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Audio Journeys explores the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, including the ancient city of Petra. Over 2,600 years old, Petra is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Petra is the legacy of the Nabateaeans, an industrious Arab people who settled in south Jordan more than 2,600 years ago, dominating the trade routes of ancient Arabia. With our guide, Mohammad Mofal, we walk through the outer Siq, a steep sided gorge. Its early in the morning, we are on our way to the Treasury.

Part documentary, part reality-television, the story of the Deadliest Catch’s Alaskan crab fishermen risking their lives in the Bering Sea to make a buck and feed their families has captivated the world. Giving the Finger follows the life of the spirited young captain who has emerged as one of the most talked-about figures on the show: Scott Campbell, Jr., who leads the crew of the Seabrooke. As this book - a prequel to Junior’s ascent to fame - shows, the trials of crabbing are not limited to living at sea and working the most dangerous job on the planet, but carry over to family and friends.

Its sugar bush time in the maple tree forests of Canada. In March and April the sap from the maple trees flow. This thin sticky sap becomes one of Canada's most popular exports, maple syrup. Audio Journeys are on the Kings Road east of Quebec City exploring a sugar stack that welcomes visitors year round to their outdoor recreation center. We visit the only Ice Hotel in North America - a chilling experience.

What would it be like to cast aside the industrial bustle of the early 20th century to hop a freighter bound for the verdant jungles and untamed wildlife of the fabled Amazon? H.M. Tomlinson did just that, trading the streets of Swansea, Wales, for the open sea of the Atlantic. Thanks to Tomlinson's sharp eye for detail, his spellbinding account of this 1909 journey is much more than a standard travel narrative.

Audio Journeys explores the ancient ruins of a Mayan village in El Salvador. Twenty kilometers northwest of San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador, is the 650-year-old village of Joya de Ceren, the only UNESCO World Heritage Site in El Salvador.

What makes this site unique is that the everyday life of the Mayans was preserved when around 600 A.D. a volcano erupted spewing volcanic ashes that covered the land, caused the common people to flee their homes.

Audio Journeys by Travel Radio International explores the B. Bryan Preserve in the little coastal village of Point Arena. Here, Judy and Frank Mello are protecting endangered African hoof stock from extinction on their private preserve.

Audio Journeys by Travel Radio International explores one of the most important trading posts in the West. Hubbell was meeting ground for two cultures: the Navajo and early settlers who came to the area.

Not an actual train, in the mid-1800's, the Underground Railroad transported and protected escaping enslaved Africans through a network of safe houses and places, on their way to freedom in the North.

Mission Ridge Ski Resort near Wenatchee Washington is one of the most popular ski destinations in the world. It’s also a 1944 crash site of a B-24 bomber on a secret mission. Patricia Lawrence is exploring Mission Ridge; she assends on a tram up the tall mountain and decends in a courtesy toboggan.

Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge is on the northeast shores of the Great Salt Lake. Our exploration begins at the Park Ranger Station before we meet our naturalist guide for a tour of one of the most important bodies of water in the Americas for migrating birds.

Audio Journeys, from Travel Radio International, explores the Caribbean rainforest of Guatemala with a team of biologists. (This Audio Journey is also available in our MesoAmerica Series.)

A few hours drive from most major USA cities, there is a National Wildlife Refuge. Wildlife Refuges are artificial habitats ment to entice wildlife away from farms and cities. Our tour brings us very close to nature.

Audio Journeys by Travel Radio International explores three historic hotels of the Rocky Mountains: the Alex Johnson in Rapid City, South Dakota; the historic Franklin Hotel in Deadwood, South Dakota; and the Isaac Walton in Montana.

Audio Journeys, by Travel Radio International, visits the Netherlands, exploring Zannse Schans, a reconstructed Dutch Village. We visit the clock shop, the bakery, and the wooden-shoe factory.

Audio Journeys is at the annual Oostende sailing ship festival on the old freight docks of this once very busy seaport.

In the seaport town of Oostende on the last weekend in May, one of the world's largest sailing-ship festivals is held. There are many ships to explore and much activity when we arrive on the docks of Oostende; announcers, marching bands, and battle-ship reenactments fill our senses. The first person we meet is a musketeer and one of the Festival's organizers.

Preserving a California nature preserve.... Audio Journeys by Travel Radio International explores the Rodman Nature Preserve with preserve guides. The Rodman preserve is next to Clear Lake, the largest freshwater lake completely within California.

The story of an enslaved African American. Booker T. Washington was an author, an educator, an orator and political leader, and one of history's most influential African Americans. One if his more remembered quotes is: “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.” He titled his autobiography Up from Slavery.

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.

Wildthings and Vision Quest Ranch is home to elephants, tigers, and other wild animals from around the world. Guests can get up close and interact with and care for some of the animals. Patricia Lawrence is exploring Wildthings with foundering president Charlie Sammut.

Audio Journeys explores the (disputed) headwaters of the Mississippi River with park rangers. A trail takes us to a spring coming out of the ground in the Minnesota mountains. The spring forms a pool before gliding from the rocks to become the mighty Mississippi River, most people believe. Itasca is a derivative of two Greek words that mean "true" and "source".