9 Best Summer Travel Destinations

via: Travel and Cultures

Located at the crossroads of the Caribbean and South America, North Colombia boasts exquisite beaches and beautiful mountaintops. Ciudad Perdida (“The Lost City” in Spanish) was built by the Tayrona Indians somewhere between the eighth and the fourteenth centuries. The views and the location of the site (in the Colombian jungle) are extraordinary.

via: Sri Lanka Gallery

Sri Lanka is an island country in Southern Asia. The island climate is damp and bracingly cool, a refreshing escape from the hot summer sun. Nuwara Eliya is a colonial-era resort town in Sri Lanka’s stunning hill country. This mountainous, mist-draped realm has long been popular with backpackers and other adventurers for its tea plantations.

via: National Geographic

Perhaps nowhere on Earth is the dual creative and destructive nature of volcanoes more evident than in central Africa’s Virunga Volcanoes. Straddling the borders between Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the eight-volcano chain is one of Earth’s most active volcanic regions and a veritable salad bowl for mountain gorillas, chimpanzees, elephants, and other wildlife. Landscapes in all three countries conjure visions of both Eden and hell.