When gazed upon from afar, the sharp-peaked mountains of the country of Georgia are soaring and grand. Unseen within their rocky confines, however, lie isolated and amazing sights inaccessible to most outsiders. Located at the Western Asian / Eastern European frontier and bordered by the Black Sea, Russia, Turkey, Armenia and Azerbaijan, little-known Georgia is…

Cyprus, an idyllic Mediterranean island with stretches of beautiful sandy beaches and a fascinating history, is fast becoming a favourite holiday destination for travellers seeking some of its 300-plus days of sunshine, or perhaps something of a more unique cultural experience in a traditional Cypriot village. The Turkish Republic of North Cyprus is a real…

One of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World, although curiously not in the running as finalist for one of the New Seven Wonders of Nature, it has a width of 1708 metres and plummets from a height of between 90 and 107 metres. It is, of course, Victoria Falls, the world’s largest sheet of…

THIS ARTICLE IS AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH AND LAO. Champasak Province lies in the far south of Laos and is bordered by both Thailand to the west and Cambodia to the south. It boasts a wealth of attractions, including the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Wat Phou, which dates back to the sixth century; the Khongprapheng Waterfalls, which are the largest in Southeast Asia…

THIS ARTICLE IS AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH AND INDONESIAN. Bali is the most famous of Indonesia’s many and spectacular Lesser Sunda Islands, a 1200-kilometre-long archipelago east of Java that also includes Komodo, Lombok, Sumbawa, Sumba, Flores, Timor, and Lembata and Alor, not to mention a mouthful of adjacent smaller islands.