Go wild! Amazing adventures and 30% off!

Jul

2009

Author: lonelyplanet Adventure & Outdoors - Australia New Zealand

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The 'Go wild!' issue


It's a wild world out there - year-round wildlife watching, Mexican wrestlers, we've collected all the most mind-blowing bits. In this issue: Wild on screen: videos and images Amazing planet: see it and talk about it A year of watching wildlife: a calendar of beasts Book a trip: hotels and tours roaring for you		30% off sale - last days!

Wild on screen: videos and images

Videos with edge

Australia
Dive into Tasmania's underwater wilderness

Chile, New Zealand and Mongolia
Jump off the adventure deep end

Mexico
Meet one wild Mexican wrestler

Peru
A wrong turn you don't want to take

Antartica
Antartic wedding - at least the penguins are wearing tuxedos

Shots of natural wonders

Glaciers at sunset, Peru

Canada
Walk with the dinosaurs in Canada's Badlands

Kenya
Giraffes at the manor

California
Squint up at these skyscraper treetops

Iceland
Volcanic craters in Iceland

Utah
Utah's enormous, photogenic Arches National Park

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Amazing planet: see it and talk about it


Chatter gone wild on the forum Wild camping in Eastern Europe Foodies debate the best salad to go with a wild rice soup Rafting on the Zambesi and swimming in Devil's Pool Gay clubbing in Paris Ecuador for Carnaval (watch out for the water throwing!) Group show and tell Want to talk wildlife with other critter nuts? Join our Wild things Group - share your photos, tips, tales and tails. Or maybe these groups are more up your alley... Drink then discuss the world's best ales Let's go rockin' all over the world Shhh...travellers' secrets are out Free World Festival guide, Edinburgh Fringe Edinburgh will be bouncing to a totally different beat when The World Festival kicks off on August 6. Get your free guide to The World Festival and join in the celebration of world music.		Bukittinggi Canyon, Sumatra Untamed places to explore Check out Réunion's Wild South (Sud Sauvage) - lava fields, crashing beaches, amazing forest Thought about visiting Sumatra? This giant island is still as wild and unpredictable as the Victorian-era jungle-seekers dreamed. Take a look at amazing Greenland - dwarfing glaciers and brightly coloured buildings snuggled in Disko Bay. What are the most amazing natural wonders on the planet? We've chosen our top seven natural wonders - what would be on your list? Compass competition To be in the running to win one of 5 copies of A Year of Watching Wildlife, tell us what wildlife you would be most likely to see at: - Cape Clear Island, Ireland - Delaware Bay, USA - Kali Gandaki Gorge, Nepal Email your answers here by 14 August 2009.

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A year of watching wildlife


	A calendar of beasts Whether you like them cute, crazy or colourful, the world is full of wild and wonderful critters. Check out our watching wildlife guide to see them up close and personal - all year round.

	January Go wolf-watching at Yellowstone National Park, USA

	February This is prime time for seeing baby Gelada baboons in Ethiopia

	March Head to Trinidad for the Leatherback turtle nesting season

	April Witness the amazing courtship display of lyrebirds in Australia's Royal National Park

	May See komodo dragons birthing and brawling in Indonesia's Komodo National Park

	June Watch the sky twinkle with fireflies at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

	July See the Dr Seuss-ian Yunnan Snub-nosed monkeys and their newborns at the Baima Snow Mountain Reserve in China

	August Botswana's Okavango Delta has huge nesting colonies of the super-cute Carmine Bee-eaters

	September See giant anteaters emerging to chow on the flurry of first-rain termites in Brazil's Emas National Park

	October Check out the red deers in Scotland when they're in full rut

	November Get to South Georgia Island to see the beginning of one of the most fabulous wildlife gatherings on earth - king penguins, albatross, elephant seals, fur seals

	December Pakistan's Chitral Gol National Park is where you'll see rutting markhor antelope - and maybe snow leopards

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Written on Friday, 24 July 2009 00:00 by Lonely Planet

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