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Interview with Sarah Tuff
Aired October 25, 2003 - 12:45 ET
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ANDREA KOPPEL, CNN ANCHOR: Are you dreaming about a daring vacation abroad?
Well, CNN LIVE SATURDAY is taking you on a "Weekend Getaway" courtesy of the "National Geographic Adventure Magazine." From kayaking in Baja Bay to wheeling, that is bicycling in New Zealand. The magazine give you the 25 best adventures in the world.
Reporter Sarah Tuff took some of those trips. She joins us live from Boston to talk about them.
So, Sarah, that was a tough assignment. I'm sure you enjoyed that. Why don't you start with what your favorite of all the different adventure vacations you took was.
SARAH TUFF, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ADVENTURE: Well, that was actually really difficult. I worked for almost four months in writing them up, so choosing a favorite is like choosing a favorite child, but I would say for all the different elements, it would be the sea kayaking trip in Baja, which is put on by Sea Kayak Adventures. And the reason for that is because it's got all of the elements of a great adventure. It's very sporty. You paddle 40 miles during the length of the trip. But kayaking is something you can pick up pretty easily. Baja is the place, it's becoming a bit overrun now with tourists, and with a lot of people going town to tequila bars and what not, and this is the unseen side of Baja, very nature-oriented. You get to touch a gray whale at the end of the chip trip and on your way down you are camping on sandbars, this lovely remote feeling, eating ceviche and drinking margarita's on a beach with just dolphins playing offshore. It's just a wonderful trip.
KOPPEL: It sounds incredible. I know we have some video -- you didn't necessarily take the other trips but we have some video of some of your other colleagues is it. I think one of them was from the Pinacate Biosphere Reserve. What can you tell us about that?
TUFF: Sorry, I can't really hear you.
KOPPEL: What about the Pinacate? I hope I'm pronouncing it correctly. The Pinacate Biosphere Reserve.
TUFF: The Pinacate is absolutely a unique place in the U.S., and like Baja, this trip has the appeal of being relatively close to home. Easy for U.S. travelers to be able to access. And this is a four-day trip from off the beaten path, where travelers start by hiking through Organ Pipe National Monument, and then cross over into the Pinacate, which is this black volcanic landscape in the middle of the desert with mile-wide craters and 400 cinder cones and yet at the same time, this glorious diversity of flora and fauna. I think there's more than 600 types of flowers there, 60 different types of animals. And then you finish off the trip by doing a little sea kayaking in the Sea of Cortez. So you see all of the different facets of the Sonoran Desert this short four-day trip. It really packs a lot of adventure into a long weekend for most people.
KOPPEL: Well, personally just looking at the list, I'd like to do all of them, more of them that folks can read about in your magazine include gorilla trekking in Africa, rafting Chile's Figueroa, and then of course, the bicycling in New Zealand. There are 25 different adventure vacations, "National Geographic Adventure" magazine, Sarah Tuff, thank you for coming in and giving us a sneak preview of what folks could expect.
TUFF: Thank you.
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Aired October 25, 2003 - 12:45 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
ANDREA KOPPEL, CNN ANCHOR: Are you dreaming about a daring vacation abroad?
Well, CNN LIVE SATURDAY is taking you on a "Weekend Getaway" courtesy of the "National Geographic Adventure Magazine." From kayaking in Baja Bay to wheeling, that is bicycling in New Zealand. The magazine give you the 25 best adventures in the world.
Reporter Sarah Tuff took some of those trips. She joins us live from Boston to talk about them.
So, Sarah, that was a tough assignment. I'm sure you enjoyed that. Why don't you start with what your favorite of all the different adventure vacations you took was.
SARAH TUFF, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ADVENTURE: Well, that was actually really difficult. I worked for almost four months in writing them up, so choosing a favorite is like choosing a favorite child, but I would say for all the different elements, it would be the sea kayaking trip in Baja, which is put on by Sea Kayak Adventures. And the reason for that is because it's got all of the elements of a great adventure. It's very sporty. You paddle 40 miles during the length of the trip. But kayaking is something you can pick up pretty easily. Baja is the place, it's becoming a bit overrun now with tourists, and with a lot of people going town to tequila bars and what not, and this is the unseen side of Baja, very nature-oriented. You get to touch a gray whale at the end of the chip trip and on your way down you are camping on sandbars, this lovely remote feeling, eating ceviche and drinking margarita's on a beach with just dolphins playing offshore. It's just a wonderful trip.
KOPPEL: It sounds incredible. I know we have some video -- you didn't necessarily take the other trips but we have some video of some of your other colleagues is it. I think one of them was from the Pinacate Biosphere Reserve. What can you tell us about that?
TUFF: Sorry, I can't really hear you.
KOPPEL: What about the Pinacate? I hope I'm pronouncing it correctly. The Pinacate Biosphere Reserve.
TUFF: The Pinacate is absolutely a unique place in the U.S., and like Baja, this trip has the appeal of being relatively close to home. Easy for U.S. travelers to be able to access. And this is a four-day trip from off the beaten path, where travelers start by hiking through Organ Pipe National Monument, and then cross over into the Pinacate, which is this black volcanic landscape in the middle of the desert with mile-wide craters and 400 cinder cones and yet at the same time, this glorious diversity of flora and fauna. I think there's more than 600 types of flowers there, 60 different types of animals. And then you finish off the trip by doing a little sea kayaking in the Sea of Cortez. So you see all of the different facets of the Sonoran Desert this short four-day trip. It really packs a lot of adventure into a long weekend for most people.
KOPPEL: Well, personally just looking at the list, I'd like to do all of them, more of them that folks can read about in your magazine include gorilla trekking in Africa, rafting Chile's Figueroa, and then of course, the bicycling in New Zealand. There are 25 different adventure vacations, "National Geographic Adventure" magazine, Sarah Tuff, thank you for coming in and giving us a sneak preview of what folks could expect.
TUFF: Thank you.
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