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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 - ...

Like building blocks piled up by some gigantic infant, granite boulders perch perilously on top of another. Giant granite marbles poise on smooth granite domes as if a gentle push would set them in motion. This astonishing boulder land is the ...

Thailand will allow an extended length of stay for overseas tourists between September and March in a bid to sustain its economic recovery as torment from Covid-19 ease. Travellers and tourists from 18 countries coming to Thailand on visa arrival category ...

An architectural fantasy of sandstone and limestone the spires and pinnacles of Bryce Canyon rise from its shadowed depths like the disinterred ruins of an ancient city. When an American surveyor named T.C. Bailey first set eyes on the beautiful and ...

World Photography Day is meant to celebrate all types of photography and encourage people to get creative with their images. Photography is one of humanity's most enduring arts. It has long been used as a means for documenting history, creating visual ...

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 ...

Rising like an island from a sea of pastureland. Mount Taranaki or Mount Egmont often seems like a mirage - sometimes there, sometimes not. On the southwest coast of New Zealand's North Island, mist and clouds often hide the mountain completely. ...