India

The UNESCO World heritage site Ellora caves, which is located in the Aurangabad district of Maharashtra, could soon become the first in India to have a hydraulic lift at an Indian heritage site. It will soon have a hydraulic lift to ...

Carved by glaciers and fretted by frost, the extraordinary rock skyline of the dolomites looks like vast battlements, needles, towers and walls. This mountain range in northeast Italy is a series of light-coloured limestone ridges separated by green valleys, and rivalling ...

Despite its name, Lake Eyre is barely a lake at all, but rather two huge, shallow scoops in the thirsty heartland of Australia. Its salt-caked floor is dry most of the time, and a rim of thick, encrusted minerals hangs like ...

The granite domes of the Drakensberg range of mountains in South Africa's Transvaal rise above the twisting valleys of the Blyde River Canyon, their summits separated by terrifying ravines. Below, rivers and streams run through a tranquil landscape, bypassing old prospectors' ...

While dinosaurs forage in the green heart of Australia, a huge fireball plunges into the plain, shattering the landscape with a force hundreds of thousands of times greater than that of the nuclear bomb that destroyed the Japanese city of Hiroshima ...

Once upon a time, the Twelve Apostles - the huge rock stacks that stand offshore near Port Campbell in south-east Australia - were part of the jagged limestone cliffs. These stacks have resisted thousands of years of battering by relentless seas ...

The tourism department of Karnataka is making a lot of efforts during Mysuru Dasara to attract more and more tourists nationally and internationally. Karnataka state tourism development Corporation is looking forward to the approval to get 1,000 The Mysuru Dasara 2022 ...

Having a dream house can be a very important part of your life. We all know the happiness of having our own house, a beautiful garden to it, and a magnificent chandelier in the living area. But, have you ever imagined it ...

The tiger is one of the most endangered species on earth now. India has the largest population of Tigers in the world. The country is also one of the most important sites for tiger conservation. India is home to a diverse ...

Beech, larch and towering conifers overhang the River Arazas as it hurries down steps and waterfalls through Ordesa Canyon. Above this looms a monumental backdrop of uncompromising ruggedness - walls of fluted limestone rising sheer from the valley of heights of ...

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 ...

The noise is deafening, the smell overpowering, but at least they are all smartly dressed. This is one of the world's largest gatherings of penguins, and it takes place on a tiny island 1100 miles (1800km) east of the tip of ...