The largest city in North America and the largest Spanish-speaking city in the world, Mexico City is one of the world’s most impressive metropolises. As ground zero for the Aztec takeover of Latin America, Mexico City was built on the remains of Tenochtitlan and has grown into a sprawling urban centre.
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An oddity in Southeast Asia, Singapore is a city-state, with a clear Colonial British legacy. A melting pot of Chinese, Malay and British cultures, Singapore has quickly emerged as one of the most economically developed nations on earth, an ultra-modern metropolis with little of the ancient tradition many of its neighbours have.
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These three countries straddle the borders of Europe, the Middle East and Asia where regional conflicts and ethnic divisions have often deterred travellers.
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Feluccas are small sailing boats, typically crewed by 2 or 3 men, which have been used by fishermen on the Nile for thousands of years. With a broad beam, shallow draught, and a distinctive lateen sail, they are ideally designed for navigating the shallow Nile waters and for making the most of the river’s habitually gentle crosswinds.
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The Amazon has long been the epitome of trekking into vast, unexplored wilderness .The second longest river in the world, the Amazon stretches 3900 miles from the Andes in Peru to the Atlantic and supports ten percent of the world’s plant and animal life.
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