Walks and treks
Ruta del Cares, Picos de Europa
Cabrales, Asturias, Spain
One of the most spectacular walks in Spain: a path cut into the cliffs of the Cares gorge, deep in the Picos de Europa National Park, with the river …
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Caminito del Rey
Ardales, Málaga, Spain
A walkway pinned to the walls of the El Chorro gorge, once called the world's most dangerous path, and rebuilt safely in 2015.
Natural features
Curonian Spit
Neringa, Lithuania
A narrow 98 km sand spit between the Baltic Sea and the Curonian Lagoon, shared with Russia, with huge shifting sand dunes, pine forests and fishing …
Historic sites
Göbekli Tepe
Haliliye, Şanlıurfa, Turkey
The world's oldest known monumental temple, built around 9600 BC by hunter-gatherers, thousands of years before Stonehenge, with huge T-shaped stone …
Walks and treks
Zion National Park
Toquerville, Utah, United States of America
A deep red and cream sandstone canyon carved by the Virgin River in southern Utah.
Historic sites
Mdina
Imdina, Mdina, Malta
Malta's old capital, a walled medieval city on a hill, called the 'Silent City', with narrow, quiet streets of noble palaces and the baroque St Paul'…
Historic sites
Riga Old Town and Art Nouveau District
Riga, Latvia
The largest city in the Baltics, with a UNESCO-listed medieval old town, including the House of the Blackheads, St Peter's Church, whose tower you ca…
Places to stay
Flatdogs Camp, South Luangwa
Eastern, Zambia
An affordable, relaxed safari camp on the banks of the Luangwa River, right at the main gate of South Luangwa National Park, one of Africa's best par…
Natural features
Hermanus whale watching
Hermanus, Western Cape, South Africa
From June to November, southern right whales come close to shore in Walker Bay, making Hermanus one of the world's best places for land-based whale w…
Natural features
Pont d'Arc and the Gorges de l'Ardèche
Vallon-Pont-d’Arc, Ardèche, France
A huge natural stone arch, 54 metres high, spanning the Ardèche river at the entrance to its gorges, where limestone cliffs rise 300 metres above the…
Natural features
Corcovado National Park
Osa, Puntarenas, Costa Rica
One of the most biologically intense places on earth, on the remote Osa Peninsula, with tapirs, all four Costa Rican monkey species, scarlet macaws a…
Historic sites
Lascaux IV cave paintings
Montignac, Dordogne, France
The cave of Lascaux, discovered in 1940, holds some of the finest prehistoric paintings in the world: bulls, horses and deer painted about 17,000 yea…