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...place of striking natural beauty: jagged peaks surrounded by fields of bright green rape, ridges slashed with limestone outcrops and plunging waterfalls. But these days the region's grandest sight is man-made: the Baling River Bridge. Due to be completed early next year, this 1.4-mile (2.25 km) marvel of engineering is a jarringly conspicuous splash of 21st century technology amid Guizhou's farms and rice fields, which haven't changed much in thousands of years. It's as if the Golden Gate Bridge had been dropped into some bucolic Middle-earth mountainscape...
...money that would have been spent in any event. But wherever you go in China now, you come across projects that boggle the mind. In late March, for example, the government began soliciting bids for the Hong Kong - Zhuhai - Macau highway, a bridge-and-tunnel complex 16.5 miles (26.6 km) long that will allow connections among 35 ports in the Pearl River Delta, the cradle of China's economic boom. When completed in 2015, the $10 billion project will cut driving time from Hong Kong to the industrial area of Zhuhai from about four hours to just 30 minutes...
Even before deregulation, Europe's rail industry has been modernizing and expanding. France, which has Europe's largest high-speed rail network, plans to more than double its track length from 1,200 miles (1,900 km) to 2,500 miles (4,000 km) by 2020. Spain is aiming to leapfrog France as high-speed leader with a $130 billion expansion; when completed in 2020, 90% of all Spaniards will live no more than 31 miles (50 km) from a station served by Alta Velocidad Española (AVE) trains, which have a top speed of 218 m.p.h. (351 km/h...
...wetsuit from Black Cat Cruises, www.blackcat.co.nz, to cavort with one of the world's smallest and rarest dolphins - the endangered, friendly Hector's. An hour north of Christchurch, the fruitful Waipara Valley is home to the Claremont Country Estate, www.claremont-estate.com. This 2,400-acre (10 sq km) property, circa 1866, is a working sheep and cattle station that offers lodge accommodation if you feel like spending the night. But if you can't tear yourself away from downtown Christchurch, you'll be forgiven. "Most countries would kill to have just one of our major attractions," says venue manager Pearson...
With faux wind towers giving it the appearance of a storybook stronghold from One Thousand and One Nights, Anantara's Desert Islands Resort & Spa stands alone on the shores of Sir Bani Yas - a large island in the Persian Gulf, lying just 5 miles (8 km) off the coast of the emirate of Abu Dhabi. And in truth, there is a whiff of fantasy about this sand-colored, 64-room property, fringed by cobalt-blue sea on one side and, on the other, a saltwater lagoon fronting desert scrubland and a jumble of rocky central hills...