Visit the Saalburg Roman fort
When the Romans were at their peak in the second century, these fortifications in Germany protected their frontier. Now, one fort’s been reconstructed.
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Why is Sri Lanka so expensive?
After visiting a few sites in Sri Lanka, it’s when I reach the Sacred City of Anuradhapura that something hits home. Sri Lanka can be really expensive!
Sri Lanka’s painted caves
For hundreds of years the statues and the cave paintings of Dambulla have survived, carefully looked after by the devoted. So who created who?
Mud in Germany
Holidaymakers come here to relax by the beach – many not even realising this is a unique landscape that hosts a habitat found nowhere else in the world.
Visit the Fagus Factory
One of the first Modernist buildings in Europe, the Fagus Factory is amazingly still used by the same company today!
Running an empire
This incredible transport network stretched out over a huge part of South America. But you won’t believe how the Incans used to get messages along it!