch Caribbean island of Bonaire offers year-round sunshine, low annual rainfall, coral formations and the most abundant fish population in the Caribbean. Known for scuba diving and snorkeling, it is also offs a range of eco-adventure activities from sea and mangrove kayaking ...

As self-imposed exiles go, this one is exquisite, sexy, opulent and indulgent. My wife, Kerry, and I are holed up in one of the new, sumptuous over-the-water bungalow at Sandals South Coast Resort in Jamaica, and, we don't want to leave. So, we don't. We sequester ourselves in a four-day cocoon of over-water coupledom to celebrate our 25th wedding ...