There are many reasons why they call the Cayman Islands a divers dream: this is an entire nation dedicated to both banking and diving! Everything there is absolute: the visibility, the abundance of sea life, and the drama of its underwater walls. At least two plane rides are necessary to find truly virgin reefs. The remote St Vincent and the Grenadines are home to a unique type of diving called 'muck diving' which reveals the most amazing sea critters. Trip also includes unspoiled Tobago.

Michoacan has great colonial cities, ancient crafts and spectacular natural events. In Sierra Chincua 40 million butterflies sleep on top of each other in the winter to save energy. In spring they wake up and mate. All males die after mating. Females travel 3000 miles back to Canada to drop their eggs and also die. This alone is worth a visit! Morelia is a UNESCO World Heritage site with 1000 historic buildings. At Villa Montana' spa compulsive travelers can de-stress with a special chocolate bath.

The Compulsive traveler opens the door to romance. He follows his heart to Oaxaca, Mexico, where his New York friends Marissa and Emmanuel are to be married 3 ways: in a Zapotec, Miztec, and Spanish ceremony. Talk about opening up exotic romantic possibilities. And the wedding guests get a taste of the ancient and fascinating Oaxaca culture. Includes Fiji, Grenada in the Caribbean, and the Canadian Rockies.

Travel to the South Pacific to see how strongly the Maori experience has survived assimilation and how it shapes life in New Zealand. Get a Ta Moko (face tattoo) and run with the Maori across the land. Return to one of the best places in the world and one of the last unspoiled Caribbean countries; St Vincent and the Grenadines. Then travel on to Mexico in November to experience the unique and mind-blowing way Mexicans greet their dead each year, and finish in Puhket, Thailand.

The Compulsive Traveler travels to Alaska, the last frontier, on the Seven Seas Navigator, a luxury ship that covers 2,200 miles from Vancouver to Seward. Alaska is bear country and Tongass, a 17 million acre forest, is a great habitat for bears. We fly from Ketchican in a hydroplane to the remote location of Anan Creek and there we find bears galore.

Join Allan Smith and Yolanda Bunes for this award winning travel series “ Cruising the World” onboard the legendary National Historic Landmark Delta Queen Steamboat which has been at home on the Mississippi River system since 1947. Lovingly preserved and maintained, she’s an echo from the Great Steamboat era. This voyage takes you from Galveston, Texas to New Orleans, Louisiana on the Intercoastal Waterway.

Travel with award-winning filmmaker, Marlin Darrah, as he explores present-day Cuba. From the capital city of Havana to the beautiful seaport of Santiago de Cuba, you will marvel at the forbidden natural beauty of Cuba. Travel to Pinar del Rio and visit the lush tobacco fields that produce the most sought-after cigars in the world. See as sugar plantations and colorful towns unfold before your eyes, then walk the beaches of Matanzas and Cuba's colorful coastline. Cuban people welcome visitors with open arms and their society, with its blend of races and cultures, overflows with a friendly and easy-going hospitality. Finally, after 50 years, visitors can experience the splendor of the Caribbean only 90 miles south of the United States.

Travel with award-winning filmmaker, Marlin Darrah, as he explores present-day Cuba. From the capital city of Havana to the beautiful seaport of Santiago de Cuba, you will marvel at the forbidden natural beauty of Cuba. Travel to Pinar del Rio and visit the lush tobacco fields that produce the most sought-after cigars in the world. See as sugar plantations and colorful towns unfold before your eyes, then walk the beaches of Matanzas and Cuba's colorful coastline. Cuban people welcome visitors with open arms and their society, with its blend of races and cultures, overflows with a friendly and easy-going hospitality. Finally, after 50 years, visitors can experience the splendor of the Caribbean only 90 miles south of the United States.

This program looks at the people, history, culture and geography of: Arizona.

Ernest Hemingway was a thrill-seeker eager for exoticism. He would womanize, hunt lions in Africa, was a Literature Nobel Prize winning author, supported the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War and reported on the D-Day invasion in Normandy. But he would always return to his sole home port in Cuba, the Finca, where the rudder of his boat, Pilar, is displayed. This insightful program visits Hemingway's favorite places in Havana, the bars Floridita and the Bodeguita del Medio, and the hotel Ambos Mundos where he used to rent a room.

Join us on the special diving adventure aboard the famous “Undersea Hunter” at Cocos Island (Spanish: Isla del Coco). Cocos Island is a small isolated island in the Pacific Ocean.

Our dive host is Ocean Encounters Diving, a PADI 5 IDC dive resort. The hotels we’ll be visiting are Lions Dive Beach Resort, the Curaçao Hilton, and SuperClubs Breezes Curaçao. Just a short swim from shore, Curaçao’s coast is lined with spectacular world class diving in crystal clear water, including walls, reefs, and shipwrecks teaming with fish and covered in vibrant coral.

Join Travel Delight Katrina Wright as she shows you Dubai like no one else can.

An adventure that starts at the “Temple by the Sea”, Tana Lot, and explorers deep into the inner Bali not often visited by tourists. Journey into remote villages and witness a stunning Cremation ceremony, Genjek performances, The Monkey forest, and Kecak monkey dances. We travel over water to Lake Batur to the village of Trunyan and the wall of skulls, and for the first time on film, we record the culture and music of the little known village of Sading.

We head into the heart of India and partake in the South India Shiva mountain pilgrimage, then taking a sacred dip at the confluence of the two oceans, we interact with the locals at Hindu temples and film and record the Tempe singers and Katakali dancers as well as Chennai.

Discover the wonderfully wild cultures of the Berber, Gnawa and Tuareg peoples of Morocco. Composer/adventurer Chuck Jonkey takes you on a Sonic Safari that begins in Marrakesh and transports you to the deep medina for a look at ancient artifacts. Visit the sizzling coastal town of Essaouira - protected from pirates by a gigantic stone fortress. Chuck continues north to join a rare gnawa festival in a small mountain village. Experience the fabulous mix of color and texture in the "blue city" of Chefchaouen. Join a caravan in the deep Sahara and witness sensuous tribal music and dance.

Discover exotic worlds of fantastic archeological treasures, sacred ritual sites and rustic villages in Peru. Chuck visits the Islas Ballestas ( the Galapogos islands of Peru ) and then to the amazing Nazca lines and on to El Carmen home of Peru's afro-inspired music and dance. We go to the altiplano to visit many fantastic Inca ruins including Machu Picchu, Ollantaytambo, Pisaq and more. Chuck discovers great culture in Cusco and Puno. The land of the Incas.

World of the Condor: Chuck visits exotic worlds of fantastic ancient cultures including the haunts of the world's largest bird - the Andean Condor. Step on the strange floating islands of Los Uros on Lake Titicaca and the ancient culture of Taquile. T hen we journey to Arequipa and the Canyon de Colca (twice the depth of the Grand Canyon of Arizona) where people have lived since 800 B.C. to see the gigantic condors. This and much more awaits us in this exciting program.

Relive the gold rush in Alaska as you take the train along the White Pass & Yukon Route. Climb to the summit of White Pass and take in the mountain scenery, glaciers, waterfalls and more! Spend the summer season enjoying gorgeous Denali National Park and Mount McKinley in all its glory.

A vivid video journey into the dramatic depths of one of our great natural wonders, Grand Canyon National Park.