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Meeting of the Waters, Manaus
Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
Just outside Manaus, the dark, warm Rio Negro meets the cooler, sandy-coloured Rio Solimões, and the two rivers run side by side without mixing for a…
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Grossglockner High Alpine Road
Heiligenblut, Carinthia, Austria
A spectacular toll road over the Alps, 48 km with 36 hairpin bends, climbing to 2,504 m, built in the 1930s.
Tours and activities
Road to Hāna and Haleakalā, Maui
Hana, Hawaii, United States of America
The Road to Hāna winds along Maui's north-east coast over 59 one-lane bridges, past waterfalls, rainforest and black-sand beaches such as Waiʻānapana…
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Amalfi Coast and Positano
Positano, Salerno, Italy
A spectacular stretch of coast south of Naples, where pastel villages cling to cliffs above the sea, linked by a dramatic winding road.
Buildings
Petronas Twin Towers, Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Twin skyscrapers 452 m high, the tallest buildings in the world from 1998 to 2004, linked by a skybridge on the 41st floor.
Walks and treks
Snowdon (Yr Wyddfa)
Llanberis, Gwynedd, United Kingdom
The highest mountain in Wales, 1,085 m, in Snowdonia (Eryri) National Park.
Historic sites
French Quarter, New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
The oldest neighbourhood of New Orleans, with Spanish and French colonial buildings with iron balconies, Jackson Square and St Louis Cathedral, and l…
Historic sites
Fès el-Bali medina
Fès al Bali, Fès-Meknès, Morocco
One of the largest car-free urban areas in the world, a UNESCO site, with about 9,000 lanes, souks, the Al-Qarawiyyin university (founded in 859) and…
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Sete Cidades, São Miguel, Azores
Ponta Delgada, Açores, Portugal
Twin lakes, one green and one blue, filling a huge volcanic crater on the island of São Miguel in the Azores.
Historic sites
Rock of Cashel
Cashel, Tipperary, Ireland
A dramatic group of medieval buildings on a limestone outcrop above the plains of Tipperary, once the seat of the kings of Munster, where St Patrick …
Natural features
Salar de Uyuni
Potosí, Bolivia
The largest salt flat in the world, over 10,000 km² of white hexagonal crust; in the rainy season a thin layer of water turns it into a vast mirror.
Natural features
Transpantaneira and Porto Jofre, Pantanal
Poconé, Mato Grosso, Brazil
The Pantanal is the world's largest tropical wetland, about the size of France, and much better than the Amazon for seeing wildlife.