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Few of the great news stories of the early 20th century enjoyed such immediate reportage as the Katmai mountain story. On the steamship, Dora, bound for the port of Kodiak on Kodiak Island. Alaska, on June 6, 1912, the captain logged, ...

Approached from the north, the Victoria Falls announce themselves as a cloud of vapour hurled, grumbling loudly at its own immensity, into the African sky. A local tribe gave the falls the name Mosi-oa-Tunya - 'The smoke that thunders'. Soaring 1600ft ...

Nowhere in history can be found a more fruitful marriage of sublime courage and naked greed than in the personalities of the Conquistadores, the Spanish conquerors of Central and South America. In 1535. with Peru subjugated, and already rich beyond all ...

This eerie wasteland of salt-encrusted clay stretching away to distant horizons is known to the Ovambo people who live there as Etosha - 'the lake of mirages' or 'the place of dry water. Seen from the air it appears ...

The well-equipped come by light aircraft. The less so, or the more adventurous, approach the great wall of Algeria's Tassili mountains by four-wheel-drive truck, crossing gravel, rock and shifting sand where the air shudders above a ground temperature that can reach ...

Walls of rock twice as high as the Eiffel Tower hem in the Verdon River as it winds thin and snake-like along the bottom of its precipitous gorge in southern France. The gorge is some 12 miles (20km) long and up ...

Stooping slightly in the lee of a shattered inland cliff, the Old Man of Storr stands Conspicuous above the coast of Scotland's island of Skye. The 160ft (49m) basalt pillar, balanced on its stone pedestal, looks out to sea like a ...

A soft mantle of green fields and hills and shallow lakes and streams cloaks most of Ireland. But here and there Nature has made a dramatic flourish, perhaps as a reminder of her awesome power. The Cliffs of Moher are one ...

The UK government on March 18 lifted the Covid-19 international travel restrictions. All remaining Covid-19 pandemic related international travel restrictions, including filling in Passenger Locator Forms before arrival and compulsory pre-departure tests for unvaccinated travellers, have been scrapped from Friday, the UK ...

Germany has ended its strict rules for travelers entering from a series of countries with particularly high rates of Omicron infections. The nine countries, including Britain and South Africa - as well as several other southern African states - had been placed ...

Germany is set to classify the United Kingdom as an area of variant of concern due to the rapid spread of the omicron coronavirus variant, Germany's Robert Koch Institute announced on Saturday, December 18. The decision is set to go into effect ...

As a significant break for Indian passengers travelling to England, the UK has proclaimed that they will eliminate the obligatory quarantine period for Indians commencing October 11, 2021. "No quarantine for Indian travellers to the UK fully vaccinated with Covishield or another UK-approved ...