This year's Icehotel has opened in Arctic Sweden. I wrote about it for Lonely Planet. lonelyplanet.com/articles/reaso…

It's impossible to cover everything there is to see and do in the United States in 1,500 words, but I did my best to capture the country's diversity in this recent article for Lonely Planet lonelyplanet.com/articles/best-…

2. This pigeon, who had no idea what was about to happen.

Great to read some positive environmental news for once! theguardian.com/environment/20…

I enjoyed writing about Stockholm for Thai Airways' magazine Sawasdee recently. My pocket guide to the city is available for download at: sawasdee.thaiairways.com/pocket-guides/ #visitstockholm #visitsweden

I really enjoyed revisiting sites along Boston's Freedom Trail for my first article for virginatlantic's Vera magazine, which went live today. Thanks to Jessica Prupas for the assignment!

The Hildegarde’s tomb bat is found only in a narrow strip of land riddled with caves along the coast of Kenya & Tanzania. I profiled the species & its conservation status for the new issue of Bat Conservation International's Bats Magazine. digital.batcon.org/issue/volume-4… #wildlifeconservation #bats #africa

In my 2nd new article for Bats Magazine, I wrote about #Trinibats, a locally based #conservation organization that is successfully changing attitudes and policies in #Trinidad, the "bat island of the Caribbean." Bat Conservation International #caribbeanwildlife #bats digital.batcon.org/issue/volume-4…

And with a very favourable exchange rate, #Norway's cheaper than ever this year 😊lonelyplanet.com/articles/norwa… via Lonely Planet Annika Hipple #travel

Here's my most recent article for Lonely Planet. I had more places I wanted to include on this list but had to cut ruthlessly to meet the word count. Consider this a starting point, not a definitive list! lonelyplanet.com/articles/best-… #norwaytravel #wheretogoinnorway #scandinaviatravel

Great tips for PR folks and destination reps interested in catching the attention of freelance travel journalists. naturetraveler.substack.com/p/12-dos-and-d…

#Editors, if you have any potential interest in a story about an 11-day wilderness rafting expedition in the Yukon, British Columbia, and Alaska, let me know. My next adventure is coming up in a couple of weeks. nahanni.com/trip/tatshensh… #freelancewriter

My latest for Lonely Planet lonelyplanet.com/articles/guide… #Maine #Acadia #NationalPark

Happy to announce that my Smithsonian article “How the Women of the North Platte Canteen Fed Six Million Soldiers During World War II” has won an Honorable Mention for Best Profile in the 2024 ASJA Writing Awards. See next tweet for the judges' statement. (1/2)

(2/2) The judges loved this piece for its “great lede, top-notch research & Hipple’s ability to see the topic from all sides: volunteers, soldiers & preservationists. It provides a real ‘you-are-there’ sense throughout even though it occurred 80 years ago in a different America.”

Very happy to have received my contributor copy of this gorgeous book for which I wrote two entries. It's chock-full of interesting stuff about this beautiful, diverse planet that we inhabit. Get it at wildlife.atlasobscura.com or from most booksellers. (1/3)

My first entry in Atlas Obscura's new Wild Life book is an interview with prairie ecologist Chris Helzer, who spent a year photographing one square meter of Nebraskan prairie. (2/3)

My second entry in Atlas Obscura's fascinating new book, Wild Life, is a profile of the world's smallest bird, the bee hummingbird, which lives only in Cuba, where I had the rare good fortune of seeing one myself. (3/3)

In Las Vegas for my first #AlaskaMediaRoadShow ! Looking forward to meeting with folks from great Alaska destinations and travel experiences tomorrow.

I won't be posting here anymore. Find me on Bluesky instead: @ annikahipple.bsky.social