The Giza Pyramid Climb Video: An Archive, Not a Visitor Route
The Pyramids of Giza are impressive before you take a single photograph. Their scale becomes clearer as you notice the stone courses, the sp...
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Africa: Landscapes & Places to Discover
From expansive landscapes to places shaped by a long human history, this archive invites a closer look at Africa. Follow the photographs, discover a place that catches your eye and explore the stories around it.
Start with Chefchaouen: A Relaxed Guide to Morocco’s Blue Medina and Mauritius’ Underwater Waterfall: The Illusion Explained.
The Manta Resort Underwater Room: A Night off Pemba Island
Imagine ending the day above the water and spending the night with the sea outside your bedroom window. The Manta Resort’s underwater room m...
How Far From Home: Chanel and Stevo’s Early Travel Photo Diary
A small black chalkboard gives the How Far From Home photographs their familiar thread. The surroundings change from a city street to a fiel...
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10 Photographs from the 2015 National Geographic Traveler Contest
A memorable travel photograph gives your eye somewhere to land, then rewards you for staying. Ten entries from the 2015 National Geographic ...
Kirstenbosch’s Boomslang: A Walk through the Tree Canopy
The Boomslang curves through the trees at Kirstenbosch like a slender ribbon, lifting you into a different view of the garden. Leaves that n...
Five Egyptian Bases: Giza, Luxor, Aswan, Sharm el-Sheikh and Alexandria
Egypt can offer several very different journeys within one country. A day among Giza’s monuments, a visit to Luxor’s temples and time beside...
Blyde River Canyon: The Three Rondavels and the Panorama Route
Blyde River Canyon offers a view with several layers: rounded peaks, green slopes, water far below and a horizon that seems to keep unfoldin...
Chefchaouen: Blue Lanes, Mountain Setting and a Living Medina
Chefchaouen’s blue lanes are a lovely invitation to wander. A painted doorway leads to a staircase; a staircase reveals another shade of blu...
Lake Nakuru’s Flamingos: A Moving Pattern across Kenya’s Lakes
From a distance, a flock of flamingos can look like a pink line drawn around a lake. Move your attention closer and the pattern becomes thou...
Thonis-Heracleion: What Egypt’s Sunken Port Reveals
A monumental stone face appears through green water. Nearby, a diver gives the sculpture a human scale. Images from Thonis-Heracleion are dr...
Morocco’s Tree-Climbing Goats and the Argan Landscape
A goat balanced among branches is an image that makes you look twice. In Morocco’s argan country, it can also be the starting point for a mu...
Tippi Degré’s Childhood Photographs in Southern Africa
A small child stands beside an elephant, and the difference in scale is astonishing. Photographs of Tippi Degré’s childhood in southern Afri...