3-19 Nov 2025:Volcanoes and Spices- Sulawesi/Halmahera (Indonesia) = spaces available = guaranteed = few spaces left = booked out Random pictures Powerful explosion at dusk. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) The south crater which contains the active lava lake inside the caldera of Erta...
In the north, Mexico is bordered by the US. In the south, it is bordered by Belize and Guatemala. This Central American beauty is also sandwiched in between great bodies of water – the Pacific Ocean in the west, and the Gulf of Mexico in the East. S...
Located in the Ring of Fire, the Philippines routinely faces natural disasters from earthquakes to volcano eruptions. The tourist attraction and one of the country’s most active volcanoes, Taal, erupted on Jan. 12, forcing hundreds of thousands to evacuate, covering the land in ash and killing...
10. Lago Atitlán, Guatemala High in the Guatemalan highlands lies the powerfulLago Atitlán, a 1000-foot-deep lake surrounded by three volcanoes. For the Maya people, the lake is considered the “bellybutton of the Earth” and is highly respected as a gateway to the underworld, akaXibalba. ...
The high temperature geothermal area at Hengill covers three central volcanoes and their surroundings. The youngest one is the most active, whereas the oldest one is eroded but still geothermal active. 5.10.2 Nesjavellir Power Plant The first geothermal power plant in the Hengill area is the ...
An archipelago made up of many islands, it’s also an incredible place to learn about volcanoes and geology, and literally see with your own eyes how these islands were formed. However, topside is not why we went. We went to go diving. As we learned from our truly fabulous naturalist/di...
There are also pyramids in China, Bosnia, Mexico, Cambodia, Sudan, Guatemala, Iraq, and Indonesia, and due to earth changes and cataclysms, there are probably more underground. They were a new batch of humans who entered the Near East and began building civilizations around the Nile River and...
Tourism to Guatemala, for example, with its Mayan heritage, lush rain forests and lakes surrounded by volcanoes, has doubled in the past decade to nearly 2 million foreign visitors a year. Their dollars have kept young indigenous women interested in learning the specialized craft of weaving on ...