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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
External reference (site language): Ecuador ↗
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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
External reference (site language): Tourism in Ecuador ↗
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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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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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Peru cultivates over 3,000 potato varieties, and the potato was domesticated in the Andes around 8,000 years ago.
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Peru · The Americas
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The Spanish never located Machu Picchu, which is why its stonework and terraces survived largely intact.
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Machu Picchu, Peru · The Americas
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The waitress topped up the cup four times without being asked and called everyone honey. The pie was better than any restaurant we ate at that month.
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Nevada, USA · The Americas
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Inca masonry fits without mortar and is designed to shift and resettle during earthquakes rather than crack.
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Cusco, Peru · The Americas
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Some Nazca figures stretch 370 metres and were only fully appreciated once aircraft flew over the desert.
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Nazca, Peru · The Americas
External reference (site language): Nazca lines ↗
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The sign said population 11. The bar was open, the man behind it was also the postmaster, and he knew exactly where we were headed before we said it.
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Nevada, USA · The Americas
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The striped mineral colours of Vinicunca were revealed only recently as the glacier covering it retreated.
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Vinicunca, Peru · The Americas
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Half the towns on the old road are closed and half are museums about being closed. One motel owner has been repainting the same neon sign for thirty years.
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Arizona, USA · The Americas
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Sucre is the constitutional capital while La Paz holds the government, making La Paz the highest seat of government on Earth.
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Bolivia · The Americas
External reference (site language): Religion in Bolivia ↗
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When a thin layer of water covers the salt flat, it reflects the sky so precisely the horizon disappears.
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Uyuni, Bolivia · The Americas
External reference (site language): Salar de Uyuni ↗
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We hiked out under a full moon without torches because the granite reflected enough light. A ranger told us afterwards that this was either wonderful or irresponsible.
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California, USA · The Americas
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Beneath the Uyuni salt flat lies one of the largest lithium deposits on the planet.
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Uyuni, Bolivia · The Americas
External reference (site language): Mining in Bolivia ↗
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Mañana does not always mean tomorrow. Sometimes it just means not today.The Uros build and maintain islands from layered totora reeds, adding fresh reeds every few weeks.
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Titicaca, Peru and Bolivia · The Americas
External reference (site language): Lake Titicaca ↗
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It came over the hill like water going down a drain in reverse. Ten minutes later the bridge was gone and it was ten degrees colder.
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San Francisco, USA · The Americas
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Chile stretches from desert to glacier over 4,300 kilometres but averages only about 180 kilometres wide.
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Chile · The Americas
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We got out at 125th instead of 116th and ended up eating the best food of the trip while waiting for the next train, which we deliberately missed twice.
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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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