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Ikigai: the reason you get up in the morning, worth searching for at home and abroad.Colombia is the only South American country with coastlines on both the Caribbean and the Pacific.
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Colombia · The Americas
External reference (site language): Geography of Colombia ↗
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Colombian mines have long supplied the majority of the world's fine emeralds, prized for their deep green.
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Boyaca, Colombia · The Americas
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We were told to make noise. After two hours of singing badly we stopped, and thirty seconds later a black bear crossed the trail ahead. We resumed singing immediately.
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British Columbia, Canada · The Americas
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Ciclovia shuts over 100 kilometres of road to cars every Sunday, and hundreds of thousands of people cycle and skate.
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Bogota, Colombia · The Americas
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Shinrin-yoku: forest bathing, the practice of walking slowly among trees with no goal at all.We walked on the sea floor in the morning and kayaked over the same spot after lunch. Sixteen metres of water arrived while we ate.
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Bay of Fundy, Canada · The Americas
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An aquatic plant turns Cano Cristales red for a few months a year, mixing with green moss and yellow sand.
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Cano Cristales, Colombia · The Americas
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Angel Falls drops 979 metres, so far that much of the water becomes mist before reaching the bottom.
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Angel Falls, Venezuela · The Americas
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Minus twenty outside and a queue out the door. The man in front of us explained that the cheese must squeak, and that anything else is not poutine but a tragedy.
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Montreal, Canada · The Americas
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Wabi-sabi: finding beauty in what is imperfect, weathered and temporary.Where the Catatumbo River meets Lake Maracaibo, storms produce lightning on around 300 nights a year.
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Catatumbo, Venezuela · The Americas
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Kaieteur Falls plunges 226 metres in one drop, roughly five times the height of Niagara, with almost no crowds.
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Kaieteur, Guyana · The Americas
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The driver pulled over without warning and turned off the headlights. Green went across the whole sky in about four seconds and then rearranged itself for an hour.
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Yukon, Canada · The Americas
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Suriname is the only South American country with Dutch as its official language, a legacy of colonial rule.
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Suriname · The Americas
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Meraki: doing something with soul, creativity and love, leaving a piece of yourself in the work.Ecuador is the only country named for a line of latitude, and the true equator sits slightly off the famous monument.
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Ecuador · The Americas
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The state ferry takes three days and you sleep in a tent taped to the deck. It costs less than a flight and you see four hundred kilometres of coastline nobody photographs.
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Alaska, USA · The Americas
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Because the Earth bulges at the equator, Chimborazo's summit is the furthest point from the planet's centre.
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Chimborazo, Ecuador · The Americas
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We drove to the North Rim by accident, found eleven cars in the car park instead of a thousand, and had a viewpoint to ourselves for forty minutes.
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Arizona, USA · The Americas
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Darwin's finches, each with a beak suited to different food, helped shape the theory of natural selection.
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Galapagos, Ecuador · The Americas
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Ubuntu: I am because we are.Southern African philosophy
Africa · Africa
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Quito sits almost exactly on the equator at 2,850 metres, giving it spring-like weather all year.
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Quito, Ecuador · The Americas
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Everyone warns you that going down is easy. On the way back up, in the last mile, a ranger handed out salt tablets and said the same sentence to every single person.
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Grand Canyon, 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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