Facts on every country in the world, and 2,178 travel tips for places to go in 217 of them.
Baía dos Porcos is a tiny cove next to Sancho, with rock pools and views of the Dois Irmãos ('two brothers') rock peaks rising from the sea, one of t…
A glacial lake in Nelson Lakes National Park, surrounded by beech forest and mountains, with the village of St Arnaud on its northern shore.
The largest and most extravagant of the Loire châteaux, built from 1519 for King François I as a hunting lodge.
An island with the volcanic peak of Mount Otemanu rising above a turquoise lagoon ringed by small islands (motu) with overwater bungalows.
A stone bridge built in 1851 linking towering sandstone pillars 194 m above the River Elbe, in Saxon Switzerland National Park.
Nearly 500 Buddhist cave temples carved into a cliff in the desert near Dunhuang, an oasis on the Silk Road, with murals and statues painted over a t…
One of the world's great museums, founded in 1753, with eight million objects covering two million years of human history.
The old royal capital of Laos, on a peninsula where the Nam Khan meets the Mekong, a UNESCO World Heritage Site of golden temples, French colonial ho…
Limestone islands rising from turquoise water at the northern tip of Palawan, with lagoons, beaches and coves.
The largest glacier in the Alps, a river of ice 20 km long, sweeping down from the Jungfrau region, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Mongolia's great national festival, held on 11 to 13 July, with the 'three manly games': wrestling, horse racing, with child jockeys riding across th…
A centre in Sabah where orphaned orangutans are raised and returned to the forest.
