Matador | Travel + Adventure (@matadornetwork)

Nature’s own ink 🌿✨ Dominica’s goldback and silverback ferns create natural “jungle tattoos” by transferring their golden or silvery spores onto the skin, leaving a delicate leaf imprint that lasts for hours and celebrates the island’s lush rainforest beauty. 📍Dominica #dominica #ferntattoo #ferns #visitdominica #naturelove

Deep in British Columbia’s Great Bear Rainforest lives one of the rarest creatures on Earth: the Spirit Bear 🐻 Image 1: Wirestock Creators/ ShutterStock Image 2: NaturesMomentsuk/ShutterStock Image 3: Richard Seeley/ ShutterStock 📍Great Bear Rainforest #britishcolumbiacanada #greatbear #greatbearrainforest #rainforest #beartok

National Geographic’s private jet expedition is basically the world’s most unreal field trip. 🌍✈️ On one route, you’ll hit multiple UNESCO sites from Easter Island to the Great Barrier Reef while traveling with explorers, scientists, and photographers who’ve spent their careers studying these places. Every stop comes with expert-led tours, behind-the-scenes access, and stories you won’t find in any guidebook. It’s luxury travel, but with a front-row seat to the planet’s wildest history and culture. 

#NatGeoExpeditions #LuxuryTravelExperiences #JetSetJourney #BucketListTrips

Half go-kart, half sled, and gravity does all the work. 🏔️🏁 The First Mountain Cart on Grindelwald First sends you 1.9 miles from down a mountain road. Pro tips: a small backpack is handy, wear closed-toe shoes, and make sure to fill out the liability waiver on your phone before you pay. 🏔️ 🎥 Matador Creator @instadmg on IG #SwissAlps #switzerlandtravel #mountainkart #Grindelwald #grindelwaldfirst

Iceland from the air is pure cinema 🇮🇸 A land of such extraordinary geographic diversity that its true beauty can only be fully appreciated from a bird’s-eye view. This footage was captured on a week long roadtrip around the island of Iceland with @Arctic Adventures 🎥 @Spo #iceland #icelandroadtrip #aerialview #inspiredbyiceland #dronevideo

For @CHRIS, becoming @Virgin’s Head of Yes opened doors around the world ✈️ Six months of travel, an incredible portfolio, and connections across the Virgin family of brands and beyond. Now Virgin is looking for its next Head of Yes, you could get paid $100K or £75K to travel and create 🌎 To apply, tell us about a time you said yes in a video posted on YouTube, TikTok or Instagram. Tag @Virgin and use #headofyes Apply by October 20. ___________________ Terms apply - see link in bio. 18+ UK and US residents only. By submitting an application video, you agree to your video being reposted (in whole or in part) on Virgin channels. Head of Yes is a paid content-creator engagement selected on merit, not a prize draw or employment relationship, and is subject to the selected individual entering into a content creator agreement with Virgin Red. Apply by 20 October.

Your life can change in the blink of an eye ✨ @CHRIS still calls the moment he found out he was @Virgin’s Head of Yes one of the best days of his life. That phone call kicked off six months of getting paid to travel with Virgin, and more adventures than he could have imagined when he picked up 📞✈️ This year, another creator gets that call. Virgin is looking for its next Head of Yes, YOU could get paid $100K or £75K to travel and create 🌎 To apply, tell us about a time you said yes in a video posted on YouTube, TikTok or Instagram. Tag @Virgin and use #headofyes Apply by October 20. _____________ Terms apply - see link in bio. 18+ UK and US residents only. By submitting an application video, you agree to your video being reposted (in whole or in part) on Virgin channels. Head of Yes is a paid content-creator engagement selected on merit, not a prize draw or employment relationship, and is subject to the selected individual entering into a content creator agreement with Virgin Red. Apply by 20 October.

​ @CHRIS signed up to say YES and let Virgin handle the rest ✈️🌎 Being the first Head of Yes meant six months of getting paid to travel, with the full Virgin treatment and no telling what adventure was waiting around the corner. And now someone else gets a turn 👀 Virgin is looking for its next Head of Yes, you could get paid $100K or £75K to travel and create 🌎 To apply, tell us about a time you said yes in a video posted on YouTube, TikTok or Instagram. Tag @Virgin and use #headofyes Apply by October 20. ______________________ Terms apply - see link in bio. 18+ UK and US residents only. By submitting an application video, you agree to your video being reposted (in whole or in part) on Virgin channels. Head of Yes is a paid content-creator engagement selected on merit, not a prize draw or employment relationship, and is subject to the selected individual entering into a content creator agreement with Virgin Red. Apply by 20 October.

Seeing BC's big trees usually means a trailhead, boots, and a tolerance for mud. 🌲👟 Squamish Canyon runs about nine-tenths of a mile of elevated boardwalk through coastal rainforest along the Mamquam River. No route-finding, no scrambling, though there are roughly 700 low-rise steps down to the canyon platforms and back up. 🪵 🎥 Matador Creator @Suzie Dundas #SquamishCanyon #ExploreBC #CanadaTravel #SeaToSky #MamquamFalls

Fancy saying yes to six life-changing months of adventure, opportunity and unforgettable moments? Virgin is looking for its next Head of Yes: six paid months of flights, hotels, voyages and extraordinary experiences along the way. The lucky individual will also receive £75,000 if based in the UK or $100,000 if based in the US. Want in? Good! This opportunity is open to anyone. To apply, tell us about a time you said yes in a video posted on YouTube, TikTok or Instagram. Tag @Virgin and use #headofyes Apply by October 20. ---------------------- Terms apply - see [link in bio]. 18+ UK and US residents only. By submitting an application video, you agree to your video being reposted (in whole or in part) on Virgin channels. Head of Yes is a paid content-creator engagement selected on merit, not a prize draw or employment relationship, and is subject to the selected individual entering into a content creator agreement with Virgin Red. Apply by 20 October.

These elephants already worked a full career. 🐘🌿 Thailand's elephant tourism industry has largely been built around what visitors want to do with the animals, and this is a deliberate move in the other direction. @Elephant Jungle Sanctuary exists so the rest of their lives require nothing of them. 🌾 🎥 Matador Creator @Mariah Hark @Thailand Insider #AmazingThailand #amazingthailandusa #Thailand #ElephantJungleSanctuary #EthicalTourism

Don't be the person that just flies home with a magnet. 😏 Okayama's Kojima district manufactures a large share of Japan's denim, and Betty Smith runs a workshop where you assemble your own pair by hand. Choose the weight of the fabric, the rivets, and the stitching before a tailor sews it in front of you. The fading and creasing that follow are shaped entirely by whoever wears them. 🧵 🎥 Matador Creator @Sam #visitjapanus #JapanTravel #Okayama #KojimaDenim #CustomJeans

County Waterford, city to coast, taught @Gareth Leonard that slowing down is the adventure. ☘️♨️ @Tourism Ireland

@Alexa Moore | travel creator went looking for a quieter, more adventurous side of Ireland. County Mayo delivered. ☘️🌊 @Tourism Ireland

Guadalupe fur seals are fast, curious, and completely uninterested in keeping their distance. 🤿🐾 Snorkeling with them is part of National Geographic-Lindblad Expeditions' seven-day sailing around Mexico's Baja Peninsula. The rest of the week goes to humpbacks, sperm whales, and gray whales along the coast. 🐋 🎥 Matador Creator @kalieface2.0 on IG @Lindblad Expeditions @NatGeoExpeditions #GuadalupeFurSeals #BajaPeninsula #LindbladExpeditions #NatGeoExpeditions #MexicoTravel

Dominica's rainforest has a plant that leaves its mark. 🇩🇲🌿 Certain fern fronds carry spores fine enough to transfer a full imprint onto skin when pressed against it, a natural process some hikers on the Boiling Lake Trail use to leave a temporary "tattoo." No needle, no dye, just spores rubbing off in a near-perfect copy of the leaf. 🍃 🎥 Matador Creator @Spo #Dominica #NatureIsland #BoilingLakeTrail #FernTattoo #CaribbeanHiking

The whole thing traces back to a repair job gone sideways. 🪧🌲 A bulldozer flattened a directional post near Watson Lake in 1942, and Pvt. Carl Lindley got the job of putting it back up. Instead of a standard repair, he nailed on a sign pointing toward Danville, Illinois, over 3,000 miles away, just to feel a little closer to home. The visitor centre stopped trying to count them years ago. If you're driving the Alaska Highway, bring a sign, or make one on-site — the visitor centre hands out wood, paint, and nail 🛣️ 🎥 Matador Creator@timwenger1 #Yukon #SignpostForest #WatsonLake #AlaskaHighway

The water isn't just scenery here, it's identity. 🌊🐚 Andre Miller is a marine biologist and PADI instructor who has spent his career helping to restore the reefs surrounding Barbados. The beaches and rum draw the crowds, but locals like Andre are the ones shaping the culture of this Caribbean island. 🐠 Learn more in our latest Matador Original film. Link in bio. 🎬 #Barbados #BajanCulture #OceanConservation #ReefRestoration #DiveBarbados

The floating all-inclusive idea lasted about five minutes on this ship. 🚢🏙️ Most cruise ships run on the same loop: eat, sleep, drink, repeat. Legend of the Seas, the largest cruise ship in the world by @Royal Caribbean, breaks that loop with a lineup deep enough that there's more to do than there are days to do it in. But volume alone wouldn't have done it. The calibre is what actually changes the math. 🌊 🎥 Matador Creator @Pink Plankton #RoyalCaribbean #LegendOfTheSeas #CruiseLife #CruiseShip #FloatingCity

Dominican Medicine 🇩🇲 #Dominica 🎥@Spo

Before anyone gets in the water, the sharks are already waiting. 🦈 For decades, Jim Abernethy has returned to the same waters in the Bahamas, building relationships with tiger sharks and documenting behaviors most people never witness. Watch the full film at the link in bio. #Bahamas #OceanAdventure #WildlifeTravel #MarineConservation #SharkDiving

If sharks disappeared tomorrow, the ocean would look very different. 🌊 Tiger (Shark) King explores why conservationist Jim Abernethy has dedicated decades of his life to protecting one of the most misunderstood animals on the planet and what happens when fear becomes the story. Full film available through the link in bio. #SharkConservation #OceanConservation #MarineLife #Sharks #ProtectOurOceans

A National Geographic-Lindblad Expedition through Baja California is less like a cruise and more like stepping into a live nature documentary. 🐋 Sailing through the Sea of Cortez and remote Baja coastlines, the expedition focuses on wildlife encounters gray whales, dolphins, sea lions, whale sharks, and massive seabird colonies all guided by naturalists and photographers onboard. With zodiacs, kayaking, and daily excursions, it’s built for exploration instead of crowds or pool decks. Baja at its wildest, with National Geographic-level access. 🇲🇽✨ 🎥 IG @helloitsjesse @Lindblad Expeditions @NatGeoExpeditions #NatGeoExpeditions #LindbladExpeditions #BajaCalifornia #WildlifeCruise #AdventureTravel

Come hungry and dine across the globe in what feels like a full-on food festival aboard Norwegian Cruise Line. Hit the buffet for an unlimited offering of different cuisines, or treat yourself to a specialty dining experience at Cagney’s Steakhouse, which serves perfectly cooked steak and endless sides — be sure to save room for dessert! For late night cravings, visit O’Sheehan’s, which serves savory favorites like fish n chips and wings.  @Norwegian Cruise Line

Quench your thirst for adventure (and water) in a unique way. On the journey between Seattle and Skagway aboard Norwegian Cruise Line, make sure to take the helicopter tour. This takes you on a flight to admire some stunning mountain scenery before landing on a glacier where you'll trek to a crystal clear glacial stream. Take a sip – the crispest sip of water you’ve ever had!  @Norwegian Cruise Line

@Phil the culture experienced one of the most sacred places in India up close 🌊 A beautiful reminder of how travel can deepen your understanding of the world. Tune in wherever you listen to podcasts 🎧 ##travelcreator##culture##exploremore

Norwegian Prima features a unique experience you can’t find on most other ships — an onboard racetrack. Chase laps and turn corners on a race to the photo finish, all while surrounded by ocean views from every side. @Norwegian Cruise Line

Every second counts. From 4:36 a.m. sunrises to midnight nightcaps—this is what a full day of living looks like on a Norwegian Cruise Line vacation. @Norwegian Cruise Line

@Eva zu Beck thought she was ready for the Sahara 🏜️ Then her vehicle broke down in one of the most remote places on earth 🚙 This is one of those stories you don’t forget 🫣 Tune in wherever you listen to podcasts 🎧 ##travelcreator##travelstories##travelpodcast

Go behind the scenes with Norwegian Cruise Line and travel below deck to learn about what makes the ship run smoothly. It’s a hidden world where the desalination processes turn sea waves into potable water, alongside the engines, laundry facilities, and food storage areas that power the ship — and support those onboard. @Norwegian Cruise Line