Travel journal

It takes a certain combination of factors to make a landscape creepy – endless fires, swarming snakes and sinister seas can have the right effect! Read on to find out about Earth’s most unsettling landscapes…

While a (relatively) small country, the UK packs in plenty of curiosities, including singing beaches, Scottish elephants and scores of shipwrecks. These are just some of the British Isles’ points of interest – read on to find out more.

Looking to hit the open road and go on an adventure? Here are 5 of the best road trips in the world, with drives through earth history and stunning landscapes.

Let’s take a walk through the deep time, human history and future of a peculiarly pickled region of the Pyrenees… Think of it as a taster for our tour package to the Spanish Pyrenees.

The gradual and incredibly powerful movements of glaciers and ice sheets over the millennia have left lasting marks on our natural landscape – read on to find some stunning locations created by ice.

Fossils are so much more than the ancient remains of eras long locked away in history. When you understand how they came to be here and how they amazed people then and continue to amaze now, you understand how fossils have the power to change the way we see the world around us, both physically and intellectually.

Jon leads our tour showcasing spectacular scenery and dinosaurs in Canada’s Rocky Mountains and Badlands, and provides participants with some unforgettable experiences while doing so. But what do leaders do for their own vacations?

Our tour experts are often in the news: read a recent article from one of them, Rob Knipe.

Cultural and Historical Adviser Professor Mark Hammond discusses the unique approach the company is taking to the relationship between geoscience and history.