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Some Atacama weather stations have never recorded rain, and NASA tests Mars equipment there.
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Atacama, Chile · The Americas
External reference (site language): Atacama Desert ↗
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Tranquilo: relax, it will happen, and worrying will not speed it up.Latin American saying
Americas · The Americas
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Dry air and high altitude make the Atacama the best place on Earth for optical astronomy, hosting major observatories.
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Atacama, Chile · The Americas
External reference (site language): Atacama Desert ↗
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Four people, four instruments, no sheet music and no audience except us and a dog. It went on for two hours and nobody announced a single song title.
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Appalachia, USA · The Americas
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Excavations showed the famous moai heads sit on full buried torsos covered in carvings.
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Rapa Nui, Chile · The Americas
External reference (site language): Rapa Nui people ↗
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Only Antarctica and Greenland hold more ice than the Southern Patagonian Ice Field.
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Patagonia · The Americas
External reference (site language): Patagonia ↗
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A brass band came down the street on a Sunday afternoon and the crowd behind it grew from twelve to two hundred in four blocks. We never found out what it was for.
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New Orleans, USA · The Americas
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This glacier is one of the few in the world that is broadly stable, periodically damming a lake until the ice arch collapses.
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Perito Moreno, Argentina · The Americas
External reference (site language): Perito Moreno Glacier ↗
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The hotel put tape on the windows and everyone stocked up on ice. It missed us by ninety kilometres and the next morning the beach was covered in shells nobody had ever seen.
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Florida, USA · The Americas
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Avenida 9 de Julio spans about 110 metres, and crossing it can take more than one traffic light.
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Buenos Aires, Argentina · The Americas
External reference (site language): Buenos Aires ↗
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Tango emerged in the working-class port neighbourhoods of Buenos Aires and Montevideo in the late 19th century.
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Buenos Aires, Argentina · The Americas
External reference (site language): Buenos Aires ↗
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Two hours in a queue of stationary cars with men selling churros between the lanes. By the time we crossed, we had eaten dinner without leaving the vehicle.
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Mexico and USA · The Americas
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At 6,961 metres, Aconcagua is the tallest mountain in both the Southern and Western hemispheres.
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Aconcagua, Argentina · The Americas
External reference (site language): Aconcagua ↗
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The Iguazu system comprises up to 275 waterfalls spread nearly three kilometres along the border.
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Iguazu, Argentina and Brazil · The Americas
External reference (site language): Iguazu Falls ↗
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The cemeteries were full of families with candles, food and folding chairs, staying all night. A woman explained, kindly, that this was a reunion and not a haunting.
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Oaxaca, Mexico · The Americas
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Brazil occupies about 47 percent of the continent and borders every South American country except Chile and Ecuador.
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Brazil · The Americas
External reference (site language): South Region, Brazil ↗
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No bridge crosses the main Amazon River. Communities rely on ferries and boats along thousands of kilometres.
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Amazon River · The Americas
External reference (site language): Amazon River ↗
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Thirty ingredients, three days, and an argument with a neighbour about whether the chocolate goes in early or late. We were asked to judge and refused sensibly.
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Oaxaca, Mexico · The Americas
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Different temperatures and speeds keep the dark Rio Negro and sandy Solimoes flowing side by side for kilometres.
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Manaus, Brazil · The Americas
External reference (site language): Manaus ↗
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The water was so clear that the boat above looked like it was floating in air. Fifteen metres down, tree roots came through the rock looking for it.
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Yucatan, Mexico · The Americas
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Brasilia was planned and constructed in about four years and inaugurated in 1960, laid out in the shape of an aeroplane.
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Brasilia, Brazil · The Americas
External reference (site language): Time in Brazil ↗
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The statue is hit regularly, and spare soapstone from the original quarry is kept for repairs.
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil · The Americas
External reference (site language): Rio de Janeiro ↗
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Clap once at the base of the pyramid and the echo comes back sounding like a bird. Our guide said the Maya designed it that way and then let three hundred people clap at once.
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Chichen Itza, Mexico · The Americas
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Brazil has been the largest coffee producer for more than 150 years, mostly arabica from Minas Gerais and Sao Paulo.
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Brazil · The Americas
External reference (site language): Coffee production in Brazil ↗
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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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