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There is one person at the fire and everyone else offers advice. Nobody touches the tongs. The meat is ready when the person at the fire says it is ready, and not before.
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Johannesburg, South Africa · Africa
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The ferry was scheduled for nine. It left at two. In between, someone produced a guitar and someone else produced grilled prawns, and by the time it arrived nobody wanted to board.
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Mozambique · Africa
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Our poler stood at the back and pushed us through reeds taller than the boat. He stopped once, silently, and pointed at an elephant twenty metres away that we would never have seen.
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Okavango, Botswana · Africa
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The Milky Way was bright enough to cast a shadow. Our guide named constellations we had never heard of, from a sky map that had nothing to do with Greek myths.
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Kalahari, Botswana · Africa
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The gate opens at dawn and everyone drives too fast to Dune 45. We climbed the ridge in the dark, sat down at the top, and the desert turned from grey to orange in about four minutes.
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Sossusvlei, Namibia · Africa
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We drove for two hours and turned the wheel twice. The gravel road went straight to the horizon and then continued. We passed one car and both of us waved.
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Namibia · Africa
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The guide swims first to show it is safe, then holds your ankles while you look over the lip of Victoria Falls. It is entirely safe, allegedly, and my hands shook for ten minutes afterwards.
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Livingstone, Zambia · Africa
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It did not rain, it emptied. Four hours of noise so loud that conversation stopped. Then it ended in about a minute and the forest started making an entirely different set of sounds.
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Congo Basin · Africa
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We were told not to feed them. One sifaka disagreed with this policy, landed on my shoulder, checked all my pockets in about six seconds and left disappointed.
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Andasibe, Madagascar · Africa
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Everyone comes for the sunset photograph. Nobody mentions that afterwards, in the dark, ox carts keep coming down the same road for another hour, and that is the better picture.
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Morondava, Madagascar · Africa
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The whole town smells of curing vanilla. A farmer showed us pods drying on racks and explained the two years between flower and export. Then he asked what we pay for one pod at home and laughed for a long time.
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Sambava, Madagascar · Africa
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An old technique, mostly gone now, demonstrated for us by a man who clearly enjoyed the audience. He said his grandfather had six birds and knew all their names.
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Nile Delta, Egypt · Africa
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Salt lakes, date palms and a mud fortress melting slowly in the rain that comes once a decade. We swam in a spring at sunset with four boys who had cycled from the village to show off.
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Siwa, Egypt · Africa
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The rule we were given: if a street gets narrower, you are going the wrong way; if it widens, you are heading out. It worked eight times out of nine.
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Tunis, Tunisia · Africa
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We knocked to ask for water and were served lunch. When we tried to pay, our host looked offended, then wrapped bread for us to take up the pass.
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Atlas Mountains, Morocco · Africa
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The shared taxi left when the fourth passenger arrived. By the end there were six of us, a crate of tomatoes and a goat, and the driver charged the same as if it had been four.
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Ghana · Africa
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Music came out of every second doorway and none of it was the same song. A man selling fried plantain kept time with his tongs without appearing to notice.
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Accra, Ghana · Africa
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In the workshop stood a coffin shaped like a fish, one like an aeroplane and one like a cocoa pod. Each was a life summarised in wood, and the carpenter explained every choice.
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Teshie, Ghana · Africa
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Africa is the only continent crossed by both the equator and the two tropics, so it touches all four hemispheres.
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Africa · Africa
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At roughly 9.2 million square kilometres, the Sahara is about the size of the United States and larger than Australia.
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Sahara · Africa
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Winds carry millions of tonnes of phosphorus-rich Saharan dust across the Atlantic each year, feeding Amazon soils.
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Sahara · Africa
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The White Nile rises near Lake Victoria and the Blue Nile at Lake Tana in Ethiopia. They meet in Khartoum.
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Nile · Africa
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The Great Pyramid was already old when the last woolly mammoths died out on Wrangel Island around 1650 BC.
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Giza, Egypt · Africa
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Cleopatra's lifetime is nearer to the invention of the iPhone than to the building of the Great Pyramid.
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Egypt · Africa
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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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