travel guide

Hiking is one of the most popular sports in the world, and it's no surprise that many people have spent years preparing for their next big hike. We have got some of the best hikes in the world that...

Disbelief is a constant companion to those who explore Lechuguilla Cave in New Mexico. So far, around 101 miles (156.5km) of caverns and passageways have desert mountains in the southern United...

Wind-clown sands have sculpted the domed, elephantine bulk of Uluru, which rises abruptly from the flat and arid plains of the Northern Territory, almost at the very centre of Australia. To the...

India is a country of many different cultures and ethnicities, and it's also home to some of the most delicious foods in the world. There are so many dishes that you can't get anywhere else, but...

Source Seen from the air, the glistening pale pink surface of remote Lake Hillier looks like glace icing on an oblong cake. The lake gives unexpected colour to a densely wooded corner of...

Lake Magadi - Soda Lake lies in remote, semidesert surroundings where the daytime temperature rises to 38°C(100°F) and is thick with soda. Natron, which often glows blotchy pink, is...

Imagine a huge, river roaring down a rugged, winding Alpine valley, huge waves rearing, and deep troughs appearing. Suppose that, in an instant, it was frozen into a solid mass at the height of its...

In 1870, a Kansas schoolboy read a short article - in the newspaper wrapped around his lunch - about a lake that lay high in the Oregon mountains, encircled by sheer walls and containing an extinct...

Carved by glaciers and fretted by frost, the extraordinary rock skyline of the dolomites looks like vast battlements, needles, towers and walls. This mountain range in northeast Italy is a series...

Despite its name, Lake Eyre is barely a lake at all, but rather two huge, shallow scoops in the thirsty heartland of Australia. Its salt-caked floor is dry most of the time, and a rim of thick,...

The granite domes of the Drakensberg range of mountains in South Africa's Transvaal rise above the twisting valleys of the Blyde River Canyon, their summits separated by terrifying ravines. Below,...

While dinosaurs forage in the green heart of Australia, a huge fireball plunges into the plain, shattering the landscape with a force hundreds of thousands of times greater than that of the nuclear...