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Towering in magnificent isolation above its Alpine surroundings, the Matterhorn is celebrated for its horn - a slightly bent pyramidal peak. It straddles the Swiss-Italian frontier, and in English and German is known as the Matterhorn, in Italian as Monte Cervine ...

Pearl of the Pacific, but the nearest thing to paradise on earth, the island of dreams - all these names have been given to Bora-Bora. For American author James Michener it was the most beautiful island in the world and the ...

Hong Kong cuts the required hotel quarantine for overseas travellers from a week to three days, the city's leader John Lee declared on Monday, 8 August 2022. The Chinese mega-city is still one of the few cities in the world, jointly ...

To manage the rush of passengers because of the Raksha Bandhan festival, Western railways decide to run special trains for the convenience of the travelers. The train will run between Gujarat, Delhi, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, and Rajasthan. Every year Raksha Bandhan ...

Raksha Bandhan is a festival that celebrates the bond between brothers and sisters. The Raksha Bandhan Festival is observed by exchanging love letters between brothers and sisters as well as gifts. The brothers and sisters tie a protection thread as a ...

On the east coast of Sicily lie three massive rocks, lapped by waves. Known as the Scogli Dei Ciclopi, they are of volcanic origin and quite unlike other rocks along the shore. These identical boulders, it is said, were hurled by ...

The ridged and pitted pillars taper upwards from a broad base. Some are short and stumpy, and others soar upwards and slim out into long thin necks. The tallest reach 130ft (40m) in height, and pillars of any height can support ...

Water seething and exploding in a boiling basin, followed by a jet of chalk-white spray shooting up to the height of a five-storey house - a magnificent sight that continues for seven or eight minutes before subsiding. Then, suddenly, a column ...

Travel is the best University and we all agree about it. Traveling teaches you something which only taught outside the classroom or any university. Travel teaches you how to live, how to think, how to enjoy and main of all how ...

An anonymous writer has described Florida's Everglades as "If the devil ever raised a garden, the Everglades was it", and "one of the unique regions of the earth, remote, never wholly known", the writer tells of 'their vast glittering openness... the ...

High in the Peruvian Andes lies Colca Canyon, described in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's deepest gorge. Yet few people have even heard of it. And despite its status as a world record holder, and its stunning granduer, ...

Strangely shaped limestone isles ascend from the clear, green water of a forest-fringed bay in Thailand Shimmering heat daze blankets the tree-lined shores of Phang Nga Bay in southern Thailand, where the clear waters of the Andaman Sea shimmer green under ...