Naviquan Travel Ideas for Travel Featuring "hideaway and retreat"

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The Channel Islands (British Dependencies, English Channel)

The Channel Islands are an idyllic cluster of islands that lie 10 miles off the Normandy coastline of France in the English Channel. The two main islands are the Bailiwicks ... Feb. 2, 2012

Gower Peninsula (Wales, United Kingdom)

The Gower Peninsula (Y Gwyr), located on the south coast of Wales, is one of the last areas that have remained relatively unchanged in the United Kingdom. Much of the ... Jan. 17, 2012

Siwa Oasis, Egypt

Siwa Oasis is an oasis (an isolated area of vegetation in a desert) in the western Egypt, in Mersa Matrouh (Matruh) governorate about 30 miles (50 km) east of the ... Aug. 25, 2011

Fish River Canyon, Namibia

The Fish River Canyon is located in the south of Namibia. After the Grand Canyon (USA), it is the second biggest canyon in the world with the total length of ... Aug. 25, 2011

Galápagos Islands, Ecuador

The Galápagos Islands (official name is Archipiélago de Colón) are an archipelago of volcanic islands around the equator in the Pacific Ocean, about 600 miles (970 km) west of continental ... Aug. 26, 2011

Taktsang Palphug Monastery, Bhutan

Paro Taktsang or Taktsang Palphug Monastery (also known as The Tiger's Nest) is a Buddhist sacred site and temple complex in Paro valley in Kingdom of Bhutan. The monastery ... Aug. 26, 2011

Ile Saint-Honorat, France

Saint-Honorat and Saint-Marguerite islands form the Iles de Lérins archipelago off the bay of Cannes, about a mile off shore from French Riviera town of Cannes. Saint-Honorat is the smallest ... Aug. 26, 2011

Mount Athos, Greece

Mount Athos, the oldest monastic republic, was created in 963 AD. Nowadays Mount Athos political status is the Autonomous Monastic State of the Holy Mountain. It is located on the ... Aug. 27, 2011

Lundy Island (United Kingdom)

Lundy is a tiny island in the Bristol Channel about 12 miles (19 km) off the coast of Devon, England. Its size is about 3 miles (5 km) by 0 ... Aug. 27, 2011

Village of Iruya, Argentina

Iruya is a picturesque mountain village surrounded by ranges of mountains with crystal-clear rivers and located far away from the mainstream of human civilization. Aug. 27, 2011

Baros, Maldives - Island in Indian Ocean

Baros is an island belonging to the Maldives, an island nation in the Indian Ocean (595 km south of India and 650 km southwest of Sri Lanka) consisting of about ... Aug. 27, 2011

Big Sur - 160,000 Acres of Wilderness and National Parks (United States)

The Big Sur region is located between Los Angeles and San Francisco bay area and goes about 89 miles (143 km) along California Highway 1. It represents 160,000 acres ... Aug. 27, 2011

The Road of the Seven Lakes, Argentina

Bariloche (San Carlos de Bariloche) is known as the "American Switzerland." The city with its surrounding mountains and lakes are tourist destinations during all seasons and can be especially attractive ... Aug. 27, 2011

Upper Svaneti in Georgia

Svaneti or Svanetia is a historic province in Georgia, in the northwestern part of the country. Svaneti, with the capital town Mestia, home of the Svans and the highest inhabited ... Aug. 27, 2011

Isola d'Elba, Italy

Who could believe that Italian province of Tuscany has its own archipelago? When I think about archipelagos, I imagine Novaya Zemlya and Florida Keys, Maldives and Islands on the Great ... Nov. 30, 2011