Fontana is nestled in San Bernardino County in sunny California and was founded in 1913, although it didn’t really start to develop until after the Second World War. The town boomed as a result of the steel mill that was built here by one of its founders, Henry J. Kaiser, and from there it grew …
The capital and largest city in Algeria, Algiers is a cosmopolitan city that sits in a bay along the Mediterranean coastline. The modern part of the city is located along the coast, while the old part climbs the hill behind it. Algiers is not as popular for tourists as other major cities in northern Africa, …
At Saint-Louis in Alsace’s Sundgau, you’re just a couple of kilometres from the Tripoint, where France, Germany and Switzerland meet. A day out might entail a trip on the river ferry in the Swiss city in Basel before a meal at a traditional Alsatian restaurant and then a few hours seeing the design classics at …
Malawi is a land of lakes and plateaux, delineated by the great ridges of the East African Rift. The nation is long and thin, snaking its way like a rare Nyika lizard around the lands of Tanzania, Zambia and Mozambique. The most defining geographical feature has to be that long finger of blue: Lake Malawi. …
The state of New York is not short on exciting things to do and experience. With all the other great attractions, the awesome flea markets in the state sometime take a back seat. However, once you have been to the Statue of Liberty and visited downtown Manhattan and Central Park, start adding some of these …
The 38th largest state, Indiana is located in Midwestern USA and has a total area of over 94,000 square kilometres. It is part of the Great Lakes Region, with its northwest border sitting along Lake Michigan. Indiana is home to rolling hills, lowlands and sand dunes, with its average altitude being 230 metres above sea …
Sitting in the north western region of the country in the central Shirak Highland is Armenia’s second largest city of Gyumri. It is situated around 126 kilometres away from the capital city of Yerevan, roughly 472 metres above sea level. Gyumri was once one of Russian-ruled Eastern Armenia’s largest cities, which can be seen today …
The sunshine state, Florida has many reasons to entice you to visit and not just the beautiful weather. It’s a veritable playground of beaches and theme parks with a surprising dose of museums, culture and art too. However, when you tire of Mickey Mouse and yearn for nature, Florida delivers some stunning swimming holes along …
There’s no question about it: Libya is in turmoil. Since the popular uprisings of the Arab Spring in 2011 and following more than 40 years of iron-fist rule by one Muammar Gaddafi, the country has hardly emerged well. Today, civil war and factional disputes still rage across the nation, extremism is rife, and much of …
Ah, Madagascar; just the very mention of the name evokes images of the exotic and the tropical. A land of colossal, bulbous baobab trees from centuries gone by, of bug-eyed lemurs and of swinging indri indris, it’s got all the elegance of a onetime French colony; all the wildernesses of East Africa; all the warmth …