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Strangely shaped limestone isles ascend from the clear, green water of a forest-fringed bay in Thailand Shimmering heat daze blankets the tree-lined shores of Phang Nga Bay in southern Thailand, where the clear waters of the Andaman Sea shimmer green under ...

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 ...

Heat haze shimmering on the vast, sandy plains of Australia's Northern Territory can make the first sight of Kata Tjuta seem like a mirage. The 36 rock domes rise sheer from the ground and form a circular cluster. Ernest Giles, an ...

Terrifyingly steep-side gorges slice through the barren hills and plateaus of the Hamersley Range in Western Australia. Three of the most spectacular of the 20 major gorges are the crevice-like Hancock, Joffre and Weano Gorges, which converge and join the equally ...

Nothing but the sighing and moaning of the world breaks the eerie silence of the Pinnacles Desert. Any science-fiction writer seeking a setting for a spine-chiller needs to look no further than this alien spot not far from the coast of ...

The world's most beautiful mountain towns are a paradise for those who still love to visit something offbeat but unique, where most of the villages in these areas have been preserved and maintained as they were centuries ago. The views of ...

Every summer's day in Glacier Bay resounds to the crash and splash of falling masses of ice, some the size of buildings. They are breaking off from the towering walls of ice that meet the frigid waters of the bay, which ...

Aloof from the commotion of the world, Ellesmere Island is so remote and in such a harsh setting that it seems purified by the rigours of its climate. Even the air is so pure that the whole landscape - the vast ...

Marshes crisscrossed by countless river channels, scrubland dense with rockroses, and dunes of glistening white lie side by side in a remarkably varied tract of wilderness in southern Spain. Together with pine woods, lakes and cork oak groves, they make up ...

Disbelief is a constant companion to those who explore Lechuguilla Cave in New Mexico. So far, around 101 miles (156.5km) of caverns and passageways have desert mountains in the southern United States, making it one of the world's longest caves. Within ...

Wind-clown sands have sculpted the domed, elephantine bulk of Uluru, which rises abruptly from the flat and arid plains of the Northern Territory, almost at the very centre of Australia. To the Aborigines, the age-old red rock known as; Uluru' has ...

Source Seen from the air, the glistening pale pink surface of remote Lake Hillier looks like glace icing on an oblong cake. The lake gives unexpected colour to a densely wooded corner of Middle Island, one of more than 100 small islands ...