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Meeting of the Waters, Manaus
Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
Just outside Manaus, the dark, warm Rio Negro meets the cooler, sandy-coloured Rio Solimões, and the two rivers run side by side without mixing for a…
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Great Ocean Road and the Twelve Apostles
Timboon, Victoria, Australia
A 243 km coastal road in Victoria built by returned WWI soldiers, past surf beaches, rainforest and koalas, to the limestone stacks of the Twelve Apo…
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Central Park, New York
Manhattan, New York, United States of America
A park of 341 hectares in the middle of Manhattan, designed in the 1850s, with lakes, meadows, woodland and landmarks such as Bethesda Terrace and Fo…
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Ras Mohammed and Red Sea diving
Sharm el-Sheikh, South Sinai, Egypt
A national park at the southern tip of Sinai with some of the best coral reefs in the world, and the famous SS Thistlegorm wreck nearby.
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Punakaiki Pancake Rocks and Blowholes
West Coast, New Zealand
Strange layered limestone stacks at Dolomite Point that look like piles of pancakes, formed over 30 million years from layers of limestone and soft m…
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Kakadu National Park
Gunbalanya, Northern Territory, Australia
Australia's largest national park, a UNESCO site for both nature and culture, with wetlands full of crocodiles and birds, waterfalls such as Jim Jim …
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Wadi Rum
Aqaba, Jordan
A desert valley of red sand and towering sandstone mountains, where Lawrence of Arabia passed and films such as The Martian were shot, a UNESCO World…
Historic sites
Rock of Cashel
Cashel, Tipperary, Ireland
A dramatic group of medieval buildings on a limestone outcrop above the plains of Tipperary, once the seat of the kings of Munster, where St Patrick …
Historic sites
Colosseum, Rome
Rome, Italy
The great amphitheatre of ancient Rome, opened in 80 AD, where up to 50,000 spectators watched gladiator fights and animal hunts.
Historic sites
Luang Prabang
Luang Prabang, Laos
The old royal capital of Laos, on a peninsula where the Nam Khan meets the Mekong, a UNESCO World Heritage Site of golden temples, French colonial ho…
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Grand Canal by vaporetto, Venice
Venice, Italy
The best way to see Venice's main waterway is from vaporetto line 1, the slow water bus that stops at every landing between Piazzale Roma and the rai…
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Kaziranga National Park
Bokakhat, Assam, India
Home to two-thirds of the world's great one-horned rhinoceroses, in grasslands and wetlands by the Brahmaputra River in Assam, a UNESCO World Heritag…