It traces the stunning, extraterrestrial landscape featured in films like Star Wars and Dune, while helping to preserve traditional Bedouin culture. My Bedouin guide Abdallah led the way up and into the crags of Jebel Umm Ishrin (1,753m), the sheer, eastern wall of Jordan’s most spectacular valley: Wadi Rum. Though it’s considered one of the […]
For nearly 40 years, daring smugglers transported nearly 40,000 Lithuanian-language books into the nation each year when it was forbidden under Russian rule. Following the gentle bends of the Nemunas, Lithuania’s largest river, the Panemunė road stretches for more than 100km and marks the former border between Lithuania and East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia). Considered
The World Nomad Games are a spectacular celebration of traditional sports, identity and culture Part Highland Games, part Mongolian Naadam festival, and featuring sports like horseback wrestling and Central Asian strongman competitions, the World Nomad Games give a flavour of what the Olympics might have looked like if Genghis Khan had been in charge.Indeed, many
The destruction a fire brings can be crucial for certain species to thrive. Meet the conservationists reviving the ancient art of “good fire”. Every spring, more than 600,000 sandhill cranes migrate through Nebraska following the Platte River. Having arrived from as far as the southern US and Mexico, the birds linger in a location for
Neil Laughton has set out to help a school in the Himalayas – and to achieve a world record A team of adventurers has embarked on a bid to set a record for the world’s highest bike ride by cycling in the Himalayas.Neil Laughton, 60, who previously climbed Mount Everest with Bear Grylls, is leading
Behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts they live
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