The World

A Traveller’s Guide to the Planet

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Welcome to the World . . . 4 Cayman Islands ...... 163 Greenland ...... 335 Need to Know ...... 6 Central African Grenada ...... 339 If You Like… ...... 8 Republic ...... 165 Guadeloupe ...... 343

Itineraries ...... 10 Chad ...... 167 Guam ...... 347

Afghanistan ...... 15 Chile ...... 169 Guatemala ...... 349

Albania ...... 17 ...... 175 Guinea ...... 355

Algeria ...... 21 Colombia ...... 183 Guinea-Bissau ...... 357

Andorra ...... 23 Comoros & Mayotte . . . 189 Guyana ...... 359

Angola ...... 25 Congo (DRC) ...... 191 Haiti ...... 361

Anguilla ...... 27 Congo, Republic of the . . 193 Honduras ...... 365

Antarctica ...... 29 Cook Islands ...... 197 Hong Kong ...... 367

Antigua & Barbuda . . . . .33 Costa Rica ...... 201 Hungary ...... 373

Argentina ...... 37 Côte d’Ivoire ...... 207 Iceland ...... 379

Armenia ...... 45 Croatia ...... 209 India ...... 387

Aruba, Bonaire Cuba ...... 215 Indonesia ...... 395

& Curaçao ...... 49 Cyprus ...... 221 Iran ...... 401

Australia ...... 51 Czech Republic ...... 225 Iraq ...... 407

Austria ...... 59 Denmark ...... 231 Ireland ...... 411

Azerbaijan ...... 65 Djibouti ...... 235 Israel & the Palestinian Bahamas, The ...... 69 Dominica ...... 237 Territories ...... 417 Bahrain ...... 73 Dominican Republic . . . 241 Italy ...... 423 Bangladesh ...... 75 East Timor ...... 245 Jamaica ...... 431 Barbados ...... 79 Ecuador ...... 247 Japan ...... 437 Belarus ...... 83 Egypt ...... 253 Jordan ...... 445 Belgium ...... 85 El Salvador ...... 259 Kazakhstan ...... 451 Belize ...... 89 England ...... 261 Kenya ...... 455 Benin ...... 93 Equatorial Guinea . . . . .269 Kiribati ...... 461 Bermuda ...... 95 Eritrea ...... 271 Kosovo ...... 463 Bhutan ...... 99 Estonia ...... 273 Kuwait ...... 465 Bolivia ...... 105 Ethiopia ...... 277 Kyrgyzstan ...... 467 Bosnia & Hercegovina . . .111 Falkland Islands ...... 283 Laos ...... 471 Botswana ...... 115 Fiji ...... 285 Latvia ...... 477 Brazil ...... 123 Finland ...... 289 Lebanon ...... 481 Brunei ...... 129 France ...... 293 Lesotho ...... 485 Bulgaria ...... 133 French Guiana ...... 301 Liberia ...... 489 Burkina Faso ...... 137 Gabon ...... 303 Libya ...... 491 Burundi ...... 139 Gambia, The ...... 307 Liechtenstein ...... 493 Cambodia ...... 141 Georgia ...... 311 Lithuania ...... 497 Cameroon ...... 147 Germany ...... 315 Luxembourg ...... 501 Canada ...... 151 Ghana ...... 323 Macau ...... 505 Cape Verde ...... 159 Greece ...... 327 Macedonia ...... 507

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Madagascar ...... 511 Poland ...... 677 Thailand ...... 845 Malawi ...... 517 Portugal ...... 683 Tibet ...... 853 Malaysia...... 521 Puerto Rico ...... 689 Togo ...... 859 Maldives ...... 527 Qatar ...... 693 Tonga ...... 861 Mali ...... 531 Romania ...... 697 Trinidad & Tobago . . . . .865 Malta ...... 533 Russia ...... 701 Tunisia ...... 869 Marshall Islands ...... 537 Rwanda ...... 709 Turkey ...... 873 Martinique ...... 539 Samoa ...... 713 Turkmenistan ...... 879 Mauritania ...... 543 San Marino ...... 717 Turks & Caicos ...... 881 Mauritius ...... 545 São Tomé & Príncipe . . . 719 Tuvalu ...... 885 Mexico ...... 549 Saudi Arabia ...... 721 Uganda...... 887 Micronesia ...... 557 Scotland ...... 725 Ukraine ...... 891 Moldova ...... 559 Senegal ...... 731 United Arab Emirates . .895 Monaco ...... 561 Serbia ...... 735 United States of America (USA) ...... 899 Mongolia ...... 563 Seychelles ...... 739 Uruguay ...... 907 Montenegro ...... 567 Sierra Leone ...... 743 Uzbekistan ...... 911 Morocco ...... 573 Singapore ...... 745 Vanuatu ...... 915 Mozambique ...... 579 Slovakia ...... 749 Vatican City ...... 917 Myanmar (Burma) . . . . .583 Slovenia ...... 753 Venezuela ...... 919 Namibia ...... 587 Solomon Islands ...... 757 Vietnam ...... 925 Nauru ...... 593 Somalia & Somaliland . . 761 Virgin Islands, Nepal ...... 595 South Africa ...... 763 US & British ...... 931 Netherlands, The ...... 601 South Korea ...... 769 Wales ...... 935 New Caledonia ...... 607 South Sudan ...... 775 Yemen ...... 939 New Zealand ...... 611 Spain ...... 777 Zambia ...... 941 Nicaragua ...... 619 Sri Lanka ...... 785 Zimbabwe ...... 945 Niger...... 625 St Kitts & Nevis ...... 791 Index ...... 949 Nigeria ...... 627 St Lucia ...... 795 North Korea ...... 631 Acknowledgements . . . 960 St Vincent & Northern Ireland ...... 633 the Grenadines ...... 799 Northern Marianas . . . .635 Sudan ...... 803 Norway ...... 637 Suriname ...... 805 KEY Oman ...... 643 Swaziland ...... 807 ...... 647 Sweden ...... 811 Africa Palau ...... 651 Switzerland ...... 819 America Panama ...... 653 Syria ...... 825 Antarctica Papua New Guinea . . . .657 Tahiti & French Paraguay ...... 661 Polynesia ...... 827 Asia Peru ...... 663 Taiwan ...... 831 Australia/Oceania Philippines ...... 669 ...... 835 Europe Pitcairn Island ...... 675 Tanzania ...... 839

000-contents.indd0-contents.indd 3 220/06/20140/06/2014 1:35:441:35:44 PMPM Welcome to the World Third Rock from the Sun. Mother Earth. The Blue Marble. The spinning ball of rock that is the world goes by many names, but it is also the place that each and every one of us calls home. And wherever it is that you call home, you can be sure that if you travel – near or far – the world will exhibit its overwhelming beauty and diversity. Adventure and inspirational experiences await around every corner, so what’s stopping you? Go forth and explore.

Natural Wonders Spectacular Cities Comedian Steven Wright once quipped, It is people, not animals, who have colo- ‘You can’t have everything – where would nised the entire planet. Since foregoing you put it?’ Weighing in at 5.97219×1024 kg, stone tools, inventing the wheel (3300BC) and with 149 million sq km of landmass and first smelting iron (1200BC), human- (and another 361 million sq km of ocean), kind has embarked on a big production the world has room enough to fit ‘every- number that features countless cultures, thing’. Amidst all of that ‘everything’ there civilisations and empires. History suggests is so much to discover, from rivers deep, like that humans were naturally inclined to the Nile (snaking 6850km from central Af- warfare but also –more positively – to con- rica to the Mediterranean), and the sunken gregating and cohabiting, thus, over time shores of the Dead Sea (427m below sea the city was born. level), to mountains high, like the Himalayas More than half of the world’s population (more than 100 peaks over 7200m, including now live in cities. They are the pulsating Everest at 8848m), the Andes and the Alps. beacons that attract us, with their bright Across seven continents and 221 coun- lights and human interaction, epicentres tries, ‘everything’ takes plenty of wondrous of culture, industry and endeavour. And forms. There are mighty expanses of each has its own distinctive character: New greenery, like the Amazon basin (7 million York with its skyscrapers and taxicabs, sq km of jungle), while beneath the crystal- London with its parks, pubs and palaces, clear Pacific Ocean lies the Great Barrier Sydney with its bridge and Cape Town Reef (stretching 2300km), and the scarred set against the rugged panorama of Table hide of the Grand Canyon is a repository of Mountain. A tour of urban conurbations 2 billion years of geological history. will take you to geographical oddities Not all the world’s wonders are inani- (İstanbul straddling the border of Europe mate, however. Wildlife spectacles include and Asia), and cities of faith (Jerusalem, the annual wildebeest migration (two mil- holy to Judaism, Islam and Christianity), lion strong) across the Serengeti, the stoic cities with thousands of years of history emperor penguins of Antarctica, and the di- (Athens, Damascus, Varanasi) and booming verse menagerie on the Galapagos Islands, new cities mushrooming across Asia, Africa where people seem out of place. and South America.

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Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia Man-Made Marvels kind’s achievements are tangible. Just as intoxicating and just as worth getting Cities may be the hubs that you pass out and seeing are cultures, festivals and through as you roam, but they are not events, from Viennese coffeehouse culture necessarily humankind’s greatest achieve- to Cuban jazz, from full moon parties ments. These are many and dispersed, on Koh Samui to Maasai warrior dances assuming myriad physical forms. under an African sunset. Mystery clings to many, such as the Great Pyramid of Giza built in 2560BC, There is all this and plenty more besides the Terracotta Warriors in Xī’ān and the to be encountered as you venture into the mighty stone moai of Easter Island. Oth- world. This book can act as inspiration ers no less awe inspiring were built for and as a first step on your own voyage of specific purposes, like St Basil’s Cathedral discovery. Listed here is every country; in the Kremlin, the Great Wall of China, each includes enough of a taste of its top and the Taj Mahal, a monument to love. sites and experiences to get your feet More modern spectacles like the archi- itchy, basic practical information to help tectural extravaganzas of Dubai and the you start planning, and a map to help you Shanghai skyline may lack the gravity of plot a rough itinerary. Where exactly you history but if anything are more dazzling. want to go and how you proceed from All of these monuments contribute to here is entirely up to you, but we encour- the ways of life that go on around them, age you to get out there and do it! which reminds us that not all of human-

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Need to Know

Most widely spoken languages Time If you can speak one or more of the following languages, you can We all know that as the world communicate with these percentages of the world’s population. orbits the sun, the planet is also spinning, meaning that for some of us the sun is setting, and for others it is rising. So, when it is bedtime in Sydney, locals will be reaching for a late-afternoon chai in Mumbai, lunching in London or getting ready to rise in New York. To make life easier, the world is % divided into time zones. Time zones The clever fellows at London’s  Mandarin 14.4%  Arabic 4.4%  Russian 2.3% Royal Observatory saw to it that  Spanish 6.2%  Portuguese 3.3%  Japanese 1.9% from the 1880s Greenwich Mean  English 5.4%  Bengali 3.1%  French 1.1% Time (GMT) was adopted as the  Hindi/Urdu 5.7% global reference time. Each time zone is designated as either being + or – whole numbers of hours (or half hours) from GMT. In and populations don’t necessarily Languages 1972, Coordinated Universal Time account for numbers of languages, It’s the babble of Babel out there! (UTC) replaced GMT (it works the either: in New Guinea almost 450 There are almost 7000 languages same way, but UTC accounts for languages are spoken by a popula- spoken in the world today. These stray ‘leap seconds’). tion of only 3.5 million people. are divided into six major language families, and around It’s estimated that half of the Websites 130 smaller ones. The distribution world’s population speaks more Lonely Planet (www.lonely of languages across the globe than one language. Fear not if planet.com) Travel portal refl ects movements of people you don’t: a smile can go a long through history, and language way, even amongst people you Time and date (www.timeand families include some unlikely share no language with. That said, date.com) Time diff erences relatives: for example, Albanian is learning a few words of the lan- XE (www.xe.com) Currency related to English, Hindi, Persian guage spoken at your destination conversion and Russian. The size of countries can open a lot of doors.

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Pompeii (Italy) 425 Lofoten Islands Bequia (St Vincent & INDEX A Pyramids of Giza (Norway) 640 the Grenadines) 800 ancient ruins (Egypt) 255 Marquesas (Tahiti & the Boracay (Philippines) Abu Simbel (Egypt) Rome (Italy) 427 French Polynesia) 828 672

A-B 258 Sukhothai Historical Myeik Archipelago Canouan (St Vincent & Acropolis, the (Greece) Park (Thailand) 850 (Myanmar) 586 the Grenadines) 800 329 Takwa (Kenya) 458-9 Out Islands (US & Cap Skiring (Senegal) Baalbek (Lebanon) 482 British Virgin Islands) 732 Brú na Bóinne Tataouine (Tunisia) 871-2 932 Con Dao (Vietnam) (Ireland) 414 928-9 Tiwanaku (Bolivia) 108 Outer Gilbert Islands Butrint (Albania) 18 (Kiribati) 462 Cornwall (England) 266 Tulum (Mexico) 553 Caesarea (Israel & Pearl Keys (Nicaragua) Denis (Seychelles) 740 the Palestinian architecture 622 Eagle Beach (Aruba, Territories) 421 Asmara (Eritrea) 272 Rock Islands (Palau) Bonaire & Curaçao) Caracol (Belize) 92 Casablanca (Morocco) 652 50 Carthage (Tunisia) 871 576 Stockholm Archipelago Fongafale Islet (Tuvalu) Chavín de Huántar Christiansted (US (Sweden) 816 886 (Peru) 666-7 & British Virgin Quirimbas Archipelago Freetown (Sierra Choqa Zanbil (Iran) 404 Islands) 933 (Mozambique) 580 Leone) 744 Copán Ruinas Cienfuegos (Cuba) 220 arts & crafts Funafuti Conservation (Honduras) 366 Djenné (Mali) 532 Area (Tuvalu) 886 Crois des Bouquets Delphi (Greece) 330 Goa (India) 394 Évora (Portugal) 686 (Haiti) 364 Diocletian’s Palace Gjirokastra Gold Coast (Australia) (Croatia) 213 Glasriket (Kingdom of 58 (Albania) 19 Crystal; Sweden) 816 Dir’aiyah (Saudi Hungary 377 Grace Bay (Turks & Arabia) 723 Hungary 378 Kizhi (Russia) 706 Caicos) 884 Ephesus (Turkey) 876 Otavalo Market Half Moon Bay (Antigua Lecce (Italy) 430 (Ecuador) 252 Glendalough (Ireland) & Barbuda) 36 Mumbai (India) 393 416 Underwater Sculpture Horseshoe Bay Počitelj (Bosnia & Park (Grenada) 340 Great Zimbabwe (Bermuda) 96 Hercegovina) 112 (Zimbabwe) 946 Uzbekistan 914 Ilha de Tavira Guge Kingdom (Tibet) Prague (Czech (Portugal) 688 Republic) 228 857 Ionian Coast (Albania) Ħaġar Qim (Malta) 535 Riga (Latvia) 478 B 18 Heraclea Lyncestis Rotterdam beaches Jamaica 433 (Netherlands) 606 (Macedonia) 509 Accra Beach Jerba (Tunisia) 872 Khami Ruins Salamanca (Spain) 783 (Barbados) 80 Ko Pha-Ngan (Zimbabwe) 948 Sydney (Australia) 55 Aitutaki (Cook (Thailand) 850 Knossos (Greece) 334 Toruń (Poland) 681-2 Islands) 198 Lake Kivu (Rwanda) 710 Lelu Island Venice (Italy) 425 Akwidaa (Ghana) Laura (Marshall (Micronesia) 558 archipelagos 325-326 Islands) 538 Leptis Magna (Libya) Åland Archipelago Al Aqah (United Arab Les Salines 492 (Finland) 291-292 Emirates) 897 (Martinique) 540 Luxor (Egypt) 255 Archipiélago de Bocas Aleipata (Samoa) 714 Levera (Grenada) 341 Machu Picchu (Peru) del Toro (Panama) Algarve (Portugal) 688 Likoma Island (Malawi) 665 655 Anse Chastanet 519 Masada (Israel & Archipiélago Los (St Lucia) 796 Mamanucas (Fiji) 286 the Palestinian Roques (Venezuela) Anse Lazio Mar del Plata Territories) 420 921 (Seychelles) 740 (Argentina) 44 Mnajdra (Malta) 535 Bacuit Archipelago Asturian Coast (Spain) Maracas Bay (Trinidad Moenjodaro (Pakistan) (Philippines) 671 784 & Tobago) 866 649 Banda Islands Bahía de Las Águilas Marie-Galante Pafos Archaeological (Indonesia) 398 (Dominican Republic) (Guadeloupe) 344 Site (Cyprus) 222 Bazaruto Archipelago 244 Mauritius 546 Palmyra (Syria) 826 (Mozambique) 581 Baltic Sea (Poland) 681 Menorca (Spain) 784 Persepolis (Iran) 404 Islas Solentiname Beau Vallon Mohéli (Comoros & Petra (Jordan) 447 (Nicaragua) 624 (Seychelles) 741 Mayotte) 190

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Nha Trang (Vietnam) 360 Indian River Forbidden City (China) INDEX 930 Sihanoukville (Dominica) 238 179 Nisbet Beach (St Kitts (Cambodia) 144 Lake Koman Ferry Hermitage (Russia) & Nevis) 793 Siné-Saloum Delta 706

(Albania) 18 B-C Nkhata Bay (Malawi) (Senegal) 733 Laos 474 Japan 442 519 Sri Lanka 787 Nile River (Egypt) 256 Karlštejn Castle (Czech Oaxaca (Mexico) 555 Tel Aviv (Israel & Takwa (Kenya) 458-9 Republic) 230 Ogasawara Archipelago the Palestinian Konye-Urgench (Japan) 443-4 Territories) 420 Tsiribihina River (Madagascar) 514-15 (Turkmenistan) 880 Ouvéa (New Caledonia) US & British Virgin Kronborg Slot 608 Islands 933 (Denmark) 232 Parque Nacional Yasawas (Fiji) 286 C Le Rocher (Monaco) Natural (Colombia) Zanzibar (Tanzania) 844 562 186 canals birdwatching Loire Valley (France) Pāvilosta (Latvia) 480 Amsterdam Abuko Nature Reserve 295 Pembrokeshire (Wales) (Netherlands) 603 (The Gambia) 309 Malbork Castle 936 Cheong-gye-cheon Asa Wright Nature (Poland) 682 Petra tou Romiou (South Korea) 772 Centre (Trinidad & Nyanza (Nyabisindu; (Cyprus) 222 Tobago) 866 Panama Canal Rwanda) 711-12 Phu Quoc Island (Panama) 654 ‘Atiu (Cook Islands) 198 Palace of Parliament, (Vietnam) 930 Bird Island canyons Bucharest (Romania) Phuket (Thailand) 852 (Seychelles) 741 Ala-Archa Canyon 698-9 Pink Sands Beach Botswana 121-2 (Kyrgyzstan) 468 Piazza della Libertà (Bahamas) 70 (San Marino) 718 Bwindi Impenetrable Cañón del Colca (Peru) Playa Flamenco National Park Potala Palace (Tibet) (Puerto Rico) 690 668 (Uganda) 888 855 Playa Rincón Debed Canyon ’Eua National Park () 47-8 Prague Castle (Czech (Dominican Republic) 227 (Tonga) 862 Fish River Canyon Republic) 242 Predjama Castle Falcon Souq (Namibia) 590 Point Denis (Gabon) (Qatar) 696 (Slovenia) 755 305 Grand Canyon (United Frigate Bird Sanctuary Rundāle Palace States of America) Port Salut (Haiti) 363 (Antigua & Barbuda) (Latvia) 478 902 Presqu’île de Caravelle 36 Schloss (Martinique) 540 Gorongosa National castles & palaces Neuschwanstein Preveli (Greece) 334 Park (Mozambique) Alhambra, Granada (Germany) 319 Príncipe (São Tomé & 582 (Spain) 780 Spiš Castle (Slovakia) Príncipe) 720 Great Bird Island Budapest’s Castle Hill 750 Providenciales (Turks (Antigua & Barbuda) (Hungary) 375 St Hilarion Castle & Caicos) 884 34 Burg Gutenberg (Cyprus) 224 Puerto Colombia Henderson Island (Liechtenstein) 495 Vaduz Castle (Venezuela) 922-3 (Pitcairn Island) 676 Cape Coast (Ghana) (Liechtenstein) 494 Pulau Langkawi Hungary 377 324 Vienna (Austria) 61 (Malaysia) 524 Janjangbureh (The Carreg Cennen (Wales) Rendezvous Bay Gambia) 310 caves 938 (Antigua & Kakamega Forest Ardennes (Belgium) 88 Barbuda) 35 (Kenya) 458 Castello della Cesta ‘Atiu (Cook Islands) 198 (San Marino) 718 Punta del Diablo Kidepo Valley National Biševo (Croatia) 212-13 (Uruguay) 908 Park (Uganda) 889 Castles of the Christian’s Cave Assassins (Iran) 406 Punta del Este Kopački Rit Nature (Pitcairn Island) 676 (Uruguay) 909 Park (Croatia) 214 Český Krumlov (Czech Crimean Cave Cities Railay (Thailand) 850 Parc National du Banc Republic) 229 (Ukraine) 894 Ritidian Point (Guam) d’Arguin (Mauritania) Changdeokgung Crystal Caves 348 544 (South Korea) 771 (Bermuda) 98 Riviera Maya, the Sehlabathebe National Château de Bourscheid Cueva del Guácharo (Mexico) 556 Park (Lesotho) 486 (Luxembourg) 504 (Venezuela) 923 Saga Beach (Burundi) Yankari National Park Château de Vianden Eisriesenwelt (Austria) 140 (Nigeria) 630 (Luxembourg) 502-3 62

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INDEX (Vatican City) 918 & Tobago) 867 Postojna (Slovenia) Galway (Ireland) 414 754-5 Sveti Jovan Christmas Island Glasgow (Scotland) (Macedonia) 508 (Kiribati) 462 Tham Kong Lo (Laos) 728 Tigray (Ethiopia) 280 Dili (East Timor) 246 C- F 476 Hvar (Croatia) 212 Vieng Xai Caves (Laos) cycling ’Eua (Tonga) 864 Kingston (Jamaica) 475 Åland Archipelago Fiji 286 434 Waitomo (New (Finland) 291-292 Tahiti & the French Las Vegas (United Zealand) 616 Drei Länder Tour Polynesia 830 States of America) Windsor Caves (Liechtenstein) 494 Grand Turk (Turks & 904-5 (Jamaica) 435 Netherlands 606 Caicos) 882 London (England) 267 cemeteries & tombs Srimangal Grotto (Northern Madrid (Spain) 782 Marianas) 636 Begrawiya (Sudan) 804 (Bangladesh) 76 Manila (Philippines) Isla Espíritu Santo 674 Brú na Bóinne Taiwan 832-3 (Mexico) 554 (Ireland) 414 Valle de Viñales Medellín (Colombia) 188 Cementerio de la (Cuba) 217 Little Cayman Recoleta (Cayman Islands) 164 Noumea (New (Argentina) 42 Mahé (Seychelles) 742 Caledonia) 609 Kigali Memorial Centre D Maldives 530 Oistins Fish Fry (Rwanda) 711 (Barbados) 81 dancing Mauritius 546 Kyevo-Pecherska Lavra Montego Bay Punta del Este Folklórico dance, (Ukraine) 892 (Jamaica) 436 (Uruguay) 909 Santiago de Cuba São Paulo (Brazil) Madain Saleh (Saudi (Cuba) 219-20 New Caledonia 609-10 Arabia) 722 126-7 Kyoto’s geishas Papua New Guinea 658 Njegoš Mausoleum Shirley Heights (Japan) 442 Pulau Bunaken (Montenegro) 569 Lookout (Antigua & Oholei Beach Resort (Indonesia) 399-400 Pyramids of Giza Barbuda) 34 (Tonga) 863 Pulau Sipadan Thessaloniki (Greece) (Egypt) 255 (Malaysia) 524 deserts 333 Sagada (Philippines) Raja Ampat Islands 674 Bir Zekreet (Qatar) 696 (Indonesia) 398 Thracian Tombs Farahzad (Iran) 404 Rarotonga (Cook (Bulgaria) 135 F Garmeh (Iran) 404 Islands) 198 festivals & events churches & cathedrals Gobi (Mongolia) 564 Red Sea (Djibouti) 236 Aleksander Nevski Khor al-Adaid (Qatar) aurora borealis Red Sea (Egypt) 257 (Sweden) 814 Memorial Church, 695 Red Sea (Jordan) 450 Sofia (Bulgaria) 134 Liwa Desert (United ballet (Russia) 707 Red Sea, Yanbu (Saudi Border-Closing Aya Sofya (Turkey) 876 Arab Emirates) 898 Arabia) 724 Chiloé (Chile) 172 Sharqiya Sands Ceremony, Wagah Réserve Cousteau (Pakistan) 648 Church of St Paul (Oman) 644 (Guadeloupe) 344 (Macau) 506 Boryeong Mud Festival diving RMS Rhone (US (South Korea) 772 Cologne Cathedral & British Virgin (Germany) 321 Andavadoaka Calgary Stampede (Madagascar) 514 Islands) 932 (Canada) 158 Encarnación & Jesús Tobago Cays (St (Paraguay) 662 Andros Reef Carnaval, Montevideo (Bahamas) 70 Vincent & the (Uruguay) 908 Hervatov (Slovakia) Grenadines) 800 751-2 Apo Reef (Philippines) Carnaval, Rio (Brazil) 673 Tulagi (Solomon 128 Kölner Dom (Germany) Islands) 759 321 Bay Islands (Honduras) Carnavale, Encarnación Vanuatu 916 La Sagrada Família 366 (Paraguay) 662 (Spain) 779 Bayahibe (Dominican drinking & nightlife Carnival (Haiti) 362 Ladomirová (Slovakia) Republic) 244 Anse La Raye (St Carnival, Port of Spain 751-2 Bermuda 96-7, 98 Lucia) 796 (Trinidad & Tobago) Lalibela (Ethiopia) 279 Bikini Atoll (Marshall Atlantic Coast (The 866 Maramureş (Romania) Islands) 538 Gambia) 308 Day of the Dead 700 Blue Hole Natural Bangkok (Thailand) 849 (Mexico) 556 Mezquita, Cordoba Monument (Belize) beer (Czech Republic) EXIT Festival (Serbia) (Spain) 779 90 228 737

zzz-back-world-wg1.inddz-back-world-wg1.indd 995252 220/06/20140/06/2014 12:01:0112:01:01 PMPM 953 Harare (Zimbabwe) 947 Lahore Fort (Pakistan) Blanchisseuse Kruger National Park Highland Festivals 648 (Trinidad & Tobago) (South Africa) 765 (Papua New Guinea) Masada (Israel & 867 Langtang (Nepal) 600 658 the Palestinian Blue Mountain Peak Laos 474-5 (Jamaica) 434 Holi (India) 391 Territories) 420 Mandara Mountains Lantern Festival Nakhal Fort (Oman) Boiling Lake (Cameroon) 148

(Dominica) 238 INDEX (Taiwan) 834 644 Mt Wilhem (Papua New Mardi Gras (Cape Punakha Dzong Bulembu (Swaziland) Guinea) 659 Verde) 160 809 (Bhutan) 102 Müllerthal Carpathians (Romania) Mass Games (North Rinpung Dzong (Luxembourg) 504 F-H Korea) 632 698 (Bhutan) 102-3 Northern Coast Mauritius 547 Castles of the Rock of Cashel (Martinique) 541 Montréal Jazz Festival Assassins (Iran) 406 (Ireland) 414 Paklenica National (Canada) 157 Causeway (Northern Suwon’s Hwaseong Park (Croatia) 212 Ireland) 634 Naadam (Mongolia) (South Korea) 772 564 Cederberg (South Parc National Trongsa Dzong d’Andringitra Nepal 600 Africa) 768 (Bhutan) 102 (Madagascar) 513 Oktoberfest, Munich Chimanimani Parc National (Germany) 317 Mountains (Mozambique) 581 de Marojejy Panama 656 G (Madagascar) 515 Philippines 672 Cordillera Real glaciers & icebergs (Bolivia) 107 Parc National la Visite Queen’s Park Oval (Haiti) 362 (Trinidad & Tobago) Aletsch Glacier Cross-Island Track, 868 (Switzerland) 824 Rarotonga (Cook Parque Nacional El Fox Glacier (New Islands) 200 Imposible (El Reggae Sumfest Salvador) 260 (Jamaica) 436 Zealand) 616 Danum Valley Rwenzori Mountains Semana Santa, Seville Franz Josef Glacier (Malaysia) 523 (Uganda) 890 (Spain) 782 (New Zealand) 616 Druk Path Trek Sahara (Morocco) 576 Tana Toraja (Indonesia) Glaciar Perito Moreno (Bhutan) 102 398 (Argentina) 41 El Cocuy (Colombia) Sani Top (Lesotho) 486 185 Timkat (Ethiopia) 281 Jökulsárlón (Iceland) Santo Antão (Cape Viljandi Folk Music 384 ’Eua National Park Verde) 160 (Tonga) 862 Festival (Estonia) 274 Ilulissat Kangerlua Sehlabathebe National Everest Base Camp Park (Lesotho) 486 fishing (Greenland) 336 (Nepal) 597 Sindou Peaks (Burkina Arno Atoll (Marshall gorges Fish River Canyon Islands) 538 Faso) 138 Black River Gorges (Namibia) 590 Bimini (Bahamas) 72 Swiss National Park (Mauritius) 548 Fitz Roy Range (Switzerland) 822 Christmas Island Samaria Gorge (Argentina) 42 (Kiribati) 462 Table Mountain (South (Greece) 332-3 Fürstensteig Africa) 765 fjords Taroko Gorge (Taiwan) (Liechtenstein) 494 Taiwan 832 Borgarfjörður Eystri Ganden–Samye Trek 832 Tiger Leaping Gorge (Iceland) 386 (Tibet) 857 Tiger Leaping Gorge (China) 177 Geirangerfjord Gros Piton (St Lucia) (China) 177 Tongariro Alpine (Norway) 639 797 Titou Gorge (Dominica) Crossing (New Seyðisfjörður (Iceland) 238 Hong Kong Trail (Hong Zealand) 618 386 Kong) 371 Troödos (Cyprus) 224 fortresses Horton Plains (Sri Lanka) 790 Ts’ehlanyane National Ambohimanga H Park (Lesotho) 487 (Madagascar) 515 Inca Trail, the (Peru) hiking & trekking Tusheti (Georgia) 314 Bahla Fort (Oman) 645 668 Ala-Archa Canyon Jeju-do (South Korea) Tyrol (Austria) 62 Bahrain Fort (Bahrain) (Kyrgyzstan) 468 74 771 Virgin Islands National Andorra 24 Brimstone Hill Fortress Jhomolhari (Bhutan) Park (US & British (St Kitts & Nevis) Annapurna Circuit 104 Virgin Islands) 932 792 (Nepal) 598 Jotunheimen (Norway) Wales Coast Path Fort James (Antigua & Baikal Trail (Russia) 641-2 (Wales) 936 Barbuda) 35 706-7 Kanchanaburi West Highland Way Guia Fort (Macau) 506 Baliem Valley (Thailand) 851 (Scotland) 728 Jaisalmer (India) 394 (Indonesia) 400 Kolomyya (Ukraine) Wild Coast (South La Citadelle la Ferrière (Scotland) 893 Africa) 766 (Haiti) 362 728 Kpalmié (Togo) 860 Zlatibor (Serbia) 737-8

zzz-back-world-wg1.inddz-back-world-wg1.indd 995353 220/06/20140/06/2014 12:01:0112:01:01 PMPM 954 horse riding L Lake Nakuru (Kenya) Peak, the (Hong Kong) 460 369 Happy Valley Races lagoons (Hong Kong) 370 Lake Niassa Pulpit Rock (Norway) Langa Langa Lagoon Kyrgyzstan 468 (Mozambique) 580 642 (Solomon Islands) (Armenia) Shirley Heights Lesotho 488 760 48 Lookout (Antigua & hot springs & saunas Marovo Lagoon INDEX Lake Télé (Republic of Barbuda) 34 Ala-Köl (Kyrgyzstan) (Solomon Islands) Congo) 195 758 Table Mountain (South 469 Lake Titicaca (Bolivia) Africa) 765 Ayurveda (Sri Lanka) lakes & rivers 108 H- M 788 Ala-Köl (Kyrgyzstan) Lake Titicaca (Peru) Blue Lagoon, the 469 665 M (Iceland) 381 Lakes District (Chile) Bassins Bleu (Haiti) 363 megaliths Costa Rica 204 Bled (Slovenia) 754 174 Lake District, the Baths, the (US & Hungary 376 Congo River (England) 266 British Virgin Kuopio (Finland) 290 (Democratic Loch Lomond Islands) 934 La Caldea (Andorra) 24 Republic of Congo) 192 (Scotland) 727 Carnac (France) 300 onsen (Japan) 439 Congo River (Republic Mekong River El Castillo (Mexico) Pamukkale (Turkey) of Congo) 195-6 (Thailand) 851-2 554 876-7 Ganges River (India) Nam-tso (Tibet) 858 Ha’amonga ’a Maui Papallacta (Ecuador) 394 Ngan-Tso (Tibet) 858 Trilithon (Tonga) 862 251 Ganvié (Benin) 94 Nile River (Egypt) 256 Ħaġar Qim (Malta) 535 San Miguel de Allende Great Masurian Lakes Nile River (Uganda) Mnajdra (Malta) 535 (Mexico) 556 (Poland) 680 888 Stonehenge (England) Taiwan 834 Inle Lake (Myanmar) Okavango River 263 Wotten Waven 584 (Botswana) 117 monasteries (Dominica) 239 Iskander-Kul Orinoco Delta (Tajikistan) 836 (Venezuela) 922 Bucovina (Romania) 698 Issyk-Köl (Kyrgyzstan) Rawok-tso (Tibet) 858 J 469 Rhine (Germany) 320 Davit Gareja (Georgia) 312 jungles & forests Jellyfish Lake (Palau) Río Dulce (Guatemala) Drepung Monastery Amazon, the (Brazil) 652 352 (Tibet) 858 125 Katse Dam (Lesotho) Rio Grande (Jamaica) Erdene Zuu (Mongolia) Black Forest, the 486-7 433 (Germany) 320 Kerala (India) 392 Río San Juan 566 (Nicaragua) 622 Daintree Rainforest Khövsgöl Nuur India 392 (Australia) 56 (Mongolia) 565 Río Yavarí (Colombia) Kōya-san (Japan) 442 186 Danum Valley Lac Rose (Senegal) Meteora (Greece) 329 (Malaysia) 523 733-4 Sepik River (Papua Mt Alvernia Hermitage New Guinea) 658-9 Gunung Leuser Lac Togo (Togo) 860 (Bahamas) 71 Song-Köl (Kyrgyzstan) National Park Lago de Atitlán Orheiul Vechi 468 (Indonesia) 400 (Guatemala) 352 (Moldova) 560 Lago di Como (Italy) Suriname River Kakamega Forest (Suriname) 806 Ostrog Monastery (Kenya) 458 428 (Montenegro) 572 Lago Dos Bocas Tara River Taman Negara (Montenegro) 571 Rabban Hormizd (Malaysia) 526 (Puerto Rico) 692 Monastery (Iraq) 408 To Sua Ocean Trench Valleé de Mai Lake Ahémé (Benin) Rila Monastery 94 (Samoa) 716 (Seychelles) 740 Tsiribihina River (Bulgaria) 134 Welchman Hall Gully Lake Balaton Samye Monastery (Hungary) 375 (Madagascar) (Barbados) 82 514-15 (Tibet) 856 Lake Bunyonyi Yangzi River (China) Sera Monastery (Tibet) (Uganda) 889 180 858 Lake Geneva K Zambezi River Studenica (Serbia) 738 (Switzerland) 822 (Zambia) 942 kayaking Lake Kariba (Zambia) Taktshang Goemba Glover’s Reef Atoll 944 lookouts (Bhutan) 101 (Belize) 90 Lake Kariba Adam’s Peak (Sri Tatev (Armenia) 46 Greenland 338 (Zimbabwe) 948 Lanka) 788 Vardzia (Georgia) 313 Ha’apai Islands (Tonga) Lake Kivu (Rwanda) Cape Mulinu’u Visoki Dečani (Kosovo) 862 710 (Samoa) 715 464 Lago Dos Bocas Lake Malawi (Malawi) Cruz Loma (Ecuador) Zrze Monastery (Puerto Rico) 692 518 250-251 (Macedonia) 508

zzz-back-world-wg1.inddz-back-world-wg1.indd 995454 220/06/20140/06/2014 12:01:0112:01:01 PMPM 955 monuments Mandara Mountains Kaunas Museum of N (Cameroon) 148 Devils (Lithuania) Berlin Wall (Germany) national parks & 317 499 Matterhorn reserves Eiffel Tower (France) (Switzerland) 821 Koprivshtitsa Abel Tasman National 295 Mount Aragats (Bulgaria) 135 Liverpool (England) 268 Park (New Zealand) Grand Buddha (China) (Armenia) 48 617

182 (Italy) 430 Musée d’Histoire de la INDEX Ville de Luxembourg Abuko Nature Reserve Great Wall (China) 177 Mt Bintumani (Sierra (The Gambia) 309 Grūtas Sculpture Park (Luxembourg) 503 Leone) 744 Aksu-Zhabagyly (Lithuania) 498 Musée National Mt Cameroon d’Histoire Militaire Nature Reserve M-N Gyantse Kumbum (Cameroon) 148 (Kazakhstan) 452 (Tibet) 858 (Luxembourg) 502 Mt Everest (Tibet) 856 Musée Amboseli National Park Hadrian’s Wall (Kenya) 457 (England) 266 Mt Fuji (Japan) 444 Océanographique de Monaco (Monaco) Belavezhskaya Taj Mahal (India) 389 Mt Kailash (Tibet) 855 Mt Kenya (Kenya) 458 562 Pushcha National Tian Tan Buddha (Hong Park (Belarus) 84 Kong) 372 Mt Kilimanjaro Museo del Oros (Tanzania) 841 (Colombia) 186 Białowieża Forest mosques (Poland) 680-1 Mt Kinabalu (Malaysia) Museo delle Curiosità Bijilo Forest Park (The Al-Fatih (Bahrain) 74 526 (San Marino) 718 Dome of the Rock Museo di Stato (San Gambia) 308 Mt Mulanje (Malawi) (Israel & the Marino) 718 Biogradska Gora 518 Palestinian Museum of Islamic Art National Park Territories) 419 Mt Nemrut (Turkey) 877 (Qatar) 694 (Montenegro) 570-1 Omar Ali Saifuddien Mt Sinai (Egypt) 256 Museum of Old & New Black River Gorges (Brunei) 130-1 Mt (Slovenia) Art (Australia) 58 (Mauritius) 548 Sheikh Zayed Grand 756 MuseumsQuartier Bonaire National Mosque (United Arab Paekdusan (North (Austria) 64 Marine Park (Aruba, Emirates) 896 Korea) 632 National Museum Bonaire & Curaçao) mountains Pão de Açúcar (Brazil) (Bhutan) 102 50 Altai (Russia) 708 125 National Museum of Brecon Beacons (Wales) 937 Altay Mountains Peak District (England) Rwanda (Rwanda) 711 (Kazakhstan) 453 268 National Palace Bukit Timah Nature Rockies (Canada) 155 Museum Reserve (Singapore) Bale Mountains 747-8 (Ethiopia) 280 Rocky Mountains (Taiwan) 832 Cat Tien National Park Ben Nevis (Scotland) (United States of Nelson’s Dockyard (Vietnam) 929 728 America) 906 (Antigua & Barbuda) 34 Central Kalahari Game Blue Mountain Peak Roraima (Venezuela) Reserve (Botswana) (Jamaica) 434 922 Postmuseum, Vaduz (Liechtenstein) 496 119 Cameron Highlands Sierra Nevada (Spain) Chitwan National Park (Malaysia) 525 783 Prague Jewish Museum (Czech Republic) 228 (Nepal) 598 Cordillera Central Simien Mountains Pyrohovo Museum of Chobe National Park (Puerto Rico) 692 (Ethiopia) 280 Folk Architecture (Botswana) 117 Dolomites (Italy) 428 Sindou Peaks (Burkina (Ukraine) 894 Cloud Forest (Costa Eiger (Switzerland) 823 Faso) 138 Savitsky Karakalpakstan Rica) 203 Fan Mountains Tonkinese Alps Art Museum Danube Delta (Tajikistan) 836 (Vietnam) 929 (Uzbekistan) 913 Biosphere Reserve Haraz Mountains Skanderbeg Museum, (Ukraine) 893 (Yemen) 940 museums & galleries Kruja (Albania) 20 Dzanga-Sangha High Tatras (Slovakia) Amna Suraka (Iraq) 409 Tareq Rajab Museum (Central African 750 (Kuwait) 466 Republic) 166 Himalayas (India) 392 Antarctic Museum (Antarctica) 32 Tashkent (Uzbekistan) Etosha National Park Huángshān (China) 181 912 (Namibia) 589 Antwerp (Belgium) 86 (Oman) Tehran (Iran) 405 ’Eua National Park House 644 Tower of Trongsa (Tonga) 862 (Singapore) 747 Jebel Soudah (Saudi Museum (Bhutan) Gashaka-Gumti Arabia) 723 Bahrain National 102 National Park (Pakistan) 649 Museum (Bahrain) Vasamuseet (Sweden) (Nigeria) 628-9 74 Kaçkar Mountains 818 Gorongosa National (Turkey) 877-8 Bardo Museum Vatican Museums Park (Mozambique) Kazbegi (Georgia) 312 (Tunisia) 870 (Vatican City) 918 582 Kerlingarfjöll (Iceland) Egyptian Museum 257 Walsermuseum Grand Etang National 386 Hermitage (Russia) 706 (Liechtenstein) 495 Park (Grenada) 341

zzz-back-world-wg1.inddz-back-world-wg1.indd 995555 220/06/20140/06/2014 12:01:0212:01:02 PMPM 956 national parks & Mayumba National Parque Nacional Yellowstone National reserves continued Park (Gabon) 304 Podocarpus Park (United States Great Barrier Reef Mole National Park (Ecuador) 252 of America) 904 (Australia) 53 (Ghana) 324 Parque Nacional Torres Yosemite National Park Gunung Leuser Monte Alen National del Paine (Chile) 171 (United States of National Park Park (Equatorial Parque Nacional Yasuní America) 906 (Ecuador) 250 Zakouma National Park INDEX (Indonesia) 400 Guinea) 270 Gwaii Haanas Monteverde Cloud Phong Nha-Ke Bang (Chad) 168 National Park Forest (Costa Rica) National Park Žemaitija National Reserve (Canada) 153 203 (Vietnam) 928 Park (Lithuania) N- R 498-9 Haanja Nature Park Moremi Game Reserve Plitvice Lakes National (Estonia) 274 (Botswana) 120 Park (Croatia) 211 Reserva Natural Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park Morne Seychellois O (South Africa) 768 National Park Estero Padre Ramos Hoge Veluwe National (Seychelles) 740 (Nicaragua) 624 oases Park (Netherlands) Morne Trois Pitons Réserve Cousteau Al Ain Oasis (United 604 National Park (Guadeloupe) 344 Arab Emirates) 897 iSimangaliso Wetland (Dominica) 238 Réserve de la Lopé Egypt 258 (Gabon) 304-305 Park (South Africa) National Mall (United Ghadames (Libya) 492 766 States of America) Réserve de Nazinga Islands National Park 905 (Burkina Faso) 138 (Guinea-Bissau) 358 Nyika National Park Route des Vins P Ivindo National Park (Malawi) 520 d’Alsace (France) 298 parks & gardens (Gabon) 306 Paklenica National Sapo National Park Botanic Gardens Kafue National Park Park (Croatia) 212 (Singapore) 746 (Zambia) 943 (Liberia) 490 Parc National Jardin de Balata Kasanka National Park Sehlabathebe National d’Andringitra Park (Lesotho) 486 (Martinique) 542 (Zambia) 943 (Madagascar) 513 Martyr Sami Kgalagadi Snowdonia (Wales) Parc National de la 936 Abdul-Rahman Park Transfrontier Park Pendjari (Benin) 94 (Iraq) 409 (Botswana) 121 South Luangwa Parc National National Park Mauritius 546 Komodo National Park de Marojejy Orvydas Garden (Indonesia) 397 (Zambia) 942 (Madagascar) 515 Sundarbans National (Lithuania) 499 Kruger National Park Parc National de Taï (South Africa) 765 Park (Bangladesh) plazas & squares (Côte d’Ivoire) 208 76 Lahemaa National Park Djemaa el-Fna Parc National des Swiss National Park (Estonia) 276 (Morocco) 575 Oiseauax du Djoudj (Switzerland) 822 Lake Nakuru National Durbar Square (Nepal) (Senegal) 734 Table Mountain (South Park (Kenya) 460 597 Parc National des Africa) 765 Las Cabezas de San Grand Place (Belgium) Tsingy de Bemaraha Tanjung Puting Juan Reserva Natural 86 (Madagascar) 516 National Park ‘El Faro’ (Puerto Red Square (Russia) Parc National des (Indonesia) 398 Rico) 690 704 Virungas Three Corniches, Nice Liwonde National Park (Democratic (France) 298 pyramids (Malawi) 519 Republic of Congo) Tsavo National Park Pulemelei Mound Llogaraja Pass National 192 (Kenya) 459-60 (Samoa) 715 Park (Albania) 20 Parc National du Banc Ts’ehlanyane National Pyramids of Giza Loango National Park d’Arguin (Mauritania) Park (Lesotho) 487 (Egypt) 255 (Gabon) 306 544 Uda Walawe National Pyramids of Majete Wildlife Reserve Parc National du Waza Park (Sri Lanka) 788 Teotihuacán, the (Malawi) 518 (Mexico) 554 (Cameroon) 150 Ulu Temburong Makgadikgadi Pans Parque Nacional National Park National Park Amboró (Bolivia) 108 (Brunei) 132 R (Botswana) 120 Parque Nacional da Uluru-Kata Tjuta Malolotja Nature Kissama (Angola) 26 National Park railways Reserve (Swaziland) Parque Natural da Ria (Australia) 53 Ffestiniog Railway 808 Formosa (Portugal) Vatnajökull National (Wales) 937 Mana Pools 686 Park (Iceland) 385 Glacier Express (Zimbabwe) 946 Parque Nacional Manu Virgin Islands National (Switzerland) 821 Masai Mara National (Peru) 668 Park (US & British Hejaz Railway (Saudi Reserve (Kenya) 457 Parque Nacional Virgin Islands) 932 Arabia) 724 Matobo National Park Manuel Antonio Yankari National Park Inlandsbanan (Zimbabwe) 946 (Costa Rica) 206 (Nigeria) 630 (Sweden) 816-17

zzz-back-world-wg1.inddz-back-world-wg1.indd 995656 220/06/20140/06/2014 12:01:0212:01:02 PMPM 957 Oslo-Bergen Railway S Namu’a Island Shwedagon Paya (Norway) 640 (Samoa) 714 (Myanmar) 584 shopping Semmeringbahn Prickly Pear (Anguilla) Soleb (Sudan) 804 (Austria) 63-4 Antwerp (Belgium) 86 28 Taiwan 833 Sri Lanka 787 Ayorou Sunday Market Pulau Perhentian Tikal (Guatemala) 351 (Niger) 626 Tibet 856 (Malaysia) 523 Castries (St Lucia) 798 theme parks Welsh Highland Shark Ray Alley INDEX Chatuchak, Bangkok Atlantis (Bahamas) 72 Railway (Wales) 937 (Belize) 90 (Thailand) 847 Stingray City (Cayman Legoland (Denmark) roads Chefchaouen Medina Islands) 164 232 R-V Cabot Trail (Canada) (Morocco) 578 Tobago Cays (St Walt Disney World 156 Chichicastenango Vincent & the (United States of Fig Tree Drive (Antigua (Guatemala) 354 Grenadines) 800 America) 904 & Barbuda) 34 Hong Kong 370 Vanuatu 916 Great Ocean Road Iran 406 surfing (Australia) 56 Jacmel (Haiti) 364 V Arugam Bay (Sri Road valleys Kejetia Market (Ghana) Lanka) 789 (Austria) 61 324 Bamiyan () Bathsheba (Barbados) 16 Hamilton Road (Iraq) La Paz (Bolivia) 109 80 408 Bumthang (Bhutan) Orchard Road Busua (Ghana) 325 Havana’s Malecón (Singapore) 748 104 (Cuba) 217 Costa del Balsamo (El Colchagua Valley Otavalo Market Salvador) 260 Hummingbird Highway (Ecuador) 252 (Chile) 172 Montañita (Ecuador) (Belize) 91 Danube Valley Pristina (Kosovo) 464 252 Karakoram Highway (Austria) 62 Punanga Nui Market Rincón (Puerto Rico) (Pakistan) 650 Drâa Valley (Morocco) (Cook Islands) 198 691 Souq Waqif (Qatar) 694 576 Kotor-Lovćen Road San Juan del Sur (Montenegro) 572 Thimphu (Bhutan) 101 Elqui Valley (Chile) (Nicaragua) 623 173-4 Kystriksveien Coastal Tokyo (Japan) 443 Santa Catalina Route (Norway) 640 Ezulwini & Malkerns skiing (Panama) 654 Valleys (Swaziland) Leeward Highway Andorra 24 Siargao (Philippines) 810 (St Vincent & the 672 Grenadines) 802 Alborz Mountains Glen Coe (Scotland) (Iran) 406 730 Pamir Highway (Tajikistan) 836 Bosnia & Hercegovina Jizeu Valley (Tajikistan) 113 T 837 Ring of Kerry (Ireland) Kathmandu Valley 414-15 Cedars (Lebanon) 484 temples Chamonix (France) Abu Simbel (Egypt) 258 (Nepal) 598 Ring Road (Cameroon) 300 Lower Omo Valley 148 Angkor Wat Malbun (Liechtenstein) (Cambodia) 143 (Ethiopia) 282 Ring Road (Iceland) 494 Bayan (Myanmar) 584 Makhtesh Ramon 384 (Israel & the Mavrovo (Macedonia) Bhaktapur (Nepal) 598 RN5 (Madagascar) 510 Palestinian 514 Bulguk-sa (South Territories) 422 Pirin Mountains Korea) 774 Route de la Trace (Bulgaria) 134 Qadisha Valley (Martinique) 541 Candi Sukuh (Lebanon) 484 Pyeongchang County (Indonesia) 399 Silk Road, the (China) (South Korea) 772-3 Quebrada de 181 Golden Temple (India) Humahuaca Sweden 818 392 Trans-Canada Highway Väluna Valley (Argentina) 39 (Canada) 156 Guin-sa (South Korea) Sacred Valley, the (Liechtenstein) 496 774 Upper Round Road (St Zlatibor (Serbia) 737-8 (Peru) 667 Kitts & Nevis) 793 Jokhang Temple Sossusvlei (Namibia) snorkelling (Tibet) 856 Windward Highway 589 (St Vincent & the Andavadoaka Kyichu Lhakhang Thimphu Valley Grenadines) 801 (Madagascar) 514 (Bhutan) 103 (Bhutan) 103 Bay Islands (Honduras) Kyoto (Japan) 440 Una River Valley rock art 366 Lalish Sanctuary (Iraq) (Bosnia & Jebel Jassassiyeh Champagne Reef 408 Hercegovina) 112 (Qatar) 695 (Dominica) 239 Man Mo Temple (Hong Valle de la Luna (Chile) Kilwa Kisiwani Tahiti & the French Kong) 370 174 (Tanzania) 844 Polynesia 830 Mrauk U (Myanmar) Valle de Viñales (Cuba) Las Geel (Somalia & Jellyfish Lake (Palau) 585 217 Somaliland) 762 652 Prasat Preah Vihear Valley, the (Anguilla) San (Botswana) 120 Maldives 528 (Cambodia) 146 28

zzz-back-world-wg1.inddz-back-world-wg1.indd 995757 220/06/20140/06/2014 12:01:0212:01:02 PMPM 958 valleys continued W Bijilo Forest Park (The Kruger National Park Gambia) 308 (South Africa) 765 Wadi Hadramawt waterfalls (Yemen) 940 Boma National Park La Flor 624 Chutes du Carbet (South Sudan) 776 Lake Nakuru National Wadi Jadid (Jordan) (Guadeloupe) 345 450 Bossou Environmental Park (Kenya) 460 Chutes de la Karera Research Institute Wadi Rum (Jordan) (Burundi) 140 Lemaire Channel

INDEX (Guinea) 356 448 (Antarctica) 30 Damajagua (Dominican Bwindi Impenetrable Valley Republic) 242 Lésio Louna Gorilla National Park (Tajikistan) 837-8 Reserve (Republic of Emerald Pool (Uganda) 888 Congo) 196 V-W Yeghegis Valley (Dominica) 239 Central Kalahari Game Limbe (Cameroon) 148 (Armenia) 46 Falls of Baleine (St Reserve (Botswana) Liwonde National Park Vincent & the 119 vineyards Grenadines) 801 (Malawi) 519 Alto Douro (Portugal) Chitwan National Park Loango National Park Iguaçu Falls (Brazil) (Nepal) 598 686 127-8 (Gabon) 306 Chobe National Park Bulgaria 136 Iguazú Falls Los Esteros del Iberá (Botswana) 117 Colchagua Valley (Argentina) 39 (Argentina) 43-4 Ciénaga de Zapata (Chile) 172 Kaieteur Falls (Guyana) Los Llanos (Venezuela) (Cuba) 218 La Rioja Wine Country 360 922 Costa Rica 206 (Spain) 782 Kongou (Gabon) 304 Madikwe Game Danube Delta Moselle Valley Krimmler Wasserfälle Reserve (South (Romania) 700 Africa) 768 (Luxembourg) 502 (Austria) 63 Denis (Seychelles) 740 Mahale Mountains Omodos (Cyprus) 223 Maletsunyane Falls (Lesotho) 487 Ebodjé (Cameroon) (Tanzania) 842 Pálinka (Hungary) 376 Mataniko Falls 149-50 Majete Wildlife Reserve Tuscany (Italy) 428 (Solomon Islands) Etosha National Park (Malawi) 518 volcanoes 760 (Namibia) 589 Makgadikgadi Pans Camiguin (Philippines) Murchison Falls Finland 292 National Park (Botswana) 120 672-3 National Park Galápagos Islands (Uganda) 888 Maldives 528, 529-30 Deception Island (Ecuador) 249 (Antarctica) 32 Niagara Falls (Canada) Gombe (Tanzania) 842 Mana Pools 156 (Zimbabwe) 946 Kolombangara Gorongosa National Reach Falls (Jamaica) Masai Mara National (Solomon Islands) Park (Mozambique) 434 Reserve (Kenya) 457 758 582 Salto Ángel (Angel Gunung Leuser Mkhaya Game Reserve La Soufrière Falls; Venezuela) 921 (Swaziland) 808 (Guadeloupe) 344 National Park Talofofo Falls (Guam) (Indonesia) 400 Mlilwane Wildlife Mount Etna (Italy) 348 Ha’apai Islands (Tonga) Sanctuary 430 Victoria Falls (Zambia) 862 (Swaziland) 809 Mount Fogo (Cape 942 Hell’s Gate National Mole National Park Verde) 161-2 Victoria Falls Park (Kenya) 460 (Ghana) 324 (Zimbabwe) 946 Mt Marum (Vanuatu) Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park Monte Alen National 916 white-water rafting (South Africa) 768 Park (Equatorial Guinea) 270 Nyiragongo Costa Rica 204 Isla de la Plata Monumento Natural Los (Democratic Great Usutu River (Ecuador) 251 Pingüinos (Chile) 174 Republic of Congo) (Swaziland) 808 Isle of Skye (Scotland) 192 Moremi Game Reserve Nahanni National Park 727 (Botswana) 120 Parc National des Reserve (Canada) 153 Ivindo National Park Volcans (Rwanda) San Gil (Colombia) (Gabon) 306 Ngorongoro Crater 710 (Tanzania) 842 187-8 Kafue National Park Pedra do Lume (Cape Soča (Slovenia) 756 (Zambia) 943 Nyika National Park (Malawi) 520 Verde) 160-1 Tara River Kaikoura (New Qobustan (Montenegro) 571 Zealand) 613 Pantanal, the (Brazil) 126 (Azerbaijan) 68 Una River Valley Kamchatka (Russia) Parc National Volcán Arenal (Costa (Bosnia & 703 Conkouati-Douli Rica) 203 Hercegovina) 112 Kgalagadi Transfrontier (Republic of Congo) Volcán Barú (Panama) wildlife-watching Park (Botswana) 121 194 655 Bay of Fundy (Canada) Kidepo Valley National Parc National de la Volcán Masaya 158 Park (Uganda) 889 Pendjari (Benin) 94 (Nicaragua) 623 Belavezhskaya Komodo National Park Parc National de Volcán Villarrica (Chile) Pushcha National (Indonesia) 397 L’Akagera (Rwanda) 172 Park (Belarus) 84 Kouré (Niger) 626 712

zzz-back-world-wg1.inddz-back-world-wg1.indd 995858 220/06/20140/06/2014 12:01:0212:01:02 PMPM 959 Parc National de Réserve de Nazinga Sundarbans National WWII Nyungwe (Rwanda) (Burkina Faso) 138 Park (Bangladesh) 76 Auschwitz-Birkenau 710 Río Yavarí (Colombia) Tanjung Puting (Poland) 682 Parc National des 186 National Park Betio (Kiribati) 462 Virungas (Democratic Ruaha National Park (Indonesia) 398 Brest Fortress Republic of Congo) (Tanzania) 843 Tetepare Island (Belarus) 84 192 (Solomon Islands) INDEX Rupununi Savanna Command Ridge Parc National des (Guyana) 360 759 (Nauru) 594 Volcans (Rwanda) 710 Salt Cay (Turks & Tiwai Island (Sierra D-Day Beaches Parc National d’Odzala Caicos) 883 Leone) 744 (France) 298 W (Republic of Congo) Sea Lion Island Tsavo National Park Hiroshima (Japan) 195 (Falklands) 284 (Kenya) 459-60 444 Parc National du Waza Selous Game Reserve Volunteer Beach Musée National (Cameroon) 150 (Tanzania) 844 (Falklands) 284 d’Histoire Militaire Parc National Nouabalé- Sepilok Orang-Utan Yankari (Nigeria) 630 Ndoki (Republic of (Luxembourg) 502 Rehabilitation Centre Zakouma National Park Congo) 194 (Malaysia) 524 Peleliu (Palau) 652 (Chad) 168 Parque Nacional Serengeti National Tulagi (Solomon Manuel Antonio Park (Tanzania) 841 WWI Islands) 759 (Costa Rica) 206 South Luangwa National Flanders Fields War in the Pacific Ras al-Jinz (Oman) 644 Park (Zambia) 942 (Belgium) 87 National Historical Réserve de la Lopé Stingray City (Cayman Gallipoli Peninsula Park (Guam) 348 (Gabon) 304-5 Islands) 164 (Turkey) 878

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