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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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