Switchback railway descending a near-vertical Andean wall at Alausi.
Two-week trek up the Baltoro Glacier to the foot of the worldโs second-highest peak.
Taiwan's largest, most scenic lake.
Dramatic 1,000m escarpment viewpoint.
Apricot orchards and forts beneath 7,000-metre Karakoram peaks.
The rocky headland where the Atlantic and Indian Oceans meet, with baboons, ostriches and the Cape Point lighthouse.
Cape Dutch estates in a ring of mountains, tasting Pinotage and Chenin an hour from Cape Town.
One of Africa's largest waterfalls by volume.
Eroded "moon landscape" near the coast.
Jordanโs largest reserve drops 1,600 m from highland village to desert, with ibex, Bedouin camps and the Feynan eco-lodge.
Trails and tunnels along a marble canyon so narrow the cliffs nearly touch, with the Eternal Spring Shrine over a waterfall.
Neon sulphur pools, salt flats 125 m below sea level and the Erta Ale lava lake โ the hottest inhabited place on Earth.
Famous hairpin mountain road plunging off the Huila plateau.
A switchback road to the UAEโs highest point, home to the worldโs longest zipline at 160 km/h.
The hilltop where Moses is said to have seen the Promised Land, with views to the Dead Sea and Jerusalem.
The worldโs highest and longest cable car, up to 4,765 m in the Andes.
19 historic windmills, UNESCO-listed.
Emerald river valley walled by the Hindu Kush north of Kabul.
The worldโs most perfectly symmetrical volcanic cone, still active, rising 2,463 metres above Legazpi.
Twice as deep as the Grand Canyon, with condors riding the thermals past the Cruz del Condor viewpoint each morning.
Island castle at the meeting of three sea lochs โ Scotlandโs most photographed.
Wind-carved kalut ridges in one of the hottest places ever measured on Earth.
One of Europeโs largest castle ruins, sprawled across a travertine hill.
Tobacco fields and limestone hills.
Six sapphire lakes held by natural travertine dams in the Hindu Kush โ Afghanistanโs first national park.
Sacred Inca island on the worldโs highest navigable lake.
High Hindu Kush pass and Soviet-era tunnel linking Kabul to the north.
The highest mountain in the British Isles, 1,345 m above Fort William.
Two-thousand-year-old terraces stepping up the Cordillera like a green amphitheatre โ the "eighth wonder of the world".
Gorge trails on ladders, chains and walkways over waterfalls.
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