Travel

By Jack Souther The landscape around Guilin, where we began our trip down the Li River, has been described as "the best scenery under heaven.

From Guilin to Yangshuo the Li River winds through a wonderland of karst mountains where the lives of the Zhuang people have not changed for centuries.

By Alison Appelbe Nelly Furtado may be the Azores’ biggest claim to fame — in Canada at least.

By Jack Souther At one end of the world’s largest man-made lake the Three Gorges Dam holds back the water of the Yangtze, and at the other end the city of Chongqing stands poised to use the new shipping corridor and cheap hydropower to boost its econ

By Jack Souther At Sandouping, a few kilometres upstream from the city of Yichang, we pulled into a viewpoint for our first look at the Three Gorges Dam. Stretching almost 2.

By Alison Lapshinoff The colourful houses of Valparaiso tumble haphazardly down the steep hillsides of the mad, Chilean port city, giving way to a multitude of container ships flanking a sparkling Pacific.

Named by Captain James Cook in 1770, the Whitsunday Islands are some of the most beautiful and well known islands on Australia’s Queensland coast.

By John Masters Meridian Writers’ Group PORTHCURNO, England—On a blustery cliff on Cornwall’s south coast is a folly grown from a garden.

By Jack Souther By the time our jet had climbed through the dense layer of brown gloom into clear air over central China the city of Beijing and its millions of smog-spewing cars was many miles behind.

By Neal Talbot NGORONGORO CRATER, TANZANIA – The thick underbrush ahead shakes in terror, before violently parting, and revealing the true king of the jungle — the African Bull Elephant. The sheer size of the animal is imposing.