Port Campbell: The Lost World
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 ...
List of Most Expensive Houses In The World
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 ...
Ordesa: A Wild and Dramatic Mountain Chain in Spain
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 ...
Sognefjord: Tranquility At Its Finest
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 ...
Zavadovski Island: World's Largest Gatherings Of Penguins
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 ...
Brooks Range: Planet's Last Great Wilderness
This untamed landscape of rugged, peaks, deep valleys and icy lakes and rivers, is known as the 'Last Great Wilderness. Human activity has hardly touched the central and eastern parts of Brooks Range - the tip of the Rocky Mountains that ...
Mount Waialeale: The Wettest Place In The World
As the shipwrecked but glamorous Jessica Lange approaches a towering, jungly island in the 1976 remake of King Kong, she murmurs silkily, 'I feel this is going to be the biggest thing in my life. A pedantic viewer might add: ' ...
Ball's Pyramid: Highest Rock Pinnacle In The World
On the map, the tiny dot that marks Ball's Pyramid is almost lost in the surrounding ocean. It is an obelisk so tall that it seems to touch the sky. Although only 440yds (400m) across as its base, Ball's Pyramid reaches ...
List of Most Mysterious Places Around The World
The world is full of mysteries and secrets that have not been discovered yet. These are the places where you will find some of the most mysterious scenes in the world. There are so many mysterious tourist attractions in the world ...
Bhutan To Reopen Its Borders But With A Check-in Process For Poor Travellers
Two years into the pandemic, Bhutan is ready to open its borders, but with a sustainable development fee (SDF) of $200 per person per day for tourists from different countries. It is in addition to the other travel expenses. However, for ...
Fraser Island: An Island Built Of Sand
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 ...
Nahanni River: Valley Of No Return
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 ...