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A deep ravine, sheer-sided in places, cuts a spectacular slice into towering sea cliffs and high mountains in western Crete. For 11 miles (18km) the Samaria Gorge twists and turns, widening and narrowing as it traces a serpentine course through the ...

Like a scratch made by some gigantic claymore (Scottish great sword), the Great Glen cuts diagonally across the Scottish Highland from the Atlantic Ocean to the North Sea. Ribbon-shaped lochs - Ness, Oich and Lochy - fill most of the glen's ...

World Elephant Day is a day to celebrate the unique and beautiful wild creatures that roam across the world. Elephants are one of the most intelligent animals on earth, and they are also extremely social creatures. Elephants are often thought of ...

Maps of Finnish Lapland are a surprise. For an area lying well within the Arctic Circle, they reveal a land, not of ice and tundra but innumerable lakes, rivers and streams linked by forests, bogs and swamps. And the largest, bluest ...

Internet The Uttarakhand Tourism department is planning to create a new trail for the tourists in Jim Corbett National Park. The area will be named 'Modi Circuit' after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and this circuit will be covering the areas where ...

In Saputara which is Gujarat's only hill station, The Gujarat Tourism Development Corporation is presenting Megh Malahar Parv 2022. This going to be a month-long festival happening till 30 August 2022, during the beautiful month of monsoon. To attract tourists to ...

A narrow blade of rock stabs the clear air of the Warrumbungles - a range of mountains in New South Wales. Aptly called the Breadknife, it reaches skywards to a height of 300ft (90m), yet its summit is only about 3ft ...

The struggle for independence was definitely not an easy one. It took many lives, both Indian and British before the country became free from British rule. It was a time when people chose to stand up and fight for their rights ...

Bangalore: To mark BMTC's 25th anniversary and India's 75th Independence Day, the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) on 10 August announced that people of all ages can take a free ride in ordinary BMTC buses on 15 August 2022. BMTC ...

Deadman pass, Dry Bone Canyon, Funeral Mountains - the very place names of California's Death Valley are sinister. This is North America's hottest, driest area - a place of baking summer heat where a whole year can pass without a drop ...

India is set to launch a new initiative to boost medical tourism. The country has decided to provide desks at 10 airports including Kochi, Mumbai, and Delhi to solve the queries related to medical travel, boarding, transport, and lodging among others. ...

There are, in any case, many compensations. Since the Maori colonised what is now New Zealand in the 14th century, the Rotorua area has been the country of the great Arawa group of tribes. They, like the Europeans later, loved the ...