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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 ...

Niagara, meaning 'thunder water', was the name the native Americans gave to the mighty waterfall that today forms a spectacular boundary between the USA and Canada. From Lake Erie, the Niagara River flows placidity for almost 35 miles (56km), but near ...

Mammoth Cave owes its name to its size, not to relics of long-gone mammoths. Carved from limestone hills in Kentucky by trickles of acidic water over millions of years, the cave has some 330 miles (530km) of passages, possibly more, on ...

A solitary monolith like a massive tree stump thrusts up from the rolling cattle-ranch country of northeast Wyoming. A legend of the Kiowa people who lived in the region says the Devil tower was created when seven little girls were chased ...

A Splendid Wilderness Where Shining Waterfalls Plunge Down Massive Cliffs Of Polished Granite One of the tallest unbroken cliffs in the world, El Capitan (The Chief) towers above the gentle, wooded shores of the Merced River in the Yosemite Valley. It ...

The US has made it mandatory for all incoming passengers, including those from India, to carry a negative COVID-19 test report or a proof of recovery from the contagion amidst rising number of cases of the new Omicron variant. The ...