Imagine Puerto Ayora without fishing and tourist boats and that concrete albatross [foreground], and you get a picture of the pristine South American islands Charles Darwin visited in 1835. But the picture has since been developed.
—From “Galápagos: Paradise in Peril,” April 1999, National Geographic magazine
Suspended between heaven and earth, Toledo—Spain's spiritual heart—still retains the same classic charm that lured the famous painter El Greco to the area in the 1570s.
Explore New Zealand, home to what British writer Rudyard Kipling once called the eighth wonder of the world, and come face-to-face with Kiwis, Kaikoura Canyon, and much more.
Flush with wealth from its oil fields, Oman has catapulted from an Arabian Peninsula backwater to a modern nation while managing to keep many of its traditions alive.
Like one of Cézzane's impressionist paintings stirred to life by summer winds, Provence is a place where even the simplest of landscapes can turn suddenly sublime.
