Europe's 'first tourist attraction' that's a natural wonder but visitors are now banned
This beautiful sight dates back tens of million years, and is so precious that visitors are no longer allowed to visit it.
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Messages on the mountains
For ancient peoples living in and around the AlUla Valley, the sandstone mountains rising from the desert were not just part of the landscape, they were surfaces on which words, names, prayers and ...
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Who built the ‘lost city’ of Petra—and why did they leave?
Ad Deir, or the Monastery, is one of Petra's many facades carved out of sandstone in Wadi Musa ... a site on Petra’s highest mountain containing ruins that date to the Iron Age, visitors ...
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This trail in Germany’s Saxon Switzerland national park brings me to views that inspired legendary landscape painters
Today, a route they inspired — the Malerweg, German for “painters’ way” — will take you more than 110 kilometres through the Elbe Sandstone Mountains, in Saxon Switzerland National Park.