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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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We stopped on a mountain road at two in the morning. The driver, the conductor and six passengers changed the wheel by phone torch in eleven minutes.
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Ecuador · The Americas
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Somebody was playing dominoes on the pavement, somebody was fixing a car, somebody was singing. All three had been doing it since before we arrived and continued after.
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Havana, Cuba · The Americas
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He had made a part for a 1955 Chevrolet out of a Russian tractor component. He showed it to us the way other people show photographs of their children.
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Havana, Cuba · The Americas
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The volume was not negotiable. A grandmother two rows up conducted with one hand and the driver adjusted the bass on her instruction.
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Jamaica · The Americas
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Every house had them and nobody used them that week. The shop owner said you fit them in May and forget them, and that forgetting is the whole point.
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Caribbean · The Americas
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From the boat it is a dark circle in turquoise. From the water it is a wall going down into nothing and your brain refuses to process the scale.
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Belize · The Americas
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No moon, no lights, no cameras allowed. Every paddle stroke lit up and fish left trails like sparks under the kayak.
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Vieques, Puerto Rico · The Americas
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We took the wrong ferry and spent a day on an island with one road, one bar and eleven residents who found the whole thing very funny.
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Bahamas · The Americas
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Afternoon thunderstorms arrive almost daily in summer. A ranger said the rule is simple: summit by noon, and if you cannot, do not summit.
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Rockies, USA · The Americas
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A stranger had left a cooler of cold drinks at a road crossing with a note. Nobody took more than one, and somebody had refilled the ice that morning.
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Appalachian Trail, USA · The Americas
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We drove twenty minutes from the town and the difference was absurd. A ranger explained dark sky certification and then turned off her own torch to prove the point.
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Utah, USA · The Americas
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The guide checks the forecast for the whole watershed, not just the canyon. A storm eighty kilometres away can fill a slot canyon in minutes and there is nowhere to go.
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Arizona, USA · The Americas
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Nine nationalities, one pot of soup, minus twenty-eight outside. Somebody's grandmother's recipe was reconstructed by committee and it was excellent.
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Quebec, Canada · The Americas
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Freight has priority, so passenger trains wait on sidings. We were eleven hours late and the dining car simply kept serving as if it were a hotel with wheels.
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Canada · The Americas
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There is a hierarchy: carpet beats tile, chairs without armrests beat carpet, and a bench near a plug beats everything. This knowledge is earned.
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World · Around the World
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My phone died in a city where I could not read the alphabet. A teenager at a bus stop looked up my hotel, wrote the address in her language, and walked me to the right stop.
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World · Around the World
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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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