The isolated Huizhou region, 400km southwest of Shanghai, is the perfect place to explore remote villages and hike on ancient routes through terraced fields of rapeseed and tea.
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30 October 2012
In southern Venezuela’s tepuis – the sandstone, table-topped mountains that inspired Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle’s novel The Lost World – travellers still feel like 19th-century explorers.
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26 October 2012
Beneath the city streets that travellers walk on each day, dark labyrinths of underground tunnels transport travellers to a time when millions of people were buried underground.
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26 October 2012
From death-defying mountain biking to the floating islands of Lake Titicaca, Bolivia has a lot to offer adventure travellers.
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23 October 2012
Brave or bonkers, base jumpers from 19 countries have parachuted into Kuala Lumpur to spend four days leaping 300m from Menara, the city’s famous tower.
27 September 2012
All across the country, spewing volcanoes and forbidding lava fields make for a land of beautiful, barren expanses and infinite possibilities for adventure.
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27 September 2012
A number of innovative cartography projects, including the mapping of the Arctic seafloor, are leading to a better understanding of the world around us.
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21 September 2012
A trip to Star City, the formerly closed-off cosmonaut training centre on the outskirts of Moscow, is a journey through the past, present and future of space exploration.
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21 September 2012
Despite increased tourism and rising temperatures, the Arctic’s stunning landscape of crashing glaciers and elusive wildlife is still largely ruled by ice.
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20 September 2012
Between June and September, the sun does not set below the horizon and the ice melts just enough to venture into the European Arctic’s remote wilderness.
20 September 2012
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