The landscape on Aruba is bare and desert-like. In fact, the island is anything but a paradise. That is, if it were not for the beaches, which stretch for miles along the coats, promising idyllic days by the turquoise ocean. That is the trump card for the island’s tourist industry, which has made a name [...]
It would not be quite accurate to call the island pretty - the landscape is quite austere and even desert-like, with big cacti in the east. Then you suddenly find yourself standing on top of steep cliffs, hypnotized by the raging surf. Divers are in their element: the sea is crystal-clear and the coral reefs [...]
Mount Lassen is one of the few active volcanoes in North America. For thousands of years, the 11,500-foot Lassen Peak remained quiet - that is until 1914, when small eruptions provided the first warning signs of a major eruption. Just one year later, the pressure which had accumulated within the mountain caused a tremendous cloud [...]
The Tiergarten, with its 500 acres of parkland and 16 miles of footpaths, has become the largest recreational area in Berlin, transformed in the 19th century by P. J. Lenné from the Kurfürst’s animal enclosure into an English-style landscape garden. The most colossal of its numerous monuments is the Siegessäule and its gilt Victory, erected [...]
