If you have a few spare minutes, we'd thoroughly recommend a visit to the new Royal Geographical Society website "Hidden Journeys" which combines images, stories and maps in a new series of online interactive flight guides.

They have transformed four flight paths (New York to Los Angeles, London to Jo'Burg, London to Vancouver and London to Delhi)† into fascinating journeys enabling you to explore the incredible places you can see from the air as you fly over them.

You can look at the landscapes from 10,000m up, 1,000m up and also ground level. The images are complemented by facts, history and stories from the places along the way.