travel guide

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...

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...

London is one of the most famous and beautiful cities in the world. It has everything you need to make it your home away from home: great weather, beautiful sights, good history, and architecture....

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...

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...

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,...

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...

Before making any decision, it's important to know the differences between hotels and hostels. Below is a brief overview of each type of accommodation so you can better understand which one would...

The UNESCO World Heritage Sites are those places that are considered to be of outstanding universal value, according to UNESCO. These sites are protected for their cultural, natural, and/or...

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...

The Taj Mahal remains the highest revenue-generating monument in India, according to a report by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), with a total income of 132 crores in the last three years...

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...