Chris Lawrence

Just twice a year, the public is allowed to explore the vast cave known as Gaping Gill. Chris Lawrence straps into the winch and descends deep into the earth.

Chris Lawrence finds Burma ethereal with a sense of the undiscovered that the British colonialists must have experienced when they first arrived. But given the extreme changes it has undergone, will it last, he asks?

Every year, thousands of revellers cram themselves into the narrow streets of Buñol in Spain ready to roll in the juices of 150,000 rotten tomatoes. Critics say the fiesta is senseless - but that is what makes it so appealing, says Chris Lawrence.

Chris Lawrence has long been fascinated by the 17th century tale of the Pendle witches, Lancashire locals who allegedly danced with the devil. Four centuries on, he finds their sinister story still very much alive.

The local name for it is hugely apt - ‘Mosi-oa-Tunya’, The Smoke That Thunders. But the glory of Victoria Falls, is truly best appreciated via a microlight flight, says an astonished Chris Lawrence.

In the Eighties, it was one of the world’s most notorious hotels. But 18 years after the end of apartheid, does Sun City fit in with the new South Africa? Chris Lawrence finds out.

Puerto Rico has not always enjoyed the most fragrant of reputations. Hunter S Thompson’s novel The Rum Diary portrays the island as a corrupt hellhole. Chris Lawrence goes in search of the truth.

She is best known for her tragic demise. But in Belfast, people have a different view of the Titanic. Chris Lawrence traces the ghost of this lost soul in the dockyards that crafted her 100 years ago.

Croatia’s Dalmatian Coast is famed as an idyllic area of quiet islands and seaside beauty. But it looks a little different if - like Chris Lawrence - you are exploring it by sea-faring kayak.

The nation of more than one billion people has an obsession for the sport like no other and for the last five weeks has prayed for victory with passionate anticipation.