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Natural Places of the World
A curated, growing atlas of the planet’s great natural places — from national parks and fjords to reefs and deserts. Find one that calls to you, then plan a trip in a click.
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Bwindi Impenetrable Forest
A dense, ancient montane rainforest sheltering roughly half the world’s remaining mountain gorillas.
Erg Chebbi
A sea of wind-sculpted Saharan dunes rising up to 150 metres near Merzouga, glowing orange at sunrise and sunset.
Mount Kilimanjaro
Africa’s highest peak at 5,895 metres, a free-standing dormant volcano rising from savanna through rainforest to an arctic summit.
Mount Nyiragongo
An active stratovolcano in Virunga National Park holding one of the world’s largest and most persistent lava lakes.
Okavango Delta
A vast inland delta where the Okavango River fans into the Kalahari, creating seasonal channels and islands teeming with wildlife.
Serengeti
Vast tropical grassland plains hosting the annual Great Migration of wildebeest and zebra, and one of the densest predator populations on Earth.
Sossusvlei
Towering red dunes and the cracked white clay pan of Deadvlei in the ancient Namib Sand Sea, home to some of the tallest dunes on Earth.
Table Mountain
A flat-topped massif overlooking Cape Town, cloaked in the endemic-rich fynbos of the Cape Floral Kingdom and reached by hiking trails or a rotating cableway.
Victoria Falls
One of the world’s largest waterfalls, where the Zambezi plunges 108 metres across a 1.7-kilometre width, locally known as Mosi-oa-Tunya, "the smoke that thunders".