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Ridge upon ridge of deep red sand stretches from horizon to horizon across the Simpson Desert in the dry heart of Australia. In 1845, Charles Sturt, the first European to set eyes on the scene, described how the ridges ran in ...

Land so bereft of spirit that it has been dubbed the 'desert within the desert'. Rolling waves of dunes, some as lofty as 790ft (241m), touch the horizon and lead to still more dunes in an eternal progression. But in the ...

Known as the 'Golden Valley', the Fergana is a 22,000-sq km (8,500-sq mi) wedge of rich arable land enclosed by the Tein Shan and Pamir Mountains. The 300-km (190-mi) long valley is a picturesque ethnic melting pot with a distinguished history. ...

The Sentier Cathare is a 250-km (155-mi) trek from Port-La-Nouvelle on the Mediterranean near Narbonne, through the breathtaking Languedoc countryside. It is so-called because - in crossing the Corbieres and Pyrenean foothills of the Aude en route to Foix, in Ariege ...

A massive peak, more than 6,600 m(21,700 ft) high in the remote Gangdise Shan mountain range. Kailash is not only revered in the Shamanistic Bon religion of Tibet but equally among Buddhists, Hindus and Jains. It is believed to be the ...

Go north to go south for glory! That's the message to those determined enough to make the journey down from Anchorage to Seward in south-central Alaska, the chilly 49th State in the USA. The twisted yet beautiful Seward Highway was completed ...

Where the Yangtze, Mekong and Salween Rivers rush side-by-side out of Tibet and south along China's border with Burma, the towering ridge of Yukong Xueshan (Jade Dragon Snow Mountain) forces the Yangtze into an abrupt change of direction known as The ...

The Alpine Pass route is one of the great European hikes. It crosses Switzerland from Sargans in the east on the Lichtenstein border, to Montreux in the west on Lac Leman. It crosses sixteen passes along its 354-km (220-mi) length, and ...

Lying a mere 350 m (1,150 ft) off northern Sumatra is the tiny, volcanic island of Weh, surrounded by the Andaman Sea, Weh is the northernmost point of Indonesia's archipelago, and was formed during the Pleistocene age by an eruption that ...

The most extensive industrial city in China, Shanghai nestles by the river mouth of the Yangtze. It is a captivating, frantic city in which the finest of conventional and modern China blend. The iconic skyline of Pudong, the world-class cuisine and ...

Welcome to Fiji's Largest island, at a chunky 145 km (90 mi) by 105 km (65 mi), Viti Levu is divided in half geographically and climatically and climatically by a rugged north-south mountain range peaking at Mount Victoria, also known as ...

The now notorious Ko Pha Ngan is an island in the Gulf of Thailand, about halfway between Ko Samui, to the south, and Ko Tao, to the north. Twenty years ago the island received just a tiny trickle of backpackers looking ...