About Marybeth, National Geographic Author, Writer

Curious Explorer. Award-winning author.

Gutsy Traveler: A woman, like travel expert Marybeth Bond, stands among purple flowers, raising her arms and smiling in front of a wooden building in bright sunlight.
Polar bear tracking and snorkeling with beluga whales in the northern Canadian Arctic.

Marybeth knows travel. She has hiked, biked, dived, danced and trekked across all seven continents – from the depths of the Flores Sea near Komodo Island to the summit of Kilimanjaro.

More recently, she tracked polar bears and snorkeled with beluga whales in the Canadian Arctic, then kayaked among icebergs in Antarctica.

Somewhere in between, four years of studying in Paris earned her two degrees – and a taste for good wine and strong cheeses.

Twelve books (three with National Geographic), countless travel articles, and numerous TV and radio appearances have built her devoted fanbase. She won the esteemed Lowell Thomas, Gold Award for the Best Travel Book of the Year from the Society of American Travel Writers Foundation.

Woman on cliff in front of a monastery in Bhutan
Yesterday’s Video below. A decade or more later. Is Marybeth still GUTSY? Here in Bhutan.
Marybeth in Antarctica with penguins, snowy mountains, and water—just the kind of moment travel expert Marybeth Bond would capture in a travel video.
Kayaking and camping near penguins in Antarctica.

Yesterday….

Swiss Chocolate Train
Hop Aboard the Chocolate Train to Gruyere for a fondu lunch then travel to Broc to visit a chocolate factory.
Swiss Chocolate with nuts, with milk, dark chocolate
Taste all kinds of chocolate at the "Maison Cailler-Nestle"

For the delight of fine chocolate lovers, visit a chocolate factory in Switzerland. Take the “Chocolate Train” and visit the Cailler-Nestle factory and tasting room.

Cow grazing on green meadow in Switzerland
The trains in Switzerland are squeaky clean and many are painted with scenes of cows or mountains.

What makes the milk chocolate so delicious? Fat, happy cows with rich, organic milk.

After the tour, you’ll have about 30 types of chocolate to taste. Believe it or not, I couldn’t’ taste them all. Among those I did savor, my favorite was the hazelnut Cailler bars.

Since I didn’t want

to carry the chocolate all over Switzerland, I thought I’d buy more of them in the Zurich Airport. Wrong. Regretfully I never found the exact hazelnut filled chocolate bars again.

TIP: When you see, sample or taste something divine, like Swiss Chocolate, buy it. Don’t wait.

 

 

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Marybeth Bond