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The Times’ Paul Croughton goes on a jungle adventure through the forests of Panama, describing it as “a wonderland. Whatever you like to do, you can do it there: slice through white-water on a raft, fly through trees on a zip wire, hike through jungle, snorkel with sharks, dive with whales, climb the volcano or cycle up and down everything else.” Panama: paradise is open for business

The Telegraph’s Michael Jacobs and partner undertake a fortnight’s walk along El Cid’s road to paradise, a new tourist route of “immense and haunting beauty” being promoted by the Spanish tourist board. Amusingly they find themselves the unwitting focus of much media attention due to the relative rarity of tourists walking this route: “We were barely prepared for the number of journalists there to greet us, all of whom were anxious to know why two British writers had been drawn to the idea of walking the Camino del Cid. Apparently the tourists undertaking the route were still quite few in number and largely limited to cyclists and motorists. Soon we were flattered into thinking of ourselves as engaged on a mission to revive some of the more forgotten corners of Spain.”

“With that she pointed herself off the side of the path, crouched down with her poles tight behind and fell off the mountain. In 10 seconds she slid down the piste that we’d spent 20 minutes winding our way up. Louise, a quiet woman, was next. She yelped the whole way down. When she came to a thud at the end of the slide, she lay back, legs outstretched and laughed hysterically.” The Guardian’s Tamsin Omond enjoys Snowshoeing in the French Alps, extolling the environmental and aesthetic advantages of snowshoeing over traditional winter sport activities.

The New York Times’ Greg Breining finds that winter snowshoeing amongst the trails and wilderness of Minnesota is the perfect way to go Trekking With Wolves as well as a great escape for those looking to beat the summer crowds of campers and canoeists – “The beauty of snowshoeing is you can do it just about anywhere – over lake and stream, through the woods, on a trail or off…In summer, some quarter of a million canoe campers manage to disappear into the wilderness, paddling down the craggy lakes, carrying canoe and pack down portage trails.”

Simon Unwin of The Independent takes a trip to Norway for a glimpse of a Green sky at night. Travelling to northernmost Norway, exploring Sámi culture along the way, Unwin finally gets to see the magic of the Aurora: “To the north and then, suddenly, to the west, shape-shifting drapes of jade luminescence shimmer against the indigo sky as solar winds collide with the Earth’s magnetic field. It’s a sobering dance of light that is as unpredictable as it is breathtaking. “

Mike Unwin also in The Independent goes on a wildlife tour around the Amazon rainforest and Pantanal wetlands in Brazil in a quest to spot the South American big 5 – jaguar, tapir, maned wolf, giant anteater and giant river otter – “ours would have been a memorable wildlife trip even had none of the holy quinity deigned to show up. Whatever your agenda, if it’s simply a ruse to explore Brazil’s extraordinary wildlife riches, you won’t be disappointed. ” Spot Luck: Great wildlife encounters in Brazil

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