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Buen camino
Buen camino: the greeting pilgrims exchange on the road to Santiago.Loading…
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Buen camino: the greeting pilgrims exchange on the road to Santiago.Stretching over 2,300 kilometres, the reef is the largest structure built by living organisms.
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Queensland, Australia · Oceania & the Pacific
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The whole beach applauds when the sun goes behind the hill. Nobody organises it and nobody explains it and it happens every clear evening.
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil · The Americas
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The visible rock is the tip of a formation that continues several kilometres below the desert surface.
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Uluru, Australia · Oceania & the Pacific
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Namaste: the light in me honours the light in you.Lake Hillier stays bubblegum pink even in a bottle, thanks to salt-loving microorganisms.
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Lake Hillier, Australia · Oceania & the Pacific
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The boat drives you into the falls on purpose. Everything you own gets soaked and the guide films your face while it happens.
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Iguazu, Argentina · The Americas
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Air measured at Cape Grim after crossing the Southern Ocean is among the cleanest on Earth.
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Tasmania, Australia · Oceania & the Pacific
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The parrilla had four items and a chalkboard. The waiter asked how we wanted it, disagreed with the answer, and served it his way. He was correct.
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Buenos Aires, Argentina · The Americas
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The Dingo Fence stretches further than the distance from Berlin to Kabul, built to protect sheep country.
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Dingo Fence, Australia · Oceania & the Pacific
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Shalom and salaam come from the same root and both mean peace.Once service alleys, Melbourne's laneways now hold legal street art walls, tiny bars and coffee counters.
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Melbourne, Australia · Oceania & the Pacific
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Two people in their seventies danced on paving stones in San Telmo with a portable speaker. A crowd formed, and nobody who watched was under any illusion about who was best.
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Buenos Aires, Argentina · The Americas
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Just over one million self-cleaning Swedish tiles cover the shells, in two subtly different finishes.
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Sydney, Australia · Oceania & the Pacific
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Aloha means hello, goodbye and love, and locals will tell you it is a way of behaving, not a greeting.Hawaiian word
Oceania · Oceania & the Pacific
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Feral dromedaries introduced in the 1800s now number in the hundreds of thousands across the outback.
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Australia · Oceania & the Pacific
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The wind blew constantly for four days from the same direction. On the fifth it stopped and everyone in the hostel came outside to check that something was not wrong.
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Patagonia, Argentina · The Americas
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Their tail and leg structure prevents reverse movement, which is partly why the kangaroo appears on the coat of arms.
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Australia · Oceania & the Pacific
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Four seasons before lunch on every single day. Nobody bothered changing clothes for the rain because it would be sunny again in twenty minutes.
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Torres del Paine, Chile · The Americas
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Wombats produce cube-shaped droppings thanks to uneven intestinal walls, so the pellets do not roll off rocks.
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Australia · Oceania & the Pacific
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Mana: spiritual power and presence, carried by people and by places.Polynesian concept
Oceania · Oceania & the Pacific
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The ratio has fallen from twenty to one in the 1980s to around five to one today, still comfortably ahead.
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New Zealand · Oceania & the Pacific
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The guide switched off the last light and asked us to wait ten minutes for our eyes. The Milky Way arrived as if someone had turned it on.
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Atacama, Chile · The Americas
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Before humans arrived the only native land mammals were bats, so birds filled almost every ecological role.
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New Zealand · Oceania & the Pacific
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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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