An island where rocks have facesBBC Travel - By Melissa BaniganPetroglyphs found throughout Guadeloupe’s rainforest provide a window into the island’s ancient indigenous peoples population. I was hiking through thick rainforest along a 5km trail that hugged the shore
The traveller trying to change the worldBBC Travel - By Dave SeminaraJeff Shea has a quixotic goal: preserving vast areas of the world for people to roam free. If you ask Jeff Shea where he’s going or where he’s been, you better grab a drink, sit back in your favourite
Cambodia’s hidden jungle templeBBC Travel - By Dave StamboulisBeng Mealea, an eerie jungle temple that invokes the earlier, less-discovered days of Angkor Wat, gives plenty of hope to the Indiana Jones in all of us. Siem Reap has become one of the world’s tourism
Turkey’s secret underground cityBBC Travel - By BBC's The Travel ShowThese narrow underground caves – a sanctuary against different empires throughout history – have remained hidden for centuries. If you liked this story, sign up for the weekly bbc.com features newsletter,
This desolate English path has killed more than 100 peopleBBC Travel - By Robert MacfarlaneThe Broomway is known as the most perilous path in Britain – and is a favourite walk of writer Robert Macfarlane, who describes it in this adaptation from his book The Old Ways. If you consult a large-scale
A portal to a subterranean realmBBC Travel - By Anna BitongThe underground labyrinth had become an urban legend – until an entrance was discovered by an 11-year-old child down a city sewer. Far below the noisy bars and busy streets of Cadiz in southern Spain,
The British island at the edge of the worldBBC Travel - By Amanda Ruggeri To go to the shop, dentist or pub, Foula’s residents have to travel across 20 miles of open ocean. Photographer Jeff J Mitchell visited the Shetland isle to see what it’s really like.
The man who spent his fortune on a parkBBC Travel - By Ian Lloyd Neubauer Douglas Tompkins, the founder of North Face, has left behind one of history’s greatest land-conservation legacies by using his fortune to buy large tracts of farmland in Patagonia.
The ghost town surrounded by oceanBBC Travel - By Amanda RuggeriThe most remote of the British Isles is home to northwest Europe’s largest seabird colony, cliffs taller than the Empire State Building – and to one of the world’s eeriest ghost towns. There are few places
Hong Kong’s urban explorersBBC Travel - By Kate SpringerFrom abandoned theatres to underground mines, adrenaline junkies HK Urbex are on a mission to immortalize Hong Kong’s forgotten structures – before they’re lost forever. To some, a deserted public housing
An ancient route through the cloudsBBC Travel - By Pascal Mannaerts Once part of the legendary Silk Road, Central Asia’s Pamir Mountains might be the world’s last true adventure.
Iceland’s psychedelic StonehengeBBC Travel - By Jennifer Kingsley In Iceland’s northeast corner, there’s a road that few will recommend. It has largely been forgotten by the tourism boom – and that’s what makes it so special.
The treacherous road with 318 turnsBBC Travel - By Eric BartonWith hairpins, blind cutbacks and a cloverleaf here and there, this challenging 11-mile stretch is said to be among the best driving roads in the world. Deep in the southern United States, in the thickly
Meet Earl, the gatekeeper to ParadiseBBC Travel - By Brianna RandallParadise, population one, is halfway along one of the roughest roads in the US West, perched between two vast wilderness areas that total 1.4 million hectares. We met Earl in the middle of a one-lane road
An 80 million-year-old secretBBC Travel - By BBC's The Travel ShowBefore 2000, few people in China – or the rest of the world – had heard of the Rainbow Mountains. Now they are catching the eye of photographers and filmmakers. If you liked this story, sign up for the
A surreal time-lapse of an exotic skyBBC Travel - By Samantha ChongStar gazing in one of the most light-polluted areas on Earth sounds impossible – but one filmmaker has found the perfect spot to watch the Milky Way unfold above him. For filmmaker Harun Mehmedinovic,
Where the water is too pure to touchBBC Travel - By BBC's Travel ShowNatural caves exist throughout Hungary, but a cave system in the small town of Tapolca has an especially memorable method of exploration. If you liked this story, sign up for the weekly bbc.com features
An uncharted underground worldBBC Travel - By Erin CraigSpelunker Roger Brucker spearheaded the once secretive process of mapping Mammoth Cave, helping to establish it as the longest cave system in the world. At the age of five, Roger Brucker made an important
A smokejumper’s first leap of faithBBC Travel - By Erin BlockWildland firefighter Grant Davis is called to fight some of the most remote fires in the US – but to reach them, he must first jump out of a plane. Grant Davis watched as members of his crew leapt out
‘Panic attacks are like death’BBC Travel - By Rafael EstefaniaFor anxiety-prone Erin Craig, learning to scuba dive alternated between being the most amazing experience and fears that she was going to die. Travel Journeys is a BBC Travel series exploring travellers’
Asia’s secret World Heritage siteBBC Travel - By Marco FerrareseThe Lenggong Valley is so significant that it was named Malaysia’s most recent Unesco World Heritage site. But few people know about this lost world – and even fewer get to see it. I was standing at the
The places the world forgotBBC Travel - By David de Rueda Urban explorer David de Rueda travels the world visiting abandoned places and creating hauntingly beautiful images that are pushing the boundaries of photography.
An icy sail to the end of the EarthBBC Travel - By Terry WardWe travelled 7,500km to the Norwegian Arctic in a no-frills sailboat that was better suited for cruising the Mediterranean than penetrating the polar ice. Last June, on the longest day of the year, I out
A terrifying adventure in an abandoned mineBBC Travel - By Amanda RuggeriIt’s been described as “the craziest thing you can do underground in Britain” without special certification. Amanda Ruggeri travelled 400m beneath the earth to see for herself. “No,” said the man in front
A perilous ride to a remote valleyBBC Travel - By Himanshu Khagta"Five of us packed into a car, allured by the promise of traversing one of India’s most breathtaking and most dangerous roads" – in winter. Five of us packed into a car, allured by the promise of traversing
An island only helicopters can reachBBC Travel - By Christopher F SchuetzeThe only way in or out of the amphitheatre-shaped valley is by foot – or, in a pinch, by helicopter. In the centre of La Réunion, the tiny French island that bobs in the Indian Ocean between Madagascar
Where no human has walked beforeBBC Travel - By BBC's The Travel Show To get to some of the most remote parts of Alaska, you need to fly. The Travel Show heads into these inaccessible spots to find beauty, peace and isolation before it all disappears.
Where 80% of people live undergroundBBC Travel - By BBC's The Travel ShowThe opal mining town of Coober Pedy takes living down under to a new level, escaping dangerous 50C temperatures by burrowing underground. BBC's Travel Show brings you the latest insider travel news, a
