Africa

Seen from afar, the peaks of the Virunga Mountains stand in awe-some magnitude in a mist of clouds. Rising sharply to dominate the plains of Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Cango, these mountains evoke a spine-tingling awareness of the ...

Amid the dusty, searingly hot Crater Highlands of northern Tanzania, in a region spattered with hot springs and steaming sulphur jets, stands a grey mountain known as Ol Doinyo Lengai. This is a Maasai name that means 'Mountains of God'. {image-mt-oldoinyo-lengai-1661242080.jpg ...

There came a time when the ancient Romans became so salted with the cornucopia of Africa's marvels that they greeted the latest travellers' tale with a polite 'Well, there's always something new out of Africa'. The truth was, of course, they ...

At the northern end of South Africa's Drakensberg range, a curving wall of sheet cliffs soars skywards above grass-covered plains. Known as the Amphitheatre, the towering crescent forms the precipitous edge of Mont-aux-Sources, a boggy and misty plateau overlooked by a ...

One of Nature's most spectacular creations lies beneath South Africa's Swartberg Range: a cavernous world of limestone formation, lakes, deep, pits and interconnecting tunnels. This fairyland of glittering crystal shapes forms one of the world's most varied underground cave sequences - ...

Like building blocks piled up by some gigantic infant, granite boulders perch perilously on top of another. Giant granite marbles poise on smooth granite domes as if a gentle push would set them in motion. This astonishing boulder land is the ...

Imagine a miniature lost world, at the top of a limestone cliff more than 600ft (180m) high. A world of razor-sharp rock spires up to 100ft (30m) tall, where the toughest boots are torn to shreds in minutes and a single ...

Lake Magadi - Soda Lake lies in remote, semidesert surroundings where the daytime temperature rises to 38°C(100°F) and is thick with soda. Natron, which often glows blotchy pink, is marginally milder but larger - 40 miles (64km) long and 10 miles ...

Countless tributaries swell the great Congo River on its long curve to the Atlantic from grasslands on the border of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia. They drain an area of rainforest and high grassland roughly the size of India. ...

Shiva is worshipped in many forms and many places. He is worshiped as a primary deity by the people of India and Nepal, he is also worshiped as an important aspect of the Hindu religion, and is considered the supreme lord ...

For nearly six months of the year, the Mackenzie Delta on the Northwest coast of Canada is barely recognisable as a river delta. It is blanketed by an icy mantle that merges its islands and waterways with the frozen coastal plain. ...

Few of the great news stories of the early 20th century enjoyed such immediate reportage as the Katmai mountain story. On the steamship, Dora, bound for the port of Kodiak on Kodiak Island. Alaska, on June 6, 1912, the captain logged, ...