From the psychedelic salt mines of Yekaterinburg in Siberia to the rugged, green-tinted Copper Canyon in the Sierra Madre in Mexico, Hidden Places roams across the globe in search of hidden treasures and secret places off the beaten track. Explore the Silfra Deep Trench in Iceland, where the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates meet to create a remarkable rift and freshwater dive site; experience the weirdest of woodland walks through the Crooked Forest in Pomerania, Poland, where a grove of 400 pines are uniformly curved; marvel at the colourful, gold-plated temple of Doi Suthep in northern Thailand; or visit the worlds highest sand dune, Grande Dune du Pilat, on the Bordeaux coast. Each location is accompanied by a caption explaining the geography and history of the place. Illustrated with 180 colour photographs, Hidden Places ranges from the sparse landscape of the Arctic Circle to the rich rainforests of the Amazon basin. Read this book and discover the special, hidden places that will come to define your bucket list many of which are much closer to home than you think.
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Photographic guide to the world's most amazing secret destinations
Contents includes: NORTH AMERICA Apostle Islands in Wisconsin, USA
Hamilton Pool Preserve, Texas Ozarks, Missouri, USA Thors Well, Oregon, USA
Burney Falls, California, USA Lake Hurons Thunder Bay National Marine
Sanctuary, USA Garden of the Gods, Colorado, USA Asheville, North Carolina,
USA Wallace, Idaho, USA Apostle Islands, Wisconsin, USA Taos, New Mexico, USA
Jekyll Island, Georgia, USA Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado Fly
Geyser, Nevada, USA Kenai Fjords National Park, USA Montreal Botanical
Garden, Canada Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada Squamish, British
Columbia, Canada Bowen Island, British Columbia Haida Gwaii, British
Columbia, Canada Dawson City, Canada Axel Heiberg Island, Canada Bove Island,
Yukon, Canada Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Toronto, Canada Paricutín,
Mexico Copper Canyon, Mexico Cave Cenote, Yucatan, Mexico The Great Blue
Hole, Belize Leon, Nicaragua Monteserrat, Caribbean Semuc Champey, Guatemala
SOUTH AMERICA Iquitos, Peru Kuelap, Peru Lencois Maranhenses, Maranhão,
Brazil Amazon River, Brazil Salvadore, Brazil Parc Nacional dos Lencois
Maranhenses, Brazil Punta Arenas, Chile Suriname River, Upper Suriname Madidi
National Park, Bolivia Salar de Uyuni (Salar de Tunupa), Bolivia Rurrenabaque
Pampas, Bolivia Tupiza, Bolivia Puerto Piramides, Argentina Bariloche,
Argentina Salta, Argentina EUROPE Towpaths, Haggerston, London Holkham Beach,
Norfolk, England Blackwater Estuary, Essex, England Fermanagh Lakelands, N
Ireland Glens of Antrim, N Ireland Torc Waterfall, Kerry, Ireland Beara
Peninsula, Ireland Isle of Jura, Scotland Cape Wrath Trail, Scotland Baie de
Loya, Basque country, France Les Cascades du Hérisson, Jura, France Cote de
Granite Rose, Brittany, France Lîle de Berger, Brittany, France Le village
troglodyte, Vienne, France La dune du Pilat, Aquitaine, France Le Lac du
Salagou, Hérault, France Colmar, Alsace, France Nonza, Corsica Cochem,
Germany Freudenberg, Westphalia, Germany Seegrotte in Hinterbrühl, Austria La
Scala dei Turchi, Sicily, Italy Rocce Rosse quarry, Tortolì, Nuoro Sardinia,
Italy SantAgata dei Goti, Benevento, Italy Rocca Calascio, LAquila,
Abruzzo, Giardino di Ninfa, Cistema di Latina, Latina, Italy Civita di
Bagnoregio, Viterbo, Italy Bomarzo, Viterbo, Italy Postojna Cave, Slovenia
Greek island of Symi, off Rhodes Agios Nikolaos, Crete Cascadas en Orbaneja
del Castillo, Spain Playa de las Furnas, Porto do Sun, Spain Cueva de los
verdes, Haría, Spain Ruta de las Caras, Calle Peña Alta, Buendía, Spain
Bosque de Oma, Barrio Basondo, Basque Country, Spain Prismas basálticos do
Pico Ana Ferreira, Porto Santo, Portugal Grutas vulcânicas, Madeira, Portugal
Algar do Pena, Serra dAire e Candeeiros, Portugal Poça da Dona Beija, São
Miguel, Portugal Ponta da Calheta, Porto Santo, Portugal Forte de Sao Joao
Baptista, ilhas Berlengas, Portugal Casa do Penedo, Serra de Fafe, Portugal
Trummelbach waterfall, Switzerland Lauterbrunnen, Bern, Switzerland Silfra
Deep Trench, Iceland Faroe Islands, Denmark Svalbard, Norway Lofoten
Archipelago, Norway Stockholm Archipelago, Sweden Brides Vale Waterfall,
Romania Castelul de lut/Clay Castle, Romania Transfgran Highway, Romania
Parcului Naional Cheile Nerei, Romania Milestii Mici, massive underground
wine cellar, Moldova Poznan, Poland Crooked Forest in Szczecin, Poland
Psychedelic Salt Mines in Yekaterinburg, Russia Georgia, Caucasus Armenia,
Caucasus AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST Wadi Rum, Jordan Lixus, Morocco
Odzala-Kokoua National Park, in the Republic of Congo Quirimbas Archipelago,
Mozambique Lake Natron, Tanzania Tanzania Mafia Island diving, Tanzania
Principe and Sao Tome Djemaa el Fna, Morocco Kafue and South Luangwa, Zambia
Selous and the Mahale Mountains, Tanzania Rubondo Island Damaraland,
Kaokoveld and Skeleton Coast, Namibia Fish River Canyon, Namibia Namib
Desert, elephants Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda ASIA AND THE PACIFIC Alborz
Mountains, Dizin, Tehran, Iran The Door to Hell in Derweze, Turkmenistan
Iskanderkul lake, Tajikistan Golden City, Rajastan Pangong Tso Lake in
Ladakh, Himalayas Bhutan Coonoor, India Hsinbyume Pagoda, Myanmar Inle Lake,
Myanmar Province, Cameron Highlands/Frazers hill, Malaysia Maiga Island,
Malaysia Pulau Rawa, Malaysia Penyenget Island, Pulau Bintan, Indonesia Nusa
Islands, Bali, Indonesia Suluban Cace, Bali, Indonesia Gili Islands, Lombok,
Indonesia Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia Lake "Kelimutu", Flores, Indonesia
Jomblang cave, Indonesia Nino Konis Antana National Park, East Timor Lampang,
Thailand Doi Suthep Monastery, Chiang Mai, Thailand My Son temples, Vietnam
Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park, Vietnam Hue citadel, Vietnam Con Dao
Islands, Vietnam Enchanting River in Surigao del Sur, Philippines Kampong
Thom, Cambodia Kuang Si Falls, Laos Hitachi Seaside Park, Ibaraki, Japan
Gassho-zukuri farmhouses in Shirakawa-g and Gokayama, Japan Jiuzhaigou
National Park, China Mount Sanqing, China Haiku Stairs in Oahu, Hawaii Na
Pali Coast, Hawaii Rangiroa, French Polynesia Tuvalu
Claudia Martin is a travel writer who has contributed to many guide books and magazines. She is also the author of books on history, geography and culture for adults and young people. She lives in London, UK.
