NEW STEP BY STEP MAP FOR ASIA AND WORLD

Australia is both the flattest continent and, apart from Antarctica, the driest. Observed with the air, its huge plains, occasionally the colour of dried blood, far more usually tawny just like a lion’s skin, might appear to be a person big desert. One can fly the about 2,000 miles (three,200 km) to Sydney from Darwin in the north or to Sydney fr