Today is Groundhog Day, a North American festival which reckons that "if a groundhog emerges from its burrow on this day and fails to see its shadow because the weather is cloudy, winter will soon end. If the groundhog sees…

Two years ago our very own Noel Ballantyne wrote an article for Volcano Week 5 about Mount Kilimanjaro, a dormant stratovolcano in Tanzania that at 5,893 metres is the highest mountain in Africa. At the time, Noel wrote of the…

For the seventh year running, volcano week is back!. We have a fascinating line-up of volcano posts scheduled, where we'll be visiting some of the most spectacular scenery Google Maps and Street View have to offer. If you'd like to…

The Namib Desert is not only the oldest desert in the world, but it has its own shipwrecks, 900-year-old tree "skeletons", and some of the highest sand dunes in the world. However we covered all those things in our 2008…

This week, the always-much-more-interesting-than-it-sounds desert week returns – even later than it did last year (although here at Google Sightseeing we prefer to simply think that our years are slightly longer than yours). However, once again we've been scouring the…

It was only last week that Google announced their new "Trekker" Street View camera that would them to record images in places that were inaccessible even to the Street View Trike or the Street View Trolley - but only a…