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The wonders worth crossing the world for.

A country-by-country field guide to Earth’s most extraordinary places — what makes each one marvelous, why it’s worth the trip, what to know before you go, and the wild riches and local food of the land around it. Factual, appreciative, and made to spark a little awe.

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The Amazon Rainforest, Amazon Basin, Brazil (and neighbouring countries)

The Amazon Rainforest

Amazon Basin, Brazil (and neighbouring countries)

The largest tropical rainforest on Earth — a continent-spanning sea of green threaded by the mighty Amazon River, holding a staggering share of the planet's species and helping regulate the world's climate.

Forest Latin America
Banaue & the Ifugao Rice Terraces, Ifugao, Cordillera, Philippines

Banaue & the Ifugao Rice Terraces

Ifugao, Cordillera, Philippines

Two thousand years of hand-built rice terraces climbing the Cordillera mountainsides — a living landscape of stone-and-mud paddies, fed by an intricate forest-and-irrigation system, often called the 'Eighth Wonder of the World'.

Living terraces Southeast Asia
Banff & Moraine Lake, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada

Banff & Moraine Lake

Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada

The turquoise glacial lakes of the Canadian Rockies — Moraine Lake beneath the Valley of the Ten Peaks and nearby Lake Louise — where glacier-ground rock flour turns the water an electric blue-green beneath snow-capped mountains.

Lake North America
Chocolate Hills, Bohol, Central Visayas, Philippines

Chocolate Hills

Bohol, Central Visayas, Philippines

More than 1,200 near-symmetrical grass-covered mounds spread across the interior of Bohol, turning chocolate-brown each dry season — a karst landscape unlike anywhere else on Earth.

Rock formation Southeast Asia
The Dolomites, South Tyrol / Trentino / Veneto, Northern Italy

The Dolomites

South Tyrol / Trentino / Veneto, Northern Italy

A range of pale limestone towers, sheer walls, and jagged spires in the Italian Alps that glow rose and gold at dawn and dusk — the famous 'enrosadira' — above green alpine meadows and turquoise lakes.

Mountain Europe

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