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Pumping concrete 600 metres up the Burj Khalifa required specially developed mixes that would not set in the pipe.
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Dubai, UAE · Asia
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An older man wordlessly demonstrated the whole sequence: stool, bucket, scrub, rinse, then in. Then he nodded once, satisfied, and did not look at me again.
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Hakone, Japan · Asia
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The Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque contains what is considered the largest single hand-knotted carpet in the world.
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Abu Dhabi, UAE · Asia
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Building height rules in Muscat keep the skyline low and white, preserving views of the Hajar Mountains.
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Oman · Asia
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The cemetery has two hundred thousand graves under cedar trees. A monk walked past at six in the morning and the only sound in a kilometre of forest was his sandals.
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Koyasan, Japan · Asia
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Qatar has almost no natural fresh water and produces most of its drinking supply through desalination.
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Qatar · Asia
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The name refers to fresh springs bubbling up within the salt sea, once the basis of a famous pearl industry.
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Bahrain · Asia
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Eight seats, one man, no menu in English and a paper form with boxes to tick. He looked at my form, changed one box, and handed back the pen. He was right.
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Fukuoka, Japan · Asia
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Shibam's tower houses of sun-dried mud rise up to eleven storeys and date from the 16th century.
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Shibam, Yemen · Asia
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Seventy kilometres over six bridges between islands, with a blue line painted on the road the whole way. You cannot get lost, which leaves you free to look at the sea.
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Setouchi, Japan · Asia
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A third of Socotra's plant species exist nowhere else, including the umbrella-shaped dragon's blood tree.
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Socotra, Yemen · Asia
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Pakistan holds five of the world's fourteen highest mountains, including K2, widely considered the hardest to climb.
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Pakistan · Asia
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A woman scrubbed me with a mitt until I questioned several life decisions, and I emerged feeling like a new person and slightly smaller.
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Busan, South Korea · Asia
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The Khunjerab Pass between Pakistan and China sits at 4,693 metres and closes with the first heavy snow.
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Khunjerab Pass · Asia
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The Sundarbans span roughly 10,000 square kilometres of tidal forest shared with India, and shelter Bengal tigers.
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Sundarbans, Bangladesh · Asia
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The city does not really stop. At four we ate fried chicken with people finishing work and people starting it, and nobody could tell which was which.
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Seoul, South Korea · Asia
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Hundreds of rivers cross Bangladesh, and some shift course by kilometres in a single monsoon season.
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Bangladesh · Asia
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Juche years count from 1912, the birth year of Kim Il-sung, and appear alongside Gregorian dates.
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North Korea · Asia
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The most surreal part was not the soldiers, it was the gift shop. We bought a fridge magnet at the edge of the world's most fortified border.
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Korean Peninsula · Asia
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Oymyakon has recorded temperatures near minus 68 degrees Celsius, the coldest for a permanently inhabited place.
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Oymyakon, Russia · Asia
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We took a wrong turn into a courtyard and were handed sunflower seeds by three grandmothers who wanted to know our ages and marital status in that order.
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Beijing, China · Asia
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Moscow to Vladivostok is 9,289 kilometres and takes about seven days without stops, crossing 87 cities.
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Trans-Siberian Railway · Asia
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The Gobi can drop below minus 30 degrees in winter and sometimes gets snow on its dunes.
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Gobi Desert · Asia
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We started at five to be alone. For two hours the only people on that section of wall were us and a woman selling water who had walked up ahead of us and was not out of breath.
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Jinshanling, China · Asia
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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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