Watching some of the new Google videos, I could not help but miss a few of the timeless Siberian towns I have stopped at, and the snow-capped mountains or that steady stream of forest out the window.

BBC: Riding the virtual Trans-Siberian

Even in the afternoon sun though, a short walk can easily lead you into perennial mist forest and over the trickle of a mountain stream.

BBC: Colombia��s valley of the palms