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...Flying in the tiny Pacific country is not for the faint hearted. Vast, mist-shrouded mountains cloaked in 200 foot high rainforest dominate the terrain. Huge storms towering up to 45,000 feet high are a regular occurrence and airstrips range from muddy tracks to un-mown fields on the edge of cliffs which require planes to jump from zero altitude to thousands of feet in minutes. "You are talking 200 foot trees and you can hit them and fall to your death. Very few aircraft survive accidents like that," says Grant, 63. Though there are few navigational aids...
...village of smart, self-catering villas, added in 2007, hugging a mountainside nearby. Facilities include the aptly named Lost World Spa, a heated plunge pool, a games room, a lounge and a library, but O'Reilly's is above all a rambler's paradise, with stunning bird-watching and rainforest walks. When British broadcaster and naturalist David Attenborough sought ancient Antarctic beech trees and satin and regent bowerbirds to film for his acclaimed 1979 series Life on Earth, he went to the vast Lamington National Park, which surrounds O'Reilly's and forms part of an Australian World Heritage Site...
...funny thing is, people flocked to it, lured by the stunning isolation. And they still are, although these days, O'Reilly's Rainforest Retreat, as it's known, is a comfortable two-hour, 75-mile (120 km) drive southwest from the Queensland capital. (See pictures of Australia...
There aren't many people who would think of siting dairy farms on a 3,000-ft.-high (900 m) plateau in the middle of impenetrable rainforest, but then there aren't many families as dogged as Australia's O'Reilly clan, who in 1911 did just that - selecting an area close to the Queensland-New South Wales border. Gluttons for punishment, they opened a guesthouse on their property in 1926, despite the fact that it took visitors two days by rail, wagon and horseback to get there from Brisbane...
...hikers on Sunday to climb Imbabura, an inactive volcano and tourist attraction in northern Ecuador, her mother said. The group enjoyed lunch on the mountain after reaching the summit late Sunday morning but then split up on the way down. Karlan and her companions reportedly got lost in the rainforest and were forced to scale down waterfalls using roots and sleep in dried riverbeds before they were able to continue their trek down the mountain on Monday, Karlan's mother said...