A Journey of Postcards

Postcard The Canary Islands are a Spanish archipelago located just off the coast of Morocco. Gran Canaria , Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, Teneri...

  Postcard The ruins of the holy city of the Kingdom of Elam, surrounded by three huge concentric walls, are found at Tchogha Zanbil. Founde...

Postcard The Lagoons Aquarium in Nouméa, capital of New Caledonia, hosts a variety of corals, fish, crustacean and marine mammals. The aquar...

Postcard Jamaica is the third-largest island in the Caribbean. Kingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica. What is the first thing ...

Postcard Located in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius, Herculaneum (Ercolano in Italian) was an ancient Roman town, destroyed by volcanic pyrocla...

Postcard When Vesuvius erupted on 24 August AD 79, it engulfed the two flourishing Roman towns of Pompei and Herculaneum, as well as the man...

Postcard Oplontis was an ancient Roman site near Pompeii in Italy. Today it refers to the group of villas in the middle of the modern town o...

Postcard The Ming and the Qing dynasties were the last two ruling imperial dynasties of China. The Ming dynasty for 276 years, from 1368 to ...

Postcard The quiver tree (or kokerboom in Afrikaans) is a tall, branching species of aloe, indigenous to parts of Southern Namibia. Bushmen ...

Postcard Lindau is a major town and an island with the same name in Lake Constance (Bodensee in German). It is a unique location. In the mid...

Postcard Jesuit Missions of La Santísima Trinidad de Paraná and Jesús de Tavarangue are part of a series of 30 missions in the Río de la Pla...

Postcard Lobos is a small island located about 8 kilometres southeast of Punta del Este in Uruguay. Not to be confused with Lobos Island, p...

Postcard The Abbey of Saint-Remi is an abbey in Reims, France, founded in the sixth century. The Abbey, together with the nearby cathedral o...

Postcard According to UNESCO the Old City of Zamość is a perfect example of a late-16th-century Renaissance town. It has retained its origin...

Postcard The Caves of Aggtelek Karst (together with Slovak Karst) is a UNESCO World Heritage site consisting of 712 caves spread out over a ...

Postcard That India has the largest number of post offices in the world is a known fact. But did you know that there is a floating post offi...

Postcard This magnificient bird is the shoebill, a very large stork-like bird. It derives its name from its massive shoe-shaped bill. It liv...

Postcard Malaysia is fortunate to host four species of sea turtles: Leatherback, Green, Hawksbill, and Olive ridley turtles. These gentle re...

Postcard Su Nuraxi is an archaeological site in Barumini, a village located on Sardinia, Italy's second-largest island. During the late ...

Postcard Inhabited since 250 B.C., Djenné became a market centre and an important link in the trans-Saharan gold trade. Its traditional hous...

Postcard Ilha do Mel, which means Honey Island, is located 5 km off the Brazilian coast. Hikers, surfers, bird watchers, stargazers and natu...

Postcard A colourful carnival is held each year in Lagos, Nigeria, at Easter time featuring fabulous costumes and street parties.

Postcard In 1834, the British Government selected the island of Mauritius to be the first site for what it called ‘the great experiment’ in ...

Postcard Located at the mouth of the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers between India and Bangladesh, the Sundarbans contain the world's larg...

Postcard The Kenya Lake System in the Great Rift Valley comprises three inter-linked relatively shallow lakes and covers a total area of 32,...