Europe

One of the most satisfying ways of achieving greatness must be to stumble across it while you are searching for something else - take Christopher Columbus and the New World, for instance, or Vasco da Gama and India. Another such was ...

In the land of Four Corners, where Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico meet, geological extravaganzas are the norm - hence many national parks and monuments dot the map. Even among these, the Canyon de Chelly (pronounced 'de Shay') is special ...

In the heart of a steamy rainforest, Stony Creek winds a gently sloping course through tangled trees and shrubs. Still dripping from the night's rain, palm fronds jostle in the undergrowth, and high overhead a canopy of leaves filters the early ...

Trees and fields as far as the eye can see, an occasional house and village in-between - train rides can be so serene. Sophia Klimpel is certainly enjoying her journey from Germany's Saarbrucken to Ljubljana in Slovenia, watching the countryside fly ...

Glistening white dunes; contoured and shaped by the warm current into evenly rounded arcs, extend endlessly before the eye of a beholder in the White Sands. But this is uncommon sand - not the typical quartz, but gypsum; commonly called white ...

On Friday, 1 July 2022, Portugal joined the list of nations to lift all COVID-related entry restraints for tourists; without needing to show a vaccination or recovery report. A senior official said that the number of Coronavirus infections and deaths has ...

Nowhere in history can be found a more fruitful marriage of sublime courage and naked greed than in the personalities of the Conquistadores, the Spanish conquerors of Central and South America. In 1535. with Peru subjugated, and already rich beyond all ...

Walls of rock twice as high as the Eiffel Tower hem in the Verdon River as it winds thin and snake-like along the bottom of its precipitous gorge in southern France. The gorge is some 12 miles (20km) long and up ...

In the run up to winter tourism season, Austria's innkeepers and ski lift operators were worried once again as the number of coronavirus infections shot up shortly before the start of the season - just like last year. In 2020, cable ...

This year, eight mosques in northern Ivory Coast and Ivindo National Park in Gabon have landed one of the coveted places on UNESCO's World Heritage List. In addition to the two sites in Africa, the responsible committee at its 44th session ...

After long lockdown months, the desire to travel is returning in large parts of Europe. As COVID-19 infections have declined, strict entry restrictions have also been eased in recent weeks. This applies above all to the European Union and ...

India is well known in the tourism circuit for its exotic locales. There are seven places in India that look similar to Europe. Let's travel to these dream destinations in India, the seven places that looks completely foreign. 1. Khajjiar / ...