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![Abhishek Behl@WildNavigator is an Edinburgh based Wildlife Travel Blogger.
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In 2011, Abhishek launched Wild Navigator, a website aimed at a wilderness focused traveller. The website uses travel blogging and social media to highlight sustainable initiatives in wildlife travel and biodiversity conservation, and it also supports charities associated with wildlife and wilderness areas in their campaigns and initiatives.
An award winning wildlife conservationist, he currently sits on various committees and advisory boards connected to tourism and conservation policies in India / Internationally, and is actively engaged in promoting the future of wildlife tourism and conservation.
Based in Scotland, Wild Navigator will focus its prime attention for 2013 on the Year of Natural Scotland. The underlying mission for Wild Navigator is to inform & educate wilderness travellers.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/f0719714ba713ffb611fcd3fb620ac1a/tumblr_mfr4juAlyh1rae4zfo1_500.jpg)
Abhishek Behl
@WildNavigator is an Edinburgh based Wildlife Travel Blogger.
![Kate McCulley @adventurouskate travels the world alone — safely, happily, and adventurously
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In 2010, Kate gave up her life in Boston to travel the world. Two years and 35 countries later, she’s still traveling — safely and adventurously!
Kate seeks out challenging, culturally rich, and adventurous experiences around the world. She’s survived a shipwreck in Indonesia, danced with fire-throwing Vikings in the Shetland Islands, and been mocked by Jon Stewart on The Daily Show.
Kate started AdventurousKate.com with the goal of encouraging women to travel more often, more easily, and more adventurously. Her experiences are shared on Adventurous Kate with the ultimate goal of inspiring women to see more of the world.
Today, Kate is one of the leading voices on women’s travel. She is a founding member of Navigate Media Group, writes for a variety of publications, speaks at industry events, and attends press trips around the globe.
Kate splits her time between London and the world.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/b480a4f3301fe057abe10ffab41763b6/tumblr_mf0xyklo9f1rae4zfo1_400.jpg)
Kate McCulley
@adventurouskate travels the world alone — safely, happily, and adventurously
![Mike Sowden@mikeachim story geek, traveling disaster. Mistakes are medals. He’s highly decorated.[[MORE]]
UK-based freelance writer, storytelling consultant and misadventurist. His work has been featured at online & offline publications including Mashable,
WordPress.com’s Daily Post, Matador Network’s Brave New Traveler and the San Francisco Chronicle, and his spare time is spent suffering on lonely British hillsides in the hope he’ll live to write about it afterwards. He blogs at the aptly-named Fevered Mutterings.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/c9fb3183c692380701e67f0993dfe837/tumblr_mf0xndseUv1rae4zfo1_500.jpg)
Mike Sowden
@mikeachim story geek, traveling disaster. Mistakes are medals. He’s highly decorated.
![Julie Falconer @aladyinlondon adventures of expat Californian living in London & travelling the world[[MORE]]
London-based travel writer and consultant. She writes an award-winning travel and food blog, A Lady in London, for which she has traveled to 90 countries. She is also an online strategy consultant, public speaker, and freelance travel writer. Julie’s writing has featured in the National Geographic Intelligent Travel Blog, Time Out, Lonely Planet, and other travel publications. Additionally, she has been interviewed on Peter Greenberg Worldwide Radio and on leading travel guidebook websites like LUXE Guides. She also teaches monthly classes on social media in travel at General Assembly in London. Originally from San Francisco, Julie came to the UK in 2007 after leaving a career in finance, during which she worked for Goldman Sachs and a hedge fund.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/86b44d195444ae648235c45884555242/tumblr_mf0xhbaN5r1rae4zfo1_400.jpg)
Julie Falconer
@aladyinlondon adventures of expat Californian living in London & travelling the world
![Jools Stone @jools_octavius trav blogger, lover of steel rails, steel guitars, sad songs, bad puns & hard liquor.
[[MORE]]Edinburgh-based freelance lifestyle journalist, magazine editor, copywriter and social media consultant, writing regularly for a number of magazines, newspapers and websites in Scotland and beyond. His award-winning blog Trains on the Brain charts his burgeoning obsession with weaving around the world’s endless miles of rail track. He also masterminded the Train Chartering Company‘s fledgling social media efforts, while also producing copious volumes of copy for the National Trust for Scotland’s website. Prior to going freelance in 2010, Jools spent many years working in public sector and arts marketing. When he’s not huddling over his laptop dreaming of trails on rails and muttering darkly about the overuse of the word ‘awesome’ on the social web, he likes to obsess about obscure American indie bands, immerse himself in quality narrative travel writing, watch European cinema and tend his unruly beard, though not neccesarily in that order.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/556e6d26de306c1e198077a16705be99/tumblr_mf0xbwzyYh1rae4zfo1_500.jpg)
Jools Stone
@jools_octavius trav blogger, lover of steel rails, steel guitars, sad songs, bad puns & hard liquor.
![Flora Baker@FloraBaker Traveller, writer & poet. Left handed. Exploring South America from Feb 2013. [[MORE]]
Flora the Explorer is a travelling storyteller who’s searching out the weirdnesses of the world. Over the years, Flora has studied Italian in Florence and literature in San Francisco, volunteered with villagers in Kenya and orphans in Lithuania, and worked with musicians in Iceland and celebrities in India.
Through volunteering and slow travel, she hopes to visit every continent twice before she turns thirty one – and with a good few years to go, there’s every likelihood she’ll manage her self-imposed challenge!
Armed with a battered notebook, she spends her travels collecting tall tales, small souvenirs and a delightful array of crazy adventures.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/af3b1a9e1d302d9907ff80133ca5af43/tumblr_mf0x3bq9NT1rae4zfo1_500.jpg)
Flora Baker
@FloraBaker Traveller, writer & poet. Left handed. Exploring South America from Feb 2013.
![Nadine Pober @thenadwork spunky traveler & Vblogger who seeks unique adventures, fun & loves interacting with locals.
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Challenges herself and others to live outside their comfort zone by being a life long learner.
Together with her fellow companion, a wind up toy, called Sir Paul she’s been to more than 70 cities in over 30 countries on 5 continents.
The 23 year old law student frequently leaves her home base Vienna, Austria to explore the world under her own conditions.
She loves to communicate and hardly ever sits still. Her dream is it to build up a friendship in every country of the world.
She believes in karma and adores fashion. Adventures and unique experiences are the fuel, which keeps her going.
If that sounds about right for you: Check out her (mis)adventures and practical travel tips on her video blog http://www.thenadwork.com :)](http://25.media.tumblr.com/1cf96b1c42243be4cf3167c5b55a340a/tumblr_mf0wyyLAX21rae4zfo1_500.jpg)
Nadine Pober
@thenadwork spunky traveler & Vblogger who seeks unique adventures, fun & loves interacting with locals.
![Peter Parkorr@PeterParkorr Uninstall your day job, change platforms & like things more.
[[MORE]] Man behind the camera & keyboard at TravelUnmasked.com. Born in sunny Dumfries, raised in the North of England, I travel the world with unreasonable amounts of kit, looking for outdoor adventure and human interest stories. In my last couple of years on the road, I’ve worked, cycled, volunteered, hitchhiked, paddled, and couchsurfed my way through 23 countries, living in 3 of them. It’s not all about fun though, I try to learn from the culture and lifestyle of the people I come across. But the start of 2013 is all about re-acquainting myself with Britain before setting off for lands unknown again. Locals around the world always want to know where you’re from and what it’s like! I’m looking forward to starting the new year as I mean to go on, by getting stuck into the famous Hogmanay celebrations in Edinburgh - Slàinte!](http://24.media.tumblr.com/5ea6e560f5d11ec29e56c0dccba7605d/tumblr_mf0ws9fqIR1rae4zfo1_500.jpg)
![Amanda Williams@DangerousBiz just a small-town Ohio girl trying to balance a normal life with an unquenchable lust for travel
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Amanda is just a small-town Ohio girl trying to balance a “normal” life with an unquenchable lust for travel. Grad student by day and travel blogger by night (and weekends and school holidays), Amanda has found a way to strike a balance between “real life” and her travel dreams, allowing her to have some incredible adventures all around the world while still rocking final exams and paying her bills on time. You can read all about her unconventional conventional life on A Dangerous Business Travel Blog. When she’s not blogging there, she’s writing for other travel sites, watching nerdy movies, marketing for her family’s Christmas tree farm, and, of course, planning her next adventures, be they on the other side of the globe or just around the corner.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/d231df86a6aad1e4b5e7c043fc193850/tumblr_mf0wpeTQ5v1rae4zfo1_500.jpg)
Amanda Williams
@DangerousBiz just a small-town Ohio girl trying to balance a normal life with an unquenchable lust for travel
![Jane Meighan@runawayJane Blogger, Vlogger, & Freelancer Writer travelling the world. [[MORE]]
A local Scot who took her first solo adventure around the world to Australia in 2006 aged 17. The moment she touched down in Melbourne Airport she was bitten by the travel bug, and travel has been a part of her life ever since.
In January 2010 Jane founded RunawayJane.com, her flagship travel blog aimed at helping and inspiring other people to travel. In September 2010 she began earning enough money from her blog to travel full-time, and she has since carved a career that has seen her featured in The Sun, Lonely Planet, and Cosmopolitan.
In April 2012 Jane attained the position of Resident Blogger for PLUS Hostels, a hostel & camp site chain with bases in Rome, Florence, Venice, Prague, and Berlin. She also provides freelance writing services to companies such as Amex UK, and is currently in the process of creating entertaining video content for other top brands!](http://25.media.tumblr.com/b2d8353c25cd1055886f38887ade2443/tumblr_mf0wd10NUO1rae4zfo1_500.jpg)
Jane Meighan
@runawayJane Blogger, Vlogger, & Freelancer Writer travelling the world.
