Ergebnis für "Happy" in Abenteuerreisen

In many ways, we’re more comfortable than ever before. But could our sheltered, temperature-controlled, overfed, underchallenged lives actually be the leading cause of many our most urgent physical and mental health issues? In this gripping investigation, award-winning journalist Michael Easter seeks out off-the-grid visionaries, disruptive genius researchers, and mind-body conditioning trailblazers who are unlocking the life-enhancing secrets of a counterintuitive solution: discomfort.

In The Happy Traveler: Unpacking the Secrets of Better Vacations, psychology professor Dr. Jaime Kurtz applies the large and ever-growing body of research on happiness and decision-making to enhance the experience of travel. An avid explorer, study abroad instructor, teacher, and happiness researcher, Dr. Kurtz shows how anyone who has a vacation in his or her future can create the most meaningful, fulfilling, and joyful experiences possible.

Audio Journeys explores the Mayan world of Mesoamerica. We travel through Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.

In Scotland's Clyde River Valley, not far from Glasgow, the industrial town of New Lanark was established in 1785. New Lanark was one of the largest cotton manufacturing centers in Great Britain, and a model for how employees, both adults and their children were treated by the companies they worked for. Today, New Lanark is a model of cultural heritage, preservation and restoration thanks to the New Lanark Conservation Trust. We are exploring the Village with Richard Evans, development officer for the trust.

Feel the adrenaline rush as Dave Norell plunges over huge waterfalls, gets lost in the Philippine jungles, and experiences carnage in Costa Rica. In need of medical attention, Dave and his extreme kayaking friends trudge through waist-high sugar cane fields full of poisonous snakes, in search of a road that hasn't been washed out by recent flood-waters. Dave and fellow kayakers travel throughout Idaho, British Columbia, other parts of Canada and the US in their quest for whitewater adventure.

Your life is getting the exact results it's designed to get. To change your life, you must first change your design. What if you got the exact results you wanted? Sound too good to be true? Your results are simply a reflection of your thinking up until now. The seven steps that make up Higher Life Design will equip you to arrive at your intended destination healthy, wealthy, and happy.

Audio Journeys are exploring Copan, the ancient cultural center of Honduras. For years, Copán has been renowned for its magnificent Maya Ruins, a designated World Heritage Site believed by archeologists to be the cultural center, the Paris, of the Maya world.

Audio Journeys by Travel Radio International is on a road trip through the Southwest United. On Route 66, Holbrook, Arizona, still has the look and feel of a Wild West town. Holbrook, about 100 miles east of Flagstaff, was once the roughest, toughest, most lawless town of the Old West. We explore the Navajo County Courthouse Museum. Some people, including our guide, believe the 1898 courthouse is haunted.

Audio Journeys by Travel Radio International explores Freiburg Germany, the gateway to the Black Forest. We take a tram to the top of the mountain trail head, and with our naturalist guide, we explore this important ecological treasure of Europe.

Audio Journeys are exploring Quebec City, Quebec in early February during their Annual Winter Carnival, the largest winter carnival in the world.

The Baltimore Clipper ship Frolic was bound from Canton, China, to San Francisco with household goods for gold miners. The shipwreck of the Frolic lead to the founding of the town of Mendocino, California, and the discovery of redwood trees. We speak with archeologists who are studying this important early California event. The Frolic Shipwreck is now a California Underwater State Park.

Audio Journeys by Travel Radio International explores the Stax Museum of American Soul Music in Soulsville USA (Memphis), where 800 singles, 300 albums and numerous movie music scores are detailed and displayed.

Audio Journeys are exploring the National Civil Rights Museum Memphis Tennesse. Forty-one years ago on April 4 1968, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated as he was leaving the Lorraine Motel in Memphis Tennessee to join the city's sanitation workers' striking for better working conditions and pay.

Audio Journeys by Travel Radio International explores the Whiskeytown National Recreation Area at the base of the Cascade and Klamath mountain ranges. At Whiskeytown, a few miles west of Redding, California, we meet naturalist guide Steve Zachary. Zachary is dedicating his life to preserving the web of life on earth. His life's work includes learning about, and then teaching others of all ages about, how to protect the web through education and legislation.

We arrive in San Jose from a small boat across Lake Petén Itzá. There are few roads into the region. This quiet lakeside hill town has a Mayan and Spanish Language School. After a pleasant walk up the hill from the school, we find botanists preserving the traditional Mayan medicinal plants in gardens where signs help visitors with identification.

The National Capital Commission of Canada has the mission and the mandate to build the Capital Region around Ottawa as a source of pride and unity for Canadians. One place the NCC accomplishes its goals is at Gatineau Park in Chelsea Quebec, across the Ottawa River from Ottawa, Canada's capital city. It's February when we explore Gatineau Park, across the Ottawa River from Ottawa.

Audio Journeys exploration of The Cornell Lab, one of the largest nature research and conservation organizations in the world, continues behind the scenes with researchers and biologists.

Audio Journeys by Travel Radio International explores the over 2,000-year-old city of Trier, Germany. The Porta Negra, or Black Gate, is a small piece of what remains of this ancient fortified Roman city. We explore the old city with a Historic Highlights of Germany guide.

Tikal was a major center of Mayan civilization for centuries. Today Tikal National Park is still used by Mayans for ceremonies. Tikal is also home to thousands of animals and plants. We find out about some from our guide.

Audio Journeys by Travel Radio International explores the countryside near Muenster, including a 300-year-old Westphalia village that has been reconstructed. Houses, barns, buildings, and artifacts from the time make it seem as if people will be returning from their fields soon.

Outside of Muenster, we visit a unique project: a biotope, an important sanctuary for hundreds of thousands of birds. We enter a bird blind with Dr. Hans Schutz, the man in charge of the biotope.