Tag: wonder
World’s Tiniest Movie Created by IBM
What is the “final frontier”? Star Trek fans will tell you it’s space. IBM, however, is thinking much smaller. The company’s research division released...
Mount Fuji – The Sacred Shrine of Japan
The highest mountain in Japan was born from fire and may perish in the same way, yet its fragile beauty has been compared to...
Himalayas – The Roof of the World
If Everest, the highest mountain in the world, were anywhere else but central Asia, it would dwarf everything around it. Yet in the rugged...
The Vale of Kashmir
Once the summer residence of Mogul emperors and the families of the British Raj, the Vale of Kashmir has been likened to paradise. To...
The Great Rift Valley
From the Middle East to southern Africa a vast fissure is tearing apart the Earth’s crust. In the Great Rift Valley, remains of the...
The Glistening Mountain of Kilimanjaro
Rising majestically from the grassy plains of East Africa is the continent’s highest mountain and one of the largest extinct volcanoes in the world....
Nefta Oasis – Garden in the Desert
A startling patch of green in a sea of sand, Nefta Oasis is a luxuriant garden of palm trees, mimosa, vines and succulent fruit....
The Cones of Cappadocia
Needles of rock thrust upwards from the plain of Cappadocia, in central Turkey, to create a startling, almost unearthly landscape. The early Christians, who...
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...
