Borders Of Adventure

Leading Culture and Adventure Travel Blog by Becki Enright. Looking at the world with a different angle to change perceptions of misunderstood places, for the best in travel.

Travel Destinations and Countries to Visit

Browse countries by continent and find the top places to visit, the best cultural destinations and where to go on an adventure trip. 

Europe

AustriaElevated view of Salzburg - an old riverside town with a castle on the hill backed by forested mountains.
Czech RepublicElevated view overlooking Charles Bridge connecting the two sides of Prague either side of the Vltava River.
FinlandA glass igloo on deep snow under the night sky of green northern lights.
FranceView over a walking street and cluster of old, box houses in Amboise, France.
Great BritainLeaf covered green pastures and rolling hills next to a lake in England.
GreeceView over Athens with the dense cluster of old houses and apartments buildings in front of, and surrounding, two hills.
GermanyView from a park to a stretch of long, grand, domed buildings along a boat-lined river in Dresden.
ItalyThe archway columns, old houses, towers and crumbling walls of the tree-filled ancient ruins of the Palatine Hill in Rome.
IcelandCascading water falls between rock walls at the Gullfoss waterfall in Iceland.
IrelandAncient castle ruins in green parkland in Ireland.
LatviaPeople walking in a street in Riga Old Town, lined with art nouveau and pastel painted, street art covered buildings.
MaltaFar view to the golden structures, spires and domes of Valletta, Malta next to the sea, where boats are sailing.
Northern IrelandPeople on a pathways through forested hills upon steep cliffs next to the sea in Northern Ireland.
RomaniaThe hilltop stone fortress exterior of Bran Castle in Transylvania, Romania.
San MarinoSan Marino's fortress towers on the tip of hill and old town buildings cascading down it behind it.
SerbiaA tiny red house in Serbia, perched on a rock in the middle of a river, surrounded by forest.
SloveniaPeople walking over a triple bridge towards pink and white classical buildings in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
SpainIn Seville, a man rows a boat with two passengers on a small manmade river in front of a colossal golden building that glows in the sun.
SwitzerlandThe red-roofed buildings of Bern Old town and the aqua Aare River flowing through a triple arched bridge.
VaticanThe looming stone walls of the Vatican City in Rome.

Asia

BorneoA mother carries her baby Orangutan through a Borneo forest Sanctuary.
CambodiaA woman sitting on a stone wall looking towards the complex of the Angkor Wat temple at sunrise.
ChinaPeople walking towards the Forbidden City palace whose red walls feature Chinese symbols and a portrait of Chairman Mao.
JapanVisitors at the two-tiered red columned Sensoji Temple in Tokyo.
LaosTwo blue longboats on a still river in Lao backed by jagged rock formations.
MalaysiaA woman with long hair stands in front of a landscape of rolling green terrain and forested hills.
MongoliaA layering on tree-dotted flat land, green sloping hills and low-lying mountains in Mongolia.
MyanmarA man in a red shirt and white hat balances on a boat in Inle Lake with one leg, using the other leg to move the paddle.
North KoreaPeople line up in front of two bronze statues of the Kims in North Korea.
South KoreaPeople with sun umbrellas walking towards the two-tier pagoda of Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul, South Korea.
TaiwanView through foliage of moored white boats on the wide turquoise waters of Sun Moon Lake in Taiwan.
ThailandA Sanctuary worker tends to Elephants in Thailand at the Elephant Nature Park conservation project.
TibetThe back of a monk sitting outside the entrance to the Tashi Lhunpo Monastery in Shigatse, Tibet.
NepalTwo trekkers behind a line of yaks on a dusty path past a wide rocky scree on the Everest Base Camp Trek towards white mountain ranges.
Sri LankaHilltop view over ochre earth and vast green marsh land in Sri Lanka.
VietnamA cluster of wooden double decker boats in the calm rock formation filled waters of Halong Bay in Vietnam.

Middle East

IranVisitors walking in the garden grounds in front of The Great Mosque Masjid-e Jameh of Isfahan on an Iran trip.
IsraelPeople gather in the Western Wall Plaza in Jerusalem, surrounded by light orange stone walls beneath the golden dome of Temple Mount and a minaret.
TurkeyPeople lounging on the green lawn in front of the four minaret Sultanahmet Blue Mosque in Istanbul.
United Arab EmiratesA woman walking within the turrets and wall fortifications in the mountain backed desert landscape of Ras Al Khaimah.

North America

CanadaA cowboy rides his horse through a ranch in the green prairies of Canada.
USAYellow cabs and people beneath the high rise, advertising clad buildings in Times Square, New York city.

Central America

CubaA cluster of people and two old cars outside a row of classical pastel coloured buildings in Havana, Cuba.

South America

ColombiaA couple looking at the view of the mountain top, stone terraced Lost City in Colombia.
EcuadorJungle and river landscape of the Ecuador Amazon Rainforest, covered in cloud mist.
PeruThe stone Inca ruins of Machu Picchu upon a mountain in the Sacred Valley in Peru.

Oceania

AustraliaThe orange Uluru rock in Australia in the glow of sunrise.

Africa

EgyptA great pyramid of Giza looms behind the sphinx in the dusty desert area of Giza in Egypt.
South AfricaThree women on scooters on a mountain ledge overlooking the city spread of Cape Town, South Africa.

TanzaniaA man and woman stand together in front of a camp of green and orange tents, with the snow capped Mount Kilimanjaro behind.

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