Tag: travel
Meteora – Pinnacles of History
For more than a thousand years tall spines of sheer rock, fixed in the shadow of the Pindhos Mountains in Greece, have provided sanctuary...
Giant’s Causeway – Stairway to the Sea
A promontory off the coast of Northern Ireland provides the world’s most spectacular example of what can happen when volcanic lava cools slowly: tens...
Haleakala – House of the Sun
One of the world’s largest volcanic basins is situated on the Hawaiian island of Maui. The awesome spectacle of the sun rising over its...
Timeless Landscapes of the World
The combination of physical beauty and inherent spirituality of some landscapes has drawn like a magnet truth-seekers, from monks and hermits to pilgrims and...
Earth Mounds – Man-Made Hills
Dotted across North America are more than 100,000 earth mounds, dispelling the early settlers’ belief that no previous culture of any significance existed on...
Easter Islands – Home of Stone Giants
It is said that Easter Island is one of the loneliest places in the world. A pinprick of land in the watery expanses of...
The Secrets of Ancient Mazes and Labyrinths
The true purpose of the maze remains a riddle to this day. Mazes come in many guises, from religious symbol to pure entertainment, and,...
Nazca Lines – Patterns of Peru
Giant geometric shapes, enormous animal figures and ruler-straight lines extending to the horizon: why these impressive markings are etched into the bare grassless soil...
Uluru – Dreamtime Sanctuary
A giant chunk of red sandstone in the middle of the Australian desert is steeped in mystery and legend. This place of spiritual significance,...
Hong Kong – City of Harmony
The ancient Chinese art of geomancy – shaping the landscape to harmonize with the Earth’s energy – is still practiced in one of the...
