India

When the first of the Homosapien's wandered upon the Earth, the Himalayas bore only a passing resemblance to the mighty fortress that we are aware of today. It may not be because humankind is so old, but the Himalayas, from an ...

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 ...

In the Sahara, at least when the sun is high, there are no horizons - only a milky vagueness whose bounds might be either near or far. Driving south though, from the oasis of In Salah towards the centre of the ...

Violas (Pansies) of every hue - from yellow, white and deep purple to blue - lured an English wanderer, Charles Howard-Bury, after he had strolled up through the woodland to the alpine fields of the Heavenly Mountains (Tien Shan Mountains) in ...

A giant white plume of steam and gas rises almost continuously from the crater of Mount Ngauruhoe, a 7516ft (2291m) volcano in the heart of New Zealand's North Island. It is one of a trio of active volcanoes. To the north ...

The Modhera village in the Indian state of Gujarat is renowned for its Sun temple situated in the Mehsana district on the river Pushpavati and it was built by King Bhima-I of the Chaulukya dynasty in 1026-27. Being so popular already ...

Originally a tiny townlet, Taipei grew into a significant hub for the export of tea in the 20th century consequently its economic prominence across the globe. When Japan seized and took control of the island in 1884, the city developed quickly ...

Up until the 19th century, the word Cappadocia was oblivious to most of the World. It was understood, perhaps as a religious hotspot in Asia Minor that was cited in the Bible - St Peter's foremost letter is preached to the ...

Concealed among the arid western hillocks of the Hindu Kush, where precipitation is periodic and water is insufficient, is a stripe of cool, shining lakes. They nestle along Afghanistan's prime river - Band-e Amir, at an altitude of just under 9700ft ...

Even hardened travellers lapse into spellbound silence as ocean-going cruise liners, dwarfed by their surroundings to seem like model toys, glide into Sognefjord. The mountains rise almost vertically from the water's edge - sheer walls of strong granitic rock some 3000ft ...

Rhododendrons and camellias grow wild to profusion in the subtropical climate of China's south-western Yunnan province Kunming, the capital, is known as the City of Eternal Spring, and the area is a treasure house of plants and trees. But the forest ...

In an effort to diversify its travel and tourism products, the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) recently began offering passengers online medical tourism packages. IRCTC has entered into a pilot agreement with a provider of medical-technical online services that ...