Hidden Places: From Secret Shores to Sacred Shrines

From the psychedelic salt mines of Yekaterinburg in Siberia to the rugged, green-tinted Copper Canyon in the Sierra Madre in Mexico, Hidden Places roams across the globe in search of hidden treasures and secret places off the beaten track. Explore the Silfra Deep Trench in Iceland, where the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates meet to create a remarkable rift and freshwater dive site; experience the weirdest of woodland walks through the Crooked Forest in Pomerania, Poland, where a grove of 400 pines are uniformly curved; marvel at the colourful, gold-plated temple of Doi Suthep in northern Thailand; or visit the world’s highest sand dune, Grande Dune du Pilat, on the Bordeaux coast. Each location is accompanied by a caption explaining the geography and history of the place. Illustrated with 180 colour photographs, Hidden Places ranges from the sparse landscape of the Arctic Circle to the rich rainforests of the Amazon basin. Read this book and discover the special, hidden places that will come to define your bucket list – many of which are much closer to home than you think.

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Contents includes: NORTH AMERICA Apostle Islands in Wisconsin, USA Hamilton Pool Preserve, Texas Ozarks, Missouri, USA Thor’s Well, Oregon, USA Burney Falls, California, USA Lake Huron’s Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary, USA Garden of the Gods, Colorado, USA Asheville, North Carolina, USA Wallace, Idaho, USA Apostle Islands, Wisconsin, USA Taos, New Mexico, USA Jekyll Island, Georgia, USA Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado Fly Geyser, Nevada, USA Kenai Fjords National Park, USA Montreal Botanical Garden, Canada Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada Squamish, British Columbia, Canada Bowen Island, British Columbia Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, Canada Dawson City, Canada Axel Heiberg Island, Canada Bove Island, Yukon, Canada Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Toronto, Canada Paricutín, Mexico Copper Canyon, Mexico Cave Cenote, Yucatan, Mexico The Great Blue Hole, Belize Leon, Nicaragua Monteserrat, Caribbean Semuc Champey, Guatemala SOUTH AMERICA Iquitos, Peru Kuelap, Peru Lencois Maranhenses, Maranhão, Brazil Amazon River, Brazil Salvadore, Brazil Parc Nacional dos Lencois Maranhenses, Brazil Punta Arenas, Chile Suriname River, Upper Suriname Madidi National Park, Bolivia Salar de Uyuni (Salar de Tunupa), Bolivia Rurrenabaque Pampas, Bolivia Tupiza, Bolivia Puerto Piramides, Argentina Bariloche, Argentina Salta, Argentina EUROPE Towpaths, Haggerston, London Holkham Beach, Norfolk, England Blackwater Estuary, Essex, England Fermanagh Lakelands, N Ireland Glens of Antrim, N Ireland Torc Waterfall, Kerry, Ireland Beara Peninsula, Ireland Isle of Jura, Scotland Cape Wrath Trail, Scotland Baie de Loya, Basque country, France Les Cascades du Hérisson, Jura, France Cote de Granite Rose, Brittany, France L’île de Berger, Brittany, France Le village troglodyte, Vienne, France La dune du Pilat, Aquitaine, France Le Lac du Salagou, Hérault, France Colmar, Alsace, France Nonza, Corsica Cochem, Germany Freudenberg, Westphalia, Germany Seegrotte in Hinterbrühl, Austria La Scala dei Turchi, Sicily, Italy Rocce Rosse quarry, Tortolì, Nuoro Sardinia, Italy Sant’Agata dei Goti, Benevento, Italy Rocca Calascio, L’Aquila, Abruzzo, Giardino di Ninfa, Cistema di Latina, Latina, Italy Civita di Bagnoregio, Viterbo, Italy Bomarzo, Viterbo, Italy Postojna Cave, Slovenia Greek island of Symi, off Rhodes Agios Nikolaos, Crete Cascadas en Orbaneja del Castillo, Spain Playa de las Furnas, Porto do Sun, Spain Cueva de los verdes, Haría, Spain Ruta de las Caras, Calle Peña Alta, Buendía, Spain Bosque de Oma, Barrio Basondo, Basque Country, Spain Prismas basálticos do Pico Ana Ferreira, Porto Santo, Portugal Grutas vulcânicas, Madeira, Portugal Algar do Pena, Serra d’Aire e Candeeiros, Portugal Poça da Dona Beija, São Miguel, Portugal Ponta da Calheta, Porto Santo, Portugal Forte de Sao Joao Baptista, ilhas Berlengas, Portugal Casa do Penedo, Serra de Fafe, Portugal Trummelbach waterfall, Switzerland Lauterbrunnen, Bern, Switzerland Silfra Deep Trench, Iceland Faroe Islands, Denmark Svalbard, Norway Lofoten Archipelago, Norway Stockholm Archipelago, Sweden Bride’s Vale Waterfall, Romania Castelul de lut/Clay Castle, Romania Transfăgărășan Highway, Romania Parcului Național Cheile Nerei, Romania Milestii Mici, massive underground wine cellar, Moldova Poznan, Poland Crooked Forest in Szczecin, Poland Psychedelic Salt Mines in Yekaterinburg, Russia Georgia, Caucasus Armenia, Caucasus AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST Wadi Rum, Jordan Lixus, Morocco Odzala-Kokoua National Park, in the Republic of Congo Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique Lake Natron, Tanzania Tanzania Mafia Island diving, Tanzania Principe and Sao Tome Djemaa el Fna, Morocco Kafue and South Luangwa, Zambia Selous and the Mahale Mountains, Tanzania Rubondo Island Damaraland, Kaokoveld and Skeleton Coast, Namibia Fish River Canyon, Namibia Namib Desert, elephants Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda ASIA AND THE PACIFIC Alborz Mountains, Dizin, Tehran, Iran “The Door to Hell” in Derweze, Turkmenistan Iskanderkul lake, Tajikistan Golden City, Rajastan Pangong Tso Lake in Ladakh, Himalayas Bhutan Coonoor, India Hsinbyume Pagoda, Myanmar Inle Lake, Myanmar Province, Cameron Highlands/Frazer’s hill, Malaysia Maiga Island, Malaysia Pulau Rawa, Malaysia Penyenget Island, Pulau Bintan, Indonesia Nusa Islands, Bali, Indonesia Suluban Cace, Bali, Indonesia Gili Islands, Lombok, Indonesia Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia Lake "Kelimutu", Flores, Indonesia Jomblang cave, Indonesia Nino Konis Antana National Park, East Timor Lampang, Thailand Doi Suthep Monastery, Chiang Mai, Thailand My Son temples, Vietnam Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park, Vietnam Hue citadel, Vietnam Con Dao Islands, Vietnam Enchanting River in Surigao del Sur, Philippines Kampong Thom, Cambodia Kuang Si Falls, Laos Hitachi Seaside Park, Ibaraki, Japan Gassho-zukuri farmhouses in Shirakawa-gō and Gokayama, Japan Jiuzhaigou National Park, China Mount Sanqing, China Haiku Stairs in Oahu, Hawaii Na Pali Coast, Hawaii Rangiroa, French Polynesia Tuvalu