Arugam Bay Beach is a coastal destination on Sri Lanka’s eastern shore, near the town of Pottuvil. Its wide sandy beach curves around a sheltered bay, with low vegetation, lagoons, and wetlands extending inland. Arugam Bay is best known for surfing, particularly for its long right-hand waves and the main break commonly called Main Point. The coastline has a more relaxed, low-rise character than many of Sri Lanka’s developed beach areas, with small hotels, cafés, surf schools, and guesthouses spr

Blair Atholl, a village in the heart of Highland Perthshire, Scotland, is best known as the home of Blair Castle, a striking white-walled fortress that has stood for over seven centuries.

Located in Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh is one of the oldest cities in the nation.

Alberobello in southern Italy’s Puglia region captures the imagination with its distinctive trulli houses. These structures were built using a dry-stone technique passed down over centuries, without mortar or cement, and their unique form comes from layer upon layer of limestone nestled from nearby fields. Alberobello’s trulli are so remarkable that in 1996 the historic center was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, where more than 1,600 of these buildings still stand.

In the heart of the South Pacific, beneath southern skies, lies the island paradise of Fiji. If you travel to dive, to eat fine food, to bask in the sun, or to simply relax in a tropical paradise the tiny, unspoiled island of Beqa, just might be what you're looking for. One exciting feature of Beqa is its seclusion. Beqa Island has no roads and no towns, only three isolated villages scattered around the perimeter. The island is skirted by stretches of sandy beaches laced, in the evening and ear

The Canyon valleys of the Waimea River and its tributary were once heavily populated, and the town was an early center of native government. It was here that Captain James Cook, English Navigator-Explorer, made his first landing in the Hawaiian Islands on January 20, 1778. Waimea developed as a provisioning port for whalers and sandalwood traders. A ruined Russian fort, built (1815) in a futile attempt to seize the isle, occupies a coastal bluff aboe the Waimea River. A rich sugar-plantation