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Uruguay's small population and long coast mean entire stretches of beach stay empty even in high summer.
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Uruguay · The Americas
External reference (site language): Uruguay ↗
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Reclining seats, a blanket, a film with no subtitles and a driver who took the mountain road at a speed we chose not to think about. We arrived rested.
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Mexico · The Americas
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Guarani is co-official with Spanish and is spoken by a majority of the population, unusual in the Americas.
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Paraguay · The Americas
External reference (site language): Flag of Paraguay ↗
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A 1959 import ban froze Havana's fleet, so mechanics kept 1950s American cars running with improvised parts.
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Havana, Cuba · The Americas
External reference (site language): Radio Havana Cuba ↗
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You climb a black cone for an hour carrying a plank and then sit on it and go down. Everyone lies about their speed at the bottom.
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Leon, Nicaragua · The Americas
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Reggae developed in Kingston in the late 1960s and is recognised by UNESCO as intangible cultural heritage.
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Jamaica · The Americas
External reference (site language): Jamaica ↗
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The road was blocked for six minutes by a sloth in no hurry whatsoever. A park worker eventually carried it across and it looked mildly annoyed.
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Costa Rica · The Americas
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Hispaniola is one of very few Caribbean islands divided between two sovereign states.
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Hispaniola · The Americas
External reference (site language): Hispaniola ↗
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Dominica has a boiling lake, 365 rivers by local count, and a 184-kilometre hiking trail down its spine.
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Dominica · The Americas
External reference (site language): Dominica ↗
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The guide said don't brake, just glide. Halfway across a valley in cloud forest we understood why nobody talks on the way over.
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Monteverde, Costa Rica · The Americas
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The flying fish is a national symbol, and cou-cou with flying fish is the country's national dish.
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Barbados · The Americas
External reference (site language): Barbados ↗
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Pitch Lake holds the largest natural deposit of asphalt in the world and refills itself as it is dug out.
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Trinidad and Tobago · The Americas
External reference (site language): Trinidad and Tobago ↗
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Our boat shared a lock with a container ship the size of a street. The water rose nine metres in eight minutes and the crew above us waved down.
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Panama · The Americas
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Feral pigs on Big Major Cay swim out to meet boats, a habit that turned into an unlikely tourist attraction.
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Exuma, Bahamas · The Americas
External reference (site language): Tourism in the Bahamas ↗
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Every panel is hand stitched in reverse applique and takes weeks. The woman selling them explained the design was her grandmother's and then quoted a price that felt like theft on our side.
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Guna Yala, Panama · The Americas
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Puerto Rico has three bioluminescent bays, more than anywhere else, with Mosquito Bay the brightest recorded.
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Puerto Rico · The Americas
External reference (site language): Fajardo, Puerto Rico ↗
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Saba's airstrip is around 400 metres with cliffs at both ends, flown only by small aircraft and specially certified pilots.
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Saba · The Americas
External reference (site language): Saba (island) ↗
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We walked the walls at three in the afternoon like idiots. At seven, the same walls were full of people, music and lemonade sellers, and we understood the schedule.
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Cartagena, Colombia · The Americas
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Geographically Greenland sits on the North American plate although politically it is tied to Denmark.
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Greenland · The Americas
External reference (site language): Greenland shark ↗
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The Pan-American Highway runs from Alaska to Argentina except for about 100 kilometres of roadless jungle in the Darien.
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Darien Gap · The Americas
External reference (site language): Darién Gap ↗
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The farmer showed us how much a hand-picked kilo earns him and then what a cup costs in London. He wasn't angry about it, which somehow made it worse.
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Salento, Colombia · The Americas
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The Andes run about 7,000 kilometres along South America's spine through seven countries.
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Andes · The Americas
External reference (site language): Andes ↗
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All 360-plus hummingbird species are native exclusively to the Americas, with the greatest diversity in Ecuador and Colombia.
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Americas · The Americas
External reference (site language): Shield of the Americas ↗
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A hundred kilometres of road closed to cars. Families, racers, a man with a parrot on his handlebars, and free bike repair stands every few kilometres.
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Bogota, Colombia · 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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