Explore With Us
FONZ offers extraordinary educational nature trips meant to satisfy even the most discriminating adventurer. In 2008, FONZ is proud to offer extraordinary adventures in China and Churchill, Manitoba. In China, travelers will explore Beijing, marvel at the Great Wall, spend time with giant pandas, cruise the Three Gorges, and more. In Churchill, travelers will explore the tundra, photographing polar bears, arctic foxes, and other wildlife.
The perfect blend of incredible wildlife, beautiful accommodations, warm hospitality, and vivid cultural exchanges...
What else do FONZ travelers say?
What makes FONZ Travel so special? Here are just a few reasons:
- Specially selected tour operators with in-depth knowledge of each travel destination
- A free FONZ membership for nonmember travelers
- Trips are not just cookie-cutter vacations
- Best guides, best locations, best value
- Exclusive hands-on and behind-the-scenes activities
- Learning first-hand from expert biologists, naturalists, and researchers in the field
- Exciting accommodations at each location
- Delicious cuisine
Trips for Adults
FONZ trips for adults are fantastic outdoor
adventures with expert wildlife guides, comfortable
accommodations, and distinctive nature itineraries.
These trips are designed to enable participants to get
closer to nature in a culturally and environmentally
sensitive way.
China, Pandas, and
the Yangzi River
August 31–September 14, 2008, 15 days, $4,790 (based on double occupancy, price does not include international airfare); one optional pre-trip extension to Chengde
Summer Palace; two option post-trip extensions to the Huang Mountains and Guilin 
Discover China's incredible diversity, from its modern cities to its mountains and rivers to its ancient sites. This amazing adventure, which sold out last year, will bring you close to dozens of giant pandas. You'll also cruise the Yangzi River, visit the Forbidden City, marvel at the Great Wall, and see Xian's legendary terracotta warriors. Optional extensions take you to the
Qing dynasty Summer Palace at Chengde, the Huang Mountains, a U.N. World Heritage site, and Guilin, famous for
its spectacular karst limestone formations. 
Get the details.
2008 "Zoological Tour" in Churchill
October 23–28, 2008, five days, $5,799 (Canadian dollars, based on double occupancy, price does not include airfare)
Spend several days on the tundra looking for polar bears, arctic foxes, ptarmigans, and other wildlife with two of the world's top polar bear scientists. The Tundra Buggy Lodge is the best accommodation in the world from which to view and
photograph polar bears. Get the details.
Trips for Teens
The teen travel program, Eco-Explorers, caters to the
needs of young naturalists. These trips introduce teen
explorers to current research and conservation efforts
to protect the diversity of life on Earth. Teens will
make new friends, experience new worlds, and gain fresh
insight into their place in the natural world. For
teens ages 13 to 17.
Eco-Explorers:
Georgia’s Loggerhead Sea Turtle Research
July 4-13, 2008
This trip is full.
This research adventure gives teens a one-of-a-kind
chance to study the threatened loggerhead sea turtle
up close by participating in vital egg-laying observations,
nest monitoring, data recording, and turtle tagging.
For more information, contact Debbi Hanibal at 
202.633.3052
or
by email.
Eco-Explorers:
Panama Tropical Biodiversity Research Trip
July 17-26, 2008
Travel to the isthmus of Panama to visit the world famous Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute for a hands-on experience studying Panama’s tropical biodiversity, including sloths, poison dart frogs, monkeys, and a variety of neotropical habitats. This eco-adventure will provide young naturalists with the unique opportunity to learn about biological research being conducted by Smithsonian scientists and gain a deeper appreciation for Panama's incredible biodiversity. For more information,
contact Debbi Hanibal at 202.633.3052
or
by email.
