Spindly legs keep makeshift houses—and the day's harvest of seaweed—high, dry, and clear of the rising tide off the coast of Semporna in eastern Sabah. Many Filipinos and Malays who traditionally fish for a living have erected hundreds of these homes in the Celebes Sea. From them they run their cottage industry, growing seaweed on monofilament lines strung over shallow coral reefs and selling it for use in canned pet food.
—From "Malaysia: Rising Star," August 1997, 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.
