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Before horses arrived, llamas were the sole large pack animal in the Andes, which shaped how the Inca built roads.
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Andes · The Americas
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Four days, seven river crossings and 1,200 mossy steps at the end. The guide's family had lived there for generations and he gave the tour partly in his own language.
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Sierra Nevada, Colombia · The Americas
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Quebec maintains a global strategic maple syrup reserve to stabilise prices between good and bad harvests.
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Quebec, Canada · The Americas
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Together the five Great Lakes contain about 21 percent of the world's surface fresh water.
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Great Lakes · The Americas
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Three hours upriver, then the engine off, then paddling into a channel too narrow for the motor. The moment the noise stopped, the forest turned out to be extremely loud.
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Amazon, Peru · The Americas
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In 1969 engineers diverted the American Falls to study rock erosion, leaving the cliff temporarily dry.
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Niagara Falls · The Americas
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We caught four and ate three. They are mostly bones and the guide clearly finds the whole tourist ritual funny, but he cooked them properly.
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Amazon, Brazil · The Americas
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Two rivers ran side by side for six kilometres without mixing. You can put a hand in each and feel the temperature difference.
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Manaus, Brazil · The Americas
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The famous parade costs a lot of money. Two streets away, a neighbourhood bloco with a hundred drummers went past for free and nobody was filming it.
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil · The Americas
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Everyone takes the same forced-perspective photo and everyone thinks they invented it. Our driver had a box of props and a practised routine and enjoyed it more than we did.
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Uyuni, Bolivia · The Americas
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Sixty-four kilometres downhill with a drop on one side. The guide said the brakes were the only thing worth checking and then checked them four times.
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Yungas Road, Bolivia · The Americas
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The world's biggest urban cable car network is public transport, not a ride. We commuted across the city over rooftops for the price of a bus fare.
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La Paz, Bolivia · The Americas
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The ground moves under your feet like a mattress. They add fresh reeds every fortnight and the whole island is rebuilt from underneath over about thirty years.
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Lake Titicaca, Peru · The Americas
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The best cevicherias close in the afternoon because the fish is from that morning. Anyone serving ceviche at eight in the evening, our host said, is telling you something.
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Lima, Peru · The Americas
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Five thousand metres, three hundred people and a queue for the summit photograph. Twenty minutes along the ridge there was nobody at all and the same view.
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Vinicunca, Peru · The Americas
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Nothing runs away. A sea lion slept on a bench, a bird walked over my boot, and a marine iguana sneezed salt at me without moving.
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Galapagos, Ecuador · The Americas
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The animal market starts at six and finishes by nine. Everything else is for tourists and the sellers say so themselves, cheerfully.
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Otavalo, Ecuador · 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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