Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international correspondents share snapshots of moments from their ...

On a windswept plateau high above the Arabian Sea, Sena Keybani cradles a sapling that barely reaches her ankle. The young plant, protected by a makeshift fence of wood and wire, is a kind of dragon's ...

Sometimes, the ultimate luxury isn’t a five-star suite or a Michelin-starred meal — it’s silence. It’s the absence of crowds, ...

Expedition cruising is defined by its sense of adventure. From the cold polar waters to untouched tropical paradises, these ...

Expedition cruising is defined by its sense of adventure. From the cold polar waters to untouched tropical paradises, these ...

Dragon's blood trees only grown on the island of Socotra in Yemen. Climate change is killing them off, raising questions ...

13. Komodo Dragon of Indonesia (image credits: unsplash) The Komodo dragon is the largest living lizard on the planet, and it roams free only on a handful of Indonesian islands. With its massive frame ...

No. One of the most surreal moments was swimming past a dragon. Maybe it wasn ... Each day, the ship docked near the islands of the western Galapagos. Zodiacs ferried people to the shores ...

Nearly 200 years after Charles Darwin sailed through the Galapagos Islands on HMS Beagle, I boarded La Pinta, an expedition ship with 39 guests and 33 crew members — roughly the same soul count ...

The Socotra dragon's blood tree ... A little less than twenty million years ago, the islands broke free from the Gondwana supercontinent. For those interested in island evolution and biogeography ...