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Australia Zoo, Beerwah
Beerwah, Queensland, Australia
The zoo made famous by Steve Irwin, the 'Crocodile Hunter', and still run by the Irwin family.
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Cabot Trail, Cape Breton
Nova Scotia, Canada
A 298 km loop road around northern Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, through the Cape Breton Highlands National Park, with ocean cliffs, Acadian and…
Natural features
Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng National Park
Huyện Quảng Trạch, Quảng Trị, Vietnam
A karst national park with some of the world's largest caves, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Historic sites
Annecy old town and lake
Annecy, Haute-Savoie, France
Annecy's old town has canals, flower-lined bridges and pastel houses, earning it the name 'Venice of the Alps'.
Buildings
Hungarian Parliament Building, Budapest
Budapest, Hungary
A vast neo-Gothic building on the bank of the Danube, completed in 1904, with 691 rooms and a great central dome, the symbol of Budapest.
Historic sites
Toledo
Toledo, Spain
A medieval city on a hill in a bend of the Tagus River, where Christians, Muslims and Jews lived side by side for centuries.
Historic sites
Chichén Itzá
Chichén-Itzá, Yucatán, Mexico
A great Maya city in Yucatán, one of the New Seven Wonders of the World, with the stepped pyramid of El Castillo, where at the equinoxes the shadow o…
Natural features
Amalfi Coast and Positano
Positano, Salerno, Italy
A spectacular stretch of coast south of Naples, where pastel villages cling to cliffs above the sea, linked by a dramatic winding road.
Natural features
Porquerolles
Hyères, Var, France
A car-free island off Hyères, part of the Port-Cros National Park, with pine woods, vineyards, cliffs and some of the most beautiful beaches in Franc…
Natural features
Rottnest Island and quokkas
Western Australia, Australia
A car-free island off Perth with turquoise bays and quokkas, small smiling marsupials that are unafraid of people.
Natural features
Khövsgöl Lake
Khövsgöl, Mongolia
A vast, clear freshwater lake in the far north of Mongolia, near the Russian border, surrounded by mountains and larch forest, called the 'Blue Pearl'.
Tours and activities
Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda
Busogo, Northern, Rwanda
Bamboo forests on the Virunga volcanoes, where Dian Fossey studied mountain gorillas.