Wade into the watery wilderness of Everglades National Park

USA // Called the 'River of Grass' by its initial Native American inhabitants, Florida's Everglades is not just a wetland, or a swamp, or a lake, river, prairie or grassland - it is all of the above, twisted together into a series of soft horizons and enormous sunsets. The park's 64,238 hectares (1.5 million acres) provide ample occasions to spy alligators basking in the noonday sun, stroll boardwalks amid the birdsong and kayak in mangrove canals where a manatee might pop up.