{"id":42148,"date":"2023-01-15T20:10:45","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T04:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=42148"},"modified":"2023-01-25T10:01:40","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T18:01:40","slug":"have-a-terrific-adventure-with-orchids-in-the-wild-ecotours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/15\/have-a-terrific-adventure-with-orchids-in-the-wild-ecotours\/","title":{"rendered":"Have a Terrific Adventure with Orchids in the Wild Ecotours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/orchidconservationalliance.org\/ecotours\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Take a mind-blowing vacation and help endangered orchids at the same time!<\/a> The Orchid Conservation Alliance (OCA) offers Orchids in the Wild Ecotours, expert-led trips to see orchids in their native homes. They range as far away as Madagascar, and as close as Ohio. This year&#8217;s itinerary also includes Italy, Brazil, and South Africa. The OCA is a great non-profit organization doing essential conservation work around the world. They&#8217;re very worthy of <a href=\"https:\/\/orchidconservationalliance.org\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">your support<\/a>. Bon voyage!<\/p>\n<dt>April 10 &#8211; 17<\/dt>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/orchidconservationalliance.org\/sicily\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Orchids of Sicily<\/a> &#8211; Enjoy Sicily&#8217;s terrestrial orchids, archeology, and food.<\/dd>\n<dt>May 8 &#8211; 17 &#038; May 19 &#8211; 29<\/dt>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/orchidconservationalliance.org\/rio-negro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Orchids of the Rio Negro, Brazil<\/a> &#8211; Cruise the Amazon on a comfortable boat, and discover the area&#8217;s flora and fauna.<\/dd>\n<dt>May 14 &#8211; May 25<\/dt>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/orchidconservationalliance.org\/ohio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Native Orchids of Ohio<\/a> &#8211; The Ohio Valley and surrounding areas feature amazing Lady Slippers and more. The tour dates are optimized to find them during prime blooming seasons.<\/dd>\n<dt>September 21 &#8211; October 13<\/dt>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/orchidconservationalliance.org\/madagascar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Orchids of Madagascar<\/a> &#8211; Africa&#8217;s largest island is an orchid hotspot, with almost one thousand native varieties.<\/dd>\n<dt>December 1 &#8211; 13<\/dt>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/orchidconservationalliance.org\/cape\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Orchids of the Cape Floral Kingdom, South Africa<\/a> &#8211; Besides the spectacular orchids of the region, like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aos.org\/orchids\/orchids-a-to-z\/letter-d\/disa.aspx\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Disas<\/a>, this tour also includes a visit to an African Penguin colony.<\/dd>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take a mind-blowing vacation and help endangered orchids at the same time! The Orchid Conservation Alliance (OCA) offers Orchids in the Wild Ecotours, expert-led trips to see orchids in their native homes. They range as far away as Madagascar, and as close as Ohio. This year&#8217;s itinerary also includes Italy, Brazil, and South Africa. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation","category-misc","category-orchids-in-the-wild"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42148"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42452,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42148\/revisions\/42452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}