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On the map, the tiny dot that marks Ball's Pyramid is almost lost in the surrounding ocean. It is an obelisk so tall that it seems to touch the sky. Although only 440yds (400m) across as its base, Ball's Pyramid reaches ...

Two years into the pandemic, Bhutan is ready to open its borders, but with a sustainable development fee (SDF) of $200 per person per day for tourists from different countries. It is in addition to the other travel expenses. However, for ...

Shaped like a well-worn thigh boot, Fraser Island, lying off the Queensland coast, is an island built of sand. There are beaches and dunes of golden sand along its shored, and in places, the 77 miles (124km) long island has cliffs ...

If your heart is still young enough to quicken at stories of a faraway, secret land where verdant valleys bloom amid arctic snows, and lost gold mines are guarded by wild men and spirits of the forest, then the Nahanni River ...

The barren rockscape of south-eastern Utah resembles the surface of some fantastic planet. Rugged pillars of rock, sculpted to every imaginable shape and size, just up from the desert floor. But far more astonishing are the 200 or so stone arches ...

To the eye of the osprey (a large fish-eating hawk) soaring overhead, Western Brook Pond looks like a shimmering jewel dropped by a giant hand. The jewel's landing place is the bottom of a 2000ft (600m) deep canyon, cut into the ...

From the plains beside it, the rim of Meteor Crater looks like a low hill, giving no hint of the immense hollow it surrounds. Blasted out when a giant meteorite struck the ground here around 50, 000 years ago, the crater ...

Weird pinnacles of rock seem to float like a mirage on the brilliant blue waters of Mono lake, which gleams like of jewel in a setting of sand flats and sagebrush ringed by mountains. ' A country of wonderful contrasts, hot ...

Glowing rose-red and turquoise in the midnight sun, and trailing a long banner of steam over ross Island's miles of snow and ice, Mount Erebus is the very symbol and beacon of Antarctic exploration. At its feet lies the modern sprawl ...

Mammoth Cave owes its name to its size, not to relics of long-gone mammoths. Carved from limestone hills in Kentucky by trickles of acidic water over millions of years, the cave has some 330 miles (530km) of passages, possibly more, on ...

Long ago, when the United States was hardly out of its teens, you could sometimes find leathery backwoodsmen who told tales of a fabulous land to the west where fountains of boiling water ascended high past the trees as the floor ...

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 ...