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Source The railway journey up into the high mountains of Mexico's backbone seems stupendous enough. On its ascent towards the Copper Canyon, the train swings round the hairpin bend and crosses bridges raised high above the ground. It plunges into the ...

The most polluted cities in the world tend to be those with more than a million people living in them. A report on Air Pollution and Health in cities around the world was published last week by the Health Effects Institute's ...

Cradled between the eastern and western ranges, or cordilleras, of the Andes mountains, is a series of high plateaus stretching some 1500 miles (2400km) from central Peru into Argentina. Nowhere do they drop below 10,000ft (3000m), and generally they lie much ...

There are two entirely distinct worlds in south-east Venezuela's small equatorial rainforest. Gigantic, flat-topped sandstone cliffs tower like impervious fortresses above the dense jungle - a reserved, cloud-wrapped 'Otherworldly place' encircled by a rackety underworld alive with screeching macaws and Jabbering ...

As the hubs of sustainable economic development & tourism, 75 places along the banks of the Ganga River will be developed this year in 2022. River walks, biodiversity watch, homestays, jungle safaris, village tours, etc will be developed by promoting Site-specific ...

Travellers ascending Mount Kilimanjaro (Africa's highest peak) can now upload their triumphs instantly on their favourite social media platform; following a move by the authorities in Tanzania to provide high-speed internet on Africa's Highest mountain. Mount Kilimanjaro, nestled in northern Tanzania, ...

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 ...

From the green of the surrounding farmland, with its vast stretches of nodding grain, you come abruptly upon the Badlands of South Dakota. The arid hills and ridges do not rise from the plain - they stand below it, like 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 - ...