travel guide

Travelling is a wonderful hobby, but it can also be a risky one. And to prevent travellers from certain risks, travel insurance has been introduced. But there are some misconceptions about travel...

It is hard to apprehend the sheer magnitude of the Himalayas - while most of the world's great mountain ranges can be travelled inside a day or two, the Himalayas seem to go on forever. They fill...

A remarkable collection of monasteries known as Meteora are situated in a stunning natural setting, high atop Greek mountains in Thessaly, Greece. Actually, the word "Meteora" means "suspended in...

According to Rudyard Kipling, the Grand Trunk Road was 'such a river of life as exists nowhere else in the world, the lifeblood of the Indian sub-continent along which the ideas that have shaped...

Bhutan is a country of mountains and valleys, lush forests, and high-altitude meadows. The country is famous for its ancient temples, monasteries and monasteries, lakes, waterfalls, and rivers....

The New 7 Wonders Foundation (N7W), a company with headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, decided to start a campaign to name the New 7 Wonders in 2000, which led to the creation of the New 7 Wonders...

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...

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...

The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway is the most fascinating of all the 'toy train' routes in India. With a 610 mm (2 ft) gauge, it's the narrowest to be found on the subcontinent and it has the unique...

"Travel is a University", we all are aware of why we are connecting travel here with education because travel teaches us something precious. We all love to travel, to experience a new culture, new...

Opened in 1907, this narrow-gauge railway is a charming and rather eccentric example of an early 20th-century engineering enterprise. Traversing difficult mountainous terrain, the train chugs along...

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...