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Thursday, 28 August 2008| Home > Travel

Walt Disney World Resort in Florida is the largest in the world

Ohio: The highs (and lows) of the world's fastest roller coaster

For the past 10 years, Cedar Point in Ohio has been voted best amusement park in the world. Ben Ross nervously samples the ups – and very fast downs – of America's 'Roller Coast'

Rambling on: head for Langstrothsdale for pastures green

Complete Guide To: The Yorkshire Dales

This old-world idyll of beautiful villages and striking moorland has something for all creatures great and small. Harriet O'Brien encounters waterfalls, wildlife and Wensleydale

Wild and wonderful: hikers on the Kungsleden trail in Sweden

Lapland: Regal splendour

High in Swedish Lapland, beside glacial lakes and snow-tipped mountains, Rhiannon Batten is captivated by the 'King of Trails'

Kazakhstan: Steppe by step

Kazakhstan is a nation of vast, dramatic landscapes, shining modern cities and people who always 'welcome everybody into their tent', as Jerome Taylor discovers

Riga, Latvia

Late summer is a lovely time to discover Latvia's capital, with space to appreciate the impressive architecture, as well as the city's cosmopolitan atmosphere. By Neil Taylor

Pamplona's bull run was listed in the guide along with many events
around the world that were rather more obscure

Dead at 47, the man who told us how to live life to the full

Dave Freeman, the advertising executive whose travel guide 100 Things To Do Before You Die inspired a generation of travellers to treat each day as if it might be their last, has died in a freak accident at the age of 47.