Night climb of 5,500 steps to a sacred footprint shared by four religions, timed for sunrise and the peak’s shadow.
Oman's highest peak and grand canyon.
Monastic cells cut into cliffs high above the Dniester river.
Cool coffee-growing town under Volcan Baru, with quetzal-spotting trails and the Geisha coffee farms.
Africa’s largest canyon, 160 km long and 550 m deep, with a five-day hike along its floor.
Saharan rock art and sand seas.
Panama’s highest point — on a clear dawn you can see both oceans.
Waterfalls in protected forest.
Hike a palm-lined canyon to turquoise pools, then swim through a crack in the rock into a hidden cave waterfall.
Granite peaks that "sweep down to the sea" — and inspired Narnia.
Ancient rock fortress with frescoes.
West Africa's highest active volcano.
Bosnia’s oldest park: Maglic, the country’s highest peak, and Perucica, one of Europe’s last primeval forests.
Ghana's biggest park, elephants on foot.
Trail beneath cliff-built Dogon villages and ancient Tellem granaries.
The Caribbean’s highest peak at 3,098 m, a two-day trek with mules through pine forest to a summit above the clouds.
Cliff villages of the Bandiagara Escarpment.
Sheer desert escarpment near Riyadh.
Djibouti’s only forest, a relic juniper woodland on the Goda mountains with the endemic Djibouti francolin.
The one Kenyan park you can explore by bike, pedalling past zebra and giraffe to the red cliffs and gorge that inspired The Lion King.
Bogs, manors and rugged coastline.
Painted churches and forest trails.
A 165-km, ten-day wilderness trail from the ice sheet to the coast with huts, reindeer and no roads.
Forested highlands rising green out of the Djiboutian desert.
Turquoise alpine reservoir in the mountains above Almaty.
Stone tower houses and the Valbona Pass trail through the "Accursed Mountains", one of Europe’s last wild ranges.
Tis Issat, the "smoking water" — the Blue Nile plunges 45 metres over a basalt lip below Lake Tana.
A "mini Grand Canyon" of red rock.
Classic Himalayan trekking circuit.
Climb the vast flat-topped tepui.
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