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We waited eleven minutes and got picked up by a shearer who talked about sheep for two hours and dropped us forty kilometres past his own turnoff.
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New Zealand · Oceania & the Pacific
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Every hill, lake and outcrop arrangement in Central Park was landscaped. Almost nothing there is natural.
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New York, USA · The Americas
External reference (site language): New York City ↗
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Travel is rebellion in its purest form.Engineers reversed the flow of the Chicago River in 1900 so sewage would drain away from Lake Michigan.
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Chicago, USA · The Americas
External reference (site language): Chicago River ↗
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The boat went silent and the guide pulled us along a rope in the dark. The ceiling looked like a star map and was in fact several thousand hungry larvae.
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Waitomo, New Zealand · Oceania & the Pacific
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Locals call the summer fog Karl, and it has its own devoted social media following.
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San Francisco, USA · The Americas
External reference (site language): San Francisco ↗
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Food cooked in a pit with hot stones for four hours. The steam when they opened it was worth the entire wait and the whole meal tasted faintly of earth.
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Rotorua, New Zealand · Oceania & the Pacific
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Kilauea keeps adding land to the Big Island, and a new seamount is forming offshore for a future island.
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Hawaii, USA · The Americas
External reference (site language): Hawaii ↗
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Wanderlust: a strong desire to travel, from the German for a lust to wander.The Big Island contains most of the world's recognised climate zones, from tropical beach to alpine tundra.
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Hawaii, USA · The Americas
External reference (site language): Climate of Hawaii ↗
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The boat was due at ten. It came at half past twelve. Everyone we asked said Fiji time with a smile and we eventually stopped asking.
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Fiji · Oceania & the Pacific
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Measured from the seafloor, Mauna Kea rises over 10,000 metres, taller than Everest above sea level.
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Mauna Kea, USA · The Americas
External reference (site language): Mauna Loa ↗
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Fernweh: a longing for far-off places, the opposite of homesickness.Louisiana is the only state divided into parishes rather than counties, a leftover from its French and Spanish past.
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Louisiana, USA · The Americas
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You clap once, take the cup, drink it in one, clap three times. Your tongue goes numb and the conversation slows down and improves.
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Fiji · Oceania & the Pacific
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High groundwater made underground burial impractical, so the city built tombs above ground in walled cemeteries.
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New Orleans, USA · The Americas
External reference (site language): New York City ↗
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The tower is built from vines and branches with no nails. The divers aim to touch the ground with their shoulders. The mothers watch from a distance and do not look away.
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Vanuatu · Oceania & the Pacific
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The United States paid Russia 7.2 million dollars for Alaska in 1867, mocked at the time as Seward's Folly.
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Alaska, USA · The Americas
External reference (site language): Miss Alaska USA ↗
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Resfeber: the restless race of a traveller's heart before the journey begins.Built on a drained lakebed, Mexico City sinks several centimetres a year as groundwater is pumped out.
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Mexico City, Mexico · The Americas
External reference (site language): Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral ↗
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Two days out of sight of land and then a line of palms appears that is only three metres above the water. You understand navigation differently after that.
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Tuamotus, French Polynesia · Oceania & the Pacific
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Alongside Spanish, Mexico officially recognises 68 indigenous languages with hundreds of variants.
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Mexico · The Americas
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Sonder: the realisation that every passer-by is living a life as vivid and complex as your own.Coined by John Koenig
World · Around the World
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At the equinoxes, shadows on the pyramid's staircase form a serpent that appears to slide down to the ground.
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Chichen Itza, Mexico · The Americas
External reference (site language): Chichen Itza ↗
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