After more than 3 million votes were cast by 168,000 passionate, globetrotting readers, the results for the 23 rd Annual Wanderlust Reader Travel Awards are now in. Destinations, tour operators and ...

The urge to build something taller, wider, heavier (or any other superlative) than that which has existed before is not a new one. Since antiquity, humans have been building immense structures, from ...

Sprawling white-sand beaches, verdant inland rainforests, colourful coral reefs… and one of the oldest living cultures in the world – when it comes to distinct landscapes and diverse ways of life, ...

As one of the UK’s largest birds of prey returns in spring, we take a closer look at where to see a raptor that was extinct on these shores by the early 20th century, but is finally on the road to ...

Set sail from Samaná Bay – home to humpback whales (January to March) – and float past the mangroves and pictograph-adorned caves of Los Haitises NP (pictured) to spy pelicans, frigates and many ...

Everything is bigger in America; even its wild spaces are ‘supersized’, with forests that seem to go on forever and vast tracts of desert, canyons and mountains that stretch all the way to the horizon ...

Nikkei cuisine, which derives from the word ‘Nikkeijin’, meaning the ‘Japanese diaspora’, is history captured in food. Immigrants from Japan began arriving in Peru from the late 19th century onwards ...

Think Greece is all package holidays? Greece has the tenth longest coastline of any country on the planet and there are still plenty of areas (and beaches) free of other travellers. Some of the best ...

The Inner Hebrides are an archipelago, spreading out over the west coast of Scotland. A good starting point for a thorough tour of the Inner Hebridean islands is Oban, in west Scotland. Oban is a ...

Pomskizillious and gromphiberous, being as no other words can describe its magnificence.” This is how the poet Edward Lear characterised the coast of Gozo after spending a holiday here walking, drawing ...

Traditionally, Mayan women spun plant fibres into thread, although wool or cotton is more common today. They then weave the thread into fabric on a backstrap loom hooked around their back to create ...

Around 1545, so the story goes, a herder named Diego Huallpa climbed a mountain in the altiplano, an Andean plateau stretching across what is now western Bolivia, in search of a missing llama, only to ...