Video

Jump in for a quick swim with sea turtles off Punta Vicente Roca in the Galápagos Islands. These turtles are often active in the area feeding on algae, resting on the sea bottom, or getting cleaned by reef fish—offering excellent up-close encounters. Read the rest of the day’s expedition report.

This trailer is for a documentary about the world’s only sloth orphanage, found not far from where we explore in Costa Rica. Learn more about the Sloth Sanctuary, or join us in Costa Rica & Panama to see some of these little guys in wild.

Just in from National Geographic Explorer, our onboard Video Chronicler Beau Sytle shot this footage of the rare all-white penguin that’s been featured on the Today Show and National Geographic in the past few days.

Happy New Year and cheers to the adventures 2012 holds! Here are a few of our cherished expedition moments from our adventurous travels last year. Also, check out some of our fun photos from the year.

Alongside most of our brochures we create DVDs that showcase the places we exploreand the kinds of experiences our guests can expect. Each ship in our Lindblad/National Geographic fleet sails with a Video Chronicler aboard — a person who shoots and edits a film for each voyage. And since our chroniclers shoot footage every day, we have a wealth of content to create these DVDs.

Ron Garan, Satoshi Furukawa and the crew aboard the International Space Station shot this time-lapse video over the course of a couple months. See the deserts, oceans and cities, as well as the Aurora Borealis from an altitude of 350km. It’s an extraordinary view of Earth’s atmosphere.

The Today Show’s Matt Lauer found himself atop a giant dune in the African nation of Namibia as part of his “Where in the World is Matt Lauer” feature. He skied down the side of a windswept dune and declared Namibia among the most beautiful places he’s ever seen.

It would be difficult to argue with his assessment. This photo from National Geographic alone speaks volumes to the country’s beauty and magic. We’ll be there aboard National Geographic Explorer on March 28, 2012. Join us on an African Odyssey up the continent’s entire west coast.

A farmer in the highlands of Santa Cruz Island in Galápagos is known locally for his distilled sugarcane spirits. A Naturalist once told our group that if you’re ever suffering from a stomach bug, the best cure is to drink a glass of his moonshine and eat a spoonful of sand — the idea is that the parasites in your stomach get drunk and throw rocks at each other until they’re all dead.

In this short video, guests aboard National Geographic Endeavour get a tour of the farmer’s operation and sample his wares.

A California man took his kayak a few miles offshore to get in close to some lunge feeding blue whales, the largest mammals on Earth. While the wisdom of getting so close to one of these massive, awe-inspiring creatures is debatable, it is certainly an exceptional video.

Will the new film The Big Year do for birding what A River Runs Through It did for fly fishing? The Audubon Society is betting big on the film, and early word back (it opened over the weekend) is promising. Timed to the release of the film, the Audubon Society is releasing birds all over the internet and inviting budding birdwatchers to track them down as part of a contest. Birding the Net is tracked via a Facebook application, and the contest winner will have plenty of opportunities to find real birds in the wild — in the Galápagos Islands with us aboard National Geographic Endeavour.