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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 world-famous Glass Beach is a stunning natural area that is a part of Mendocino County in California's Fort Bragg. The smooth, vibrant glass stones that wash up on the shore gave it its name. This incredible man-made wonder is considered ...

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 ...

Despite taking substantial bomb damage in 1942, Bologna's historic epicentre, the second most extensive in Europe, possesses a wealth of significant Medieval, Baroque and Renaissance monuments which offer numerous draws for the visitor. The capital city of the Emilia-Romagna region of ...

Reichenau Island lies in lake Constance in southern Germany. For more than 1,000 years, the Benedictine complex here was one of the most important religious centres in Europe. It has been listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site because it ...