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The southern Ethiopian town of Arba Minch lies on the high savanna between the two huge lakes of Chamo and Abaya, surrounded by mountains. This is the here of the Rift Valle, thought to be the cradle of humanity, and it ...

Vancouver Island is an island just off Canada's Pacific Coast in British Columbia, far from the big city life, and skyscrapers; by the Strait of Georgia. It is 450 km (288 mi) long and up to 75 km (47 mi) expansive; ...

Today Surin Province shares its southern border with Cambodia but once it was part of the Khmer empire. Its ethnic population is largely Suay, who for thousands of years have been recognised for their tradition of capturing and training the elephants ...

Some melancholy mournings; some enraged rumblings started to increase from an exotic, yet stunning Indonesian isle called Krakatoa in April 1882. A few months later the morning got more boisterous. Passing vessels and ships heard explosions so deafening they could barely ...

Water birds by the million flourish in the Pantanal - a watery world of lagoons and pastures in the centre of South America, mainly in Brazil. The air resounds to their calls, and huge flocks on the wing are like clouds ...

Some 40 km (25 mi) from Krabi, off Thailand's southwestern coast, Ko Phi Phi is a group of limestone islands that just sharply from the surrounding turquoise sea. Phi Phi Don is both the largest and the only one with a ...

Unlike their counterparts in many other European cities, citizens of the Dutch capital never lost their trams - but by the end of the 20th century, Amsterdam's extensive network was getting tired, with antiquated cars that were constantly out of ODF ...

Lying off the northwest coast of Western Australia, the Buccaneer archipelago's 1,000 islands were once part of the mainland but have been cut off by rising seas since the last ice age. Vegetation on them is scarce, except for tiny patches ...

The otherworldly alpine vista of North Tyrol is the stuff of a photobook - speedy mountain streams falling down forested slippery slopes, rich verdant valleys flecked with villages, snow-capped cliffs and shimmering lakes. This stunning region is a picnic utopia for ...

The largest island in the Mediterranean, and the first multicultural society in the world, Sicily is the eye of the needle of European history. Strategically placed at the tip of Italy, it has served as the clearing house for occupying powers ...

Bermuda's 180 coral islands and islets sit 1,050 km (650 mi) off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, in the middle of the Atlantic. Effectively, they form a single island unified by the causeways, bridges, and other developments of 350 years of continuously ...

It looks like a train, but the Enoshima Electric Railway has the soul of the much-appreciated local tram it used to be. It runs from Fujisawa, 51 km (32 mi) southwest of Tokyo, to the popular seaside resort of Enoshima and ...