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Eagle Heights Birds of Prey Centre
Eagle Heights Birds of Prey Centre is home to around 150 birds including Tawny and Golden eagles, Peregrine falcons, an Andean condor and owls. Visitors can watch flying demonstrations and…
Sandown's Isle of Wight Zoo is best known for its work with exotic cats - it's the location for ITV's fly-on-the-wall documentary Tiger Island. Among other residents are Madagascan Lemurs…
Step into Charles Darwin's slippers and explore Down House, in which he wrote and researched his revolutionary On The Origin of Species series. Watch bees building their honeycomb or pace his…
If you're lucky, from February to December you might see dolphins, porpoises, whales and seals in the Moray Firth, with some help from the Moray Firth WDCS Wildlife Centre. Boat trips are one…
Take a steam train ride on the Spa Valley Railway. Visit High Rocks, a series of sandstone rocks once used as a stone age camp, or Groombridge Place's Gardens & Enchanted Forest. Trips run at…
The Bungle Bungle range is a fascinating geological rock formation in the Purnululu National Park of Western Australia. The area is rugged and remote, meaning the best way to see it is by…
Europe's largest inland aquarium, at Touraine in the Loire Valley, boasts more than 10,000 fish in 43 enormous open tanks. There's nowhere better to take a journey through the world's oceans.
Kipotechnica - Garden & Urban Landscape Expo
The Helexpo Palace in Marousi, just outside Athens, transforms into a huge garden to host Kipotechnica, the Garden & Urban Landscape Expo. Topics up for discussion are water-wise gardening and…
The Inca Trail is an ancient roadway that winds through the Peruvian mountains high above the Urubamba River, following a route leading to the "lost" city of Machu Picchu.
The Hornos de la Peña Cave contains prehistoric engravings of animal figures, including bison and horses. The fascinating artwork, approximately 18,000 years old, was discovered by Hermilio…
The flowering of the "yellow suns" of Mimosa marks the end of winter and of a labour-intensive farming process. Floats adorned with flowers parade through the centre of Saint-Raphaël…
Make your way down towards the very tip of South America and the cold begins to set in. The freezing waters of the Antarctic lap the shores and icy winds blow northwards. Los Glaciares…
In the moon-like badlands near Patricia, 200km east of Calgary, erosion is slowly revealing one of the world's most extensive dinosaur fossil beds. Take a guided tour to learn more about this…
Set within the Parc National du Mercantour, the Isola 2000 ski resort is less than two hours' drive from Nice and the coast. It offers snowboarding and cross-country skiing on beautifully…
Yankari National Park covers miles of rolling hills in central Nigeria and is one of West Africa's better game parks. Visitors can arrange walking tours or guided tours on specially adapted…
This full day Bike Tour of Chianti is a great way to explore the countryside surrounding Florence. It starts from the Ponte Vespucci bridge in central Florence, includes lunch and a visit to…
The Farne Islands are a little-known National Nature Reserve where visitors can see puffins, Atlantic seals and rare and beautiful seabirds.
Indonesia has somewhere in the region of 700 volcanoes, many of them live and dangerous. Indeed, more people have lost their lives due to volcanic activity in Indonesia than in any other…
Children love Carcassonne's City of Birds (Cité des Oiseaux), where they can meet parrots, pelicans and soaring birds of prey, then watch them all take part in a fascinating show.
Valley of the Butterflies - Petaloudes
The Valley of the Butterflies, 20 minutes from Rhodes airport near the village of Kalamonas, is a unique natural habitat where you can see thousands of brightly-coloured insects.
