Despite having again failed to post the world's largest desert we feel the second annual GSS Desert Week has been a resounding success! The places we visited were: UTA Flight 772 Memorial Desert Dome The Osoyoos…

Sitting between twin volcanoes in "the garden of Java" - the Kedu Plain of Indonesia - is a ninth century Buddhist temple: Borobudur. One huge stupa (shrine for the Lord Buddha), it also contains seventy-two smaller,…

Written in the sands of the Atacama Desert, Chile, are the words "ni pena ni miedo" which translate more or less as "No shame nor fear", and together they form what must surely be the world's…

Rudely interrupting our very important Volcano Week 3, Google have chosen this week to make two significant imagery updates. Firstly, a ton of new satellite and aerial imagery is currently available worldwide in Google Earth. A…

It’s Island Week 3 here at GSS, which means we’ll mostly be posting about Islands. It'll probably last about a week. The island of Tristan da Cunha and its surrounding archipelago are located in the southern…

And so, we come to end of our first ever desert week. It turns out that we only featured two actual deserts over the week, and we even failed to mention the world's largest desert! Despite…