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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 ...

The Taj Mahal remains the highest revenue-generating monument in India, according to a report by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), with a total income of 132 crores in the last three years from 2019 to 2022. The report added that ...

If your heart is still young enough to quicken at stories of a faraway, secret land where verdant valleys bloom amid arctic snows, and lost gold mines are guarded by wild men and spirits of the forest, then the Nahanni River ...

When you're packing, you can never be too prepared. But what if you're going away for a long weekend or longer? You may not have time to pack everything that needs to be in your suitcase. It seems like everyone has ...

The barren rockscape of south-eastern Utah resembles the surface of some fantastic planet. Rugged pillars of rock, sculpted to every imaginable shape and size, just up from the desert floor. But far more astonishing are the 200 or so stone arches ...

The world is changing and we all know it. One of the biggest examples of change is that many countries offer Digital Nomad Visas so that people can work remotely in different environments and different countries. Explorers who want to travel ...

To the eye of the osprey (a large fish-eating hawk) soaring overhead, Western Brook Pond looks like a shimmering jewel dropped by a giant hand. The jewel's landing place is the bottom of a 2000ft (600m) deep canyon, cut into the ...

The tallest statue in the world represents a country's achievements, identity, and pride. The significance of having the tallest statue in the world is that it helps to promote and encourage people to be proud of their country. This will help ...

The month of Shravan is considered the most auspicious month for Hindu devotees to visit their temples and pray for their well-being and prosperity. The month of Shravan is considered holy for Hindus because it marks the beginning of the monsoon ...

From the plains beside it, the rim of Meteor Crater looks like a low hill, giving no hint of the immense hollow it surrounds. Blasted out when a giant meteorite struck the ground here around 50, 000 years ago, the crater ...

Weird pinnacles of rock seem to float like a mirage on the brilliant blue waters of Mono lake, which gleams like of jewel in a setting of sand flats and sagebrush ringed by mountains. ' A country of wonderful contrasts, hot ...

Countless tributaries swell the great Congo River on its long curve to the Atlantic from grasslands on the border of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia. They drain an area of rainforest and high grassland roughly the size of India. ...