UNBELIEVABLY BRITISH

The U.K. landscape like that of India varies drastically from the snow-swept peaks of Ben Nevis to the tropical looking white sandy beaches of Cornwall. What for do the British go to Spain, Italy, France or Switzerland is a good question?

The Great Britain, for most means the London eye, Big Ben and the English countryside. For the rest, as beaches, cliffs, majestic mountains, forts and towns we turn to other countries of Europe. Aarttee Kaul Dhar takes you on a tour of places you would never believe existed in Britain.

Not Portugal, though it’s a lookalike and starts with the same letters. This is Porthmeor beach in St Ives, Cornwall. Its azure and deep blue water is very popular with surfers.

Cornwall’s Minack Theatre will transport you to Greece straightaway! It is an open-air theatre, constructed above a gully with a rocky granite outcrop jutting into the sea. The theatre is at Porthcurno, four miles from Land’s End in Cornwall, England.

Quaint, beauteous countryside hamlets engage you? Well… the quirky Portmerion village in Gwynedd, North Wales is just the place for you. It was designed and built by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis between 1925 and 1975 in the style of an Italian village. If it looks familiar, that might be because it was used as the location for surreal 1960s spy drama The Prisoner. Were you going to Italy? No need now!.

Love the mighty Himalayas in India or the Swiss Alps? Visit Ben Nevis in the Lochaber area of the Scottish Highlands. Standing at 1,344 metres (4,409 ft) above sea level, it’s the highest mountain in the UK.

Achmelvich Beach in the Highlands of Scotland, Sutherland, might look like a Mediterranean sun-trap Cyprus, but it’s actually in Britain. Surprised?

You don’t have to go to the Pacific to visit a reef-like inlet. It’s actually part of the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall not Polynesia. Two miles to the north of Lizard village lay the secluded Kynance Cove, is considered to be one of the most beautiful beaches in the world.