Travel pictures:September

Cordillera Blanca Valley, Peru

Cordillera Blanca Valley, Peru

 

A family crosses a valley in Peru’s Cordillera Blanca mountain range, one of the most concentrated collections of big peaks in the Western Hemisphere. More than 30 summits top 18,000 feet here; Huascarán, Peru’s highest mountain, hits 22,205 feet.

 

Makana Ridge, Kauai

 

Makana Ridge, Kauai

 

Knife-edged Makana Ridge towers over Kē’ē Beach and the community of Hā’ena on the eastern edge of Nā Pali Coast on Kauai, Hawaii. Kauai made a splash on the big screen as the place where Jurassic Park was filmed.

 

Tarangire National Park, Tanzania

 

Tarangire National Park, Tanzania

 

Framed by the branches of baobab trees, safari jeeps stir up dust at sunset in northern Tanzania’s Tarangire National Park. Dry season in the thousand-square-mile park brings an array of wildlife—including dense elephant herds—drawn to the perennial Tarangire River.

 

Punakha Valley, Bhutan

 

Punakha Valley, Bhutan

 

Rice terraces stairstep down the Punakha Valley in Bhutan, a tiny Buddhist kingdom in the Himalaya. Roughly three-quarters of the country’s 635,000 people survive by raising crops and livestock, but less than a tenth of the rugged land is arable.

 

 

 

 

 

Travel pictures:September