Pre‑dawn jeep rides climb to viewpoints where sunrays ignite smoking Mount Bromo’s lunar caldera.
Terraced vineyards tumble to Ligurian seas along cliff‑hugging trails linking five pastel fishing villages.
Patagonia’s granite towers pierce moody skies above iceberg‑strewn lakes and guanaco‑dotted pampa.
Endless tawny savanna that quakes when a million wildebeest thunder by during the Great Migration.
Old Faithful erupts on schedule as rainbow‑rimmed Grand Prismatic Spring steams in a Yellowstone caldera alive with geysers.
Half of Costa Rica’s biodiversity jams onto the Osa Peninsula where scarlet macaws scream over wild beaches.
Sunrise ‘sea of clouds’ viewed from the vintage forest railway and ancient red‑cedar groves.
North America’s tallest peak dwarfs braided rivers where grizzlies forage for berry patches.
Jungle‑draped headlands hide boulder‑strewn Caribbean coves reached on sweaty jungle footpaths.
Walk through the tunnel‑tree and crane your neck at General Sherman, the earth’s largest living tree.
Pink‑sand beaches and the primeval stare of Komodo dragons patrol these Jurassic islands.
Leopards sprawl on granite outcrops while baby elephants splash in lagoons edged by temples.
Shipwrecks and bleached whale bones litter fog‑shrouded dunes roamed by desert‑adapted lions.
Canoes glide past mugger crocodiles while one‑horned rhinos graze in elephant grass meadows.
Seven‑tiered aquamarine waterfalls tumble over limestone ledges, perfect for a cooling plunge in Thai heat.
A 130‑million‑year‑old Malaysian jungle crossed by shaky canopy walkways and patrolled by stealthy tapirs.
A blinding salt pan where rhinoceros and lions converge at floodlit waterholes after dusk.
Lake Bohinj mirrors the Julian Alps while the single‑peak outline of Triglav crowns every Slovene coin.
Thundering falls, crocodile‑filled billabongs and 20,000‑year‑old Aboriginal rock art packed into Australia’s tropical Top End.
River cruises skim past the planet’s largest concentration of elephants bathing at sunset.
Slow‑moving ‘River of Grass’ prowled by alligators and prowling airboats under vast Florida skies.
Golden beaches fringe translucent turquoise bays plied by sea‑kayaks and playful fur seals.
Portugal’s rooftop of windswept granite plateaus, dotted with sheep and famed creamy queijo da Serra cheese villages.
Four presidential faces carved into granite gaze across the pine‑cloaked Black Hills of South Dakota.
Capuchin monkeys chatter above palm‑backed white‑sand coves where jungle meets Pacific surf.
Blue‑hazed ridges roll away forever while pioneer cabins and synchronous fireflies light summer nights.
Sheer basalt amphitheatres guard ancient San rock art in South Africa’s ‘Dragon Mountains’.
Emerald Lakes sparkle along the famous Alpine Crossing beneath smoking cones that played Mordor on screen.
Jagged Mount Kinabalu pierces the clouds above Borneo’s rainforest sprinkled with world‑record rafflesia blooms.
Glacial lakes nicknamed ‘mountain eyes’ dot rugged limestone peaks above Europe’s deepest canyon.
Dawn game drives deliver big‑cat sightings and elephant herds lumbering beside acacia‑lined riverbeds.
Sixteen turquoise lakes tumble through tufa terraces, their cascades shrouded in constant spray–a fairytale boardwalk walk‑through.
Alien salt flats at Badwater Basin and furnace‑hot dunes echo in the hottest place on Earth.
Granite titans El Capitan and Half Dome loom above misty valleys while spring snowmelt sends Yosemite Falls thundering.
The mile‑deep chasm where ribbons of crimson rock blaze at sunrise and the Colorado River glints impossibly far below.
