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The signs say dangerous. Then one walks out of the rainforest two metres in front of the car and you understand the signs completely.
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Queensland, Australia · Oceania & the Pacific
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Two figure-eight tunnels were bored into the mountains in 1909 to reduce a dangerously steep railway grade.
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Kicking Horse Pass, Canada · The Americas
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The full use of your powers along lines of excellence is the definition of happiness, and travel stretches them.Wood Buffalo National Park covers about 44,800 square kilometres, larger than Switzerland.
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Wood Buffalo, Canada · The Americas
External reference (site language): Wood Buffalo National Park ↗
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The coastal walk at six in the morning was full of runners, swimmers and one man doing tai chi on a rock. Nobody had a phone out.
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Sydney, Australia · Oceania & the Pacific
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Alaska crosses the 180th meridian, making it both the westernmost and easternmost state in the United States.
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Alaska, USA · The Americas
External reference (site language): Miss Alaska USA ↗
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Everybody goes at sunset. We went at eleven in the morning in 38 degrees, saw four people, and the rock was a colour nobody photographs.
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Uluru, Australia · Oceania & the Pacific
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Measured from its own base, Denali rises higher than Everest does above the Tibetan plateau.
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Denali, USA · The Americas
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I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.Yellowstone's caldera is roughly 55 by 72 kilometres, and its heat drives more than half the world's geysers.
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Yellowstone, USA · The Americas
External reference (site language): Yellowstone Caldera ↗
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We drove the whole road in one day, which is a mistake. Someone at a bakery in Apollo Bay told us to take three, and she was right.
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Victoria, Australia · Oceania & the Pacific
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Established in 1872, Yellowstone is generally recognised as the first national park anywhere in the world.
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Yellowstone, USA · The Americas
External reference (site language): Yellowstone National Park ↗
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To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time.Rock at the canyon floor is nearly two billion years old, roughly half the age of the Earth.
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Grand Canyon, USA · The Americas
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We stood at Cape Grim in wind that had crossed the Southern Ocean untouched. It smelled like nothing at all, which is apparently the point.
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Tasmania, Australia · Oceania & the Pacific
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A reading of 56.7 degrees Celsius in 1913 remains the highest reliably recorded air temperature on Earth.
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Death Valley, USA · The Americas
External reference (site language): Death Valley pupfish ↗
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I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.Stones leave long trails across the playa, pushed by thin ice sheets breaking up in light wind.
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Racetrack Playa, USA · The Americas
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Everyone hopes for sun. Locals told us to hope for rain, because that is when a thousand temporary waterfalls appear on the cliffs. They were right within an hour.
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Milford Sound, New Zealand · Oceania & the Pacific
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Route 66 was decommissioned in 1985, but much of it survives as Historic Route 66 signed by individual states.
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Route 66, USA · The Americas
External reference (site language): Pennsylvania Route 66 ↗
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Nineteen kilometres, four weather systems and a lake the colour of antifreeze. Somebody in shorts passed us going the other way at a run.
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New Zealand · Oceania & the Pacific
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Researchers have identified over 700 languages spoken in New York, making it the most linguistically diverse city ever recorded.
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New York, USA · The Americas
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Life is short and the world is wide.France gave the statue, which arrived in 350 pieces packed in 214 crates and was assembled on site.
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New York, USA · The Americas
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The missed ferry. The stranger who handed over a key. The meal that ran until midnight. If something happened to you on the road and you still think about it, send it - a few sentences is plenty, and we do the tidying up.
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