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Also known as Coronation Park, this large green space in the centre of Ipoh is a good place to take a breather. It holds one of the last surviving specimens of the *ipoh* tree from which the city takes its name (the tree's sap was once used by the Orang Asli to poison their blowpipe darts), plus an artificial lake with feedable fish, a small Japanese garden with koi ponds, and a children's playgro

The largest national park in Central America and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, covering 5,790 square kilometres of tropical forest, swamp, rocky coasts, mangroves, and high cloud forest on the Colombian border. More than 900 bird species have been recorded here, including the harpy eagle. Two indigenous groups — the Emberá-Wounaan and the Guna — live within the park and can be visited by canoe fro

The Western Wall is the last remaining retaining wall of the Second Temple platform, rebuilt by Herod the Great around 19 BCE and destroyed by Rome in 70 CE. For nearly two thousand years it has been the holiest place in Judaism where public prayer is permitted, and it draws visitors of every faith. The plaza in front of the wall is divided into men's and women's prayer sections. Visitors of all

The castle's small museum displays a printing press built to mark the 500th anniversary of Gutenberg — visitors can produce their own souvenir page, set in lead type, on the working machine. Slovenia's oldest castle is also the only one in the country where the printed word and the printing press both predate the regional language being recognised as Slovene.

The Chilam Joshi festival marks the beginning of summer pasturing season for the Kalash people of Chitral's three valleys — Rumbur, Bumburet, and Birir. It runs for several days in late April or early May, rotating between the valleys, and is one of the most accessible windows into Kalash culture. Women and girls dress in their distinctive black robes and heavy bead necklaces, performing circle d

Built in Neoclassical-Greek Revival style, this firehouse operated from 1861 until 1938 — long enough to see the transition from horse-drawn wagons to motorized engines, all running through the same small arched entrance.