An elegant, conical volcano, Mount Egmont - also known as Maunga Taranaki, meaning "peak clear of vegetation" - dominates the entire western third of New Zealand's North Island...
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Made of soft yellow Jurassic sandstone, the ramparts of this honey-coloured citadel rise from the sands of the Thar Desert like a scene from the Arabian Nights...
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Parque das Nações in Lisbon is the former Expo 98 site and remains a huge attraction for Lisboans, who visit en masse at weekends...
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A memorable highlight of travelling the Californian coast through the Big Sur, a 90-mile stretch along which the brooding Santa Lucia Mountains rise steeply out of the thundering Pacific surf, is crossing the Bixby Creek Bridge...
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The man-made Uros Floating Islands - weird to walk over and even stranger to live on - have been inhabited since their construction centuries ago by Uros Indians...
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A visit to the attractive medieval city of Bruges in West Flanders is rarely going to be a hectic affair, but the paddle steamer, Lamme Goedzak, is a particularly laid-back way to travel...
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Forever associated with sliced bread, thanks to the 1970s Ridley Scott-directed Hovis ad, this absurdly pretty cobbled hill, lined with thatched cottages, revels in sublime views across Dorset's rolling countryside...
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The Bishnois - a religious sect rather than an ethnic group in the usual sense - are among the world's earliest tree-huggers...
With painstaking practice, female Balinese dancers perfect a series of controlled, angular, yet enticing movements of the arms, wrists, fingers, neck and eyes...
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Many fiestas re-enact colonial struggles, but few do so with the insane vibrancy of this celebration in Paucartambo, a pretty village in the rainforest of the Andean plateau...
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