Category: wild landscapes

17 Photos to Put Grasslands National Park on Your Must-See List

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Saskatchewan’s Grasslands National Park is a rare place that has all the top features we look for in a travel destination – highly photogenic wild landscapes, plenty of wildlife, and no crowds. The park preserves one of the largest tracts of natural grasslands left in North America. The ruggedness of the landscape is the main reason that it escaped settlers’ plows, leaving us with extraordinary… Read more17 Photos to Put Grasslands National Park on Your Must-See List

12 Photos to Put Namibia on Your Bucket List

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When we think about places with magical landscapes, Namibia always springs to mind. For a photographer, a visit there is like dying and going to heaven. Some of the scenes are almost unreal, especially the colours. When we looked at photographs before our first trip to Namibia, we kept asking – are those colours for real, or are people just getting too carried away with… Read more12 Photos to Put Namibia on Your Bucket List

Exploring Saskatchewan’s Athabasca Sand Dunes

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Athabasca Sand Dunes, northern Saskatchewan

The Athabasca Sand Dunes are, quite simply, our favourite place in the world. Stretching for about 100 kilometres along the south shore of Lake Athabasca in Saskatchewan’s far north, these are the largest dunes in Canada and the largest this far north anywhere in the world. But it’s not just size that makes them unique. As we might expect, most of the world’s great sand… Read moreExploring Saskatchewan’s Athabasca Sand Dunes

17 Favourite New Saskatchewan Landscape Photos from 2017

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Waskesiu Lake, Saskatchewan

As 2017 comes to a close, we’ve gathered 17 of our favourite new Saskatchewan landscape photos. We managed to get to several fantastic parts of the province. Travelling from the far north to the deep south in the same summer really brings home just how incredibly varied our landscapes are – everything from native prairie grasslands to badlands, wildlife-rich wetlands, boreal forest with wild rivers… Read more17 Favourite New Saskatchewan Landscape Photos from 2017

Why Visit Dinosaur Provincial Park in the Fall

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Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta.

Alberta’s Dinosaur Provincial Park is worth a visit anytime, but we think that fall is special for several reasons. The mostly open prairie of southeast Alberta can get a tad hot in summer, but September brings welcome relief from the heat while usually still remaining pleasantly warm. The park is so popular in summer that you normally have to book the campground in advance. When… Read moreWhy Visit Dinosaur Provincial Park in the Fall