Santa Marta
14 May 2011
The departments of Atlántico and Magdalena sit northeast of Cartagena, where the highest coastal mountain range in the world, the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, begins to rise from the sea.
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14 May 2011
The departments of Atlántico and Magdalena sit northeast of Cartagena, where the highest coastal mountain range in the world, the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, begins to rise from the sea.
12 May 2011
This is the outdoors capital of Colombia and the place to be for extreme-sports enthusiasts.
09 May 2011
Barichara is home to cobblestone streets and whitewashed buildings with red-tiled roofs, constructed some 300 years ago.
18 March 2008
The Cambodian people are known as “Khmer” to the world. However, when people talk about themselves and their language, they tend to use the word “Khmi.”
17 March 2008
There's a magic about this charming yet confounding kingdom, to see what happens when ancient and modern worlds collide.
13 March 2008
The ‘rice bowl’ of Vietnam, the delta is carpeted in a dizzying variety of greens. It's a water world that moves to the rhythms of the mighty Mekong, where boats, houses and markets float upon the innumerable rivers, canals and streams that criss-cross the landscape like arteries.
08 March 2008
Once upon a time, Mui Ne was an isolated stretch of shoreline where pioneering travellers camped on the sand. Times have changed and it's now a string of beach resorts, which have fused into one long coastal strip.
06 March 2008
Dalat is an alternative Vietnam - the weather is spring-like instead of tropical hot, the town is dotted with French-colonial villas rather than socialist architecture, and the surrounding farms cultivate strawberries, coffee and flowers instead of rice.
03 March 2008
Pronounced ‘hway’, this deeply evocative capital of the Nguyen emperors still resonates with the glories of imperial Vietnam, even though many of its finest buildings were destroyed during the American War.
01 March 2008
Towering limestone pillars and tiny islets topped by forest rise from the emerald waters of the Gulf of Tonkin. Designated a World Heritage Site in 1994, Halong Bay's scatter of islands, dotted with wind- and wave-eroded grottoes, is a vision of ethereal beauty.